Since work on the project started in 2005, the project cost has swollen manifold. State govt officials hope that the upcoming general and assembly polls will help speed things up.
Only a quarter of MPs, Congress’s Manish Tewari and BJP’s Nishikant Dubey among them, registered over 90% attendance, data collected by non-profit PRS Legislative Research shows.
According to report tabled by standing committee on Housing and Urban Affairs last week, 47% projects in 20 cities under construction as of December. Mission deadline is June.
People given this rank include advisers to govt — the CM has a legal, medical and even 'general' and 'special' advisers — as well as chairpersons of various boards and committees.
In his memoir ‘Crime, Grime & Gumption’, the former IPS officer also writes about his repeated attempts to bring in a commissionerate system, and how it came to be implemented in 2 cities.
The Bill, which received state assembly’s nod Saturday, fulfills a longstanding demand from residents & flat owners in high-rises. It also makes mandatory the installation of CCTV cameras.
While activists also say the number of work days should be increased, they stressed it could be done only if adequate funds were allocated for the scheme.
On 18 February 1956, 'Rajkumari' Amrit Kaur, India's first health minister, moved the Bill in Lok Sabha for the establishment of AIIMS in Delhi. She wanted it to have the powers and functions of a university because it will 'probably make revolutionary changes in curriculum as well as in modes of teaching'.
Move to bring down differences in commodity prices with neighbouring states, says government. Oppn, dealers blame it on welfare, Congress's guarantees.
Occasional lovers’ tiffs have marked history of RSS-BJP relations. To think that Nagpur will bring about any change in leadership is a misreading of both its intent and its power.
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