The State Home Department in Maharashtra is gearing up for a significant overhaul of its top police leadership, including the position of Director General of Police (DGP) and Police Commissioners of Nagpur and Thane. The impending retirement of the current DGP, Rajnish Seth, on December 31 has prompted the department to commence the process of selecting his successor.A top rank official said that several prominent names have emerged as contenders for the esteemed position of State DGP. The frontrunner is Senior IPS Officer Rashmi Shukla, who currently serves as the Director General (DG) of Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB). Mumbai Police Commissioner Vivek Phansalkar is also a strong candidate for the role. Other notable contenders include Thane CP Jaijeet Singh, DG ATS Sadanand Date, DG Police Housing Sandeep Bishnoi, DG Railway Pradnya Sarvade, Additional Director of NIA Atulchandra Kulkarni, and DG State Security Corporation Bipin Kumar Singh, he said. He further stated that the State Home ...
A view of house constructed by Indian government in Sri Lanka. |
Finance Minister P. Chidambaram on Monday happy over progress in the India Assisted Programme of Constructing/Repairing 50,000 Houses in Sri Lanka. “Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India has informed me that 10,250 houses were completed by December 2013 under the India assisted programme of building houses for internally displaced persons in the northern Province of Sri Lanka,” said Chidambaram.
Another 27,750 houses will be constructed under the same scheme. The funds are being released directly to the beneficiaries. The beneficiaries have received the installments in the accordance with the progress made by them in the construction of the houses.
He further said that 5,000 houses are being repaired with the assistance of the Government of India and 6,000 houses would be constructed through an agency, out of which 4,000 houses will be built in the Central and Uva provinces of Sri Lanka as support for Indian-origin Tamils, primarily tea plantation workers.
Earlier, 1000 houses were constructed as part of a pilot project and the work was completed in July, 2012. Thus, there is satisfactory progress in the India assisted programme of constructing/repairing 50,000 houses, claimed Chidambaram.
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