-The Indian Express The decision puts to an end a long-drawn disagreement between Maneka and NITI Aayog, with the former batting for packaged nutrients and the latter wanting to substitute food with cash given to beneficiaries through direct benefit transfer. The National Council on India’s Nutrition Challenges has rejected Woman and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi’s longstanding, much-debated proposal to provide packaged nutrients to replace the existing take-home rations across 14 lakh-odd...
More »SEARCH RESULT
Total Matching Records found : 9310
3,292 NGOs have 15 days to comply with FCRA rules or have their licences cancelled -Neeraj Chauhan
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The ministry of home affairs has issued notices to 3,292 NGOs/associations including Delhi University, JNU, IGNOU, IIT Madras and others asking them to submit their annual returns from 2011-12 to 2016-17 within the next 15 days or face cancellation of licence under FCRA 2010. In an order issued this week, the ministry has asked the associations registered under Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) 2010 to submit...
More »One year on, revised RTI rules yet to be approved -Rumu Banerjee
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Almost a year after it came out with draft RTI Rules 2017, the government seems to have put them in cold storage. There has been criticism the new rules failed to address recurrent issues like non-compliance of CIC orders and also gave more powers to the chief information comMISsioner leaving scope for MISuse. The revised rules, which had faced resistance, from a part of the...
More »77.45 hectares of forest land for bullet train: Maharashtra govt seeks additional details before giving approval -Neha Kulkarni
-The Indian Express Out of the 1,400 hectares required for the bullet train project in Maharashtra and Gujarat, 353 hectares will be required from Maharashtra. Mumbai: The Maharashtra forest department has raised queries regarding a proposal submitted by the National High-Speed Railway Corporation Limited (NHSRCL) seeking to divert 77.45 hectares of forest land in the state for the proposed Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train project. Calling the proposal incomplete, the state government has...
More »Regulation on sale of oxytocin
-The Telegraph New Delhi: The Union health ministry has banned the sale of formulations with oxytocin through retail cheMISts and restricted domestic manufacture to public sector companies amid concerns about the clandestine manufacture and sale of the drug, believed to be MISused in the dairy sector. The new rules come into effect from July 1. The government has also banned the import of oxytocin and its formulations, but public and private sector...
More »
