PIB Press Releases


		20th May, 2003


		Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas First NELP-IV Road-Show held in Delhi Shri Ram Naik, Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas invited exploration and production companies and investors to avail of the highly attractive investment opportunities being offered under the Fourth offer of the New Exploration Licensing Policy (NELP-IV) ........................... Prime Minister's Office PM condoles death of Lt Gen K.P Candeth The Prime Minister Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee has expressed deep grief on the death of Lt Gen K.P. Candeth ........................... Prime Minister's Office PM condoles death of Shri T. Kiruthinan The Prime Minister, Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee has expressed deep grief and shock over the killing of former Tamil Nadu Minister, Shri T. Kiruthinan at Maurai ........................... Ministry of Labour & Empowerment All India Consumer Price Index Numbers for Agricultural and Rural Labourers for March,2003 increases by two points All India Consumer Price Index Numbers for Agricultural Labourers and Rural Labourers on base 1986-87=100 for April, 2003 when compared to March, 2003 increased by 2 points each to stand at 3.26 (Three hundred and twenty six) for agricultural labourers and 328 (Three hundrend and twenty eight) for Rural Labourers ........................... Ministry of Small Scale Industries Tool Room & Training Centre for SSIs at Patna Union Minister for Small Scale Industries & Department of Development of North Eastern Region, Dr. C.P. Thakur today laid the foundation stone of Tool Room & Training Centre (TRTC) for Small Scale Industries at Patna ........................... Ministry of Commerce & Industry No curtailing of policy space on investment, says Jaitley Shri Arun Jaitley, Union Minister of Commerce & Industry and Law & Justice, has said that India is against any curtailing of policy space on the issue of investment in the context of the WTO negotiations and has made it clear that developing countries should not be coerced or feel compelled to take decisions in areas of vital importance to them unless they are fully convinced that it is in their interest to do so ........................... Ministry of Finance & Company Affairs FM clears 21 FDI proposals The Union Minister of Finance and Company affairs Shri Jaswant Singh has approved 21 FDI proposals amounting to Rs. 93.26 crores recommended by the Foreign Investment Promotion Board ........................... Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports Financial assistance to Wilson Jones from National Welfare Fund for Sportspersons The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports has released the sum of Rs. 40,000 from the National Welfare Fund for Sportspersons for treatment of the noted billiards player Shri Wilson Jones ........................... Ministry of Railways Railway Minister releases handbook of building construction The Union Minister of Railways Shri Nitish Kumar has released a book titled "Handbook of Building Construction, the Essential Source of Construction Practices", written by Shri M.M. Goyal, a civil engineer of repute, at a function here this evening ........................... Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment Centre assists 1271 NGOs involved in welfare of SCs/ STs 1271 Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs) involved in the welfare of Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and other weaker sections were assisted during the last financial year ........................... Ministry of Water Resources Flood Management in Ghaggar Basin The Ministry of Water Resources constituted Ghaggar Standing Committee in February, 1990 to examine and co-ordinate Irrigation, Flood control and Drainage work in the Ghaggar Basin .......................... Ministry of Information & Broadcasting CBFC detect 105 cases of film interpolations The Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) have detected 105 cases of interpolations of the censored out portions in the films at various places in the country last year ........................... Ministry of Agriculture Pesticide testing labs upgraded The Government has decided to upgrade pesticide testing laboratories ........................... Prime Minister's Office Prime Minister inaugurates Golden Jubilee Celebrations of the first ascent of Mount Everest The Prime Minister Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee has inaugurated the golden jubilee celebrations of the First Ascent of Mount Everest, here today ........................... Ministry of Rural Development Development of barren/wastelands As per the Wastelands Atlas of India-2000, the total extent of wastelands/degraded lands both in the forest and non-forest areas in the country is 63.85 million hectare, out of which the extent of barren rocky/stony waste/sheet rock area is 6.45 million hectare ........................... Ministry of Human Resource Development EDCIL team to visit Djibouti for development of education infrastructure The Human Resource Development Minister, Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi today assured the visiting Djiboutian Minister of National Education, Mr. Abdi Ibrahim Absieh of all help in expansion of education in Djibouti ........................... Ministry of Science & Technology Prototype AIDS vaccine ready for pre-clinical studies The prototype of an AIDS vaccine is ready for pre-clinical toxicity studies ........................... Ministry of Steel ASP develops target steel for ballistic testing Alloy Steels Plant (ASP), Durgapur in West Bengal, during the year 2002-03 ........................... Ministry of Agriculture Do you know ? In India, the first ever National Policy on Agriculture was announced in July 2000 ........................... Ministry of Urban Development & Poverty Alleviation Over 9.48 lakh people benefit from Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana (SJSRY) A total of 5,00,645 persons have been assisted through setting up of micro enterprises and 4,48,322 persons imparted training under Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana (SJSRY) till the end of March, 2003 ........................... Ministry of Railways Railway Board gets powers of Central Government The Government has issued a notification conferring all the powers and functions of the Central Government on the Railway Board ........................... Ministry of Railways Train accident caused by human failure The Commissioner of Railway Safety, Northern Circle, Shri G.P. Garg, in his statutory inquiry into the dashing of train No. 4123 UP Pratapgarh-Kanpur Intercity Express with the rear of road truck No. 53 L 9195 on March 3, 2003. ...........................