Saturday, March 28, 2009
Award Scheme for writing original books/reviews in Hindi on subjects pertaining to Income Tax, Excise and Customs, Service Tax and Narcotics
Government of India
Ministry of Finance
Department of Revenue
Subject: Ministry of Finance, Department of Revenue Award Scheme for writing original books/reviews in Hindi on subjects pertaining to Income Tax, Excise and Customs, Service Tax and Narcotics from 01.10.2008 to 30.09.2009
Books pertaining to Income Tax, Excise and Customs, Service Tax and Narcotics written or reviewed originally in Hindi during the period from 01.10.2008 to 30.09.2009 will be accepted for consideration in the Department of Revenue upto 20 October, 2009 for the following prizes:-
Scheme for Books written originally in Hindi
First Prize (one) - Rs. 25,000/-(Rupees twenty five thousand)
Second Prize (one) - Rs. 15,000/-(Rupees fifteen thousand)
Scheme for Book-review in Hindi
First Prize (one) - Rs. 8,000/-(Rupees eight thousand)
Second Prize (one) - Rs. 6,000/-(Rupees six thousand)
Eligibility
1) Should be a citizen of India.
2) The books should be written/reviewed during the period from 01.10.2008 to 30.09.2009.
General Terms
Persons participating in these schemes shall observe the following conditions and they will be governed by the following:-
I. Published books as well as manuscripts will be accepted under the scheme. The published books/manuscripts should have been published written during the prescribed period only.
II. Persons who are willing to send their books for consideration under the above-mentioned scheme are requested to send six copies of their books and two passport size photographs along with the enclosed proforma duly filled by 20 October, 2009 at the following address:-
Director (OL),
Ministry of Finance, Department of Revenue,
Room No. 264-A, North Block,
New Delhi – 110001
III. The books/manuscripts received in the Department shall not be returned.
IV. The books/manuscripts received after the last date shall not be entertained. The Department of Revenue shall not be responsible for any loss of book or delay in post.
V. The copyright of the awarded book shall remain with the writer.
VI. Only those books that have been written originally in Hindi will be accepted under this scheme.
VII. The book should not have been written under any other Government Scheme.
VIII. The book should not be a Hindi translation of book written in any other language or published earlier by the writer.
IX. In case the book has been awarded earlier by the Government of India or a Union Territory/State Government, a mention to this effect should be made in the application form.
X. In case the book/manuscript has been written by more than one person, the amount of prize money would be divided equally amongst them.
XI. The Department of Revenue has the exclusive right in the selection of person for the award.
XII. No correspondence regarding awarding of the prize or its process would be entertained.
XIII. The Department of Revenue has the exclusive right to make any change in the Scheme.
XIV. The Additional Secretary (Revenue)/Joint Secretary (Revenue) may forward the book to the Evaluation Committee for consideration.
XV. The awarded persons would get the prize money and a citation, which will have to be printed in the next edition of the book.
XVI. Information regarding the prize would be given well in advance by the Director (OL)
(Madhu Sharma)
Director (Official Language)
Telephone- 23095365
264-A, North Block, New Delhi
आयकर, उत्पाद शुल्क एवं सीमा शुल्क, सेवा कर तथा नारकोटिक्स से संबंधित विषयों पर हिन्दी में मौलिक पुस्तक लेखन योजना एवं पुस्तक समीक्षा योजना
(01 अक्तूबर,2008 से 30 सितम्बर, 2009 तक)
1. (क) लेखक का नाम:
(ख) पदनाम:
2. पुस्तक का नाम:
3. पुस्तक का विषय:
4. प्रकाशक का नाम, पता व प्रकाशन का वर्ष:
5. पुस्तक लिखने का कार्य सम्पन्न करने की तिथि(माह-वर्ष):
6. मैं एतद्द्वारा प्रमाणित करता/करती हॅू कि:-
(1) ------------------------------- पुस्तक मेरी मौलिक रचना है ।
(2) उक्त पुस्तक--------------------------------- के बीच में लिखी गई/प्रकाशित हुई है ।
(3) मेरी उक्त पुस्तक का विषय मेरे द्वारा किए जा रहे/किए गए कार्य से संबंधित है।
दिनांक:- लेखक के हस्ताक्षर
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Open access conference seeks to free research : Amulya Gopalakrishnan
New Delhi: When Newton famously remarked that if he had seen further than others, it was by “standing on the shoulders of giants”, he wasn’t just being modest. He was stating the simple fact that knowledge builds on previous knowledge, that the back and forth of ideas is vital for scientific achievement. Though the current proprietory publishing model is stacked against scholars, an emerging open access movement across the world aims to free scientific content - and India has big stakes in it.
