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The fieldwork for the first phase of census 2021 will be carried out during 2021-22 even though timelines are yet to be finalised, the government told the panel, as per the report.

Look into infrastructural or procedural constraints, it tells Labour Ministry The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Labour has raised concerns over the Labour and Employment Ministry missing physical targets for schemes and asked the Ministry to look into why it was unable to use funds allocated to it, particularly during the pandemic, in an optimal way. In its report on the demand for grants for 2021-2022 that was presented in Parliament on Tuesday, the panel said: “The Committee also des...

What we know about National Cyber Coordination Centre from IT Committee report March 15, 2021 The COVID-19 pandemic affected the implementation of the union government’s cybersecurity project, the National Cyber Coordination Centre (NCCC), leading the government to revise down funds required by half in financial year 2020-21. For FY2020-21, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY) revised down funds from Rs 170 crore (Budget Estimate) to Rs 80 crore (Revised Estimate) u...

The population enumeration was supposed to be carried out from February 9 to 28, 2021 with a revision round from March 1 to 5, 2021. This crucial part of the census was also could not be carried due to the pandemic.

NEW DELHI: The Parliamentary standing committee on IT, headed by Shashi Tharoor, has told the ministry of information and broadcasting that though it agrees that the new digital media rules under the IT Act, 2000 will bring an institutional mechanism for level playing field for all media categories, there is need for some further initiatives. The panel said “updation of mandate” and framing rules for OTT and online content “should have been concurrent with the emergence and convergence ...

Strategic sale to be primary mode for disinvestment: Thakur SECTIONS Last Updated: Mar 09, 2021, 06:38 PM IST Share Synopsis Disinvestment of the governments equity in CPSEs depends largely on market sentiment, investor interest, and market valuation of CPSE stocks. Thakur said adverse market conditions arising due to COVID-19 adversely impacted the governments disinvestment plans. The scope for sale of minority stakes in public sector companies has reduced and strategic disinvestment would be ...

Parliamentary panel flags under utilisation of funds by food processing industries ministry SECTIONS Last Updated: Mar 09, 2021, 07:55 PM IST Share Synopsis PMKSY is an umbrella scheme, approved in May 2017, under which eight sub-schemes are implemented, including mega food park, integrated cold chain and value addition infrastructure. Agencies A Parliamentary panel on Tuesday flagged the poor performance of the Food Processing Industries Ministry, saying it has consistently under utilised allo...

Food processing industries ministry consistently under utilised funds, find Parl panel On sub-schemes of PMKSY, the panel said under the scheme to promote setting up of cold chain, 430 projects were sanctioned by the ministry. Out of which, 103 projects have been cancelled, 210 have been completed and 117 are under implementation PTI | March 9, 2021 | Updated 20:42 IST Parliament A Parliamentary panel on Tuesday flagged the poor performance of the Food Processing Industries Ministry, saying it...

‘Vaccine production, jabs core part of health stimulus’ March 05, 2021 FinMin report also says GVA is a better metric to track economy than GDP Rapid production and deployment of Covid-19 vaccination will be critical in taking forward the health stimulus deep into FY22 (FY 22), a report prepared by the Finance Ministry’s Economic Affairs Department said on Friday. This remark has come at a time when the country is going through the second phase of vaccination that aims to cover 30 crore ...

While the usage of electronic modes to transfer the minimum support price (MSP) to farmers is to check diversion and avoid delays, the new system would not end the current practice of crop procurement through mandis and middle-men called Arthiyas, the ministry said.