Infrastructure Sector Remains In Focus Building rural infrastructure is one of the key focus areas of the budget. The total amount allocated for building rural infrastructure and livelihood is 14.34 lakh crore. The target is to build 3.17 lakh kilometers of rural roads, 51 lakh new rural houses, 1.88 crore toilets, and to provide 1.75 crore new household electric connections. The budgetary allocation of National Highways has pegged at Rs. 71,000 crores, up from Rs. 61,000 crore allocated during 2017-18. The Cabinet has approved the investment proposal for the Bharatmala Pariyojana (BMP) Phase I for development/upgradation of about 35,000 km…
Author: Amit Bhanot
(Hindustan) आंध्र प्रदेश को विशेष राज्य का दर्जा न दिए जाने से नाराज तेलुगू देशम पार्टी (टीडीपी) को मनाने की सभी कोशिशें नाकाम हो गईं। गुरुवार शाम मोदी सरकार में टीडीपी के दोनों मंत्रियों- नागरिक उड्डयन मंत्री अशोक गजपति राजू और विज्ञान एवं प्रौद्योगिकी राज्य मंत्री वाईएस चौधरी ने इस्तीफा दे दिया। हालांकि टीडीपी ने यह भी कहा है कि वह एनडीए का हिस्सा बनी रहेगी लेकिन कोई मंत्री पद नहीं लेगी। इससे पहले पीएम मोदी ने खुद आंध्र प्रदेश के मुख्यमंत्री चंद्रबाबू नायडू से फोन पर बात की। कयास लगाए जा रहे थे कि सुलह हो सकती है। लेकिन करीब एक घंटे…
On the occasion of International Women’s Day today, the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, launched the National Nutrition Mission, and expansion of the coverage of Beti Bachao Beti Padhao programme, at Jhunjhunu in Rajasthan. The Prime Minister interacted with District Magistrates of aspirational districts. He also interacted with beneficiary mothers and girl children of the Beti Bachao Beti Padhao programme.The Prime Minister awarded certificates to the best performing districts under the Beti Bachao Beti Padhao programme.Speaking on the occasion, the Chief Minister of Rajasthan, Smt. VasundharaRaje, said that she is happy that the Prime Minister chose Rajasthan for the launch…
The President of India, Shri Ram Nath Kovind, presented the Nari Shakti Puraskar at a function held at Rashtrapati Bhavan today (March 8, 2018) on the occasion of International Women’s Day. Speaking on the occasion, the President said discriminating between men and women is essentially a problem of mindsets in society. To ensure composite development of the country, it is necessary to remove such discrimination. Every person in society is responsible for changing such mindsets. We should listen to voices of our daughters and provide them all opportunities to make the most of their lives. We should change customs and traditions that…
Kerala, Punjab & Tamil Nadu Tops Overall Performance Chart States and UTs have been ranked in three categories namely, Larger States, Smaller States, and Union Territories (UTs), to ensure comparison among similar entities. The Health Index is a weighted composite Index, which for the larger States, is based on indicators in three domains: (a) Health Outcomes (70%); (b) Governance and Information (12%); and (c) Key Inputs and Processes (18%), with each domain assigned a weight based on its importance, reports Aruna Sharma in Governance Democracy & Politics (GDP), February Issue NITI Aayog recently released a comprehensive Health Index report titled,…
Press Conference by Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad at BJP Head office
(PTI) Indian Oil-owned Gujarat Refinery on the outskirts of Vadodara city will invest about Rs 24,174 crore on new projects and expansions in the next five years, a senior company official said today. These include capacity expansion to 18 MMTPA, at a cost of Rs 15,034 crore, oxo-alcohol petrochemical project (Rs 4,157 crore), Linear Alkyl Benzamine (LAB) revamp project (Rs 288 crore), BS-IV (Rs 1,315 crore) and BS-VI (Rs 3,380 crore), Gujarat Refinery executive director, Sudhir Kumar told reporters here. According to him, these will generate direct employment of about 200 persons and indirect employment to about 10,000 people at…
In the Budget, there has been a clear thrust on empowering rural economy by supporting agriculture and boosting infrastructure, social sectors. Reduced tax burden for senior citizens has been a matter of cheer. Populist demand of tax benefits to individual taxpayers has been given a miss. Seems, like that fund may have been used for offering tax rate reduction to the SME sector, which could help generate employment. Conditions regarding tax incentives associated with new employment have been further liberalized, Reports Amit Bhanot in the Cover Story of Governance Democracy & Politics (GDP), February Issue Simply put, the Indian Union Budget…
(LiveMint) India’s largest power utility NTPC Ltd on Tuesday joined hands with Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad (IIM-A) to establish a management school in Noida near Delhi that would offer specialized courses on energy management and work as a policy think tank. “We have bigger plans…it will be a full-fledged B-School with a specialized focus on energy sector – both fossil and renewables,” said Saptarshi Roy, director (human resource) at NTPC. “We don’t have enough management schools who are offering specialised management courses in the energy sector and we would like to be the go-to place in the next few years,”…
(PTI) Miscreants hurled petrol bombs at a BJP office here in the city early today but no one was injured, the police said.Three persons surrendered in connection with the incident and they were arrested, the police added. Bike-borne miscreants hurled two petrol bombs at the BJP office at Siddapudur around 4 am, the police said, adding that one of the bombs hit the board of a nearby ticket booking office of Andhra Pradesh Tourism and the other landed on the road.The attack comes in the backdrop of the reported remarks of BJP national secretary H Raja on Dravidian leader E…