A conference in New Delhi brought together open access evangelists including Prof. John Willinsky of Stanford University, Prof Leslie Chan of the University of Toronto, Prof Surendra Prasad of IIT Delhi, Dr D K Sahu of MedKnow Publications, and Narendra Kumar of CSIR.
Now, all research papers published from CSIR labs will be made open access, either by putting the full text on freely available institutional repositories or publishing directly in open access journals. Meanwhile, across the world, MIT has become the first university to throw open all its research papers through the online repository software DSpace.
Globally, academic tenure and promotion is traditionally linked to research published in reputed, peer-reviewed journals. These journals are owned by commercial behemoths like Springer and Reed Elsevier, who own stables of journals in various disciplines, and dictate terms to university libraries. But in recent years, journal prices have shot through the roof.Now, after years of weary negotiation, and empowered by new digital infrastructure, universities are teaming up via free institutional repository systems, to pool and circulate their collective research. In India, institutes like NIT Rourkela have adopted super-archives like DSpace for another reason — to showcase their scientific output to global peers. “NIT doesn’t have the research legacy of IIT or IISC — they needed the visibility,” says NIT director Sunil Kumar Sarangi. Such a knowledge commons is especially valuable to developing countries — for instance, in agricultural research or public health, it is inexcusable that countries which could benefit most from the scientific debate are left out of the loop, simply because of prohibitive pricing (some journals cost up to 20,000 dollars, annually). This only widens the gulf between the state of research here and the US or Europe. Even research produced in India with our taxpayer money is sent to big-name commercial journals and all copyright signed away, putting it out of reach for the Indian scholarly community. But all that could change if open access journals become the norm. S K Sahu, who runs MedKnow publications (over 80 open access journals), also busted claims that content on such journals tends to vanish into the ether after a few years online. Courtesy : Indian Express
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Interest on Sixth CPC arrears clarified
SpecialCLto Central employees with disabilities granted
Date of Next Increment - Clarification Dated 13th March 2009
Monday, March 23, 2009
Safe in USA, but not okayed in India ,Lalit Mohan ,Tribune News Service
Dharamsala, March 22
All that is safe and good for the USA need not be good for India. While the Food and Drug Administration ( FDA) of the USA has declared ‘Stevia sweetener’ safe for use in food and beverages and cleared the way for its use by Coca Cola and Pepsi in the USA, Government of India is yet to approve it as a food additive. If scientists at Palampur are to be believed, it is because the sugar daddies of India are not eager to encourage organic alternatives to sugar emerge in the market.
As a result, it is still being used as a herbal product here. Scientists believe it is the resistance from the sugarcane lobby that has prevented the promotion of the leaves which potentially can replace sugar. Curiously, the South American herb is said to be 300 times sweeter than conventional sugar but does not increase glucose level in the blood, making it safe for diabetics.
Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology ( IHBT), a CSIR ( Council for Scientific and Industrial Research) center at Palampur has successfully used the organic product for preparing sweets, bakery products like pastries and ice-cream.
Stevioside, extracted from the leaves of stevia plant, is the first zero-calorie plant-based sweetener developed in the country, claimed scientists at IHBT. Dr. Anil Sood said that the only difference between stevioside and sugar extracted from cane is that the latter is sticky and can be used for making pastes and binding other ingredients. Stevioside cannot do that and hence cannot be used to make jalebi or laddoo, he informed.
IHBT director Dr P S Ahuja informed that the processing technology has already been patented by the institute. Technology has been transferred to three or four companies and the institute has entered into agreements to upgrade technology and set up processing plants.
Non Practicing Allowance @25% of their basic pay to Scientists Gr. IV
Departmental inquiry different from criminal proceedings: CAT
New Delhi, Mar 22 : A government employee who has been accused of irregularities cannot claim innocence in a departmental inquiry merely because he or she has already been absolved of the charges in criminal proceedings related to the case, the Central Administrative Tribunal has held.
