Day: February 14, 2019

Apprenticeship Training at Industrial Training Institutes

open view news desk Government has pre-approved all the Government and Private Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) having rating 2.0 and above as basic training provider. It will help fresher apprentices to acquire a reasonable ability to handle Instruments/Machineries/Equipment independently prior to moving to Shop Floor/Work Area for practical […]

Reducing Crude Oil and Gas Imports

open view news desk The import reduction strategy of the Government includes increasing production of oil and gas, improving energy efficiency and productivity, demand substitution, improving refinery processes and promotion of bio and alternate fuels. The major policy initiatives taken by Government during the last four years to […]

Expansion of Gas Pipeline Network Across the Country

open view news desk Government has envisaged to develop the National Gas Grid and City Gas Distribution (CGD) networks in the countryto enhance the availability and accessibility of natural gas to public at large. At present about 16,788 km natural gas pipeline is operational and about 14,239 km […]

Newly Identified Petroleum and Natural Gas Reserves During last Four Years

open view news desk The details of location and the quantum in-place accretion of oil and natural gas identified during the last four years are as under: – State/Location In-place accretion (in Million Metric Tonne equivalent of oil & gas) 2014-15   2015-16 2016-17 2017-18 Arunachal Pradesh -4.63 […]

Vacant Posts

open view news desk Category-wise data on vacant posts is not maintained centrally. However, the details of group-wise number of vacancies as available in the Annual Report on Pay and Allowances of Central Government Civilian employees’ for 2016-17 as on 01.03.2016 published by Pay Research Unit, Department of […]

Agitation against change in UPSC Exam

open view news desk Several representations have been received from the Civil Services aspirants demanding additional attempts in Civil Services Examination (CSE) due to change in the pattern from CSE-2011. The Government has already acted upon this matter by taking a policy decision for providing an additional attempt […]

Reservation Policy

open view news desk As per extant instructions, reservation is provided to Scheduled Castes (SCs), Scheduled Tribes (STs) and Other Backward Classes (OBCs) at the rate of 15%, 7.5% and 27% respectively in case of direct recruitment on all India basis by open competition. In case of direct recruitment […]

Prosecution in Corruption

open view news desk The Government has issued guidelines vide Office Memorandum No. 399/33/2006-AVD-III dated 06.11.2006 regarding checking delay in grant of sanction for prosecution under Section 19 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, against delinquent officials working under different Ministries/Departments. A time line of three months has […]

Functioning of CBI

open view news desk As per the provisions of the Delhi Special Police Establishment (DSPE) Act, 1946, the superintendence over Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in respect of investigation of Prevention of Corruption (PC) Act cases vests with the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC). To perform this statutory role, […]

NFDC Declared Winner Under Miniratna Category by Ministry of MSME

open view news desk National Film Development Corporation of India has beendeclared winner under the Miniratna Category (Category II) by Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME).This is part of endeavour by Ministry of MSME to felicitate select CPSEs inrecognition of their exemplary work for the promotion […]

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