Quota issue: Govt. working on industrial policy

Monday, May 1, 2006, 19:40 [IST]

New Delhi, May 1: Faced with the industry's resistance to job reservation in the private sector, the government is expeditiously working on an ''inclusive'' Industrial Policy, aimed at handsomely rewarding companies setting up units in 60 districts, with more than 50 per cent SC/ST population.

''We have identified the districts which have over 50 per cent of their population from the SCs and STs. A host of liberal fiscal and other incentives will be given to the companies setting up units in these areas employing local people'', a top level source in the government told sources.

UNI

Related Stories

Quota: Nation-wide protest by medicos on May 2
Chidambaram backs Arjun Singh on quotas

US grants Rs 51 mln for oil exploration in Lanka

Thursday, March 15, 2007,11:56 [IST]

Colombo, Mar 15: Openly showing its interests in the potential oil and gas deposits in the war-ravaged Sri Lanka, the US has awarded a grant of Rs 51 million (474,000 dollars) to the Sri Lankan government to ''promote the energy security'' in the island nation.''The grant will fund technical assistance to the Ministry of Petroleum and Petroleum Resources Development in support of its efforts to develop a comprehensive oil and gas regulatory system and establish an organisational structure for the regulatory.....

Most Japanese want to end Iraq war support: Poll

Thursday, March 15, 2007,10:30 [IST]

Tokyo, Mar 15: More than two-thirds of Japanese want to end an air force mission backing up U.S.-led military activities in Iraq this summer, when the mandate for the mission expires, a newspaper poll said today.Sixty-nine percent of those polled said they wanted the troops pulled out, while 75 per cent said the war had been a mistake, the daily Asahi Shimbun said.Japan withdrew its 600 ground troops from southern Iraq last year after a non-combat reconstruction.....

Limitless Updates

India News

News Archives

Broad agreement reached on Iran bans: US, Russia

Thursday, March 15, 2007,9:42 [IST]

United Nations, Mar 15: The United States and Russia said that major powers had reached a broad agreement on sanctions against Iran for its nuclear program and were submitting a text to their governments for approval.The goal is to distribute a draft resolution to the 10 rotating members of the 15-nation UN Security Council today, who could vote on it next week.''We have an agreement in principle based on some additional changes that were introduced and presented.....