Tag: Central Government

Modi Govt has lived up to people’s expectations: Piyush Goyal

Goyal said: "The BJP assures the country that by working in every direction with service, we will take the world's youngest democracy to new heights with new hopes. In these nine years, the country has seen that the exploited and the deprived will get their rights at any cost."

May 29, 2023

No one from Bengal to attend NITI meet

Centre rejects state’s proposal to depute MoS (finance), CS for meeting

May 27, 2023

Ruling Delhi

With a plethora of elected and other agencies, overload of Delhi‘s governance structure has been a huge drag. In addition to 272 councilors in the erstwhile three Municipalities, 70 MLAs in the NCT government and seven MPs, there is the New Delhi Municipal Council for the cloistered Lutyens‘ zone, and Cantonment Board, not to talk of the Union government controlling its land and policing. Multiplicity of institutions, often with overlapping jurisdictions and sometimes contradictory goals, make for sub-optimal output and outcome, a lot of waste

May 27, 2023

Centre to promote new startups offering solar solutions

The government is contemplating on a new scheme for distributed applications of renewable energy (RE) that is expected to benefit lakhs of families across the country.

May 22, 2023

Lists of documents for driving licence expanded

Now, MNREGA cards, labour cards, and farmer passbooks will be recognised as identity cards and residence certificates.

April 27, 2023

Budgetary support reduces rail accidents by 50%

In the general budget of 2017-18, the Centre made a special provision of one lakh crore rupees for setting up the National Rail Safety Fund (RRSK).

April 24, 2023

Heat Wave: Punjab govt offices to open at 7.30 am from 2 May

The decision was made to reduce power consumption during peak summer and to ensure better coordination and control among the offices.

April 20, 2023

Centre to charge hefty fee on laying telecom cable on NH land

The government will now charge a license fee of Rs 88 for laying underground cables along national highways.

April 20, 2023

No change in working hours of Haryana employees for summers

The Haryana government decision came a day after the Central government issued an advisory to states to reschedule the working hours for workers and labourers to mitigate the impact of ensuing heat wave conditions.

April 19, 2023

Centre to bring Cinematograph Bill in next session

The Bill will introduce better classification of films than the prevalent U, UA and A categories, said Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur.

April 19, 2023

We will form next government at the Centre: BRS

JP state president Bandi Sanjay Kumar criticized the Chief Minister, asking “Why didn’t KCR take part in Dr BR Ambedkar Jayanthi and Vardanthi programmes all these years?"

April 16, 2023

National Highway projects failed to achieve 12,500-km target

The government was able to construct only 10,993 km of national highways this year.

April 15, 2023

Punjab AAP calls CBI summons to Kejriwal dictatorial

The Modi Government cannot suppress or intimidate AAP chief was a common refrain among state cabinet ministers and AAP MLAs, including Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann.

April 15, 2023

Figures on attacks on Christians incorrect: Centre tells SC

The government told the apex court that it was apparent that the petitioners just wanted to keep the “the pot boiling” to sully the image of the country.

April 13, 2023

ON FRAMING THE RULES OF CAA 2019

The writer is a former IAS officer who retired as Secretary, Finance, Government of Assam.

April 10, 2023

KTR demands apology from Centre for hike in fuel prices

In an open letter to the Centre, the Telangana industry minister accused the NDA Government of looting and deceiving the public by citing international crude oil prices.

March 30, 2023

Domain of MPLAD Scheme expanded: Govt

MPs have been given flexibility in choosing the works that can be taken up under the MPLAD Scheme provided it leads to the creation of durable public assets for the larger public good of the society.

March 27, 2023