The Government of West Bengal did not draft welcomes the networking of rivers in India and creation of a national water grid. Nandagopal Bhattarcharjee, Minister of State for Water and Development, the question of whether the investment of Rs5, 60000 crore in the project is feasible for a developing country like India. He made the comment while we talk at a seminar on “Networking of rivers in India: Bane or Boon?” held recently in Kolkata. The seminar was organized by the Indian Institute of Social Welfare and Business Management and the Centre for Environment and Development. Bhattarcharjee expected that the project on the loss of current and rising deposit silt in the Bhagirathi-Ganga-River Hooghly.

It could be the loss of flow in other rivers as well. In addition, the design of programs Kolkata and Haldia is perhaps shrink, activities at the port. The project could displace nearly 4.5 lakh man and underground 7.90000 hectares of forest, according to KK Bandyopadhyay, visiting professor of Calcutta and Jadavpur universities.

The seminar noted that truckers interbasin diversion of water resources could lead to what unforeseen effects on the environment. It was stressed, depletion of the layer of snow because of global warming.

The government has taken measures for the development of Silent Valley as a biosphere reserve “herbal Bio-Valley, based on the recommendations of the Commission, MS Swaminathan, said KR Gouri Amma, Minister of State to agriculture.

She made these remarks when opening a seminar on “Evolution of a plan of action to promote the development and use of medicinal plants”, organized by the Kerala Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation ( Kinfra) in the city on Saturday.

“Bio-Valley” is the “sine qua non-biological software for a dynamic medicinal plant industry,” she said. Kerala, India and in a good position to pull the growing demand for herbal medicines and entries for a number of products, due to their strong traditional located in the use of medicinal plants, “she added . However, great care is taken for the protection of medicinal plants from the threat of destruction of their habitat, Ms. Gouri Amma added.

Mr. Som Pal, Member, Planning Commission and Finance Commission, was the chief host at the opening session, said that Kerala is indeed the situation, its rich resources of herbal and medicinal plants. Questions should be addressed, whereas develop an action plan for development of medicinal plants also creating an inventory of these facilities, the publication of this list, the identification of rare and endangered species and their resurrection The creation of attracting attention to the importance of medicinal plants plants and so forth, he explained. The creation of a cooperative network of medicinal plants with countries such as China are seen as extremely useful in India, he stressed.

Mr. N.R. Madhava Menon, Vice-Chancellor, University of West Bengal Juristische sciences, chaired the meeting the need of the hour was to discuss issues related to medicinal plants under the World Trade Organization and its extensive powers . The law, while facilitating economic development, we must also ensure that practitioners of traditional medicine they receive merit, he added.

Mr. K.S. Finance chairman, agricultural and food processing, the export Development Authority, Mr K. Lakshminarayanan, Technology Management Group, UN-Asia-Pacific Center for Transfer of Technology, M. Mohandas K., director, Sree Chitra Thirunal Institute of Medical Science and Technology, Mr. PH Manoirs, Secretary-Industries, Kerala, Dr P. Pushpangadhan, director, National Botanical Research Institute and Dr. GC Gopala Pillai, Managing Director, Kinfra, with the opening of the session.

The seminar discussed various topics related to the cultivation and use of medicinal plants. During the harvest of culture and scientific communications herbs and medicinal plants has been a technical meeting, other meetings examination of patent laws and other legal issues related to industry herbs and the question quality control of herbal medicines.

The West Bengal government wants the center of the largest insurance functions to the health sector, but also a clarification on the true budgetary situation of the application.

Dr. Surya Kanta Mishra, ’s Health Minister of State, said here on Thursday, it will soon take the EU finance ministers on the budget for 2004-05.

“After the common minimum programme of the current government, three to four percent of GDP was estimated that for the health sector. But what we do in the budget do not find that reflection on the intention, “he said in a seminar organised by the FICCI, Indian Institute of Social Welfare & Business Management.

The minister said the USA have been clamouring for increased allocations in relation to the sector in recent years. A little earlier would have allowed households with less than one percent of GDP to health.

The Government welcomes the West Bengal did not draft the Indian networking of rivers and the creation of a national water grid. Nandagopal Bhattarcharjee, Minister of State for study and development, water, whether the investment of Rs5, 60000 crore in the project is feasible for a developing country of India. He pointed out while we talk at a seminar on “Networking of rivers in India: Boon or Bane?” held recently in Kolkata. The seminar was organized by the Indian Institute of Social Welfare and Business Management and the Centre for Environment and Development. Bhattarcharjee expected that the project on the loss of current and the increase of deposit of silt in the Bhagirathi-Ganga-River Hooghly.

