The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, today invited the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation – the ONGC – to take up a challenge, on the occasion of Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay’s birth anniversary. Addressing officers and staff of the ONGC at a function to mark the launch of the SAUBHAGYA Yojana, the Prime Minister exhorted them to work towards making an efficient electric chulha (stove), which would enable cooking through the use of electricity. The Prime Minister said this innovation would, in one stroke, significantly impact the nation’s dependence on imported fuel. He said that while the world is working towards…
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(NDTV) Prime Minister Narendra Modi today launched the ‘Saubhagya scheme’ to give free electricity connections to poor families in both cities and villages by 2018 with a total outlay of Rs. 16,320 crores, which will be funded largely by the centre. No poor person will have to pay for electricity connections, the Prime Minster has said. “New India will not only have power in all villages but in every home,” said PM Modi on Monday evening while the announcing the scheme, adding, “We have decided the burden for this will not be borne by the poor. The poor used to have to…
(PTI) Security forces on Monday recovered body of a militant near the Line of Control (LoC) in Uri area of Kashmir, taking the number of ultras killed in the operation there to four.Security forces on Monday morning resumed the anti- militancy operation, which was launched yesterday, following information about presence of more militants in the area “We have recovered body of another militant, which takes the number of militants killed in the operation to four,” an Army official said.”The operation resumed this morning after there were reports of more militants hiding in the area,” the official said. He said the area…
(NDTV) Amid worries over an economic slowdown, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has set up a five-member panel of economists headed by NITI Aayog member Bibek Debroy to advise him.The economic advisory council includes NITI Aayog’s Principal Advisor Ratan Watal as its member and economists Surjit Bhalla, Rathin Roy and Ashima Goyal as part-time members. The panel will analyse issues, “economic or otherwise, referred to it by the Prime Minister”, and will advise him on it, a government release said. The council will “address issues of macroeconomic importance and present views thereon to the Prime Minister,” the release said, adding that…
A Shortwhile ago Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated ONGC’s Deendayal Urja Bhawan. Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan & RK Singh also present. The State-owned Oil and Natural Gas firm had changed the name of its newly built office from Rajiv Gandhi Urja Bhawan to Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya Urja Bhawan after the Bharatiya Jan Sangh politician and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) ideologue. Today is the birth centenary of Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya. To ensure electrification of every willing household, Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Yojna-Saubhagya launched by PM.
(BS) The government is set to come out with a new policy aimed at increasing oil production from nomination blocks of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) and Oil India (OIL), sources in the know said. The proposed policy would encourage private sector investment and help bring in world-class exploration and production technologies. “The production enhancement policy will go for inter-ministerial consultation soon and is likely to come up for Cabinet clearance within a month. We expect the enhanced oil recovery (EOR) policy to be presented before the Cabinet in two months,” said a source, adding that the petroleum ministry would take opinions from the finance ministry, the law ministry, and…
(TH) The police are planning to impose ‘No helmet, No petrol’ rule in Vijayawada and Guntur. The rule will come into force from Monday in Guntur. City Police Commissioner D. Gautam Sawang, at a programme organised by an NGO on traffic awareness on Sunday, announced that the rule would be implemented in the Commissionerate. “Orders would be issued to all petrol bunks not to fill petrol, if the bike rider has no headgear. We will impose the rule in a couple of days to minimise casualties during road mishaps,” Mr. Sawang told the media. The Police Commissioner asked the parents not to…
(DNA) The government is eyeing 25 crore LPG connections in the country by 2018, petroleum and natural gas minister Dharmendra Pradhan announced on Saturday. Pradhan said that the number of LPG connections in the country was 14 crore when Modi government came to power in 2014. “We have added 8.5 crore connections in three years, and the target is to touch the 25-crore mark by December 2018,” he said. Pradhan also said that about 30 lakh homes in the country are getting piped natural gas (PNG) at present, and the target is to take the number to 1 crore. “This will lead…
(PTI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi will tomorrow formally inaugurate ONGC’s new corporate office that was renamed Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya Urja Bhawan, from Rajiv Gandhi Urja Bhawan. The swanky but green-building built at a cost of Rs 600 crore was completed a year ago and now houses corporate office of India’s largest oil and gas producer and its overseas subsidiary ONGC Videsh Ltd. Company sources said Modi will unveil a statue of Hindutva icon Upadhyaya and address ONGCians at a function tomorrow evening. September 25 marks the end of the government’s year-long birth centenary celebrations of Upadhyaya. Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) had moved…
(Tribune) The Aam Aadmi Party will contest the coming local body elections in the state, AAP Uttarakhand in charge Rakesh Sinha said in a press conference here today. He said the AAP was of the firm view that even after coming to power in the local bodies like municipalities and corporations, one can serve the people with full dedication and honesty.Strongly criticising the state BJP government, Sinha said the six-month rule of the Rawat government had failed to meet the people’s expectations. He said inflation was on a high and the government had failed to provide jobs to a large…