Indian Governance and Policy

In the context of the Indian government cabinet structure, CCP stands for the Cabinet Committee on Prices, which is responsible for monitoring and managing price levels of essential commodities.

Shashank Manohar was elected as the President of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in 2008.

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The paragraph is about the expansion program of the ICICI bank.

The government has set up a committee under HDFC Chairman Deepak Parekh to review a proposal for an Rs 50,000-crore infrastructure debt fund. The proposed fund would be used to finance infrastructure projects that have begun commercial operations and could replace the existing practice of taking loans from commercial banks. The Planning commission had floated a concept paper in February to set up the fund that would help meet long-term needs of public private partnership projects (PPP) by tapping foreign and domestic pension and insurance funds, sovereign funds and multilateral institutions. The fund was conceptualised to address the need of infrastructure companies in India, that do not have access to loans of 10 to 20 years for long-term projects like developing airports and roads. Most commercial banks' loan tenure is less than 10 years. The government-promoted India Infrastructure Finance Company (IIFCL), which was set up to facilitate lending for infrastructure projects, lends funds for roughly the same time period, since it works in consortium with banks.

The Union Cabinet on May 13, 2010 approved the setting up of the Pharmacopoeia Commission for Indian Medicine (PCIM). It will have the following objectives:- Publication and revision of the Ayurvedic, Siddha and Unani Pharmacopoeia as well as their formulations and also to develop and publish standards of other plants and natural products relevant to Indian Systems of Medicine. Develop standards for quality, identity and purity of raw materials and compound formulations as well as to develop Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for the manufacture of Ayurveda, Siddha and Unani (ASU) drugs. Maintain National Repository of authentic reference raw materials used in the manufacture of Ayurveda, Siddha and Unani medicines and supply of reference standards to the stakeholders. Generate and maintain repository of chemical reference marker compounds/extracts of the plants or other ingredients used in standardizing Ayurveda, Siddha and Unani medicines and supply them to the stakeholders.

President Pratibha Patil went on a six day official visit to China from May 26 to 31, 2010. During her visit Patil held talks with her Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao and Prime Minister Wen Jiabao on a host of issues. Chinese leaders assured Patil of China's support to India's aspirations for a permanent UNSC seat as well as its support for India's bid to get elected as a non-permanent member.

China became India's largest trading partner in 2008, with bilateral trade reaching \$52 billion. Trade fell to \$44 billion in 2009. In 2009, the trade imbalance tilted heavily against India. China enjoyed trade surplus of \$16 billion out of the total \$44 billion bilateral trade and its exports to India nearly touched $30 billion last year.

President Patil also went to Luoyang where she dedicated the first Indian-styled Buddhist temple in China built close to the famous White Horse temple complex there. Luoyang, which falls in the province of Henan.

The Justice Madan Mohan Punchhi Commission for Centre-State Relations has completed its task ahead of the stipulated three year period. The Commission is set to submit its report to Union Home Minister P Chidambaram soon. The seven volume report makes wide ranging recommendations in areas of internal security, Articles 355 and 356, the financial relationship including transfer of funds between Centre and the States. The commission was constituted on April 27, 2007. The Commission has come out with a 1500 page report and supplementary volumes comprising responses of important stakeholders like political parties, state governments, central government ministries, constitutional experts and civil representatives.

The government on April 13, 2010 reconstituted the National Integration Council (NIC) which will be chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The NIC has 147 members, including Union Ministers, Leaders of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha, the Chief Ministers of all States and Union Territories with Legislatures. Set up in the early 1960s by Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, the NIC held its first meeting in 1962. The council reviews matters relating to national integration and makes recommendations on such issues. The NIC aims at finding ways and means of combating the menace of communalism, casteism and regionalism. It has held 14 meetings so far, with the last one in October 2008 during the first innings of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government.

The Madhav Kumar Nepal government on April 11, 2010 annulled the contract awarded to the Security Printing and Minting Corporation of India Limited for printing Machine Readable Passport (MRP). The contract for printing four million passports at the rate of $4 per piece was given to an India company after previous tenders from the government were cancelled.

Ranjit Kumar Bhatia, an IPS officer of 1974 batch from UP cadre, was appointed Director General of ITBP in January 2010. ITBP was conceived on 24 Oct, 1962. Presently ITBP is deployed on Border Guarding Duties from Karakoram Pass in Ladakh to Diphu La in Arunachal Pradesh covering 3488 km of India-China Border. 'Valour - Steadfastness and Commitment' is the motto of ITBP.

The committee headed by Dr. Rangarajan recommended disinvestment. The Chelliah Committee is concerned with tax reforms, the Khan Committee with banking sector reforms and the Chore Committee with review of cash credit.

Right it is correct according to Punjab customary law.

The NPE 1986 aimed to reduce the burden of examinations on young children, specifically recommending the removal of terminal examinations at the primary level to encourage continuous evaluation.

Before Bangalore Water Supply Case, educational institutions were excluded from the definition of an industry and the main purpose of such institutions is to impart education, not to run business or trade.