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The Minister for Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation Kumari Selja has said that the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation set up a Committee to look into various aspects of Slum Statistics / Census and issues regarding conduct of slum census 2011 under the chairmanship of Pranab Sen. The Pranab Sen Committee submitted its report on 30th August, 2010. [...]
The Planning Commission in their document- “Faster, Sustainable and More Inclusive Growth: An Approach to the 12th Five Year Plan”, aims at raising the total public health expenditure to 2.5% of GDP by the end of the Twelfth Plan. According to World Health Statistics 2011 published by World Health Organization (WHO), the total expenditure on health as a percentage of [...]
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has received references from the India Centre for Islamic Finance for introducing interest-free banking in the country in order to ensure inclusive growth with innovation in accordance with recommendations of the Raghuram Rajan Committee. RBI has informed that in the current statutory and regulatory framework, it is not legally feasible for banks in India [...]
The share of different countries in world GDP based on purchasing power parity (PPP) in 2010 is as under: Country Advanced Economies United States of America United Kingdom Germany Japan India Share 52.1% 19.5% 2.9% 4.0% 5.8% 5.5% Source: World Economic Outlook, database IMF. As per news release dated 26th December, 2011 of Centre for Economics and Business Research [...]
The Minister for Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation Kumari Selja has said that the Census of India, 2001 had estimated that 19,43,766 people are homeless out of 1,02,87,37,436 people in the country which is 0.2% of the total population. In a written reply in the Rajya Sabha today she said, out of 19,43,766 homeless people, 11,65,167 are rural homeless people [...]
The Minister for Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation Kumari Selja has said that a Technical Group constituted by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation has estimated urban housing shortage as 24.67 million households for Economically Weaker Section (EWS)/Lower Income Group (LIG) category at the beginning of 11th Plan. In a written reply in the Lok Sabha today she said, State-wise details of houses [...]
As per Economic Survey 2011-12, the health expenditure by General Government (Central and State Government combined) as percentage of the GDP is 1.30 (BE) in 2011-12. The expenditure by State Governments on health sector is important in raising the overall public expenditure on health sector. Presently, States and Union Territories together account for about two third of total health outlay. The [...]
During the period from 01.01.1991 to 15.03.2012 the Central Government accorded 20,267 approvals under the Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980 for diversion of 8, 64,178.79 hectares of forest land. Giving further details in reply to a question in Rajya Sabha today the Minister of State (I/C) for Environment & Forest Smt. JayanthiNatarajan stated that the Central Government the number of applications seeking environment clearance for industries, mines, [...]
The contribution of textile industry to the total GDP was 2.28% during the year 2007-08, 2.25% during the year 2008-09 and 2.22% during the year 2009-10. Textiles and Clothing Industry contributed 11.46% of country’s total exports in 2008-09, 12.54% in 2009-10 and 10.63% in 2010-11. Exports of Textiles & Clothing is USD 21.22 billion, USD 22.42 billion and USD [...]
The total installed capacity of grid connected solar power in the country is reported to be 503.9 MW so far. The capacity addition during years 2009-10, 2010-11 and 2011-12 is 8.1 MW, 25.1 MW and 468.3 MW, respectively. The total investment for grid connected solar power projects is estimated to be about Rs. 6,000 crores at an average cost price [...]
The Operating Ratio of the Railways means amount spent in order to earn 100 rupees.
It is one of the few Indian rivers that is attributed the masculine gender. As it means “son of Brahma” in Sanskrit (putra means “son”) The Brahmaputra river is called Yarlung Tsangpo in Tibetan language. The Brahmaputra enters India in the state of Arunachal Pradesh, where it is called Siang Brahmaputra In Bangladesh is called as the Jamuna (not to be mistaken with Yamuna of India) About 1,800 miles [...]
Efforts are being made to explore coal new reserves in the country. During the last three years 2.72, 4.70 & 4.92 lakh meter of detailed exploratory drilling has been carried out converting 2.74 billion tonne, 2.70 billion tonne & 2.17 billion tonne resources respectively into ‘Proved category’. During XII plan 49.55 lakh meterdrilling is envisaged to convert about 74.85 billion tonnes of resources into ‘Proved [...]
The world will not only be getting a leap day this year, we will have a leap second too. The arbiters of time at the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERRSS) have announced they will be introducing a leap second on June 30th in order to keep up with the Earth’s rotation. What’s a leap second? Give me a minute. [...]
The present full immunization coverage of children in India is 61%. India has declared year 2012 as the year of intensification of routine immunization.
clarified how it all happened. As he explains, it is a case of a mischievious photoshop and the fact that you can indeed reach Kottayam even if you turn left or right from a particular spot on the outskirts of this city. MORE READING. . .
If you are looking at starting the business of publication of magazines, you are supposed to follow many norms and procedures as prescribed by the Government of India. Firstly, you will have to register the magazine that you propose to publish. Here are the procedures to be followed: 1. Approach the Regional Magistrate court. 2. Prepare the application in the [...]
The word sine die originates from the Latin which means “without day”. Therefore sine die means “without assigning a day for a further meeting or hearing”. To adjourn a parliament or an assembly sine die is to adjourn it for an indefinite period. A legislative body adjourns sine die when it adjourns without appointing a day on which to appear or assemble again.
There are 790 ESI Centres in the country including Madhya Pradesh. The availability of medical equipments and medicines in ESI Hospitals in the country is generally satisfactory. However, there are vacancies of doctors in ESI Hospitals. There are no separate sanctioned posts of lady doctors. Employees’ State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) has taken several steps for revamping and modernization of ESI [...]
Mobile phone towers have been permitted inside forests in states. The State-wise number of mobile phone towers permitted inside forests under Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980 is given in the Annexure.There is no proposal to direct the telecom operators to remove these towers from the forest areas. Annexure “Impact of Mobile Radiations on Forest Areas” State-wise number of mobile phone towers permitted inside [...]
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