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Jagan seeks window of two years for VSP turnaround with allocation of captive mines
As the proposed strategic sale of the Central government’s stake in the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant (VSP) stirred up a hornet’s nest, Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy shot off a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi requesting him to reconsider the privatisation move and explore other opportunities to put it back on track.
He pointed out that the VSP had posted a good performance between 2002 and 2015 when it had a positive net worth. The plant had achieved a turnaround in 2002 after being referred to the Board for Financial and Industrial Reconstruction as a sick company. It has a capacity of 7.30 million tonnes and even undertook modernisation and capacity expansion.
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Replying to a Zero Hour mention, Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar said a lot of suggestions and complaints on the regulation of OTTs have been received. The government will soon issue guidelines for regulation of Over The Top (OTT) platforms that will address issues such as sensitive content, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Tuesday. Replying to a Zero Hour mention, Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar said a lot of suggestions and complaints on the regulation of OTTs have been received. “Guidelines and direction are almost ready. It will be soon be implemented,” he said in his brief submission.
Government to issue OTT guidelines soon: Information and Broadcasting Minister
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Earlier, raising the issue through a Zero Hour mention, Mahesh Poddar of the BJP said the content and language on OTT platforms was discriminatory and offensive.
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Sanskrit and Hindi have been made compulsory languages but not Tamil. This, he said, was an injustice to the local language.
New Delhi: The government will soon issue guidelines for regulation of OTT (over the top) platforms that will address issues such as sensitive content, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Tuesday. Replying to a Zero Hour mention, Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar said a lot of suggestions and complaints on the regulation of OTTs have been received.
State-owned Steel Authority of India (SAIL) neither applied technical due diligence nor conducted techno-commercial study to assess viability before the allotment of its captive coal blocks at Parbatpur and Sitanala, audit report no 18 of 2020 of Comptroller and Auditor General of India (C&AG) said today. These two blocks, which had to be subsequently surrendered, hence resulted in the amount spent on development of the same infructuous, examined the audit. The audit released today examined records of all captive mines of SAIL for the period 2014-19 to assess the management of captive mines and compliance with safety and environmental laws. The report pointed out that since the company’s iron ore production level, at Dalli, Rajhara and Barsua mines were lower than planned, it resulted in transfer of the key raw material from distantly located mines by the Bhilai Steel Plant and Rourkela Steel Plant leading to extra expenditure on freight differential.