The Ministry of Human Resources Development (HRD) has circulated Interest Subsidy Scheme on Educational Loan for Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) to banks on 25th May, 2010. In terms of the Scheme, full interest subsidy would be provided by Government during the period of moratorium/study period and would be applicable to students from EWS with a parental upper income limit of Rs.4.50 lakhs.
Central Government appoints/engages counsel to conduct its litigation in different courts of law. Informing this in Lok Sabha in a written reply Dr. M. Veerappa Moily said that at present, the total number of counsel appointed by the Ministry of Law and Justice is 2463.
The Minister of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation Kumari Selja has said that in order to promote planned and healthy real estate development of colonies and apartments with a view to protecting consumer interest and to facilitate smooth and speedy urban construction, the Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation in consultation with various stakeholders had prepared a draft Model Real Estate (Regulation of Development) Act 200___ and the same was put on the website of the Ministry ( http://mhupa.gov.in ).
Use of funds allocated under the UPA government’s flagship programme Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act could end up being audited by local chartered accountants. This is part of an endeavour by The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) that is interacting with the Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG) of India to promote end use audit in government schemes.
Shri R. Bandyopadhyay, Secretary, Ministry of Corporate Affairs reviewed the progress of investor education initiatives of the Ministry. The Ministry of Corporate Affairs had decided to upscale its investor education initiatives for the current year and increased the number of investor awareness programmes by ten times from the 300 programmes organized last year.
The special court for trying Satyam Computer Services Ltd financial fraud case will hear the arguments again on framing of charges on August 24. Mr B.V. Ln Chakravarti, the XXIII Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate has posted the case for next hearing on Tuesday.
The Public Sector General Insurance Companies have been incurring health insurance claims in excess of premium received and after factoring in acquisition costs, which are around 10%, and the management expenses which are over 25%, the Combined Ratio i.e. the total expenses for health portfolio exceed 140% of the premium income.
Peeved that Indian corporate have to face tough norms in global government purchase orders totalling an estimated $3 trillion, the Commerce Ministry has suggested that the industry too should root for similar norms back home. “I (India) have given my market to everbody in the globe, …(but) I do not get access in their (Western) government purchase, what do I do?” Additional Secretary in Commerce Ministry D K Mittal said at a Ficci function here.
Indian Banks’ Association (IBA) has reported that banks have been permitted by Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to allow free cash withdrawal at their ATMs by customers from other banks upto five times in a month free of charge. Banks are generally complying with the guidelines issued by RBI in this regards from time to time.
A day after the Supreme Court suggested that SFIO could help banks in recovering bad loans, the government on Thursday said it would look into the possibility of engaging the corporate fraud probing body to deal with the menace of non-performing assets.
