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In another step towards providing legal consultancy and conciliation advice to the people, Govt has decided to set up Legal Assistance Cell (LAC) at gram panchayat level. The main objective of the move is to provide legal reconciliatory…

Presently the Government does not propose to constitute a National Level Welfare Board for Transgender Persons. However, an Expert Committee was constituted in the Ministry to make an in-depth study of the problems being faced by the…

Ministry of Power has electrified 51 villages in Uttar Pradesh last week under Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojna. Out of  these electrified villages, 34 belong to Bareli district and other 17 villages falls in Mainpuri district of the…

Union Government has accepted the recommendation of 14th Finance Commission to increase the shareable pool of Tax Devolution from 32% to 42% for it’s award period (2015-20) which gives more resources and greater freedom to use these…

The Union Home Minister, Shri Rajnath Singh chaired a meeting of the High Level Committee (HLC) here on  Monday for Central Assistance to States affected by drought, landslides and flood. The Union Minister for Finance, Corporate Affairs…

The rate of industrial growth, measured in terms of Index of Industrial Production (IIP) increased by 4.8 per cent during April-October, 2015-16 as compared to the growth of 2.2 per cent during the same period of previous year i.e. 2014-15.…

The amount of coal imported during the years 2012-13 to 2014-15 was 145.79 Mte, 166.86 Mte and 212.10 Mte, respectively. This was stated by Shri Piyush Goyal, Minister of State (IC) for Power, Coal & New and Renewable Energy in a…

The strategies of the Government in the Health Sector are presently guided by the National Health Policy 2002. The principal objectives of NHP-2002 inter alia includes achieving an acceptable standard of good health amongst the general…

The WHO South East Asia Regional Committee, in its 68th session held in Timor Leste, adopted resolution no. SEA/RC68/R5 on 11 September 2015, on “Cancer Prevention and Control – the way forward”. The said resolution noted that many…

The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, has condoled the death of BSF personnel in the plane crash in Delhi.  “Pained by the loss of lives in the BSF plane crash in Delhi. My thoughts are with the families of the deceased”, the Prime…