Gadkari launches modified e-rickshaw
New Delhi: Minister for Road and Transport Nitin Gadkari launched the modified e-rickshaw after a round of inspection in Transport Bhawan on Tuesday. He said that the e-rickshaws will be a positive step towards stopping the inhuman practice of human beings pulling another human being on manual rickshaws. Gadkari also said that the e-rickshaws will be provided to members of the minority, scheduled castes, scheduled tribes and obcs at discounted rates by concerned welfare organisations.
Railway, Road Mins ink MoU for ROB/RUB
New Delhi: In order to expedite and streamline the building of rail over bridges and rail under bridges on at least 1,000 locations on National Highways without any road blocks and inter-ministerial differences, Ministry of Road Transport & Highways signed a MoU with Ministry of Railways on Tuesday. Both agreed on coordination between the two Ministries. They also agreed that either ministry will not levy any charge for supervision, mainten-ance, departmental charges or land lease charges from each other. It has also been decided that MoRTH, which shall construct complete ROB/RUB (including railway bridge portion) on NH Corridors on single entity basis, will bear all construction charges.
Patil is ClP leader for Maha, Kiran for Haryana
New Delhi: Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil and Kiran Choudhary, known detractors of former Chief Ministers Prithviraj Chavan and Bhupinder Singh Hooda, were on Monday made leaders of Congress legislature Party in Maharashtra and Haryana where the party lost power. Chowdhary, daughter-in-law of late Haryana Chief Minister Bansi lal, was a Minister in the Hooda government. However, she had been vocal in criticising Hooda and had been pressing for change of leadership.
Maulana Azad National Academy for Skills opens
New Delhi: Najma Heptullah inaugurated the office of Maulana Azad National Academy for Skills set up by National Minorities Development and Finance Corporation (NMDFC) under the aegis of Ministry of Minority Affairs. MANAS is an initiative by the government to train minorities in skill sets which can enable them earn respectable employment. This will also be linked to banks, where minorities could apply for loans for self-employment, on certification from MANAS.
Apex Court trashes PIl for renaming India
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a PIl seeking a direction to the Centre to rename India as 'Bharat' and said that a representation be made before the authority concerned. A bench comprising Chief Justice H l Dattu and Justice A K Sikri asked petitioner Niranjan Bhatwal to first approach the authorities concerned with an appropriate representation.
SC to hear Air India appeals on Nov 18
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday said it will hear on November 18 a batch of appeals filed by Air India (AI) and its various employees unions against a Bombay High Court order on implementation of Dharmadhikari panel's recommendations on merger of erstwhile Indian Airlines and Air India.
Chhattisgarh pays Rs23l to 46 eye surgery victims
New Delhi: On direction of NHRC, the Chhattisgarh Government paid a compensation of Rs23 lakh to 46 victims of a botched-up eye surgery during a camp organised in Durg district in 2011. A release by NHRC said that Chhattisgarh government paid Rs50,000 each to the 46 victims after the Panel found the sum of Rs50,000 paid to them earlier as insufficient.