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Indian Railways have carried 389.07 million tonnes of revenue earning freight traffic during April-August 2011. The freight carried shows an increase of 22.36 million tonnes over the freight traffic of 366.71 million tonnes actually carried during the corresponding period last year, registering an increase of 6.10 per cent. During the month of Augut 2011, the revenue earning freight traffic carried [...]
As part of its public policy work, CII Uttarakhand State Council released a paper on ‘Growth Agenda for Uttarakhand’. The document suggests specific policy measures, initiatives and projects which would help Uttarakhand sustain the growth momentum that it has achieved over the last one decade of its existence. Elaborating on the recommendations, Dr S Farooq, Chairman CII Uttarakhand State Council [...]
40,781 MW capacity has already been added during the Eleventh Plan which is nearly double the capacity added in the entire Tenth Plan. This was stated by the Minister of Power Shri Sushilkumar Shinde while addressing the members of the Parliamentary Consultative Committee attached to his Ministry in New Delhi today. He said the last four years have seen rapid [...]
The Ministry has recently conducted a digital mapping of coastal areas especially in Gujarat for the purpose of gaining knowledge on resources available, forewarning in case of tsunamis, cyclones etc.Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS) has initiated work on cutting edge research areas such as: (i) Multi-hazard Vulnerability Mapping, (ii) Real-time tsunami inundation modeling as well as (iii) [...]
A hydro capacity of 4710 MW has been commissioned so far, as against the Mid-Term Review target of 8237 MW for the 11th Plan. Another hydro capacity of 1491 MW is likely to be commissioned during the remaining current financial year. Thus, a total hydro capacity of 6201 MW is likely to be commissioned during 11th Plan. The major reasons [...]
The Minister for Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation Kumari Selja has said that the first five States having largest slum population in the country as per Census 2001, are as follows:- Sl. No. State/UTs Slum Population in 2001 1. Maharashtra 11975943 2. Andhra Pradesh 6268945 3. Uttar Pradesh 5756004 4. West Bengal 4663806 5. Tamil Nadu 4240931 In a written [...]
The Ministry of Defence has been taking various steps for achieving self-reliance in defence production. A `Make Procedure` was introduced as part of the Defence Procurement Procedure in 2006 to encourage indigenous development and manufacture of defence equipment, and action is in progress for the development of some major equipment under this category. A Defence Production Policy has also been [...]
Consequent to the terrorist attack on Mumbai in November 2008, the Coastal security apparatus in the country was reviewed by the Cabinet Committee on Security on 16th February 2009, and the following steps were taken:- (i) Joint Operation Centers (JOC) have been set up at Mumbai, Visakhapatnam, Kochi and Port Blair, jointly manned and operated by the Navy and Coast [...]
During the last three years (2008-2009 to 2010-2011) and the current year 2011-12 (up to 17.8.2011), a total of 26 fighter planes of Indian Air Force (IAF) had crashed. During the preceding three year period of 2005-06 to 2007-08, 20 IAF fighter planes had crashed. Year-wise details are given below: Year No. of IAF fighter aircraft crashes 2005-2006 6 2006-2007 [...]
crumbling infrastructure in Mumbai will be inadequate to bear the projected population of 3.3 crore by 2030 compared to over 2.3 crore at present. It therefore suggested introduction of a mass transportation system to decongest roads and cope up with rapid urbanisation in and around country’s financial capital. The transportation infrastructure in Mumbai is dismal as the city is plagued [...]
Nearly 59 crore Indians will be living in cities by 2030 as the country’s population increases from 120 crore to 147 crore, industry body ASSOCHAM said today while cautioning that the economic growth story could be at risk unless higher budget allocations are combined with right policies and timely implementation to improve civic amenities and infrastructure. The existing infrastructure, civic [...]
One of the features of the provisional results of Census 2011 that has already captured a lot of media attention is the apparent increase in urbanisation. At one level, this may not seem to be all that significant, with urban residents going from 27.81 per cent of total population in 2001 to 31.16 per cent in 2011, or an increase [...]
The number of road accidents and number of persons killed on National Highways (including Expressways) during 2007 to 2009 (the latest available data) is given below: Year No. of Road Accidents on National Highways No. of persons killed on National Highways 2007 138922 40612 2008 137995 42670 2009 142511 45222 Road accidents are caused due to a number of factors such as [...]
The train services in operation between India and Pakistan are i) Samjhauta Express (from Attari-India to Lahore-Pakistan via Wagah). This route is also opened for the movement of freight trains and ii) Thar Express (from Munabao-India to Zero Point Railway Station near Khokrapar –Pakistan). Freight train movement was disrupted from December 23, 2010 to December 29, 2010 as a result [...]
Indian Railways is neither efficient nor has a network extensive enough to cover the entire country with its capacity expansion and modernisation estimated to cost more than Rs 14 lakh crore over the next ten years, industry body ASSOCHAM said . More than just resource mobilisation, there should be emphasis on developing entrepreneurial and managerial skills that private sector can [...]
Indigenous production and Import dependence percentage of petroleum products availability from domestic sources during the last three years i.e. 2008, 2009 and 2010 is given below: Indigenous production and Import Dependence (%) (Million Metric Tonne) 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 Total Consumption 133.6 138.2 141.8 Indigenous crude processing 28.8 28.9 33.3 Products from Indigenous crude 27.1 27.2 31.3 Products from Fractionators 4.2 4.4 [...]
Cruise tourism has the potential to attract both domestic as well as foreign tourists in the country. The Ministry of Tourism in association with the Ministry of Shipping promotes cruise tourism. Ministry of Tourism provides Central Financial Assistance (CFA) to the State Governments/UT Administration/Central Government Agencies under the following schemes for development of tourism including cruise tourism: 1. Product/Infrastructure Development [...]
The present installed capacity for generation of power from biomass including paddy husk and bagasse based cogeneration in sugar mills is 1045 MW and 1742 MW respectively. As per the National Biomass Resource Atlas prepared by the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore under a project sponsored by the Ministry of New & Renewable Energy, the estimated power generation capacity from [...]
There need be no doubt in our minds that Government of India is in a tearing hurry to commit hara-kiri — it is on the verge of opening up the retail sector for foreign direct investment (FDI). This step will throw out the self-employed — 51 per cent of our total workforce — leaving them to wither and decompose. Statisticians [...]
The Atomoic Minerals Directorate for Exploration and Research (AMD) has established the presence of 1,71,672 tonnes of Uranium (U3O8) as on last month of June. This is a constituent unit of the Department of Atomic Energy Commission. The indigenous Uranium resources are adequate to fuel reactors of the capacity of about 10,000MWe. At present AMD is exploring uranium deposits at [...]
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