Conference of Secretaries of Administrative reforms tomorrow

September 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - National Security Adviser M.K.Narayanan on Wednesday evening said that search operations were being carried out in the Nallamallai forest area of Andhra Pradesh and some forward movements are expected by Thursday morning. Nallamalai forest is the area where the State Chief Minister Y.S.

August 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - A conference of Secretaries of Administrative Reforms will be held here today. It will be inaugurated by Prithviraj Chavan, Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions.

August 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI - New Delhi, Aug 18 (ANI): The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, will address a national conference of Ministers of Environment and Forests here today.

August 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - For a comprehensive stock taking of the implementation of policies and programmes concerning protection of environment, forests and wildlife, the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests has convened a National Conference of the Ministers of Environment and Forests of all the States and Union Territories here tomorrow. Prime Minister Dr.

August 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will preside a conference of all Chief Ministers here tomorrow to discuss issues like Naxal violence, activities of Pakistan-based terror outfits and situation in Jammu and Kashmir and the Northeast. Dr. Singh is likely to discuss in detail security situation in the country and measures to be adopted to maintain law and order with the CMs of all the States of the country.

July 24th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal Friday said the government is considering setting up autonomous colleges independent of universities. Addressing a meeting of principal secretaries and secretaries of higher education from various states here, Sibal said: "The government is thinking in terms of allowing the setting up of autonomous colleges." The minister's day-long interaction with the officials was his first initiative to evolve a consensus of the states for reforms in the education sector.

July 24th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal will inaugurate a one-day meeting of principal secretaries/secretaries of higher education and technical education of State Governments and Union Territories here today. This annual conference has on its agenda different subjects within higher and technical education such as the National Mission of Education through ICT and matters related to polytechnics under coordinated action for skill development.

July 15th, 2009 Sharm-el-SHEIKH - Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon and his Pakistani counterpart Salman Bashir, who met here late Tuesday, will meet once again Wednesday before the prime ministers of the two countries hold talks, official sources said. Holding out the possibility that the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Yousuf Raza Gilani would perhaps meet the press together after their talks Thursday morning, sources here said that the two foreign secretaries held one-on-one discussions for 90 minutes.

July 6th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Monday said the government would go in for disinvestment of public sector undertakings, pointing out that Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee had expressed this commitment in his budget. In an interview to the CNN-IBN news channel after Mukherjee presented his budget in parliament, Manmohan Singh said: "The finance minister has committed our government to increase disinvestment while maintaining the public sector character of public enterprises." Without dwelling upon the details and the time frame, the prime minister said: "I haven't done any detailed calculations.

July 6th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The government will set up an Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) to look into the recommendations by the Administrative Reforms Commission (ARC), Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Monday. "We are contemplating to set up an EGoM to implement the voluminous document of the ARC," the prime minister told a news channel.

June 26th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi Friday termed as positive his meeting with his Indian counterpart S.M. Krishna in Italy, saying all issues were discussed in a cordial and friendly atmosphere.

June 16th, 2009 YEKATERINBURG - Foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan will meet in the next few weeks and review Islamabad's actions against terrorism before taking a decision on resuming their "composite dialogue", it was decided during talks between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Asif Ali Zardari here Tuesday. The two leaders agreed to a meeting between their foreign secretaries to discuss the "primary issue" of terrorism and report to them before the Non Aligned Movement (NAM) summit in the Egyptian town of Sharm-al-Sheikh in mid-July, officials said.

June 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Focusing on reforms in governance, the Manmohan Singh government has made it mandatory for every proposal that comes before the cabinet to include explanation of how it furthers the cause of equity and inclusiveness. "As part of process reform, all proposals to the cabinet will have to report on how the proposal under consideration will enhance the goals of equity or inclusion, innovation and public accountability," President Pratibha Patil told a joint session of parliament Thursday.

March 2nd, 2009 AHMEDABAD - Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi will Monday expand his cabinet Monday by inducting six parliamentary secretaries. The six to be sworn in as parliamentary secretaries are Lavjibhai Rajani (Mederda, Saurashtra), Yogesh Patel (Vadodara), Surendrasinh Chauhan (Mehandabad), Jayadrat Parmar (Halol), Harshad Vasava and Ishvarbhai Thakor (Rajpipla), sources in the Chief Minister's Office (CMO) in Gandhinagar said.

January 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The second Administrative Reforms Commission Saturday released its 11th report that calls for promoting the application of IT in government functioning. 'Through e-governance we want to promote the application of information and communication technology in government functioning to create Simple, Moral, Accountable and Transparent (SMART) governance,' the report said.