March 8, 2002

• Shareholders to get dividends through Electronic Clearing Services
• Empowering Lok Adalats
• Rail infrastructure development in Karnataka
• Long term grain export policy
• Incentives to tourism in the budget 2002-2003
• Commissioning of INS Tarmugli
• Public enterprises survey 2000-01
• State Governments urged to pay sugarcane dues
• Supply of hank yarn
• Government proposes to amend Persons with Disabilities act 1995 to ensure three percent reservation for the disabaled in educational instutions
• 391 old age homes set up with Central Financial Assistance
• Sushma Swaraj calls for a balanced free flow of information
• Suo Moto Statement by Petroleum Minister in Parliament on Guidelines for Authorisation to Market Transportation Fuels
• Increase in the wages of Textile Workers
• Sericulture Development Plan drawn up by Central Silk Board
• Awarding of contracts for Golden Quadrilateral Completed
• Scheme for development of Handloom
• US $ 300 Million World Bank credit for Water Supply and Sanitation Projects in Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh
• 10 New Agri Export Zones notified - Press note
• India and Bangladesh to Cooperate in installation of Bheramara Power Station