Employment News Today 17 July 2013

Employment News Today 17 July 2013

Bihar to build 1,000 higher secondary schools

Bihar government has fixed a target to set up 4,500 high secondary schools in the state in the next five years, he said on the third foundation day of Bihar State Educational Infrastructure Development Corporation (BSEIDC) Limited.

Education minister P K Shahi said besides completing 150 school buildings, the corporation is working on over 500 sites.

B.S. Bassi to be New Delhi Police Chief

Bhim Sain Bassi will take over as the new Police Commissioner of Delhi on August 1. 

Bassi will take over from the present incumbent Neeraj Kumar, who will retire on July 31. 

Bassi is a 1977 batch IPS officer. He was director general of Goa Police, and was appointed Special Commissioner(Traffic) in Delhi Police in 2011. 

Bassi will retire from service in February 2016. 

Born on February 20, 1956, Bassi joined the IPS on July 12, 1977 and  served as special commissioner (vigilance), joint commissioner (southern range) and additional commissioner (northern range) of Delhi Police.

ADB projects India’s growth rate at 5.8% in 2013

Slow progress of economic reforms is expected to pull down India’s growth to 5.8 per cent in 2013 from 6 per cent projected earlier, an Asian Development Bank (ADB) report said on Tuesday.

ADB in April had projected a growth rate of 6 per cent for India in 2013.

iii. The growth rate, it added, is expected to accelerate in 2014 as slower inflation provides some scope for monetary easing that could boost investment and consumption.

Meanwhile, Finance Minister P. Chidambaram in Jaipur said on Tuesday that India was likely to clock over 6 per cent growth in the financial year 2013-14, in the backdrop of government taking host of steps to boost sagging economy.

In India, slow progress in pushing through the reforms needed to ease business bottlenecks means growth is likely to be 5.8 per cent this year, slower than the previously forecast 6.0 per cent,” the report ‘Asian Development Outlook Supplement’ said.

Uttar pradesh 50000 Unemployed Recruitment 2013

उत्तर प्रदेश में कौशल विकास मिशन के तहत 50 हजार बेरोजगार युवाओं को TRAINING दिया जाएगा। संचालन के लिए राज्य स्तर परSTATE ROGRAM MANAGEMENT UNIT तथा जिला स्तर पर DISTRICT PROGRAM MANAGEMENT UNIT का गठन किया जाएगा।

मुख्य सचिव जावेद उस्मानी ने इस संबंध में मंगलवार को अधिकारियों को निर्देश दिए। वह उत्तर प्रदेश कौशल विकास मिशन बैठक की अध्यक्षता कर रहे थे।

उन्होंने कहा कि बेरोजगार युवकों को रोजगार परक प्रशिक्षण देने के लिए प्रशिक्षण शुल्क नहीं लिया जाएगा। मिशन के अंतर्गत संचालित स्किल डवलपमेंट इनिशिएटिव (एसडीआई) योजना व राज्य कौशल विकास नीति के अंतर्गत प्रशिक्षणार्थियों से मात्र 150 रुपये लिया जाएगा।

अनुसूचित जाति, जनजाति व अल्पसंख्यकों को शुल्क में 25 प्रतिशत छूट दी जाएगी। यह शुल्क सफलतापूर्वक प्रशिक्षण पूर्ण करने वाले को वापस कर दिया जाएगा। राज्य के बजट से प्रशिक्षण मद में प्राप्त होने वाली राशि में से 10 करोड़ का एक खाता खोलकर उसमें रखा जाएगा।

SC summons Chief Secretaries of 4 states

Supreme Court has summoned Chief Secretaries of four states UP, Andhra, Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra for failing to take steps on police reforms.

They have been asked to appear before the Apex Court on 31st of this month and apprise the court of reasons for not implementing the much needed reforms.

The Court was hearing the matter suo motto after the incident of Tarantaran in Punjab few months back, where some cops were captured on camera beating a woman.

Earlier Court had also issued notices to all the states on implementation of reforms as per an earlier Prakash Singh case.

In one of the strongest observations- Justice G S Singhvi added- Unless some officers are convicted and sentenced for contempt of court nothing is going to change.

Santosh B Nayar is New CEO of IFCI

 Santosh B Nayar has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of the Industrial Financial Corporation of India.

The IFCI was the 1st specialised financial institution setup in India to provide term finance to large industries in India.

Anurag Jain, Government Director, has handed over the charge of CEO & MD to Nayar.

The main objective of IFCI is to provide medium and long term financial assistance to large scale industrial undertakings, particularly when ordinary bank accommodation does not suit the undertaking or finance cannot be profitably raised by the concerned by the issue of shares.

Pilot power scheme for Kottayam

Kottayam town has been included in the pilot project of the Restructured Accelerated Power Development and Reforms Programme (RAPDRP), a prestigious scheme of the Union government. 

Works to the tune of Rs.23.89 crore will be taken up in Kottayam under the project, officials of the Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) have said.

The project is aimed at bringing about comprehensive reforms in the electricity distribution network in the country. Its major goal is to bring down the Aggregate Technical and Commercial (AT&C) losses, which include losses incurred during electricity transmission and theft, to below 15 per cent. The Rs.50,000-crore project is planned to be implemented in two phases.

In Kottayam, the works will be implemented in the Kottayam Central, Kottayam East, Manarcad, Gandhinagar, and Nattakom section offices, all of which come under the Kottayam electrical circle. Officials have started collecting data of about 75,000 consumers, including houses and commercial establishments, coming under the circle.

Moreover, 11-kV power lines for 47.21 km have been laid in the areas coming under the Kottayam electrical circle prior to launching the project.

 An additional 56 transformers have been established and damaged electric lines for 20 km replaced.  

Ambal Ramamurti passes away

Ambal Ramamurti, freedom fighter and wife of late CPI (M) leader P. Ramamurti, passed away here on Tuesday.

Ramamurti was then leader of the opposition in the Madras Legislative Assembly.

Ambal travelled to Bombay along with Gnanam a year later to work in the Communist Party headquarters there, putting together an archive on Communism and Marxism.

Her mother Jagathamabal was actively involved in the party’s underground activities.

She was the first librarian of the undivided Communist Party in Bombay in the 1940s. 

She was a voracious reader and a scholar in Tamil and English and translated several political documents and books.

DoT may slash entry fee for internet service providers

telecom department will shortly lower entry barriers for internet service providers, or ISPs, to shore up broadband penetration levels even as the government readies to roll out a Rs 21,000-crore national fibre optic network that will take high-speed internet to India's hinterlands.

A DoT panel has recommended a steep cut in the entry fee and performance bank guarantee (PBG) requirements for Category B & C ISPs.

The pan-India broadband subscriber base is at a modest 15 million and DoT believes entry barriers need to be significantly lowered to make the 175 million broadband users target by 2017 a viable proposition

Mere reduction of entry fees and PBG limits will not make any business case if ISPs in the "B & C" categories are not allowed to offer the full spectrum of telecom services, including voice over internet protocol ( VoIP), under a unified permit," said Rajesh Charia, president of Internet Service Providers Asociation of India (Ispai).