Government targets to provide LPG connections to 5 crore women below poverty line by 2019-20

Oil Marketing Companies aim to increase the National LPG coverage to 75%

The Minister of State (I/C) for Petroleum & Natural Gas Shri Dharmendra Pradhan informed the Rajya Sabha in a written reply today that it is Public Sector Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) aim to increase the National LPG coverage to 75 % with minimum 60 % coverage at State level and at least one distributor in each block by 2019. Further, the Government has launched "Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana" for providing LPG connections to 5 crore women belonging to the Below Poverty Line (BPL) families over a period of 3 years starting from FY 2016-17. Priority will be given to those States where LPG coverage is lower than the national coverage. Currently, the process for setting up of more than 1800 new LPG distributorships is at different stages of selection across the country.

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More than 6000 kms of border roads to be constructed during 2016-18

Ministry of Defence 03-May, 2016 13:30 IST Border Roads Organisation (BRO) is entrusted with 837 roads measuring 29,417 km for construction/ maintenance. The State wise details of these roads in the country are as below: S. No State Nos of Roads Length in Km i Andaman and Nicobar 1 23.94 ii Arunachal Pradesh 138 6215.25 iii Assam 7 194.22 iv Himachal Pradesh 23 1068.93 v Jammu and Kashmir 364 9296.88 vi Manipur 22 1851.51 vii Mizoram 15 1046.50 ...

Series of steps announced by NHAI to remove Hurdles for Faster Execution of Projects

Ministry of Road Transport & Highways 03-May, 2016 12:45 IST Ministry of Road Transport & Highways announced few basic measures to improve speed of execution of road projects under National Highways Authority of India (NHAI). To speed up the projects, NHAI has delegated powers to its Regional Officers for hiring of equipment and laborers up to Rs.10 lacs per project , to demolish structures that fall within the right-of-way of the project. As some of the contracts had no provision for demolition of such structures, there would often be protracted correspondence between the contractors, Project Directors and NHAI headquarters before these could be removed, often leading to delay in execution of projects . With this delegation of power to ROs NHAI will be able to make encumbrance free land available more speedily to the concessionaire/contractors as laid down under the concession agreement or contract. The Regional Offic...

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