New Delhi, April 9 (IANS) Setting a firm deadline for administrative action in the health sector, the Delhi Legislative Assembly’s Secretariat has directed all departments to implement the recommendations of the Committee on Public Accounts, an official said on Thursday.The Delhi government departments have been mandated to submit a comprehensive Action Taken Report by July 31, indicating the status of implementation of the Committee’s recommendations as of June 30, said the official in a st…
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New Delhi, April 2 (IANS) Delhi Assembly Speaker Vijender Gupta, on Thursday, flagged systemic failures in the excise framework and called for time-bound action on the recommendations of the Public Accounts Committee, an official said. He also called for steps to enforce accountability and secure time-bound compliance with legislative scrutiny.The Delhi Assembly Secretariat, acting on the adoption of the second report of the Committee on Public Accounts over the “Report of the CAG on Performance…
New Delhi, March 27 (IANS) Delhi Cabinet Minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa said in the Assembly on Friday that the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report concerning the now-scrapped excise policy has exposed the “deliberate policy manipulation” under the previous government led by Arvind Kejriwal.During the discussion in the Legislative Assembly on the CAG report on excise policy, Sirsa asserted that the findings, along with observations made by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), point …
New Delhi, March 27 (IANS) Criticising the previous Aam Aadmi Party government, Delhi Assembly Speaker Vijender Gupta on Friday hailed the adoption of the Public Accounts Committee’s (PAC) reports by the House after a gap of over 15 years.Addressing members, Gupta said, “As you are all aware, the previous government failed to lay the copies of the CAG (Comptroller and Auditor General) reports before the House, and the PAC was practically rendered defunct.”He said that during the entire perio…
New Delhi, March 26 (IANS) Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Thursday launched a sharp attack on former Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal after a video linked to the controversial ‘Sheesh Mahal’ or refurbished former official CM residence surfaced in the public domain. She said the truth, long concealed, is now out in the open for all to see.Chief Minister Gupta noted that people had been waiting for clarity on the ‘Sheesh Mahal’ for a long time, and the video has now laid bare what…
New Delhi, March 19 (IANS) Delhi Assembly Speaker Vijender Gupta on Thursday launched a dedicated AI-enabled chatbot ‘Vidhan Sathi’ for its Members, making the city legislature the first in the country to introduce such a tech-enabled facility. Addressing legislators, Gupta said, “Members of a legislature are often required to engage with complex laws and policy issues within limited time, Vidhan Sathi, conceived as a dedicated legislative research and assistance tool, is our effort to …
Kozhikode, March 3 (IANS) K.P. Unnikrishnan, former Union Minister and six-time Member of Parliament from Vadakara, Kerala, passed away at the age of 89, marking the end of a political career that spanned more than three decades in national public life.Born on September 20, 1936, into a family from the Malabar coast, he was the son of E. Kunhikannan Nair.Unnikrishnan was educated at Madras Christian College, Chennai, and later completed his law degree in the city.His early political leanings wer…
New Delhi, Jan 16 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Friday stayed the Calcutta High Court’s recent judgment disqualifying senior politician Mukul Roy from the West Bengal Assembly under the anti-defection law.A bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi issued notice to the respondents, including West Bengal’s Leader of Opposition in the Assembly Suvendu Adhikari and BJP MLA Ambika Roy, on a petition filed by Roy’s son, Subhranshu Roy, challenging the Calcutta Hig…
New Delhi, Jan 5 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Monday directed the Central government and the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) to decide, within four months, on revising the wage ceiling under the Employees’ Provident Fund Scheme (EPFS), which has remained unchanged for the past 11 years. A Bench of Justices J.K. Maheshwari and Atul S. Chandurkar passed the directions while hearing a public interest litigation (PIL) highlighting that the stagnant wage ceiling has resulted in a lar…
New Delhi, Dec 23 (IANS) The Delhi Legislative Assembly’s Winter Session is likely to be held from January 5 to 8, 2026, an official said on Tuesday. As part of preparations for the Session, Speaker Vijender Gupta earlier this month assessed the status of action taken on reports of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India.Addressing senior officials, the Speaker said that incomplete or informal replies in response to audit comments were posing challenges in audit follow-up and preventing the…