In a letter dated 22 February, Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla told states that the shortage of IPS officers at the Centre is causing severe cadre management issues.
Standing Panel on Rural Development says the department should ensure the funds reach on time. The department stated 98.7% of fund transfer orders are generated within 15 days.
In a report, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Transport, Tourism and Culture focused on the role tourism and hospitality can play in reaching $5 trillion economy goal.
Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh, and Haryana among states/UTs lauded for registering an improvement on sex ratio at birth, in letter from WCD, health ministries.
In a written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha, MoS for Home Nityanand Rai said the raw caste data has been provided to Social Justice ministry for classification and categorisation.
Standing Committee on Transport, Tourism & Culture has also said it is ‘distressed’ to note NHAI’s Rs 97,000-crore debt servicing liability in the coming years.
Delhi Budget, presented by deputy CM Manish Sisodia, also proposes women-only mohalla clinics, increase in higher education seat, and a teachers’ training institute.
For New Delhi, SAFTA and CEPA will be critical. Such frameworks could institutionalise economic ties with Bangladesh, making them resilient to political disruptions.
SEBI Tuesday unveiled rules to curtail retail participation in derivatives market. Options premia to be collected upfront from options buyer effective 1 Feb 2025.
Chief of Army Staff General Upendra Dwivedi says the Manipur conflict was triggered by a rumour and that the situation may be ‘stable today, but it is tense’.
How come Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey and Sri Lanka remain constitutional, democratic and stable despite Islam and Buddhism respectively, but Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar don’t?
Civil service needs new rules, new discipline and new accountability. Now is the time to undertake it. Some inefficient IAS, IPS and IFS officers should be fired or retired. Right now the rules permit them to continue in the service for ever and get promoted on their turn. That is totally unfair and unrealistic way to hire senior employees by government.
That should be followed by trimming the ministries as well. Towards the close of his glorious reign, Vajpayeeji could not recognise some members of his Council of Ministers. Put another way, the top ten to fifteen slots would be decided between Smt Sonia Gandhi and Dr Singh. Then the list would be handed over to Ahmed Patel, to balance caste, region, all the other components of the fascinating mosaic India is. There has never been a crest of talent in the Cabinet, but at the moment it seems to be going through a trough, to borrow a phrase from Shri T C A Raghavan’s column.
Civil service needs new rules, new discipline and new accountability. Now is the time to undertake it. Some inefficient IAS, IPS and IFS officers should be fired or retired. Right now the rules permit them to continue in the service for ever and get promoted on their turn. That is totally unfair and unrealistic way to hire senior employees by government.
That should be followed by trimming the ministries as well. Towards the close of his glorious reign, Vajpayeeji could not recognise some members of his Council of Ministers. Put another way, the top ten to fifteen slots would be decided between Smt Sonia Gandhi and Dr Singh. Then the list would be handed over to Ahmed Patel, to balance caste, region, all the other components of the fascinating mosaic India is. There has never been a crest of talent in the Cabinet, but at the moment it seems to be going through a trough, to borrow a phrase from Shri T C A Raghavan’s column.