Two Navratna PSUs yet to Appoint Chairmen.
Of
the sixteen Navratna Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs), viz. Bharat
Electronics Limited, Bharat Heavy Electrical Limited, Bharat Petroleum
Corporation Limited, GAIL(India) Limited, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited,
Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited, Mahanagar Telephone Nigam
Limited, National Aluminium Company Limited, NMDC Limited, Neyveli
Lignite Corporation Limited, Oil India Limited, Power Finance
Corporation Limited, Power Grid Corporation of India Limited, Rashtriya
Ispat Nigam Limited, Rural Electrification Corporation Limited and
Shipping Corporation of India Limited, regular Chief Executive has been
appointed in 14 CPSEs. Only in 2 Navratna CPSEs, viz. NMDC Limited and
National Aluminium Company Limited, a regular Chief Executive is not in
position on date.The above information was given by the Minister for
Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises Shri Praful Patel in a written
reply in the Rajya Sabha today.
Save Dissent to Save Democracy THE rising instances of physical violence and threats against political opponents and the inability to accept dissent must raise huge concerns amongst all of us who see democracy as perhaps the really stellar achievement since Independence. AAP’s attack on BJP headquarters and acts of arson committed under the very noses of their elite leadership; the attacks on Arvind Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia in Gujarat in the last two days; the recent manhandling of the caretaker of journalist Siddharth Varadarajan’s house by some garden variety thugs; and the violence and threats meted out regularly to their political opponents by political parties is surely deplorable and condemnable. This is a fatally flawed trend which will destroy the very foundations of our democratic institutions if not pushed back with all the strength and condemnation that the civil society can mobilise. Replaying the past To begin with, it must be clarified that we should ...
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