Month: October 2017

The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi dedicates the Sardar Sarovar Dam to the nation, at Kevadia in Gujarat. The height of the dam was recently raised to 138.68 metres, facilitating a usable storage of 4.73 Million Acre feet (MAF). This will greatly benefit the participating States of Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra. The project has helped transport the waters of the River Narmada, to the water-deficient areas of Gujarat through an elaborate canal and pipeline network. Irrigation from the project is expected to benefit about 10 lakh farmers, and…

Union Home Minister Shri Rajnath Singh chaired a meeting of all concerned agencies and representatives of certain States to review the measures being taken to arrest the growing trend of cybercrime in the financial sector. He expressed concern over the disturbing rise in cyber frauds using cards and e-wallets in particular. The strategies being adopted to check financial cybercrimes were discussed in detail. Officers from various agencies made presentations and appraised the Home Minister of the current trends of financial cybercrimes in the country and the steps being taken by…

Civil aviation minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju has inaugurated the new campus of the Indian Aviation Academy (IAA). The institute was set up in 2010 as collaboration among Airports Authority of India (AAI), Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) and Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA). The new campus is spread over eight acres and has 12 training halls, a hostel, an open air theatre, two gymnasiums and other sports and recreational facilities. With the inauguration of the new facility, IAA aims to train double the number of students each year.…

Six Central Oil PSUs viz. ONGC, IOC, BPCL, HPCL, GAIL and OIL have contributed Rs 15 Crore to the Flood Relief Fund of the Hon’ble Chief Minister of Gujarat to aid the flood affected people of the State. While ONGC and IOC have contributed Rs 3.2 Crore each, the other four PSUs have contributed Rs 2.15 Crore each. A cheque of Rs. 15 crores was handed over to Shri Vijay Ramniklal Rupani, Chief Minister of Gujarat by the representatives of Oil companies led by ONGC CMD Shri D K Sarraf…

To promote Under-17 FIFA Football World Cup 2017 scheduled in October 2017, NCL is organising Football Tournament from 15th September to 24th September under Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) ambit of the company. As a part of inaugural ceremony, Chief Guest, S.K. Jha, General Manager (CSR), NCL flagged off the tournament in Karela on 15th September, 2017. T.B. Raju, GM (Personnel) and Bikul Borthakur, GM (Civil/CSR) graced the occasion as guests of honour. The 10-day tournament, lasting up to September 24th, 2017, will be played under rural and urban genre. Opening…

A Workshop on RTI was held at NTPC, PMI-Noida. The programme was inaugurated by Director (HR), Shri S. Roy and ED(CP) Shri P. Purkayastha. The objective of the Workshop was to promote, awareness, update the development in RTI field and to have an effective communication between APIOs and RTI Cell. The Portal for internal communication was also displayed and suggestions regarding the same were sought from the participants. In his Inaugural Speech D(HR) stressed on the importance of timely disposal of RTI queries and make the internal Portal effectively functioning…

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…