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Maya shelves memorial force bill, hands over security to home guards

May 29, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

Lucknow, May 28 — With the Governor BL Joshi holding the controversial State Special Zone Security Force Bill, 2010 and subsequent Ordinance for the protection of parks and memorials, the state Cabinet on Friday decided to withdraw both legislations. The government had planned to establish security force with special powers for the protection of these sites.

Shelving the Bill and Ordinance the Cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Mayawati here on Friday decided to hand over the security of all 12 parks and memorials in Lucknow and Noida to armed home guards. The Cabinet had approved proposal for establishment of special zone security force for this purpose.

In January last the BSP government had passed the Bill and later it was sent to the Governor. However in view of sweeping powers to the proposed force the Governor had sought legal opinion.

Late with some amendments the government also promulgated an ordinance on the issue but it could not cut much ice with the Governor. The government without waiting for gubernatorial approval decided to set up the force by inducting retired army personnel.

The government today said that during recruitment of army personnel it was noticed that women were not available for the security purpose. The government said presence of women in this force was necessary.

The induction of ex-army man in the force without women was not found feasible. The Cabinet thus withdrew the plan today.

In view of availability of women home guards the Cabinet has now approved the establishment a force consisting of Home guards. The Cabinet also noted that recruitment and training under the Bill and ordinance was long drawn process whereas Home guards were easily available and they could be quickly trained for this specific purpose.

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Union Cabinet to take up HRD Education Reforms Bills

March 19, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

New Delhi, Mar 19 (ANI): The Union Cabinet is expected to take up four Education Reforms Bills of Human Resource and Development (HRD) Ministry, which includes the one to ban unfair practices in technical and medical educational institutions and universities.

The other proposed legislations include the Accreditation Bill and the one to amendment the Architects Act that has already got the confirmation of a Group of Ministers (GoMs).

As per the bills, charging of capitation fee or failure of educational institutions to keep promises of quality education could attract imprisonment up to three years for guilty administrators or fine up to Rs 50 lakh for the institute.

The bill seeks to consider such practices as criminal or civil offences depending on the nature of the crime.

As per the bill, if an institute makes certain promises in its prospectus, but does not deliver or charges capitation fee from a number of students, then such practices should be considered criminal offences.

However, in case of an isolated instance of malpractice involving just one or two students, the offences could be considered civil offences.

The criminal offences should be tried in a court of law while civil offences will be tried in educational tribunals to be set up soon.

The ministry has also drafted the Educational Tribunal Bill, which provides for setting up of tribunals to settle all types of disputes, including any type of malpractice or harassment. (ANI)

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Workshop on use of textiles in agriculture to begin today

September 19, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New Delhi, Sept 18 (ANI): The Ministry of Textiles and the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) will jointly organise a workshop on use of textiles in agriculture here today.

Over 100 delegates from various sectors like agriculture, the State Governments, agricultural universities, forest departments and institutes will attend the workshop.

The technical textiles are used in agriculture to fabricate shade-nets, crop-covers, mulch-nets, anti-hail nets, bird protection nets, fishing nets and greenhouse covers. The use of these items is very limited in the context of Indian agriculture.

The objective of the workshop is to sensitize stakeholders about myriad applications of technical textiles in agriculture and environmental engineering.

It will also create awareness amongst the stakeholders about the benefits of these items.

The workshop will also focus on various rules/legislations that need to be amended to facilitate the use of these textiles in various applications.

Technical textiles products used in the agriculture are known as Agrotech and those used for environmental protection are called Oekotech.

The major applications of Oekotech are for landfill waste management. It includes products used to prevent leakage of municipal or hazardous waste in landfills and suitable use of waste.

The consumption of these technical textiles products remains limited despite their perceived benefits.

With rapid urbanisation, the waste management has become major issue in India and Oekotech applications provide an effective way of managing the waste in an environment friendly manner. (ANI)

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Textiles Ministry, FICCI to organise workshop on protective and fire retardant textiles

September 15, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New Delhi, Sep 15 (ANI): Ministry of Textiles and FICCI are jointly organising a workshop on ‘Strengthening-Government-Industry-Consumer Partnership in Protective Textiles’ on Tuesday.

