The Road Transport ministry has asked the states to ease rules for issuing licence to disabled persons. The states have also been asked to make it easy to register vehicles which are modified suiting the needs of the person, without seeking a certificate from the manufacturer.
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Easy Norms for Licence for Disabled
More Rail Line Under Green Corridor
After 114 km Rameshwaram-Manmadurai section 175 km in Gujarat now becomes 'green corridor' where there will be no human waste discharge on the rail track.
90 yr Journalist Felicitated
90 yr old Lalbiakthanga Pachuau, editor of a vernacular newspaper in Mizoram, ‘Zoram Tlangau’ was felicitated by the Mizoram government on Friday. He is the oldest working journalist in the country.
500 Charkhas
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will distribute 500 traditional wooden charkhas to women spinners belonging to the five Khadi local institutions in Ludhiana on October 18. These women have been selected from different areas of Punjab.
Saraswati River
An expert panel has told the government that there was evidence to prove that the Saraswati river did exist.
IIM in Jammu
The Union Cabinet has given its approval for the opening of an Indian Institute of Management (IIM) in IIM. It will start functioning from the old Govt College of Engineering.
Art Competition
A national-level painting competition for school children aged between 10-14 years will be held on November 3, 2016 during the Asian Ministerial Conference for Disaster Risk Reduction (AMCDRR) 2016.
ITIs in All Blocks of Jharkhand
Jharkhand CM Raghubar Das proposes to have ITIs in all blocks of the state. Govt has approved the opening of 32 new ITIs. The CM inaugurated an ITI at Chetnari village, Madhupore. He also inaugurated 5 ITI’s online, which included women ITI in Deoghar, and the others at Vidyasagar, Saraiyahat, Zarmundi and Sunderpahari.
Free Entry to Children In MP National Parks
प्रकृति सम्पदा से भरपूर मध्यप्रदेश के राष्ट्रीय उद्यानों और अभयारण्यों में अब बच्चे नि:शुल्क प्रवेश करेंगे। वन विभाग ने 'अनुभूति कार्यक्रम' से जुड़े 50 हजार बच्चों को पर्यटन वर्ष 2016-17 से नि:शुल्क प्रवेश देने का निर्णय लिया है।
All Light Houses to be Solar Powered
All the 193 Lighthouses which provide aids to marine navigation to the mariners transiting in coastal waters of India will be run on solar power by December this year.
All Women Police Patrol
Udaipur, in Rajasthan, becomes first city in the country to have an all-woman police patrol wing.
War veterans in Bihar to get more
Bihar govt doubles assistance to 61 veterans of World War II to Rs 10,000 per month from Rs 5,000 earlier.
