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With a view to facilitate travel of foreign tourists, following facilities have been provided: * Advance Reservation Period of 360 days has been provided for foreign tourists. * Foreign Tourist Quota is earmarked in identified trains…

Railways have taken up the work of installing rain water harvesting facilities wherever possible from techno-economic considerations i.e. intensity of rain fall, level of water table, soil type, salinity of ground water etc. Railways has…

Wi-Fi facility with free access to rail passengers for first 30 minutes in a day is proposed to be provided at all A1 (75), A (332) and B(302) i.e. total 709 railways stations. For period after 30 minutes the service will be available on…

UDAY (Ujwal DISCOM Assurance Yojana) Scheme of Ministry of Power is getting enthralling support from several states. After Andhra Pradesh, Jharkhand, and Rajasthan, State Governments of Punjab, Jammu & Kashmir (J&K), Himachal…

In the context of recent NGT order, Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, chaired a meeting on 5th December to review the current status of CNG Infrastructure in NCT of Delhi. During the discussions, IGL apprised the Minister that IGL has…

The Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957 was amended through the MMDR Amendment Act, 2015 which was published in the Gazette of India on 27th March, 2015. Section 9B of the MMDR Amendment Act, 2015, provides for setting…

CIL has assessed a tentative capital  investment of Rs. 57,000 crores for the next five years to ramp-up its coal production to one billion tonnes by 2019-20 from the production level of 494.80 Mt. in 2014-15.  This was stated by Shri…

The Government of India under the National Health Mission (NHM) is implementing following interventions across all States and UTs of the country to improve the health of newborn babies and their mothers:- 1. Promotion of institutional…

There are no closed and abandoned diamond mines. Panna Diamond mine is only diamond producing mines in the country which is under operation. Geological Survey of India (GSI), an attached office of Ministry of Mines, has been conducting…

In a statement laid on the table of the Lok Sabha today the Minister of Steel and Mines Shri Narendra Singh Tomar said that there is no proposal to specifically restrict steel imports from Northern and Eastern countries. Steel being a…