Over 100 delegates from various sectors like Defence, Police, Security, Regulators, State Government, Hotels, Multiplexes and industry are attending the workshop.

The protective textiles are a growing industry in India, which is expected to grow at the rate of 9-10 per cent per annum in next fiveyears.

The domestic market for such textiles is expected to increase from Rs.1,259 crore in 2007-08 to over Rs. 2,000 crore by 2012-13. Protective textiles include garments and related materials used for protection from harmful chemical environment, extreme temperatures (both high and low) and ballistic protection. Fire retardant suits, jackets, bullet-proof jackets, high visibility suits, etc., are some of the examples of protective textiles.

The objective of this workshop is to bring together consumers, suppliers and regulators in the area of public safety and understand each other’s requirements and concerns. The use of these protective textiles is very limited and well below the potential in India, primarily because of lack of awareness amongst various consumer segments like Multiplexes, Hotels, Steel and Oil industry.

Also, unlike the case in developed countries, in India the relevant standards are not mandatory for textiles used in public places/buildings, as a result these fire retardant textiles are still not used in a large number in public, thereby exposing the public to a very high risk.

Despite several rules/regulations in India, the usage of protective textiles (especially fire retardant) is far from adequate. Hence, there is an urgent need to promote this industry and encourage the use of these items. The Workshop will also focus on various rules/legislations that need to be amended to facilitate the use of these textiles in various places.

Rita Menon, Secretary, Ministry of Textiles Ajoy Acharya, Additional Secretary, Defence Production, Ministry of Defence, R.S. Sharma, Director, Delhi Fire Services and Shishir Jaipurai, Chairman, FICCI Taskforce on Technical Textiles will address the Workshop. (ANI)

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Textiles Ministry, FICCI to organise workshop on protective and fire retardant textiles

September 14, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New Delhi, Sep 14 (ANI): Ministry of Textiles and FICCI are jointly organising a workshop on ‘Strengthening-Government-Industry-Consumer Partnership in Protective Textiles’ here tomorrow.

Over 100 delegates from various sectors like Defence, Police, Security, Regulators, State Government, Hotels, Multiplexes and industry are attending the workshop.

The protective textiles are a growing industry in India, which is expected to grow at the rate of 9-10 per cent per annum in next fiveyears.

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Legislators snooze off as Meira Kumar addresses them

July 5, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Bhopal, July 5 (ANI): An orientation programme for state legislators turned out to be a ‘sleepy affair’ in Bhopal.

The two-day orientation programme was aimed to make the legislators aware of the nuances of lawmaking.

Even as Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar was explaining the various aspects of lawmaking and responsibilities associated with the executive, many of the deputies were seen dozing off.

However, Kumar tried to downplay the incident, saying all the listeners were “awake”.

“I don’t think any of the legislators was sleeping. They were all awake,” Kumar said.

Newspapers many a times publish pictures of lawmakers dozing off even when serious legislations are being discussed in Parliament. (ANI)

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Public education a must to prevent female foeticide, says Krishna Tirath

May 30, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New Delhi, May 30 (ANI): Union Minister for Women and Child Development Krishna Tirath on Saturday said she would rectify any lacuna in the laws to check the menace of female foeticide in the country.

Tirath, after assuming charge of her assigned ministry in the capital on Saturday, said: “To rectify domestic violence and female foeticide…you know there are a number of legislations to curb this practice, if a lacuna is found, it will be rectified. We can stop the cases of female foeticide through educating the masses,” said Krishna Tirath.

Activists say female foeticide is rising because of the availability of technologies like ultrasonography and amniocentesis to determine the gender of foetuses at the request of the parents.

