Some projects under the Smart Cities Mission would not be able to meet the June 30 deadline and the respective state governments would be responsible for completing them thereafter, Union Housing and Urban
A parliamentary panel has slammed the Environment Ministry for its "usual buck-passing approach" on conserving rivers and lakes and held it responsible for high levels of pollution in major Indian rivers.
In a setback for UPA, the much-awaited bill on land acquisition has been pushed back to the Budget session. Rural development minister Jairam Ramesh failed to move the amendments to the land bill
Asks Coal Ministry to begin allocating mines through bidding route without any time loss Early development of 54 identified mines is necessary to boost the country's coal production, a Parliamentary panel said today and asked the Coal Ministry to begin allocating mines through the bidding route without any time loss. "The Committee is constrained to observe that no progress has been made for the development of identified coal blocks for allocation through bidding system," the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Coal and Steel has said in its latest report.
The government plans to introduce the new land bill in parliament early next week as it seeks to enact a law that gives handsome compensation to displaced persons and requires the consent of 80% of the
Last week, a scathing report by the CAG on the performance of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) was tabled in Parliament. Lasting from 2005 to March 2012, JNNURM was the Central
The committee for strict monitoring of KG D6 block operator The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Petroleum and Natural Gas has expressed its disappointment over the Petroleum Ministry’s failure to initiate penal action against Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL) for its failure to achieve the production outlined under the Field Development Plan (FDP) for the KG D6 block. “The Committee is disappointed that the reply of the Ministry does not indicate any penal action on the operator for shortfall in achieving the FDP that will arrest the decline in natural gas production.
Food Security Bill, billed as the UPA government’s flagship programme, is way behind schedule even as the Parliamentary standing committee scrutinising the legislation is racing against time to finalise
The Cabinet today cleared the controversial Land Acquisition Bill, making it mandatory to seek the consent of 80 per cent of affected landowners in case their land is acquired by private players. The
Deploring the government for introducing a cap on subsidised LPG cylinders in an arbitrary manner, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Petroleum and Natural Gas has asked the government to review the cap of six cylinders a household a year. It said such restrictions should not be placed on people having income below a threshold. The panel, headed by Aruna Kumar Vundavalli, said it recommended last year ending supply of LPG cylinders to the rich and affluent sections who, it described as, people having annual income more than Rs. 6 lakh and those holding constitutional posts and public representatives such as MPs and MLAs. It had asked the government to review and amend the decision in line with the panel's recommendations.
Amendments to the contentious land acquisition Bill not only seek to hasten the acquisition process through tight time-schedules but also contain a provision that virtually allows the law to be applied
