Development news of orissa and India

The Home Minister Mr. P Chidambarm has said, the upcoming multi-state coordinated offensive against the Naxals will be intelligence-based. He asserted that the forces will have to adopt the tactics implemented by them while tackling militancy and insurgency in other parts of the country. Speaking at the 44th Raising Day celebrations of the Border Security Force in New Delhi, Mr. Chidambaram expressed the hope that the BSF will hone the skills and tactics that were developed by it during the anti-militancy and counter-insurgency operations and adopt to the new conditions that they will face in the Naxal-affected areas.

The Home Minister said the security forces have to show great sensitivity and maturity in conducting operations in left-wing extremism hit areas. Hinting at the infiltration bids from across Pakistan, Mr. Chidambaram said though the force was doing a good job, one cannot afford to reduce the level of vigil and alertness. Hailing the role of the BSF he cautioned that the level of vigilance and alertness cannot be reduced under any circumstances. AIR correspondent adds that the BSG guards a total of 6,623 kms of the Indo-Pak (western side) and Indo-Bangla (eastern side) of the border. Speaking on the occasion the BSF Director General Mr. Raman Srivastava said the force is modernising its equipment and procuring early warning devices for better border management and security.

Government has decided to fill up the backlog in reserved vacancies for persons with disabilities. The Ministry of Personnel has asked various ministries and departments to complete the task by the middle of next year. Setting a target for the entire process, the Ministry of Personnel said various ministries and departments will issue instructions to all appointing authorities in this regard by December four. All ministries and departments have been asked to monitor the drive and review its progress from time to time as the government has to file a report to the Supreme Court in this regard. A detailed plan of action has been chalked out by the government to fill up the vacancies existing as on November 15 this year.

The Government today said that an inquiry into the malevolent act is already in progress and answers will be found soon. Minister of state for science and technology Prithviraj Chavan said, it was not a nuclear leakage accident, not even a nuclear incident, and not even question of anything going wrong in the process of the nuclear power plant. Mr. Chavan said, even if it was an act of a disgruntled individual, that has to be seen and an inquiry is already in progress.

India today reached a civil nuclear agreement with Canada. The agreement was firmed up during a meeting between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his counterpart Stephen Harper on the sidelines of Commonwealth Summit in Port of Spain. Canada has become the eighth country with which India has reached civil nuclear agreement since the NSG lifted a 34-year-old ban on India to join global nuclear trade in September last year. The other countries with which India has already signed the civil nuclear deal are the US, France, Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Argentina and Namibia.