8th August, 2002
 


Ministry of Health & Family Welfare

Reduction of neuro morbidity in children should be a priority - Shatrughan Sinha
Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare, Shri Shatrughan Sinha has said that chronic childhood neurological diseases and disabilities need to be prevented, diagnosed treated and rehabilitated early. .................

Ministry of Law & Justice

Increasing juvenile crimes in Delhi
The cases involving juveniles in the National Capital Territory of Delhi have gone up from 329 in 1999 to 670 cases in the year 2000. .................

Ministry of Law & Justice

Guidelines for sitting Judges as Commissions of Inquiry
The Supreme Court has formulated some broad guidelines for appointment of a sitting judge of High Court only to a Commission in its judgement of July 12, 2002 in T. Fenn Walter & Others Vs. Union of India and Others. .................

Ministry of Steel

Steps to promote export of steel
The export of finished steel in 2001-2002 was 2.73million tonnes while the same for the year 2000-2001 was 2.66 million tonnes. .................

Ministry of Steel

Steel consumption up 3.1 per cent
The consumption of finished steel in the country was 27.3 million tones in 2001-02 that shows a growth of 3.1 per cent compared to the consumption of previous year's level of 26.5 million tonnes. .................

Ministry of Steel

Stainless steel production shows growth
Production of stainless steel in the country during the year 2001-2002 was 7.6 lakh tonnes against 7.05 lakh tonnes during 2000-2001 and 6.12 lakh tonnes in 1999-2000. .................

Ministry of Rural Development

Rs. 9.47 crore released to Madhya Pradesh for watershed development projects
The Ministry of Rural Development has released Rs. 947.225 lakh to Madhya Pradesh for the watershed development projects, under Drought Prone Areas Programme (DPAP), during the year 2002-03. .................

Ministry of Home Affairs

Centre to address the core issues in the North-East Region for all round development
The Deputy Prime Minister, Shri L.K. Advani today assured the Consultative Committee attached to the Home Ministry that the Centre will address the core issues in North-Eastern States with all sincerity. .................

Ministry of Railways

Dynamic policy for railways to fill up vacant seats
Ministry of Railways have taken several steps to fill up vacant seats and to make the purchase of tickets easier for the general public. Some of these are: .................

Ministry of Railways

Rail link with private ports
Ministry of Railways propose to strengthen Rail linkages to all major ports including major private ports. .................

Ministry of Railways

Railways measures for minimising leakage of revenue
The Railways are taking continuous steps for technological upgradation as well as intensive physical checkings to stop leakage of revenue. .................

Ministry of Coal & Mines

Mining of diamonds and precious minerals
Since April 1, 2002 on the recommendations of the State Government of Andhra Pradesh, approval have been given by the Central Government for grant of 5 prospecting licences for diamond and other precious stones. .................

Ministry of Scienct & Technology

Nation wide movement for creating neighbourhood maps on the anvil
A nationwide movement, which will involve school children across the country for creating neighbourhood maps, is on the anvil. .................

Ministry of Scienct & Technology

SRM Institute of S&T declared Deemed to be University
The SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai has been declared as Deemed to be University. .................

Ministry of Water Resources

Rs. 150 crore earmarked for recharge of ground water scheme in Panchayats during 10th Five Year Plan
15. Rs. 150 crore earmarked for recharge of ground water scheme in Panchayats during 10th Five Year Plan .................

Ministry of Textiles

Kashiram Rana louds role of EPCH
The Government will always be one step ahead in providing conducive environment for the handicrafts exporters. .................

Ministry of Defence

Medal Winning Army Sportsmen felicitated
General S Padmanabhan, Chief of the Army Staff, felicitated six Army sportsmen who won medals at the recently concluded 17th Commonwealth Games, at a ceremony held at South Block today. ................

Ministry of Agriculture

RBI to instruct Commercial Banks to reschedule loans to drought-hit people
Union Agriculture Minister Shri Ajit Singh today said that Reserve Bank of India has been asked to issue instructions to all Commercial Banks to reschedule their loans to the affected persons in the drought affected areas in the country. ................