It could be the loss of flow in other rivers as well. In addition, the design of programmes in Kolkata and Haldia may shrink, activities at the port. The project could displace nearly 4.5 lakh man and underground 7.90000 hectares of forest, according to KK Bandyopadhyay, visiting professor at Calcutta and Jadavpur universities.

The seminar noted that truckers interbasin diversion of water resources could lead to what unforeseen effects on the environment. It was stressed, depletion of the layer of snow because of global warming.
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Dhaka, February 22 (UNB) - Bangladesh has no link with terrorism Shootout in the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore, said Indian Minister of State for Home Sriprakash Jaiswal.

Press Trust of India reported Wednesday the Rajya Sabha was informed that an investigation is being conducted in conjunction with terrorist organizations Shootout in the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore, does not reveal any link with Bangladesh.

In the written response to a question about the concentration of PAHs in the care of the terrorists of the Indo-Bangladesh border, Minister of State for Home Sriprakash Jaiswal said that these entries came for the announcement of government.

The government measures to cope with the possibility of terrorist attacks, he said his United occasionally on rationalization measures of physical protection systems and security of essential facilities and institutions.

He said that the government has a multi-by strengthening border management to examine illegal cross border activities.

A hot and humid, a country with less food and green spaces, but more patients suffering from malaria.

India is a century from now, said a team of Indian and British researchers.

The results of the Indo-British program on the impact of climate change in India were of the European Union Ministers of Environment and Forests, A. Raja and the United Kingdom, the Minister of State for Trade Ian Pearson today.

The three years provides higher temperatures and more rain in the country. The most dramatic increase in precipitation, between 10 percent and 30 percent is under the central India.

Towards the end of the 21st century, temperatures are probably even more than 3 to 4 degrees Celsius. The warming will happen throughout the country, but more marked in northern India.

The heat and rain, in conjunction with other changes? for example in the field of radiation protection and protection levels of carbon dioxide? take unirrigated or rain-fed crops, covering nearly 60 percent of the country croplands. Yield decline and there is less and less food.

Regions can be hot with the greatest loss of wheat harvest. In addition, rising temperatures and declining to predict levels of radiation to reduce rice yields, particularly in the East.

The study predicts more rain for more intensive in the three basins? Krishna and Godavari Ganges? at the end of the century.

Climate change is likely to prolong the lifespan of mosquitoes and hence the increased incidence of diseases such as malaria.

Within 50 years, forests are feeling the heat. More than 70 percent of the country, vegetation is likely to find, unless never adapted to its environment, thus increasingly vulnerable to bad weather and other charges.

The signs of forests are also likely to change with their biodiversity severely affected.

The study was conducted jointly by the Ministry of Environment of India and the United Kingdom Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. The aid came from leaders of research institutes, such as the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, Energy and Resources Institute, New Delhi, National Institute of Oceanography, Goa, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and the National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi.

The Institute of Management Education in association with the Society for Consumers and Investors’ Protection organised a National Seminar on ‘Concept paper on Company Law’ recently in the Capital, said a press release. On the occasion, Minister of State for Company Affairs, P C Gupta, while delivering his inaugural address emphasised the fact that regulatory loopholes must be plugged in order to ensure the interests of the small investors and the general public, as well as the companies. He informed the participants that for this purpose, a high-powered committee had been set up under the chairmanship of J J Irani of Tata Group.

Initiatives civil protection have been established by the development of the Eleventh Five-Year Plan (2007-12), Minister of State for Home Affairs S. Regupathy.

Natural disasters that reoccurred in the last 25 years and many global initiatives have led to a complete relocation of the country, the policy of disaster management, post disaster response and rehabilitation to a holistic management of all cycle of disaster - prevention, mitigation, preparedness response emergency, reconstruction and relaxation. The concept has the conviction that development could not be maintained unless, civil protection and preparation were in the process of development, “said Regupathy, opening of the International Roundtable on lessons learned from natural disasters, political issues and corrective strategies, organized by the Centre for Civil Protection and Management (CDMM), a year ago in the VIT University and the Centre for Science and Technology of Non-Aligned and other developed countries (NAM S & T Center), New Delhi, on the campus VITU here Monday.

The Minister said the Disaster Management Act of India after the establishment of the authorities of disaster management at national, state and district level disaster and the establishment of the Fund and Civil Protection Response Fund.