As against the compilations of statistics, Krishna Tirath in her role as a Minister of Women and Child Development is determined to mend the legal discrepancies, if any. (ANI)

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Lawmakers shirking legislative duties: Goa law panel chief

May 27, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Panaji, May 27 (IANS) Most legislative assemblies and parliament rarely have time for legislative duties, and instead lawmakers waste time by disrupting proceedings, former minister of state for law and chairman of the Goa law commission Ramakant Khalap said Wednesday.

Criticising the functioning of state legislatures and parliament, Khalap said that legislative issues were often neglected by the lawmakers.

“After the question hour and zero hour, there is no work happening. A shortest amount of time is given for legislative work. Most of the time goes in rushing into the well (of the house),” Khalap, a minister in the Deve Gowda-led United Front coalition government, told reporters here.

Justifying his complaint against lawmakers for neglecting their legislative chores, Khalap said that the Goa law commission, which had been appointed after a gap of over 40 years, was a case in point.

“You can judge for yourself. The last law commission was headed by the former speaker Govind Kamat forty years ago,” Khalap said, adding that law commissions, if regularly appointed, helped to weed out inadequacies and anomalies which creep into law over a period of time, other than making laws relevant to the times.

Khalap also said that a similar level of disdain shown by Goan legislators towards their basic duties, meant that various aspects related to law and legislation were in a state of neglect here. He said the state does not even have an inventory of applicable legislation, and one of the first tasks which the commission was undertaking was compilation of an exhaustive list of all the laws applicable in Goa.

The three member Goa law commission, headed by Khalap, has a tenure of one year and has been mandated to “examine existing legislations and to suggest suitable measures requiring changes or modifications with a view to co-ordinating, harmonizing and simplifying legislations to remove any anomalies, ambiguities and inequalities in them”.

The other members of the commission are Mario Pinto Almeida and Cleofato Coutinho.

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No need to ban retired cops’ assn: HC

April 5, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

CHENNAI: The provisions of two legislations aimed at curbing disaffection among the police and curbing their right to form associations were not
applicable to retired police personnel, and the courts cannot entertain a plea to ban a welfare association for retired policemen, the Madras high court has ruled.

K Chandru, a city lawyer, had approached the high court with a writ petition seeking a direction to take legal steps to declare illegal the Kavalar Nala Sangam’, an association floated by a retired assistant commissioner of police for former uniformed personnel.

In his petition, Chandru had recalled the unsavoury incidents in the high court complex on February 19, when lawyers, judges and court property were attacked by the police. He contended that the police excesses on that day amounted to a mutiny by an armed force and action had to be taken against the offenders.

In these circumstances, a retired assistant commissioner and a few others had started an association. They had conducted a demonstration on March 2 against lawyers in Chennai, even though no permission had been obtained for the protest. “This shows the activities of the association are sponsored by the police department,” he alleged.

Citing provisions of a 1922 law against incitement to disaffection among the police and a 1966 law restricting their right to form associations, the petitioner wanted the authorities to take steps to ban the association.

However, a division bench comprising Chief Justice H L Gokhale and Justice F M Ibrahim Kalifulla said the court was of the opinion that the provisions of the enactments cited did not get attracted to retired police personnel. “Even in the provisions, there is no ban on retired personnel forming an association. In these circumstances, no direction as sought in the writ petition can be granted.”

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Tibetan Parliament in-exile concludes its 14th session

March 28, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Dharamsala, Mar 27 (ANI): The fortnight long session of the Tibetan parliament in-exile concluded here on Friday.

It was the seventh session of the 14th Tibetan Parliament in-exile which began on March 9.

Instituted in 1960, the Tibetan Parliament-in-exile is the highest legislative organ of the community of Tibetan refugees.

The March session is usually the budget session where the budget of the Tibetan government is discussed and passed.

However, in the current sessions of the parliament, the spiritual head of Tibetans, the Dalai Lama was not present.

