Ministry of Road Transport & Highways 12-October, 2015 The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has acquired ISO 9001:2008 certificate for monitoring, planning, development and maintenance of highway infrastructure and road transport throughout the country. Shri Nitin Gadkari, Union Minister of Road Transport & Highways and Shipping received the certificate from the CMD of Indian… Read More »
PAHAL-Direct Benefits Transfer for LPG(DBTL) Consumers Scheme The PAHAL (DBTL) scheme was earlier launched on 1st June 2013 and finally covered 291 districts. It required the consumer to mandatorily have an Aadhaar number for availing LPG Subsidy. The government has comprehensively reviewed the scheme and after examining the difficulties faced by the consumer substantively modified… Read More »
Ministry of Environment and Forests 12-October, 2015 Green India Mission Plans of Four States Approved The second meeting of National Executive Council (NEC) of the National Mission for a Green India (GIM) held here recently, approved the Perspective Plans & Annual Plan of Operations (APOs) submitted by four States – Mizoram, Manipur, Jharkhand and Kerala.… Read More »
Ministry of Shipping 04-November, 2015 Development of Inland Shipping Port at Jalore, Rajasthan The Inland Waterways Authority of India under the Ministry of Shipping proposes to guide and support Rajasthan government for building an Inland Shipping Port at Jalore. The port and the terminal that are to be created, will help develop inland navigation facilities… Read More »
Ministry of Finance 04-November, 2015 Bankruptcy Law Reform Committee submits its Report to the Union Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley ; Government invites comments on the report from the stakeholders by 19th Novemebr,2015 The Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley, in his Budget Speech 2015-16, had identified Bankruptcy Law Reform as a key priority for improving… Read More »
PM to launch Gold Related Schemes on 5th November, 2015; First ever National Gold Coin minted in India with National Emblem of Ashok Chakra engraved to be released among others on the occasion The Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi will launch the three Gold related Schemes i.e. Gold Monetisation Scheme (GMS), Gold Sovereign Bond Scheme… Read More »
President’s Secretariat 04-November, 2015 President to launch ‘ Imprint India ’ tomorrow (November 5, 2015) ‘ IMPRINT India ’, a Pan-IIT and IISc joint initiative to develop a roadmap for research to solve major engineering and technology challenges in ten technology domains relevant to India will be launched by the President of India, Shri… Read More »
Ref: IRDA/CAD/CIR/MISC/194/11/2105 Date: 03-11-2015 IRDAI has been receiving complaints from policyholders against the insurers regarding non-compliance of Orders/Awards passed by Judicial/Quasi-judicial bodies such as (a)Orders of Consumer Forums (b) Orders of the Motor Accident Claims Tribunals(MACT) and (c) Awards of the Insurance Ombudsmen . 2. Considering the fact that the complainant is already aggrieved, further delay in compliance… Read More »
MINISTRY OF PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS New Delhi, the 14th October 2015 RESOLUTION No. O- 19018/22-95-ONG.III—Many of the Marginal oil and gas fields of Oil & Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (ONGC) and Oil India Ltd (OIL) could not be monetized for years due to various reasons such as isolated locations, small size, prohibitive development costs,… Read More »
Long wait for printed Gazette Notifications over- Government shifts to e publishing Government’s Gazette Notifications being published on http://www.egazette.nin.in UD Ministry stops physical printing of 3.50 cr pages of Gazette Notifications per year In a significant initiative, the Ministry of Urban Development has stopped physical printing of Government of India’s Gazette Notifications and introduced e-publishing… Read More »