Friday, 10th May, 2013

HEADLINES

• Sanaullah succumbs; Body handed over

NATIONAL

• Rajastan, National leader in solar energy
•  Rajasthan is a national leader in solar energy and under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission, a majority of the solar projects are located in Rajasthan. In wind energy, India is globally positioned at No. 5, generating 11,000 MW after the U.S., Germany, China and Spain
• The solar mission was launched in 2010 with an ambitious target of deploying 20,000 MW of grid connected power by 2022. It aims at reducing the cost of solar power generation through long-term policy, large-scale deployment goals, aggressive R&D and domestic production of critical raw materials, components and products, in order to achieve grid tariff parity by the target year.
• The CII feels that long-term policy interventions, attracting investments, providing financing mechanisms and developing innovative technologies are some of the vital factors which could provide a major fillip to renewable energy efforts in the country and specifically in the State
• Cabinet approves amendment to multi state cooperatives bill
• The Union Cabinet on Thursday approved moving official amendments to the Multi-State Co-operative Societies (Amendment) Bill, 2010 which is pending in the Lok Sabha. Among other provisions, the amendments provide for revival of sick societies.
• An amendment proposes that if the Central Registrar opines that a multi-State co-operative society has become sick, then it may declare such society as “sick”
• The Centre or any person authorised by it shall prepare a scheme for the rehabilitation and reconstruction of such sick a society and the society shall place it before its general body for approval.
• It is also proposed that where a scheme for rehabilitation and the reconstruction of a multi-State co-operative society has been prepared, the Centre may, on the recommendation of general body, re-organise the board of such persons having experience in the field of co-operative, management finance, accountancy and any other area relating to such societies as may be recommended by general body.
• It seeks to further amend the provisions of the Multi-State Cooperative Societies Act, 2002 “to keep the legislation in tune with the changing economic policies and to facilitate the multi-state co-operative societies to take advantage of the new and emerging opportunities

EDITORIALS

• An article on the relationships between India and China
• Editorial on infant mortality and India's position in that
• Editorial on the latest action plan of US and Russia in Syria