RC recommendation on 27 pesticides
<p>This report is on the review of 66 pesticides under the Chairmanship of Dr. Anupam Varma. The main parameters emphasized by the Committee to review the products were uses approved under the Insecticides
Ministry Of Agriculture
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Pilot crop insurance scheme gets Centre’s approval
The Union Minister of Agriculture has accorded administrative approval for the implementation of a Pilot Weather-Based Crop Insurance Scheme (WBICS) for rabi 2012-13 season. As per the decision, Agriculture
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Cabinet okays pharma pricing policy
Accepts GoM's final recommendations without changes, say sources The Cabinet today endorsed the recommendations of a Group of Ministers’ (GoM) on a revised National Pharmaceutical Pricing Policy, giving shape to a long-pending issue. The government did not give out details of the decision. According to sources, the Cabinet has imposed a cap on prices of 348 essential medicines at the arithmetic average of prices of all drugs in a particular segment with more than one per cent market share, in line with the GoM’s new recommendations.
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Drug pricing policy before Nov 27: Pawar
The Central Government on Wednesday said it had resolved all issues concerning the drug pricing policy and would finalise its stand before November 27, the deadline set by the Supreme Court. A Group of Ministers (GoM) headed by Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar on Wednesday met to discuss the issues. “We have resolved all the issues. There were certain issues that were raised by my colleagues. We discussed them in depth and we have come to an agreed formula...I think we will be able to take Cabinet’s approval before November 27,” Mr. Pawar told reporters here after the meeting.
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GoM on Drug Pricing to Meet FM for Final Draft
GoM to keep market-based pricing mechanism but will tweak method used for calculating price increase The ministerial panel entrusted with framing the country’s drug pricing guidelines will meet Finance
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Govt’s financial Bills line-up skips MMDR, land acquisition
Amidst talks of a no-confidence motion or a vote on the FDI issue, the government has lined up key financial sector Bills including long-pending legislations for pension and insurance sector as well as
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GoM finalises land Bill, to go to Cabinet soon
Acquisition of land for private purposes would require the consent of 80 per cent of the owners, goes the Bill finalised today, according to sources. Under consideration of a Group of Ministers (GoM) headed by Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar, it will soon be placed before the Cabinet and is expected to make it to Parliament’s winter session. Last month, Pawar had said a proposal to seek the consent of 80 per cent of owners, along with many other broad principles, were being circulated among ministers and a consensus was being arrived at. Today, sources said the land Bill had been finalised and the proposal to seek consent of 80 per cent of owners before any acquisition for private projects had been approved.
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Concerns put pharma policy back on GoM table
Chidambaram to be special invitee at Friday?s review meeting SC wants clear policy by November 27 hearing The long-pending pharmaceutical pricing policy revamp, awaiting Cabinet approval, has been sent back to the group of ministers (GoM) which finalised it. The prime minister’s office (PMO) wants the GoM to address concerns raised by the finance ministry. Finance Minister P Chidambaram, not part of this GoM, would be a “special invitee” to the panel’s meeting scheduled for Friday. The GoM is headed by Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar.
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Combating salinity: B’desh minister visits CSSRI
The Bangladesh Agriculture Minister, Begum Matia Chowdhury, today expressed concern over the problem of soil salinity in coastal areas and called for intensifying research and development activities for
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Land Bill set for further delay
New DelhiThe Land Acquisition Bill, which has been surrounded by controversies, is set for further delay as the Cabinet is unlikely to take it up at its meeting tomorrow despite the group of ministers (GoM) approving it. Sources said the Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill, 2011, is not on the agenda of Thursday's Cabinet meeting even though the government intends to introduce it in Parliament in the Winter Session beginning November 22.
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This project irrigates a green idea
The Karnataka government is implementing a unique irrigation project in the district combining the advantages of lift irrigation and drip irrigation technologies, to prevent wastage of water. The project will irrigate 9,900 hectares in 30 villages in the taluks of Shiggaon, Hanagal and Savanur of the district, besides feeding five big tanks in the command area. A total of 1.5 tmc feet of water will be utilised under the project (1.35 tmc feet for irrigation and the rest to fill the tanks).