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 Affairs Secretary told the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Housing and Urban Affairs. In its report on the …
The main reasons of air pollution in the country are vehicular exhaust emissions, re-suspension of roadside dust, industries, thermal power plants, cement plants, operation of gensets, construction activities, household activities, agricultural practices apart from shipping, aviation and natural sources. The Central Pollution Control Board and State Pollution Control Board / …
Keen to move ahead with the Land Acquisition Bill in the current Parliament session, parliamentary affairs minister Kamal Nath has called a meeting of political parties on Thursday to address the concerns raised over the proposed legislation. The major political parties, including the BJP, the Left, Trinamool Congress, Samajwadi Party, …
Read text of Pranab Mukherjee's speech during budget session of the Parliament. He touched upon various issues like the slow economic growth, growth in agriculture and allied sectors to India's role at Doha climate conference & called for greater transparency in governance. Read text of Pranab Mukherjee's speech during budget …
European lawmakers backed an emergency plan to save the world's biggest market for carbon allowances from collapse on Tuesday, but put off drafting the necessary legislation, sending prices down by as much as 20 percent. The carbon market, a pillar of the European Union's climate policy to cut greenhouse gas …
Caution Centre against trying to rush the new measure through Parliament Even as the Centre hopes to introduce and pass the National Food Security Bill in the coming Budget session of Parliament, several States have expressed reservations on the Bill. At a consultation meeting of State Food Ministers here to …
State governments are raising objections about the coverage under the proposed Food Security Bill, saying that covering 75 per cent of the rural population and 50 per cent of urban as advocated by both the draft Bill and the Standing Committee of Parliament is unacceptable. “The Centre is saying that …
He was addressing the consultation meet of state food ministers on Food Bill here. With Centre planning to present Food Bill in the Budget session of Parliament, Food Minister K V Thomas today urged states to evolve a consensus on contentious issues like coverage and identification of beneficiaries. The Food …
New Delhi: The government on Tuesday said it will constitute an inter-ministerial committee within a week that will help resolve various issues raised by private companies on coal allocation. “There are a number of issues which need to be addressed. We have got feedback from the private sector with regards …
It will investigate the role of public servants in undue favours to private firms In a significant development, the Central Bureau of Investigation has decided to widen its probe into Coalgate, covering allegations that the delay in tabling of the Mines and Mineral (Development and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2008, in …
New Delhi: The UPA is set to redraft the National Food Security Bill with greater benefits than what the government had earlier offered or the parliamentary standing committee had recently recommended. The move comes after the intervention of the Congress high command to ensure that the bill does not fall …
A Bill prohibiting manual scavenging can be passed in the Budget Session if Parliament exhibits its resolve to eliminate this “despicable” practice, the Rural Development Minister, Jairam Ramesh said here today. “I urge the Parliament to support the Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Bill...if we resolve, …
Growing mounds of electronic scrap can mean profits or scandals. Poor countries have long been a popular destination for the rich world’s toxic trash. In 1987 an Italian importer sparked international outrage by dumping 8,000 leaky barrels in the Nigerian village of Koko. On January 9th Nigeria fined importers $1m …
Bill Will Be Reintroduced In Parliament In Budget Session, Says MoS K V Thomas Kochi: The Centre is in broad agreement with the suggestions of the parliamentary panel on food, which has just submitted its report on the much-debated food security bill, said minister of state for food and civil …
The parliamentary panel on food has indicated that the government may revise the prices of foodgrains distributed through the food security scheme to contain the widening fiscal deficit. “The government may revise the prices in five years, depending on grain production, procurement and stocks,” said Vilas Muttemwar, head of the …
Parliament's Standing Committee also proposed the State Food Commissions be vested with powers to check the quality of foodgrains before delivery from the central government. If the suggestions of Parliament’s standing committee on food are incorporated in the final version of the ambitious Food Security Bill, then beneficiaries of the …
For more than a year, the government has been holding record foodgrain stocks. The law related to providing food security is pending in Parliament. The Supreme Court has given 92 directives relating to food in the past 12 years. Nutritional intake has continued to decline in the country. Is there …
Recommends 5 kg of foodgrains, down from the earlier 7 kg A day before the Congress’s ‘Chintan Shivir’, a Parliament Standing Committee on Thursday presented the much-awaited report on the Food Security Bill, giving legal entitlement of uniform five kg of foodgrains to 75 per cent of the country’s rural …
As the Parliamentary standing committee examining the National Food Security Bill recommended scrapping of ‘general’ and ‘priority’ categorisation and a uniform monthly legal entitlement of 5 kg food grains per person to 67 per cent of the population at uniform prices, Food Minister K V Thomas on Thursday indicated that …
Dismissing Parliamentary panel's suggestion to halt all field trials of genetically modified (GM) crops, Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar has said the government can't take “luxurious decision of banning” them as such kind of farm research is important for ensuring food security. In August, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Agriculture, headed …
Attorney-General assures expeditious passage of Bill The Supreme Court on Tuesday expressed serious concern at the inordinate delay in Parliament passing the Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Bill. A Bench of Justices H.L. Datu and Ranjan Gogoi shared the concern of counsel Santosh Paul and counsel …
