Secretary to the President, Smt. Omita Paul inaugurated a bee-keeping training programme in Rashtrapati Bhavan today (May 16, 2017)

The Minister of State for Labour & Employment(IC), Shri Bandaru Dattatreya launched EPFO’s Citizens’ Charter 2017 and e-court management system in Bangalore, today. Citizens’ Charter 2017 is an attempt to bring transparency and accountability on the part of EPFO and make service delivery system and grievance redressal mechanism more efficient so that it delivers goods and services to its all stakeholders in a time bound manner with a reduced timeline from earlier timeline of 30 days.

National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST) has expressed its displeasure over the slow progress on the issue of displacement of tribals due to Roukela Steel Plant. In its meeting held in New Delhi today the commission directed Principal revenue Secretary Odisha,

The Union Home Secretary Shri Rajiv Mehrishi will chair the Annual Conference of Relief Commissioners and Secretaries of the Departments of Disaster Management of States and Union Territories here tomorrow. The meeting will review the status of preparedness of dealing with crisis situations resulting from the South-West Monsoon,

A section of the media has incorrectly reported that Central Water Commission (CWC), External Assistance Directorate has rejected Gujarat Government request for funds for Saurashtra Narmada Avtaran Irrigation Yojana (SAUNI) on technical grounds, questioning the feasibility of the project.