"The approach and object in a departmental proceeding (against a government employee) is quite different. The preponderance of probability would be sufficient to come to a conclusion. The provisions of the Evidence Act do not strictly apply," CAT Vice-Chairman Justice M Ramachandran said.
The tribunal made the observation while dismissing an appeal filed by a UDC of Delhi Development Authority (DDA), Jagbir Chaudhary, who moved the HC to quash the departmental inquiry initiated against him after a CBI probe found nothing incriminating against him.
"A departmental inquiry is necessary to maintain discipline in the service in public interest, whereas the object of a criminal prosecution is mainly to determine whether a crime has been committed in violation of law," the CAT said while declining to interfere into the departmental inquiry.
The inquiry was initiated against Chaudhary for alleged irregularities, benefiting certain allottees whose documents seemed to be forged.
The irregularities include allegations that Chaudhary was involved in 43 of the 48 cases related to a realtor and a bribe of Rs four lakh was received by him.
Courtesy : Sahara samay
"The approach and object in a departmental proceeding (against a government employee) is quite different. The preponderance of probability would be sufficient to come to a conclusion. The provisions of the Evidence Act do not strictly apply," CAT Vice-Chairman Justice M Ramachandran said.
The tribunal made the observation while dismissing an appeal filed by a UDC of Delhi Development Authority (DDA), Jagbir Chaudhary, who moved the HC to quash the departmental inquiry initiated against him after a CBI probe found nothing incriminating against him.
"A departmental inquiry is necessary to maintain discipline in the service in public interest, whereas the object of a criminal prosecution is mainly to determine whether a crime has been committed in violation of law," the CAT said while declining to interfere into the departmental inquiry.
The inquiry was initiated against Chaudhary for alleged irregularities, benefiting certain allottees whose documents seemed to be forged.
The irregularities include allegations that Chaudhary was involved in 43 of the 48 cases related to a realtor and a bribe of Rs four lakh was received by him.
Courtesy : Sahara samay
Sunday, March 22, 2009
CVC questions global watchdog on corruption in India
Stung by Transparency International’s report showing India unexpectedly slip from 72 to 85 in the list of world’s corruption-plagued countries, the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) has sought a clarification from the global watchdog, disputing the claim and level of transparency in arriving at the conclusion.
“The 2008 survey came as a surprise to us. Since India's corruption index had shown a marginal improvement in previous years, the latest report left us wondering how could we suddenly slip to such a level and a perception was created that we have become more corrupt,” said a top CVC official.
Though the Commission formally sought a reply from the global watchdog on the methodology adopted in grading a country “more corrupt and less corrupt”, the official informed that the Commission did not get any convincing reply. “They said they follow certain methodologies but didn’t tell us which are those.”
Chief Vigilance Commissioner Pratyush Sinha, when contacted, confirmed that the CVC had strongly taken up with the matter with the Transparency International. "Immediately after the report was out, we took up the matter with their top officials. However, they didn't have proper answers. They were quite uncomfortable when we went into the specifics," the CVC added.
Another CVC member told HT: "After our efforts, what we got was just a vague reply — more in the realm of speculation. They told us that open display of currency notes by MPs in the Parliament might have affected the perception," another vigilance commissioner said. “But we aren’t convinced.They can't go by just one incident,” he added.
However, the officials rule out a deliberate attempt to malign India, though they say investor sentiment can be influenced by such rankings.
Asked how Transparency International (India) reacts to the CVC’s concern, its vice chairman S. K. Agarwal said its processes were transparent and considered various factors including perception of multinational executives.
A few months back, the Transparency International said India's integrity score had fallen from 3.5 in 2007 to 3.4 in 2008, indicating that corruption has further increased in the country. The watchdog said that Corruption Perception Index was prepared on the basis of surveys conducted in 180 countries by 13 international agencies associated with it.
Friday, March 20, 2009
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Thursday, March 19, 2009
New tray dryers to expedite spices post-production: Statesman News Service
DURGAPUR, March 18: Through advancements in heat power engineering, the Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute (CMERI) has developed new tray dryers to improve the post-harvest process applied to ginger, turmeric and chilli.
