(ET) Pradhan Mantri Jan Aarogya Yojana (PM-JAY) or Ayushman Bharat has put purchasing power in the hands of 55 crore poor people thereby unleashing a demand for secondary and tertiary healthcare in the country, says National Health Authority CEO Indu Bhushan. As the health insurance scheme for the poorest of the poor completes a year this month, Bhushan speaks about the challenges ahead and how the flagship mission would push private sector to create 1.5 lakh additional beds.Efforts will be focussed on bringing in the remaining states to the PM-JAY family. Covering poor and vulnerable families, who are still not…
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(Tribune) Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur launched the National Generic Document Registration System (NGDRS) under the Digital India Land Records Modernisation Programme on a pilot basis in Shimla (Urban) and Kumarsain in the district for online registration of land records here today. The Chief Minister said this would facilitate registration, online valuation and payment. After the successful implementation of this pilot project, it would be rolled out in the state. This would ensure check on any tempering with revenue records and help in effective maintenance of revenue records for the benefit of the landowners, he added.
(AU) मुख्यमंत्री योगी आदित्यनाथ शुक्रवार को सोनभद्र के उभ्भा गांव में 340 करोड़ की 46 परियोजनाओं का लोकार्पण और शिलान्यास करेंगे। इसके साथ ही वह 281 ग्रामीणों को जमीन पट्टे के कागजात भी अपने हाथ से सौंपेंगे। उभ्भा गांव में 17 जुलाई को जमीन विवाद में 11 लोगों की हत्या के बाद मुख्यमंत्री का यह दूसरा दौरा है। इससे पहले वह 21 जुलाई को आए थे और तब उन्होंने पीड़ितों को हर संभव मदद का भरोसा दिलाया था। मुख्यमंत्री योगी आदित्यनाथ सुबह 10:50 बजे लखनऊ से सीधे हेलीकाप्टर से उभ्भा गांव पहुंचेंगे। यहां आदिवासियों को पट्टे का वितरण, विभिन्न परियोजनाओं…
(ET) With gas output from its fields not matching commitments in past, Reliance Industries is offering supply-or-pay contracts for natural gas it plans to produce from newer fields beginning mid-2020, with an obligation to pay if it is unable to supply. Reliance and its partner BP plc of UK in a notice inviting offer (NIO) for sale of gas from R-Series fields in the KG-D6 block in the Bay of Bengal has for the first time offered to pay the buyer for the purchase of alternate fuel for the default quantity. This clause is in addition to the take-or-pay clause requiring…
(Zee News) A major tanker blast took place at the Hindustan Petroleum plant in Uttar Pradesh’s Unnao on Thursday owing to valve leakage at the plant. The blast led to a stampede-like situation, although the total number of affected people can not ascertained as yet. The administration has stopped movement of the people near the blast site and hence it has not yet been possible to ascertain the total number of injured or dead people in the blast. Several fire brigades were rushed to the spot immediately after the blast and are striving to douse the fire at the plant.
(PTI) The Uttarkhand cabinet has cleared a proposal to reduce some of the penalties revised by the Centre for traffic rule violations under the amended Motor Vehicle Act. Gujarat and Karnataka have already decided to reduce penalties for traffic violations under the Act. Though the penalties for several offences under the revised act are being reduced by half, it has been decided not to relax fines for driving without wearing helmets, speeding or tripling on two wheelers, state government spokesman Madan Kaushik told reporters after the Cabinet meeting late on Wednesday evening. The reduced penalties will come into effect after the state…
(News 18) Over 2,700 gifts Prime Minister Narendra Modi received from across the country will go under the hammer from September 14 and the fund generated will be used for conservation and rejuvenation of the Ganga, Culture Minister Prahlad Patel said on Wednesday.Currently on display at the National Gallery of Modern Arts here, a total of 2,772 gifts including head gears, shawls, portraits, swords gifted by different organisations and chief ministers to the PM will be up for the auction on an online portal designed by the National Informatics Centre. “The gifts received by the PM in the last six…
(AU) आईएनएक्स मीडिया मामले में गिरफ्तार पूर्व वित्त मंत्री पी. चिदंबरम की जमानत याचिका पर दिल्ली हाईकोर्ट में गुरुवार को सुनवाई होगी। चिदंबरम ने उन्हें न्यायिक हिरासत में भेजे जाने को गैरकानूनी बताया है। याचिका में कहा गया है कि इस मामले में अभी तक अन्य कोई आरोपी गिरफ्तार नहीं हुआ है, इसलिए उन्हें जमानत मिलनी चाहिए। साथ ही उनसे पूछताछ भी पूरी हो चुकी है। इससे पहले, हाईकोर्ट ने आईएनएक्स मीडिया केस में चिदंबरम की अग्रिम जमानत याचिका 20 अगस्त को खारिज कर दी थी। इसके बाद सुप्रीम कोर्ट ने भी पांच सितंबर को मनी लांड्रिंग मामले में उन्हें…
PM Modi and Nepal PM Jointly inaugurate Petroleum Pipeline Between Amlekhgunj and Motihari
(ET) India’s Oil and Natural Gas Corp plans to buy out the rest of a western Indian petrochemical project it does not already own and launch a public offering if it fails to find a strategic partner for it, its head of finance said on Tuesday. ONGC Petro additions (OPaL), majority-owned by ONGC, is primarily a polymer manufacturer, a chemical compound used in everything from textiles to plastics and packaging. “We are looking at various options. Our first preference is to convert OPaL into a subsidiary by converting share warrants and debenture into equity if we don’t get a strategic partner,” Subhash Kumar, ONGC’s…