“This session was particularly meant for the budget. We passed the budget at the first stage of this session and then we spent a lot of time in discussing the grave situation inside Tibet. We also came up with specific programmes that we need to do. We spent a lot of time to discuss to maintain the accountability of the administration in terms of people’s welfare in-exile. We passed some legislations as well,” said Thubten Samphel, Spokesperson of the Tibetan government in-exile.

The creation of this elected body has been one of the major changes that the Dalai Lama has brought about in his efforts to introduce a democratic system of administration.

The Tibetan Parliament meets twice a year for sessions.

Although the Tibetan charter has a sanction of 46 members of parliament but the current strength of the house had only 43 members since the Dalai Lama did not use his power to nominate the remaining three members for this parliament. (ANI)

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Thirty nine items to be taken up during interim budget session: Ravi

February 11, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New Delhi, Feb.11 (ANI): Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Overseas Indian Affairs Vayalar Ravi on Wednesday informed mediapersons that at least 39 items and legislations would be taken up during the 15th Session of the Fourteenth Lok Sabha and the 215th Session of the Rajya Sabha, which commences on February 12 and may conclude on February 26.

He said that the session would have ten sittings spread over a period of 15 days.

Ravi informed that President Pratibha Devisingh Patil would address a joint session of both Houses of Parliament at 11.00 a.m. on February 12, 2009. The Interim Railway Budget for 2009-10, he said, would be presented in the Lok Sabha on February 13 immediately after the Question Hour, while the Interim General Budget for 2009-10 would be presented on February 16.

Among the items and legislations likely to be taken up during the session are 27 Bills, 10 Financial items and two Non-Legislative items. He said these include three Bills replacing Ordinances, namely: (i) the High Court and Supreme Court Judges (Salaries and Conditions of Service) Amendment Ordinance, 2009 (No. 1 of 2009); (ii) the Central Industrial Security Force (Amendment) Ordinance, 2009 (No. 2 of 2009); and (iii) the Central Universities Ordinance, 2009 (No. 3 of 2009), promulgated by the President during inter-session period.

The category-wise details of Government Business identified are:

‘A’ Category Bills

I – Bills for consideration and passing

Sl. No.

Title of Bills
1. The Prevention and Control of Infectious and Contagious Diseases in Animals Bill, 2008, as passed by Rajya Sabha
2. The Carriage by Air (Amendment) Bill, 2008, as passed by Lok Sabha.
3. The Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (Amendment) Bill, 2008, as passed by Lok Sabha.
4. The Compensatory Afforestation Bill, 2008, as passed by Lok Sabha.
5. The Central Industrial Security Force (Amendment) Bill, 2008 – To replace and Ordinance
6. The High Court and Supreme Court Judges (Salaries and Conditions of Service) Amendment Bill, 2008 – To replace and Ordinance
7. The Scheduled Castes and Schedule Tribes (Reservation in Civil Posts and Services) Bill, 2008, as passed by Rajya Sabha.
8. The Prevention of Corruption (Amendment) Bill, 2008, as passed by Lok Sabha.
9. The National Waterway (Lakhipur-Bhanga Stretch of the Barak River) Bill, 2007

II – Bills for introduction, consideration and passing

1. The Finance Bill, 2009
2. The Delhi Metro Railways (Amendment) Bill, 2009
3. The National Capital Territory of Delhi Laws (Special Provisions) Bill, 2009
4. The Central Universities Bill, 2009 – To replace and Ordinance

III – Bill for introduction

1. The National Commission for Heritage Sites Bill, 2009

IV – Bill for Withdrawal

Sl.No.
Title of Bill
1. The Central Universities Bill, 2008.

