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Selection Committee to be set up within 1-2 days: Deora

New Delhi, Feb 20 (UNI) Reiterating that the final selection of the ONGC's CMD will be fair, Petroleum Minister Murli Deora today said a new committee will be set up in the next one or two days.

''The new committee will be set up in the next one or two days,'' Mr Deora told reporters here.

The Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) had, five months ago, selected ONGC Director (Finance) R S Sharma for the top job in the petroleum and gas major but the government had scrapped the choice.

Mr Deora said the new committee will comprise of ''two to three members from outside''.

Commenting on the possible strike call given by the Association of Scientific and Technical Officers (ASTO), a representative body of ONGC executives, the minister said, ''There is no such threat. The ONGC's employees are very peaceful''.

Last week, ASTO had threatened for the possible strike if the R S Sharma was not made ONGC CMD.

Mr Sharma had been selected by the PESB for the key post on August 30, 2006. He has been functioning as acting CMD since May 2006, when the government had decided not to extend the term of then CMD Subir Raha.

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Two railway staffers suspended for improper documentation

New Delhi, Feb 20 (UNI) Two staffers of the Railways have been suspended for improper documentation of the records of the passengers on the Samjhauta Express which caught fire yesterday at Diwana in Haryana. Two booking clerks of the railways were suspended last night for not maintaining proper records of the passengers travelling on the 'Friendship Train', a spokesperson of the Northern Railway said. At the same time, he clarified that it was not a case of security lapse. ''The suspension.....

Committee recommends National Road Safety and Management Board

New Delhi, Feb 20 (UNI) Confronted with the dubious statistics of over 90,000 deaths on National Highways annually, a high-power committee has suggested creation of a ''National Road Safety and Traffic Management Board'' to promote road safety and traffic management and earmark one per cent of cess on diesel and petrol for the Road Safety Fund. The Committee of Experts on creation of a body for 'Road Safety and Traffic Management', headed by Mr S. Sundar, was set up on.....

Commission against SC benefits to Dalit Muslims, Christians

New Delhi, Feb 20 (UNI) The National Commission for Scheduled Castes (SCs) has conveyed to the Centre its firm opposition to the demand for giving benefits available to these castes to Dalit converts to Islam and Christianity. It has also rejected the controversial proposal that children born to an SC woman and non-SC male should be given the benefits available to the mother's caste. The proposal had been floated by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment. ''In our final recommendations.....
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