Ministry of Law & Justice

Landmark legal reforms in social sector
The Government took various mile-stone decisions during the last three years to adjust the laws to provide social security, personal dignity and individual honour to the aggrieved women, children and old parents in the matters of alimony, maintenance and relief on account of divorce suits and maintenance of children, old parents and the women in distress..................

Ministry of Law & Justice

Privatization of ancillary functions of courts
The Centre in consultation with the Chief Justices of High Courts has decided to privatize certain ancillary functions of courts to introduce element of speed , efficiency and maintenance of the equipment in courts..................

Ministry of Steel

SAIL market share up 26 per cent
The Steel Authority of India Ltd. (SAIL) increased its market share to over 26 per cent during 2001-02 by adopting a segment oriented product focused strategy which enabled additional sales of 5.5 lakh tones of steel indigenously..................

Prime Minister's Office

PM's statement on his departure for Cyprus, Denmark and United Kingdom
Following is the text of the Prime Minister Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s statement on his departure for Cyprus, Denmark and UK, from October 07-13, 2002, here today..................

Ministry of Tourism

Tourism arrival in September-2002
Foreign tourists arrival in the country upto September this year was 16,123,83 - 14.8% less than the arrival in corresponding periods of last year..................

Ministry of Defence

NCC delegation returns from Russia
The first ever National Cadet Corps (NCC) delegation to Russia has returned back after taking part in Youth Exchange Programme. The Delegation comprises of two officers and ten cadets..................

Ministry of Science & Technology

Drought Prediction Model to be evolved
A drought prediction model is to be evolved in the back-drop of the first All-India drought year (2002) after a continuous spell of 14 good monsoons since 1987..................

UPSC

Civil Services (Main) Examination, 2002
The Union Public Service Commission will be conducting the Civil Services (Main) Examination, 2002 at 21 venues located in 19 cities throughout the country..................

Ministry of Agriculture

Raids on pesticide dealers
On the basis of complaints received by the Union Ministry of Agriculture that spurious pesticides are being marketed in a major way by certain unscrupulous dealers in Delhi..................

Ministry of Urban Development & Poverty Alleviation

City to city cooperation is a must to reduce experimentation on tested policy & programmes - O. Rajagopal
Union Minister of State for Urban Development & Poverty Alleviation, Sh. O.Rajagopal has said that city-to-city Cooperation through formal mechanism as well as informal approaches is vast and needs to be established to save onexperimentation and re-inventing the tested policy and programme measures..................

Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation

Vijay Goel to inaugurate seminar on time use statistics
Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation is organising a two-day national seminar on Applications of Time Use Statistics..................

Ministry of Labour & Empowerment

Labour Ministry focuses on workers in the unorganised sector
The Labour Ministry took a number of legislative and executive initiatives and policy decisions during the last three years to protect, promote and safeguard the interests of over 400 million workers in general and those who constitute the poor, deprived and disadvantaged sections of the society in particular..................