Union ministry of externalaffairs- ambitious pilot project in Chandigarh to provide quick passports in 72hours has got delayed considerably. Scheduled to start on October 1, withinauguration by the Prime Ministry, the project has reportedly got delayed dueto problems in developing the required software.Speaking to TheTimes of India, regional passport officer Vitul Kumar disclosed that the projectwas...
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multi-storeyed buildings were asked to install under pilot project seven months agoCHENNAI: Chennai Metrowater is planning to make it mandatory for all multi-storeyed and special buildings to install sewer gratings, as a measure to prevent sewer blocks. The gratings would filter the solid waste let out from the buildings.Metrowater officials said about 320 multi-storeyed buildings were asked to install...
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Marita Ishwaran, executive director of NEG-FIRE, interacting with tribal children in Dumbriguda on Andhra-Orissa border.VISAKHAPATNAM: Innovative education methods could transform marginalised children in inter-State borders to act as catalyst for development, says Martina Ishwaran, child rights activist from Mumbai.Ms. Martina, who is the executive director of New Education Group (NEG)-Foundation...
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CHENNAI:Nutritional supplements and anti-retroviral therapy (ART) together improve thehealth of people with HIV/AIDS and the overall quality of life, a midtermassessment report of a pilot project in Tamil Nadu has concluded.The Tamil Nadu State AIDS Control Society (TNSACS) in associationwith the World Food Programme has beeen supplying every month since 2007 3-kgpacks of specially prepared nutritious...
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Oct. 31: Rural development minister C.P. Joshi is nursing his constituency Bhilwara well by planning a first of its kind pilot project on convergence under Nrega. Under the plan, which aims at integrating the various rural development schemes under Nrega, the district administration has identified 100 villages in district...
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Food vouchers can now be sent to Iraqi refugee families living in Syria via text message, thanks to a new pilot project by the United Nations World Food Programme.The scheme will allow refugees living in the Syrian capital, Damascus, to receive codes for virtual food vouchers on their mobile telephones which they can use to purchase rice, wheat, lentils, cheese, eggs and other items that cannot be...
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Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), the country’s largest energy exploration company, has allotted Rs 500 crore to evaluate opportunities in renewable energy.“ONGC does not wish to continue merely as an oil and gas company. It is our vision to become an energy company. We have identified pilot projects in the solar and nuclear energy sphere,” said ONGC Chairman and Managing Director R S Sharma...
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The Orissa government will start a pilot project for computerisation of the details of land acquisition for different projects and rehabilitation and re-settlement (R&R) of affected persons. To be launched under the banner of ‘punarbas project’, the pilot scheme will initially cover three projects.These projects are Jindal Steel and Power Ltd. (JSPL) located at Angul, Aditya Aluminuium Private Ltd...
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Reliance Energy, a part of the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, today launched a pilot project to provide up to 26,250 new and upgraded electricity connections for residents of Shivajinagar in Mumbai....
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Speaking about the continuing inefficiency at passport offices around the country, Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor said that apart from random, surprise visits at various passport offices, a pilot project of the Passport Seva Kendras would be started in Bangalore and Chandigarh next month. “We will have employees from Tata Consultancy Services run most of the logistical operations,”...
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