CMERI ~ a Durgapur-based CSIR organisation ~ has already signed an MoU with the Tribal Development Foundation, Arunachal Pradesh. The conventional post-harvesting system applied to dried vegetable ginger rhizomes is time consuming and costly. The ginger rhizomes must be washed twice or thrice and then sun-dried for a day to remove excess water. The rhizomes are then packed in gunny bags and shifted to market. Experts argue that the post-harvest process applied to ginger would benefit from a complete overhaul. The CMERI has come forward to take on the task, in cooperation with North-East farmers.
The CMERI's newly-installed drying system utilises hot air as its drying medium. Thermostat-controlled air enters the drying system and gradually passes through trays of produce, vented finally through an exhaust. Dr SN Maity, director of the CMERI, explained: “The hot air is circulated in a zig-zag route, increasing the contact time between the gas and the produce resulting in increased system efficiency.”
After the MoU was signed, the CMERI began working on the development of five post-harvest process centres operating in Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh. “The centres will work on the drying, grinding and packaging of spice crops,” Dr Maity said.
Ginger, turmeric and chili are major cash crops for the North East states such as Mizoram and AP. The states have been in dire need of a sustained post-harvest process to preserve crops and add value to it. In absence of such a process, farmers have been selling crops immediately after harvest, causing them extensive cash loss.
Dr Maity said: “In the course of their work, the CMERI has decided to evolve a generic model of value addition through the deployment of low cost, stand-alone agro-processing units in various areas in disadvantaged states. Their objective is to boost the rural economy.” To start with, the CMERI has proposed establishing district-level centres in Mizoram and AP, which would be governed by Self Help Groups or NGOs.
Drying systems have held a prominent place in the global market since China introduced commercial vegetable drying systems in the year 2000. An earlier attempt had been made in India to dry ginger in solar cabinet dryers. Based on regional meteorological data collated over several years, Assam Agricultural University's Agricultural Engineering department developed a type of solar cabinet dryer to ensure that a proportion of the huge ginger surplus could be saved, thus minimising post-harvest losses. The university’s solar cabinet dryer was found to be useful for drying roughly peeled longitudinally split forms of ginger rhizomes to a safe moisture level within four to six days.
CMERI ~ a Durgapur-based CSIR organisation ~ has already signed an MoU with the Tribal Development Foundation, Arunachal Pradesh. The conventional post-harvesting system applied to dried vegetable ginger rhizomes is time consuming and costly. The ginger rhizomes must be washed twice or thrice and then sun-dried for a day to remove excess water. The rhizomes are then packed in gunny bags and shifted to market. Experts argue that the post-harvest process applied to ginger would benefit from a complete overhaul. The CMERI has come forward to take on the task, in cooperation with North-East farmers.
The CMERI's newly-installed drying system utilises hot air as its drying medium. Thermostat-controlled air enters the drying system and gradually passes through trays of produce, vented finally through an exhaust. Dr SN Maity, director of the CMERI, explained: “The hot air is circulated in a zig-zag route, increasing the contact time between the gas and the produce resulting in increased system efficiency.”
After the MoU was signed, the CMERI began working on the development of five post-harvest process centres operating in Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh. “The centres will work on the drying, grinding and packaging of spice crops,” Dr Maity said.
Ginger, turmeric and chili are major cash crops for the North East states such as Mizoram and AP. The states have been in dire need of a sustained post-harvest process to preserve crops and add value to it. In absence of such a process, farmers have been selling crops immediately after harvest, causing them extensive cash loss.
Dr Maity said: “In the course of their work, the CMERI has decided to evolve a generic model of value addition through the deployment of low cost, stand-alone agro-processing units in various areas in disadvantaged states. Their objective is to boost the rural economy.” To start with, the CMERI has proposed establishing district-level centres in Mizoram and AP, which would be governed by Self Help Groups or NGOs.
Drying systems have held a prominent place in the global market since China introduced commercial vegetable drying systems in the year 2000. An earlier attempt had been made in India to dry ginger in solar cabinet dryers. Based on regional meteorological data collated over several years, Assam Agricultural University's Agricultural Engineering department developed a type of solar cabinet dryer to ensure that a proportion of the huge ginger surplus could be saved, thus minimising post-harvest losses. The university’s solar cabinet dryer was found to be useful for drying roughly peeled longitudinally split forms of ginger rhizomes to a safe moisture level within four to six days.
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