Ropeways and Cable-Cars in Hilly Areas

open view web desk The Government is working on probability for use of ropeways and cable-cars in hilly areas and hybrid airboats on rivers.  An MoU has been signed between WAPCOS Limited and Doppelmayr, a World Leader in Ropeways.Initial discussions have been held with Government of Uttarakhand and Govt. […]

Battery Rickshaws

open view web desk The Ministry of Road Transport & Highways had amended the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 by inserting the Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Act, 2015 dated 19.03.2015 and had notified GSR 709(E) dated 08.10.2014, S.O. 2590(E) dated 08.10.2014, GSR 27(E) dated 13.01.2015 and S.O. 2812(E) dated 30.08.2016 for amending […]

Withdrawal of Pension Facility

open view web desk Information regarding the number of Central Government employees in the country is not maintained centrally in this Ministry.  As per information provided by Department of Expenditure, the total number of Central Government civilian employees, as on 01.03.2016, was 32, 21,183 Total number of Central […]

Appointment of Domain Expert Through Lateral Entry into Bureaucracy

open view web desk Based on the recommendations in three year Action Agenda of NITI Aayog and the recommendations made by Sectoral Group of Secretaries (SGoS) in its report submitted in February, 2017, Government decided to undertake lateral recruitment of ten Joint Secretaries in ten identified Ministries/Departments, on […]

Steps to Strengthen CIC and RTI Act

open view web desk The details of vacancies in various posts as furnished by Central Information Commission are as follows:- Year No. of vacancies 2014 16 2015 14 2016 09 2017 NIL 2018 11 During the period from 2014 to 2018, the vacancies of 5 Assistants, 20 UDCs […]

Highlights of the trends of CIC Annual Report 2017-18

open view web desk Annual report of the Central Information Commission (CIC) was tabled in Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha on 12thand 27th December 2018 respectively. The trends of Annual Report are as follows: During the reporting year 2017-18, 12.33 lakh RTI applications were received by the registered Central […]

Ten-day Indian Panorama Film Festival to open on 4th January, 2019

open view web desk ‘Ee Maa Yove’ directed by Lijo Jose Pellissery, which won him the Best Director Award in IFFI 2018, to be screened during the Festival The Indian Panorama Film Festival is being organized from 4th to 13th January, 2019. The ten-day Festival is being organized by the […]

Regulations for a four year B.Ed. integrated course published in official gazette in November, 2018

open view web desk The recruitment and service conditions of teachers are primarily in the domain of State Governments/UT Administrations. The Central Government through the Centrally Sponsored Scheme of Samagra Shiksha provides assistance to State Governments/UTs for additional teachers to maintain appropriate Pupil Teacher Ratio as per the […]

UGC has written to state governments to take appropriate action against fake universities

open view web desk University Grants Commission (UGC) has released the list of 24 fake Universities, which are available on its website www.ugc.ac.in. In addition, UGC issues public notice against the unrecognized status of Indian Institute of Planning and Management (IIPM), New Delhi and illegal status of Bio-Chemic Education […]

Government has launched several initiatives recently to promote research in Higher Educational Institutions

open view web desk Ministry of Human Resource Development and its organizations like University Grants Commission (UGC), All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) are undertaking various research projects in the different Higher Educational Institutions. Department of Science & Technology and Department of Biotechnology also provide funding support […]

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