Day: October 3, 2017

The upgraded Belagavi Airport was inaugurated by Shri Siddaramaiah, Chief Minister of Karnataka and Shri P. Ashok Gajapathi Raju, Union Minister for Civil Aviation in the august presence of Shri Ananth Kumar, Union Minister of Chemicals & Fertilizers and Parliamentary Affairs; Member of Parliament Shri Sanjay B. Patil, Member of Karnataka Legislative Assembly and Smt. Sanjyot Bandekar, Mayor, Belagavi City Corporation as the guests of honour. The New Terminal, a centrally air-conditioned building, with an area of 3,600 sqm has a capacity to handle 300 peak hour passengers at a…

Coal India’s 40th Annual General Meeting was held in Science City Auditorium, Kolkata on 10th September 2014. The meeting with the shareholders of the company, chaired by Dr. A K Dubey, (IAS), Chairman CIL was attended by Functional Directors of Coal India, Shri R Mohan Das, Director (Personnel & Industrial Relations); Shri N Kumar Director (Technical); Shri B K Saxena, Director (Marketing) and Shri A Chatterjee, Director (Finance). Smt. Sujata Prasad, (IAS), JS & FA, Ministry of Coal, also attend the meeting. To begin with Chairman, CIL enumerated the performance…

Central Coalfields Limited felicitated widows and family members of martyrs to mark the ongoing celebration of 70 years of Indian Parliamentary Democracy here at Mahatma Gandhi Kridaangan, Gandhi Nagar Colony, Ranchi. The company has organised a five-day long “Exhibition cum seminar” on ‘New India- We Resolve to Make’ in association with Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs, supported by DAVP and Song & Drama Division (Ministry of Information & Broadcasting). Director (Pers), CCL RS Mahapatro was the Chief Guest on the occasion. Chief Medical Services (CCL) Dr. R R Sinha, Dr. R…

NSIC has successfully set up a Vocational Training Centre and Incubation Centre at Banjul, Gambia and handed over to Ministry of Trade, Industries, Regional Integration and Employment (MOTIE), Govt of Gambia on 12th September, 2017. The project was handed over by A. K. Mittal, Director (Finance), NSIC to Her Excellency Madam Isatou Touray, Hon’ble Minister of Trade, Industries, Regional Integration and Employment in presence of Madam Naffie Barry, Permanent Secretary – MOTIE; T. Baskaran, Counsellor, Embassy of India; Binod Kumar, Chief Manager, NSIC and Officers of Gambia Technical Training Institute…

Smart cities in the making are set to rise to an entirely a new level of monitoring and delivery of civic services through digitally integrated Central Command and Control Centres, said Shri Durga Shanker Mishra, Secretary (Housing & Urban Affairs), Government of India. He said so while inaugurating a day long ‘Learning and Experience Sharing Workshop on Digitally Integrated Command and Control Centres under Smart City Mission’ in Mumbai. Shri Mishra further said that these centres would serve as the ‘brain centres’ of smart cities for ensuring effective coordination in…

Central Government has announced a new PPP Policy for Affordable Housing that allows extending central assistance of up to Rs.2.50 lakh per each house to be built by private builders even on private lands besides opening up immense potential for private investments in affordable housing projects on government lands in urban areas. Minister of Housing & Urban Affairs Shri Hardeep Singh Puri announced this policy that gives eight PPP (Public Private Partnership) options for private sector to invest in affordable housing segment. He was addressing the ‘Real Estate & Infrastructure…

Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, Shri N Chandrababu Naidu, announced that Andhra Pradesh will be declared ODF by March 2018. This was announced during a Collectors’ Conference in Vijaywada, as a part of the Swachhata Hi Seva Campaign. Adding momentum to this drive more than 2 lakhs toilet pits were dug on 17th September in Madhya Pradesh. These are targeted to be converted into one lakh toilets by 2nd October. In Maharasthra, the focus has been on Shramdaan and IPC, during the week. In J&K, the administration and masses came…

State-owned construction firm NBCC said that it has bagged Rs 3,200 crore project from the Union Finance Ministry to develop a residential-cum-office complex in Mumbai. In a BSE filing, NBCC informed that it has got LOI (letter of intent) from Department of Customs and Excise for “planning, designing and construction of office complex and residential quarters at Wadala, Mumbai amounting to Rs 3,200 crore on self-revenue generation model”. NBCC has an order book of Rs 75,000 crore at present and hopes that the figure will reach to Rs 1 lakh…