Day: June 19, 2021

Om Birla Kota Ji has placed special emphasis on giving first time MPs, young MPs and women MPs the opportunity to speak on the floor of the House: PM Narendra Modi

June 19, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Over the last two years, Shri Om Birla Kota Ji has ushered in a series of steps that have enriched our Parliamentary democracy and enhanced productivity, leading to the passage of many historic as well as pro-people legislations.

Congratulations to him!

It is worth noting that Shri Om Birla Kota Ji has placed special emphasis on giving first time MPs, young MPs and women MPs the opportunity to speak on the floor of the House.

He has also strengthened the various Committees, whose role in our democracy is vital.

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As cities gradually unlock nearly 32.56 lakh passengers including migrant workers travel by Rail in the last 7 days

June 19, 2021.Reading time 2 minutes.

Ministry of Railways:

Railways is helping to bring back workers, as cities gradually unlock. 

During the past 7 days (from 11.6.21 to 17.6.21) approximately 32.56 lakh passengers including migrant workers and other passengers traveled by long distance mail express trains (with average occupancy of trains being 110.2 %) from areas like Eastern UP, Bihar, Jharkhand, Bengal & Odisha to various destinations including Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Surat, Ahmedabad, & Chennai areas. 

To facilitate the movement of migrant labour from the states of Bihar, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh & Odisha to the Metros like Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Bengaluru & Chennai etc, Indian Railways is operating Mail/Express Specials, Holiday Specials and Summer Special trains. All these trains are being operated as fully reserved trains keeping in view the Covid protocol.  

The booking for these trains is available to the traveling public through Passenger Reservation System (PRS) at the Reservation Counters and also through online mode by using e-ticketing system.  

As on 18.06.2021, 983 Mail/Express and Holiday Specials (56% of the pre-Covid level) are being operated by Indian Railways.  In addition, about 1309 Summer Specials have also been operated to facilitate the movement of the people wanting to return to the place of work.

These Summer Specials provide connectivity primarily from states like Bihar, UP, West Bengal, Odisha & Assam to major cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai, Pune, Bengaluru etc.   

For the next 10 days (from 19.6.21 to 28.6.21) approximately 29.15 lakh passengers including migrant workers and other passengers have been booked by long distance mail express trains from areas like Eastern UP, Bihar, Jharkhand, Bengal & Odisha to various destinations including Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Surat, Ahmedabad, & Chennai areas. 

The Zonal Railways are actively coordinating with various industry associations and business houses to ascertain the demand and facilitate the movement of the workers accordingly.  

The Summer Special trains are operating between different Origin Destination pairs like Gorakhpur-Mumbai, Bhagalpur-Mumbai, Bhubaneswar-Pune, Danapur-Pune, Barauni-Ahmedabad, Patna-Delhi, Samastipur-Mumbai, Sealdah-Delhi, Raxaul-Delhi, Saharsa-Delhi, Danapur-Secunderabad, Raxaul-Secunderabad, Patliputra-Bengaluru, Chapra-Mumbai, Guwahati-Bengaluru, Gorakhpur-Hyderabad, etc. 

We boast of a coal reserve of 525 mn tonnes out of which a paltry 17.90 mn tonnes have been extracted so far: Himanta Biswa

June 19, 2021.Reading time 1 minute.

Assam is blessed to have abundant of natural resources and rich in mines and minerals.

We boast of a coal reserve of 525 mn tonnes out of which a paltry 17.90 mn tonnes have been extracted so far. We need concerted effort to scale this up.

Today we had a constructive discussion with officials of Coal India at NEC Margherita. We decided that there is merit in immediately starting Tirap colliery & Tirap Open Cast Project. This has potential to produce 0.7 mn tonnes coal per year.

We shall work expeditiously to resolve all issues pertaining to Environment and Forest and Land Revenue Dept.

I am also taking it up with Environment Ministry and Coal Ministry to resolve all pending clearances. A meeting is slated next month in New Delhi to discuss these issues.

Sri Rameswar Teli, MoS in Ministry of Food Processing; Sri Atul Bora, Min of Agriculture; Sri Sanjoy Kishan, Min of Tea Tribes Welfare Dept; Sri Bhaskar Sharma, MLA, Margherita and senior officers of concerned departments were present in the meeting.

Himanta Biswa Sarma – Chief Minister, Assam

Sambit Swaraj Ji called on me at my residence today: Biren Singh – CM, Manipur

June 19, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Shri. Sambit Swaraj Ji, BJP National Spokesperson and Prabhari, BJP Manipur called on me at my residence today.

Apprised him about the measures taken up by the Government with regards to Covid situation in the State and also discussed various important party matters of the State.

N Biren Singh – Chief Minister, Manipur

Sri Sri at Sunrise

June 19, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Just examine, what do you doubt? You always doubt in something good–whether it is in you or in someone else. In order to trust, you must first understand your doubt. You doubt yourself, and you doubt people around you. And then you doubt in the existence of God:
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