A number of initiatives proposed in the budget concerning the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers In the Union Budget of 2016, a number of initiatives have been proposed for the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers. The Union Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers Shri Ananth Kumar outlined the initiatives: Department of Fertilizers Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT)… Read More »
Talent Search Scheme The Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Youth Affairs & Sports, Shri Sarbananda Sonowal has said that the Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports is implementing the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Abhiyan (RGKA) Scheme under which Rural Sports Competitions are organized at Block, District, State and National levels through the State Governments/Union Territories… Read More »
New SAI Centres The Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Youth Affairs & Sports, Shri Sarbananda Sonowal has said that Sports Authority of India (SAI) has decided to establish the following new Centres in the country:- • SAI Training Centre (STC) at Uday Pratap Inter College at Varanasi • STC at Vidyadharnagar , Jaipur Rajasthan… Read More »
Restructuring of RPF and Policing in Railways Policing on Railways is a State subject and prevention of crime, registration of cases and their investigation in Railway premises as well as on running trains is, therefore, the statutory responsibility of the State Governments, which they discharge through Government Railway Police (GRP). Therefore, the responsibility of detection… Read More »
EESL Reaches Milestone of Distribution of 7 Crore LED Bulbs on Budget Day Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL) has distributed over seven crore LED bulbs to the citizens of the country under the Domestic Efficient Lighting Programme (DELP). The milestone was achieved on the Budget Day. The scheme, implemented by Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL),… Read More »
“2016-17 Central Budget is a budget for villages, farmers, poor, entrepreneurs and youth.” Steel & Mines Minister Minister of Steel & Mines Shri Narendra Singh Tomar has termed the central budget presented in parliament yesterday as a budget for villages, farmers, poor, entrepreneurs and youth. He said that envisaged expenditure on infrastructure and road construction… Read More »
Fingerprints of criminals Central Finger Print Bureau (CFPB) under National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) has been maintaining a National database of more the 10 lakh ten-digit finger print records of specified categories of criminals. The Government has in-principle agreed to the proposal of National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) for taking finger print data in the… Read More »
Financial assistance to anti-Sikh riot victims As per records, 3325 persons killed in the 1984 riots out of which 2733 persons were killed in Delhi. The Ministry vide its letter dated 16.12.2014 sanctioned payment of additional compensation to the Next of Kin of the deceased persons on the following criteria:- (i) In addition to the… Read More »
HMT units The Government has no proposal to reopen/revive the loss making closed HMT unit in the country particularly, Ranibagh at Nainital. As per the CCEA approval, all the employees of three HMT subsidiary companies namely HMT Watches Ltd., HMT Chinar Watches Ltd., and HMT Bearings Ltd would be offered attractive VRS package on 2007… Read More »
Closure of Loss Making CPSEs The following Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs) under Department of Heavy Industry (DHI) are incurring losses regularly over the last three years: (i) Hindustan Cables Ltd; (ii) Hindustan Newsprint Ltd; (iii) Hindustan Papers Ltd; (iv) Hindustan Photo Films & Manufacturing Ltd; (v) HMT (Bearings) Ltd; (vi) HMT (Chinar Watches) Ltd;… Read More »