‘B’ Category Bills

I – Bills for consideration and passing

1. The Seeds Bill, 2004
2. The Trade Marks (Amendment) Bill, 2007
3. The State Bank of India (Amendment) Bill, 2006
4. The Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority Bill, 2005
5. The Prevention of Money Laundering (Amendment) Bill, 2008
6. The Drugs and Cosmetics (Amendment) Bill, 2007
7. The Employees State Insurance (Amendment) Bill, 2008

II – Bills for introduction, consideration and passing

1. The Payment of Gratuity (Amendment) Bill, 2009
2. The Emigration (Amendment) Bill, 2009
III – Bills for introduction

1. The Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Second Amendment Bill, 2009.
2. The Other Backward Classes (Reservation in Posts and Services) Bill, 2009
IV – Bill for Withdrawal

1. The Payment of Gratuity (Amendment) Bill, 2007
FINANCIAL BUSINESS

‘A’ Category

(i) General Budget

1. General discussion on Interim General Budget for 2009-10
2. Discussion and Voting on Demands for Grants on Account (General) for 2009-10
3. Discussion and Voting on Supplementary Demands for Grants (General) for 2008-09
(ii) State Budget

1. General discussion on Interim Budget for the State of Jharkhand for the year 2009-10
2. Discussion and Voting on Demands for Grants on Account (Jharkhand) for 2009-10
3. Discussion and Voting on Supplementary Demands for Grants (Jharkhand) for 2008-09.

(iii) Railway Budget

1. General discussion on Interim Railway Budget for 2009-10
2. Discussion and Voting on Demands for Grants on Account (Railways) for 2009-10
3. Discussion and Voting on Supplementary Demands for Grants (Railways) for 2008-09
4. Discussion and Voting on Demands for Excess Grants (Railways) for 2006-07
Non-Legislative

1. Discussion on the Motion of thanks on the President’s Address.
2. Discussion on the Statutory Resolution seeking approval of the Proclamation issued by the President on the 19th January, 2009 under Article 356 of the Constitution in relation to the State of Jharkhand. (ANI)

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Zardari urges US to enhance intelligence sharing, increase aid

February 3, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Islamabad, Feb 3 (ANI): President Asif Ali Zardari has called for increased US aid to Pakistan’s ailing economy and to enhance intelligence sharing between the partners in the war on terror, in a meeting with a six-member US congressional delegation.

The president on Monday urged the US Congress to pass the legislations for financial assistance to Pakistan as early as possible, saying the measure would strengthen Pakistan’s efforts against terrorism, the Daily Times quoted sources privy to the meeting, as saying.

They said the president also highlighted the issue of US drone attacks inside Pakistani territory and sought the congressional delegation’s support for Pakistan’s stance that such attacks hinder Islamabad’s efforts for broader support against terror.

A statement by the Presidency said that Zardari and the visiting congressmen “discussed bilateral relations and the regional situation”.

In a separate meeting with the delegation, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani stressed the need for a strategy focusing on development that addresses the causes of terrorism.

The congressmen said they wanted to work with Pakistan on security as well as economy in a “broad outreach effort”.

The delegation consisted of John F Tierney, George Miller, Chris Van Hollen, Chris Welch, Christopher Murphy and Ron Kind. (ANI)

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Nepal cabinet approves ordinances on investment board and SEZ

January 29, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Kathmandu, Jan 29 (ANI): Nepal Cabinet has promulgated two ordinances, one on forming the investment board and another on Special Economic Zones (SEZ).

Nepalnews quoted government spokesperson and the Minister for Information and Communication Krishna Bahadur Mahara as saying that the government has endorsed two ordinances on investment board and SEZ.

The ordinance on SEZ was introduced to declare certain parts of the country special economic zones such as the industrial sector by providing special facilities and guaranteeing that products from such zones were exported.

The government has already started the process of declaring some parts of Nepal such as Birgunj and Bhairahawa as special economic zones.

The cabinet also agreed to introduce ordinances to form a commission of inquiry on disappeared persons and on social reforms.

These ordinances are aimed at implementing the Prime Minister Prachanda’s recent address to the nation.

The government can issue ordinance, which has to be approved by parliament within six months.

However, the Nepali Congress (NC) leader Dr. Ram Sharan Mahat has deplored the government for bringing out ordinances ‘by sidelining the parliament.’

He said that the introduction of ordinances instead of legislations at the parliament smacked of Maoists’ totalitarian attitude. (ANI)

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