Way to Rural Self Reliance: National Rural Livelihoods Mission (NRLM)

Curtain Raiser

The UPA chairperson is to launch the National Rural Livelihoods Mission (NRLM), a re-christened  version of the ongoing Swarn Jayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana from Banswara, Rajasthan tomorrow.  The Minister for Rural Development, Government of India, Sh. Vilasrao Deshmukh and the Chief Minister of Rajasthan, Sh. Ashok Gehlot will also grace the occasion .

NDMA holds National Seminar on Landslide Mitigation Management

National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) held a national seminar on Landslide Mitigation Management in New Delhi today. Vice Chairman, NDMA Shri Shashidhar Reddy in his inaugural address asked the participants to evolve the appropriate scientific strategy for studies of various disasters.

CCI Mandated to Make Markets Function for the Consumer and to Ensure Fair and Healthy Competition in the Indian Economy- Dhanendra Kumar

Successful implementation of any Competition regime has two distinct limbs enforcement of competition laws; and advocacy of benefits of competition among various stakeholders. In the process of transition from planned economy to a more open economy, the application of competition law can usefully support other policy initiatives. Trade policy, industrial policy, privatization, deregulation, regional policy and social policy all need to be conducted in a manner attuned to the market mechanism for an economy to function as efficiently as possible. In order to study the issues of competition in the markets, the Commission has also commissioned 18 market studies of which 17 have been completed and the same are on our website. The issues relating to competition raised in these studies and recommendations made therein are being acted upon. This was disclosed by the chairperson of the Competition Commission of India shri Dhanendra Kumar who completes his tenure by this weekend while addressing the media here today about the challenges faced in building the capacity, gaining confidence of various stakeholders, getting all the provisions of the Competition Act notified, framing necessary regulations, enforcement of competition laws and competition advocacy. He expressed satisfaction over the journey so far and shared his vision about the organization and the potential of the Competition Act in the overall interest of the economy and especially for the consumers who will finally be benefitted from the fair competition in the economy.

Space shuttle Endeavour ends final mission; returns to Earth

Endeavour and its crew safely returned to the Earth on Wednesday after 16 days, successfully completing its last mission and the penultimate flight in NASA's 30-year-old space shuttle programme.The space shuttle, carrying six astronauts, safely landed at the Kennedy Space Center in Merritt Island, Florida.It flew 25 missions and more than 122 million miles in its 19-year long career.Atlantis will take off for one final time in five weeks on NASA's 135th and the last space shuttle mission.

Bihar government to deduct a day’s salary of doctors

The Bihar government today decided to deduct a day’s salary of doctors who struck work for 24 hours on Tuesday. Principal Secretary, Health Amarjeet Singh said that this has been done in the light of the Supreme Court ruling which says ‘no work no pay’. Over three thousand doctors had abstained from work in protest against killing of a doctor inside Gopalganj jail. Health services were crippled in the government hospitals due to strike. 

Courtesy : AIR