Important Current News on January 2016
· Cabinet committee on Economic Affairs increase in the budget in the budget amount for grid connected solar rooftop system to Rs. 5000 crore from Rs 600 crore for 2019 -20
· Amaravati will get India’s first ever underwater tunnel under the river Krishna- 3 Km long.
· Pakistan’s Singer Adnan Sami gets Indian Cittizenship.
· Government of India decided to merge the ministry of overseas Indian affairs (MOIA) with the external affairs ministry.
· Telangana becomes the First state in the country to legally accept Electronic motor insurance policies. It is named e-Vahan Bima under Motor Vehicles Act 1988.
· Alstom the French transportation equipment maker rolled out the first set of railway coaches for the Kochi Metro Project – Chennai metro the first .
· PM of India Narendra Modi inaugurated the 103rd Indian science Congress in Mysore , Karnataka. The theme is “Science and Technology for Indigenous Development in India’.
· State Election Commissioner Ashok Kumar Chauhan announced that toilets will be mandatory requirement for eligibility to contest election in Bihar.
· Home Minister Rajnath Sing approved 33% of constable rank personnel in paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) and 15% in the border guarding force for being filled up by Woman.
· Union Road Transport and Highway Minister Nitin Gadkari Gadkari announced the road project worth RS. 41000 crore fpr Telangana.
· BHEL has commissioned 600 MW unit at Kakatiya Thermal power Project, Telangana.
· The Union Home Minister of India Rajnath Singh approved the allocation of Additional Central Assistance (ACA) of Rs. 1000 crores to 7 states.The states are Jharkhand , Chhattisgarh, Bihar, odisha, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.
· Kerala Gov implement the ‘Sampoorna Arogya Keralam’ for the Families with annual income below Rs. 3 lalh .
· President promulgated Enemy Property Ordinance, 2016 to make amendment to the Enemy Property Act ,1968.
· Operation Green Hunt to hunt Maoists in Sukma District of south Chhattisgarh is started.
· The CM of Maharashtra Devendra Fadnavis unveiled “Laman Diva” as the logo of the first Make in India week schedule to be held in the Mumbai between February 13 and 18.
· International Kite Festival at Surat and Rajkot in Gujarat has begun.
· Governor’s rule is imposed in Jammu and Kashmir under Article 92(1) after death of Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed.
