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Krishna to assess BANGALORE, Oct 12; In a bid to enthuse his ministerial colleagues to be more efficient in their functioning, Karnataka Chief Minister S M Krishna today said he would undertake an ‘evaluation exercise’ of their performance after the coming legislature session.......more Ayodhya is being turned AYODHYA, Oct 12: Ayodhya is being turned into a tourist attraction to check the probable decline in tourist inflow to Uttar Pradesh in view of the carving of Uttaranchal from 13 districts of the state......more
Buta in no hurry NEW DELHI, Oct 12: Counsel for former Union Minister and senior Congress leader Buta Singh, who was today sentenced to three years Rigorous.....more |
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Enhance cash grants NEW DELHI, Oct 12: Defence Minister George Fernandes today asked State Governments to enhance cash grants and monetary allowances given.....more Chronology of events in NEW DELHI, Oct 12: Chronology of events in the JMM MPs bribery case in which former Prime Minister P V .....more 2 RPF personnel killed GIRIDIH, Oct 12: Two Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel were killed and several passengers were injured when MCC ultras ......more AP Govt to delete lesson WARANGAL (AP), Oct 12: Andhra Pradesh Government has decided to delete a lesson on former Prime ....more No hurry to file appeal: Rao’s counsel NEW DELHI, Oct 12: Counsel of former Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao, who was handed ...more |
Krishna to assess performance of ministerial colleagues BANGALORE, Oct 12; In a bid to enthuse his ministerial colleagues to be more efficient in their functioning, Karnataka Chief Minister S M Krishna today said he would undertake an ‘evaluation exercise’ of their performance after the coming legislature session. In an interview to PTI here on the occasion of one year in office of the Congress Government, Krishna said "I think 12 months is reasonably a long time to make an assessment of the initiatives taken by the ministers to convert them into projects and implementation". After the conclusion of the legislature session beginning from October 23, Krishna said, he would bestow his thoughts on reviewing the ministers performance and added the attendence of ministers to their offices in Secretariat would also be an yardstick for assessment. ‘Why did Bengal Hanumanthaiah built Vidhana Soudha? it is meant for the ministers to attend to offices+, he said in reply to query on a general complaint that ministers do not come to Vidhana Soudha, the State Secretariat. Krishna described the state’s relations with the Centre as ‘cordial’ and ‘I have no complaints to make’. ‘In my experience in the last 12 months I have no reason to feel a sense of let down by the Government of India’. Krishna said whenever he approached Prime Minister A B Vajpayee, Home Minister L K Advani and Finance Minister Yashwant Singh on any issue, they have been ‘very responsive to the needs of Karnataka. Krishna said it is quite natural for states to nurture grievances over devolution of funds by the Centre, adding, every state has been airing its views time and again. Karnataka also had made very clear during the Finance Ministers and Chief Ministers conference that the Centre should consider devolution of more share in revenues. A group of Chief Ministers was pursing the matter with the centre,week the Centre had cleared three mega projects — energy reforms, tank reconstruction and road development —which the State Government had submitted to the World Bank seeking financial assistance to the tune of Rs 8,100 crore, Krishan said adding these projects would ‘change the face of Karnataka. Karnataka had sought Rs 6,000 crore assistance for energy sector reforms, Rs 900 crore for tank reconstruction and Rs 1200 crore for road development, he said. Krishna noted that according to World Bank procedure, any project submitted to the World Bank by the state, had to be cleared by the Centre. The state had drawn up plans to improve power distribution system, strengthen grids, improve quality of power to address the concerns of consumers, who were unhappy now, by deploying Rs 6000 crore funds in the next five years. Karnataka had signed an MoU with the Centre to herald power sector reforms and had already decided to privitise transmission and distribution system, he said. (PTI) |
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Ayodhya is being turned into a tourist attraction AYODHYA, Oct 12: Ayodhya is being turned into a tourist attraction to check the probable decline in tourist inflow to Uttar Pradesh in view of the carving of Uttaranchal from 13 districts of the state. Various projects, estimated to cost Rs 300 crore, are planned for Ayodhya to encourage tourist traffic there, Mr Vinay Katiyar, BJP state unit general secretary and MP from Faizabad, told reporters here yesterday. The Tourism Department will get one per cent of the funds allocated for maintenance of projects sanctioned for the Irrigation Department, Mr Katiyar said. A bus station of international standards was being planned for Ayodhya. The first floor of the double-storeyed station, the foundation stone for which laid shortly, would be fully air-conditioned, he said. The Ghats and parks would be developed on the lines of the Varanasi Ghats to make them into tourist attraction. A Rs 15 crore project had been sanctioned for laying of sewer lines in Ayodhya-Faizabad. The foundation stone for the project would be laid by State Urban Development Minister Lalji Tandon. To nurture the spiritual links of the holy cities of Allahabad and Ayodhya, the Ayodhya-Allahabad route would be declared as a highway, he said. "This would make things easier for the pilgrims visiting the two religious places for Kumbh and on Kartik Purnima." (UNI) |
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Buta in no hurry to file appeal NEW DELHI, Oct 12: Counsel for former Union Minister and senior Congress leader Buta Singh, who was today sentenced to three years Rigorous Imprisonment in the JMM MPs bribery case along with former Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao, said he will challenge the conviction in the Delhi High Court. "We will certainly file an appeal against the judgement of the trial court convicting him in the bribery case," Singh’s counsel Satish Tamta told PTI. Tamta, however, said that there was no hurry to file the appeal as the court had granted bail to his client till November eight. (PTI) |
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Enhance cash grants for war heroes: Fernandes to States NEW DELHI, Oct 12: Defence Minister George Fernandes today asked State Governments to enhance cash grants and monetary allowances given to war heroes and gallantry award winners. Pointing out numerous pending problems of the ex-servicemen, Fernandes, in a letter to State Governments and Union Territories, has asked them to take speedy action to resolve them. Defence Minister said that the assurance committee of the Lok Sabha, which had reviewed the feedback on ex-servicemen issues from State Governments, had expressed unhappiness about the tardy implementation of various schemes for the former soldiers. Among the various schemes on which implementation had been found to be lacking were removal of domicillary restriction for admission in technical and vocational institution for children of defence personnel, Fernandes said. He pointed out that benefits given to war widows like exemption from house tax, amendment to rent control and land tenancy act in respect to ex-servicemen had not been carried out and there was slow progress in setting up ex-servicemen corporation and reservation of houses and residential plots for retired soldiers. (PTI) |
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No hurry to file appeal: Rao’s counsel NEW DELHI, Oct 12: Counsel of former Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao, who was handed down a sentence of three years Rigorous Imprisonment in the JMM MPs bribery case, today said there was no hurry to file the appeal against the conviction in the Delhi High Court as the trial court has given time till November eight. "There is no hurry to file the appeal. I will discuss the case with mr rao and then file the appeal in the High Court well within the time given by counsel R K Anand told PTI. Asked whether he was satisfied with the quantum of sentence, he said "how can one be satisfied when the conviction itself was wrong." Asked what would have been his plan of action had the court pronounced a sentence of more than three years, Anand said "we would have filed the appeal and the bail application in the High Court within ten minutes of the pronouncing of the sentence by the trial court." The trial court today granted bail to Rao on a personal bond of Rs two lakh and a surety as the sentence was not more than three years. Had the sentence exceeded three years, rao would have to have moved the High Court for bail. Rao’s relative Varhalu Rao stood surety for him. (PTI) |
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