Mr. Shashidhar Reddy, a member of the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), New Delhi, has called for the establishment of an insurance mechanism, as part of aid during natural disasters, the relocation of the burden of dependence on the state for relief and rehabilitation.

VITU G. Viswanathan Chancellor said during a year of its existence, the CDMM had falsified knowledge of five partnerships with institutions, including the National Institute of Disaster Management, synergies and strengths and capabilities of debt.

Mr. Regupathy freed from self-certification exam CD-ROM on earthquake CDMM and a book on the birth of CDMM. Mr. Shashidhar Reddy released a self-certification exam CD-ROM to cyclones.

AP Kulshreshtha, Director, Nam S & T Center, said the next generation, suffer severe climatic fluctuations and global warming. Political commitment, with the partnership between scientific organizations, was necessary to address these challenges, he said.

R.K. Bhandari, chairman, CDMM, said at the Round Table, over 36 experts were intentional various aspects of disaster management, with the initiative on learning from past disasters and to prevent future disasters.

Coimbatore: Students should work to develop the economic power of India, so that the country was a world leader, Union Minister of State for Commerce EVKS Elangovan said here Thursday.

Less purchasing power

In his convocation address to students at the PSG Institute for the management of the economy of PSG at the Institute of Medical Sciences and Research auditorium, M. Elangovan said that India was the country with the fourth purchasing power in the world after the USA, China and Japan.

“Your ancestors fought for independence, has worked for the development and India to faster growth of economies. India future is now in your hands, work as your ancestors did, as soon as India is a leader among nations of the world, “he said.

In each of the 15 countries he had visited during his tenure as Minister of State for the economy, he found many people expect India, the creation of concern in his thoughts on ‘opportunity to develop the Indian economy might be sufficient to meet these expectations.

However, the observation of young Indians, he had been assured that India would do well.

“Eradication of Poverty”

“India, the population is an asset, not an obstacle for growth. They are all human beings balanced, who know what to do, if so, how and also, like many things to do , “He observed that students have both information and entertainment channels on television.

It was their duty to eradicate poverty in the country, he added.

Higher education

Mr. Elangovan noted that higher education was de rigueur in India and abroad, there were a number of very committed served for the country.

Because of the external industrial policy, entrepreneurs free of their decisions on the basis of their own commercial judgement, trade barriers have been reduced, remove investment barriers, tariffs reduced, promote productivity, the employment and promote international competitiveness is encouraged.

The regulation has given great flexibility in the Indian industry, more sectors were opened to foreign direct investment, world-class Indian companies that have been existence and the Indian economy was to take advantage of liberalization to an increase the rate of growth of gross domestic product.

V. Rajan, trustee, PSG & Sons’ Charities Trust, the presidency of the convocation.

Thiruvananthapuram, Dec. 17. TOURISTIK is an area of high priority for the state and government would make every effort to stimulate the growth of tourism in the State and hotels, said KC Venugopal, Minister of State for Tourism.

At a seminar on “Kerala Tourism - Scope and Challenges”, organized by the India-South Association of hotels and restaurants in the city, he said, that the hospitality industry must do their best to ensure that Kerala is a high quality tourist destination. All members of the hospitality sector must work towards improving the quality standards, especially in areas such as waste management, he added.

Past, which will deliver a speech on the challenges facing the tourism industry of Kerala, Mr. MR Narayanan, Managing Director, Poovar Island Resort, said, lower taxes on the hospitality, infrastructure improvements and the establishment of a Tourism Board to coordinate activities between government and the private sector are few among the measures that the state government to facilitate the growth should be to the tourism industry.

Ensuring the availability of low-cost projects for tourism and the improvement of air connectivity with other tourism-oriented places such as Goa and Rajasthan are other areas where the government can help, at he added.

Similarly, the hospitality industry should also focus on improving standards in this sector through better training programs and also by setting up a training institute for world-class people who are in the tourism sector, he said. Kerala’s tourism industry should also in the design of innovative products and tourism, a new technology for placing on the market, he added.

Mr. M.P. Purushothaman, president of the India Association of South-hotels and restaurants, has appealed to the government for revenues luxury hotels in Kerala and working in the structure Bar hotels charge for more than three stars. It urged the government to the tourism industry in comparison with the manufacturing sector on issues such as pricing of electricity.

Addressing the gathering, Kerala, the Finance Minister Vakkom Purushothaman said that tourism is crucial for the development of the State. Mr. E.K. Bharat Bhushan, Principal Secretary Tourism, Kerala and the Government of Mr. Sooraj, Director, Department of Tourism, were among those who spoke on the occasion.