(HT) उत्तराखंड की नई सरकार ने दसवें दिन ही विधानसभा में लोकायुक्त विधेयक पेश कर भ्रष्टाचार के खिलाफ कड़ी चोट की है। सोमवार को संसदीय कार्य मंत्री प्रकाश पंत ने विधानसभा सत्र के दूसरे दिन सदन में लोकायुक्त और तबादला विधेयक पेश किया। साथ ही राज्य के चार महीने के खर्चों के लिए 16 हजार अड़तालीस करोड़ का लेखानुदान भी प्रस्तुत किया गया है। संसदीय कार्य मंत्री प्रकाश पंत की ओर से सोमवार को शाम चार बजे पहले लेखानुदान प्रस्तुत किया गया। उसके बाद उत्तराखंड लोक सेवकों के लिए वार्षिक स्थानांतरण विधेयक और फिर उत्तराखंड लोकायुक्त अधिनियम-2007 विधानसभा के पटल…
Author: Aruna Sharma
The Ministry has allocated funds of Rs 1,00,250 Crore which includes Internal and Extra Budgetary Resources (IEBR) and Borrowings of Rs 59,279 Crore for the development of National Highways during the current financial year 2016-17. The Ministry has set an ambitious target of 15,000 km for the construction of National Highways during the current financial year 2016-17 and 6604 km has been achieved as on 28th Feb in 2016-17. The Ministry has sanctioned 4 nos of works for a length 18.65 km amounting to Rs 27.83 Crore in Puducherry for the development of NH-45A (New NH-32) during the current financial…
The Minister of State (I/C) for Petroleum and Natural Gas, Shri Dharmendra Pradhan met H.E. Mr Deepak Bohara, Minister of Supplies of Nepal today.Both Indian and Nepalese Ministers witnessed the renewal of Supply Agreement between Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOCL) and Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC) for a period of another five years. The renewed Agreement is an umbrella document between the two parties which apart from detailing the supply of POL products, also puts in place an institutional mechanism for cooperation in the areas of additional services and technical assistance between the two. Both Ministers congratulated IOCL and NOC on…
The Government of India, today, signed the contracts of the fields awarded under the Discovered Small Field (DSF) Bid Round 2016 with the awardees at New Delhi. The event was presided by Minister of State (I/C) for Petroleum and Natural Gas, Shri Dharmendra Pradhan. The delegation of Shri Pradhan included the Shri K D Tripathi, Secretary for Petroleum and Natural Gas and other senior officials of the Ministry. The Minister also inaugurated a 2 way Interactive Portal for DSF in line with Ease of Doing Business (which is available at www.dghindia.gov.in/dsfportal) which has been developed by DGH to facilitate contract…
The Union Agriculture & Farmers Welfare Minister, Shri Radha Mohan Singh said that Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narender Modi has dreamt of a New India, which will be free of black money and corruption. Promotion of Digidhan and cashless transactions are part of the mission. Shri Singh stated it while inaugurating Digidhan Fair in Motihari, Bihar. The fair continued throughout the day where banks, Common Service Centres (CSC), private digital payment service providers etc. informed the consumers as well as traders about the new technology. Shri Radha Mohan Singh said that the Government has taken several initiatives to promote cashless…
So far, 82 coal mines have been allocated by way of auction / allotment under the provisions of the Coal Mines (Special Provisions) Act, 2015 and the Rules made thereunder. Of these 82 coal mines, 31 have been allocated through e-auction and 51 by way of allotment. This was stated by Shri Piyush Goyal, Minister of State (IC) for Power, Coal & New and Renewable Energy and Mines in a written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha today. The Minister further stated that no coal mine / block has been auctioned in the last one year under the…
(FE) Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath is likely to visit Ayodhya on Monday. CM Adityanath’s visit will come against the backdrop of the Supreme Court recently asking parties involved to sit together and arrive at a consensus on the contentious issue of the construction of Ram Temple, which has been dragging on for decades. Adityanath himself has opined that aggrieved parties must sit together to resolve the matter. Terming the Supreme Court’s observation as a “solid” one, he had said, “It is a welcome step. The Narendra Modi government had welcomed the apex court’s suggestion, insisting that the parties…
(FE) The Narendra Modi government, which is seeking to roll out GST on July 1, will table supplementary goods and services tax legislations in Parliament on Monday. Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley will table the bills.The pan-India tax regime will subsume excise, service tax, VAT and and other local levies. Notably, the second leg of budget session will ends on April 12. It has been learned that the legislations will be introduced as Money Bills even as the government wants discussion in both the Houses. FM Jaitley had discussed issues related to GST with Maharashtra finance minister Sudhir Mungantiwar, representatives…
(ET) A three-member arbitration panel has started hearing validity of the government’s demand of USD 1.55 billion as compensation from Reliance Industries for “unfairly” producing ONGC’s gas. The panel, headed by Singapore-based arbitrator Prof Lawrence Boo, had its first hearing on March 3 where the timetable was drawn, sources privy to the development said. RIL will first file its statement of claim, followed by a statement of followed by a statement of defence by the government. This will be followed by rejoinders, counter-rejoinders and oral hearing, sources said, adding that the panel plans to wind up the hearing in a…
(TOI) Globally, oil companies are known to prefer baking the earth for profit. But in India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Swachh Bharat (Clean India) campaign is driving them to the Himalayas — sometimes even outside the country’s boundaries — in search of corporate social salvation. From launching expeditions to clean up major sources of water, creating public conveniences and specialised medical facilities for tourists and innovative underground cellars for vegetables, public sector oil companies are spending part of their profit to help preserve the pristine Himalayan nature and improve people’s lives. And just as in mountaineering, there appears to be…