Month: June 2017

At a national workshop held in New Delhi, Union Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister, Radha Mohan Singh said that in last three years, tribal farmers submitted more than 5,000 plant varieties through KVKs for registration at Protection of Plant Variety and Farmers Rights Authority. This will play an important role in the development of climate resilient and sustainable varieties in future.    The theme for the workshop was “National Workshop on Empowerment of Farmers of Tribal Areas”. Union Minister of Tribal Affairs, Shri Jual Oram was also present on the occasion.   The Agriculture…

The Union Minister of Urban Development, Shri M.Venkaiah Naidu inaugurated the 9th foundation day of The Foundation for Restoration of National Values (FRNV). The event was co-sponsored by Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) and ‘Swachh Bharat’ was the theme of the event.   Addressing the gathering, Shri M.Venkaiah Naidu complimented FRNV for selecting Swachh Bharat as the theme for its foundation day. “The lack of cleanliness and unhygienic living conditions that we see in India today is a reflection of rapidly declining values and fading culture. Mounds of garbage on…

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, has approved the four laning of Pandoh Bypass to Takoli’ section of National Highway (NH)-21 in Himachal Pradesh. This is a sub project of the National Highways Authority of India’s (NHAI) larger project for four laning of NH-21 from Kiratpur in Punjab to Manali in Himachal Pradesh. The other four sub– projects of this project include – Kiratpur-Nerchowk, Nerchowk-Pandoh, Takoli-Kullu and Kullu-Manali. Work on three of the sub-projects is already going on, and is likely to…

The Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh has announced the launch of, “Hill Area Development Programme” (HADP) for Northeast in Imphal, (Manipur).   Dr Jitendra Singh was addressing a meet of Investors and Entrepreneurs, organised by NEDFi (North Eastern Development Finance Corporation Ltd), with joint participation of the Union Ministry of DoNER and the Government of Manipur represented by Chief Minister, Shri N Biren Singh and other senior State functionaries.…

The Union Home Minister Shri Rajnath Singh has inaugurated the 2-day National Level Conference on “Capacity Building of SDRFs-2017”. The conference, organised by National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) aims to develop synergies between the responses of National & State Disaster Response Forces (SDRFs) and to highlight way ahead to strengthen the response capabilities of SDRFs.   Speaking on the occasion, Shri Rajnath Singh said that disaster has no geographical and physical boundaries, so effective management of disasters beyond boundaries should be planned. “The places which were considered secured till now,…

Thales Foundation and GeoHazards Society (GHS) have announced the nationwide launch of a first-of-its-kind School Safety Mobile Application that will allow school administrators to ‘write’ a School Disaster Management Plan (SDMP). The Android-based app was launched by Kamal Kishore, Member, National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA); Prof Santosh Kumar, Executive Director, National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM) and Christophe Humphry, Chief Operating Officer, Thales in India and Hari Kumar, President, GeoHazards Society  at the NIDM headquarters in New Delhi.   The pilot testing of the application took place in schools in…

The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), the Ministry of Home Affairs, the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC), the National Skill Development Fund (NSDF) and the Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) here. The Minister of State for Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (Independent Charge), Shri Rajiv Pratap Rudy and the Minister of State for Home Affairs, Shri Kiren Rijiju were also present during the occasion.   Shri Rajiv Pratap Rudy hailed the signing of the MoU between the two Ministries said that skill development…

The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has informally met all Secretaries – the topmost officers of Ministries of the Government of India.   Making a strong pitch to all the Secretaries present, the Prime Minister said the Secretaries have an opportunity to transform the lives of one-sixth of humanity. He asked them to identify concrete, outcome-oriented goals to be achieved by 2022 – the seventy-fifth anniversary of independence.   The Prime Minister encouraged the Secretaries to work beyond the silos of their respective Ministries for the development of the country.…

As a part of its commitment to change the air quality level with collective societal effort, GAIL (India) Limited has hosted free car pollution check-up camp on the occasion of World Environment Day. This further reinforces the organisation’s commitment towards taking positive action to keep environmental degradation in check. Recent reports show that the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has marked the air quality for both Delhi and Gurgaon as poor and the Air Quality Index (AQI) for Particulate Matter (PM) is alarmingly higher than the safe levels here. An…