-Press Information Bureau Preliminary Transcript of the Q&A portion of the Prime Minister's Press Conference at the National Media Centre, New Delhi Q: After the Assembly elections, much churning is going on in the UPA. Do you think the Congress should now announce its PM candidate? PM: The Congress President has already answered that question. We will announce our candidate for the Prime Ministership at the appropriate time. Q: On corruption issues which have...
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AAP workers to monitor schools -Shikha Sharma
-The Indian Express New Delhi: Aiming to improve the condition of government schools in the capital, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has set up a team of volunteers who will visit all government schools in the capital and give first-hand information about their condition to Education Minister Manish Sisodia. In the course of the next few days, the team of approximately 200 volunteers will visit government schools across the city and communicate...
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-Outlook New Delhi: Delhi government today announced that it would be opening 100 new night shelters across the city over the next few days with a view to providing relief to the homeless from the biting cold. Talking about the proposed move, Urban Development Minister Manish Sisodia said the SDMs who had been asked to map the homeless in the city had found 4,018 persons sleeping in the open at 212 locations. "At...
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-Outlook New Delhi: Delhi government today announced a series of measures to provide roof to the homeless in biting cold sweeping the city and decided to replace all the night shelters being run from plastic tents with porta cabins within three days. "An order has been passed to replace all night shelters with porta cabins within three days," Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said in a statement released here. He also directed SDMs to...
More »UP hasn't spent Rs 220 crore for central scheme: Jairam Ramesh -Swati Mathur
-The Times of India LUCKNOW: Union minister for rural development Jairam Ramesh on Tuesday shot off another letter to the Akhilesh Yadav government, accusing it of having failed to spend money given under the central schemes. This is Jairam's sixth dispatch to the SP government since it came to power in March, 2012. The letter to the chief minister focuses on the implementation of the Integrated Watershed Management Programme (IWMP), a centrally-funded...
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