by rakesh | Mar 1, 2007 | India News
The Minister for Tourism and Culture Smt. Ambika Soni has said that the Government is proposing to make amendments to the Antiquities and Art Treasures Act, 1972 to make the provisions more stringent with a view to curb illegal trafficking in antiquities.
The proposed amendments provide for periodical verification of the registered antiquities, higher punishments for commission of certain offences punishable under the Act, restrictions on transfer of antiquities to foreign nationals, restrictions in making unauthorized replicas of antiquities, making certain offences under the Act non-cognizable and non-bailable etc. In a written reply she said, whenever reliable information is received about the presence of smuggled Indian antiquities in any other country, steps for its retrieval are being taken up in accordance with the establishment procedures. Details of such cases under process presently are as under:
CASES UNDER PROCESS FOR RETRIEVAL OF INDIAN ANTIQUITIES FROM ABROAD.
(i) Five sculptures from British Museum, London.
(ii) Astronomical Tools (5) from Egypt.
(iii) One sculpture of Thirthankar from Washington.
(iv) One sculpture of nataraj from London (U.K.).
(v) One sculpture of Varah from Switzerland.
by rakesh | Mar 1, 2007 | India News
The Minister of Tourism and Culture Smt. Ambika Soni has said that to ensure the safety & security of monuments & foreign tourists, the Ministry of Tourism has advised the State Governments to deploy Tourist Police at important tourist destinations. She said, the States of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Goa, Kerala, Maharashtra, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Jammu & Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi etc., have deployed Tourist Police force in one form or another. In a written reply in the Lok Sabha today Smt. Soni said, law & order is a subject which falls under the purview of the State/Union Territory concerned. However, in order to ensure the safety & security of tourist the Ministry of Tourism has been making endeavour to persuade the State Governments/Union Territories to deploy tourist police and make appropriate security arrangements at important destinations in the country
by rakesh | Feb 22, 2007 | India News
The Union Cabinet today gave its approval to the following proposals :
(i) setting up of “Rajiv Gandhi Indian Institute of Management” at Shillong (Meghalaya);
(ii)Incurring non-recurring expenditure of Rs. 120.67 crores over a period of five years and Rs. 45.08 crores for recurring expenditure over a period of six years for the new IIM at Shillong;
(iii)Accepting land, free of cost, from Government of Meghalaya
(iv) Creation of one post of Director in the scale of pay of Rs. 25,000/- (fixed) and one post of the Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) in the scale of Rs. 12,000-375-16500/- along with necessary support staff.
The professional managers trained by this new Indian Institute of Management would promote economic and industrial development of the North Eastern Region(NER) as well as of the country. The Institute would help generate globally benchmarked process of education and training in management education with the state of the art management knowledge. The Institute will be run and managed by a Society to be registered under the Societies Registration Act 1860.
The Government of Meghalaya will provide at least 120 acres of land free of cost for IIM at Shillong.
The project envisages an annual student intake capacity of 60 in the first year which would go up to 120 in 3rd year and 180 in the 6th year. Since this would be a national level institute, there would not be any reservation exclusively for students of the Region in the Post Graduate Programme for which admission shall be through Common Admission Test (CAT). However, the Institute would conduct short-term courses on subjects of local relevance like tourism, horticulture, hydel power etc.
by rakesh | Feb 2, 2007 | India News
Thursday, February 01, 2007 Air Marshal Padamjit Singh Ahluwalia PVSM AVSM & Bar VM VSM has taken over as Air Officer Commanding -in- Chief, Western Air Command with effect from 01 February 2007. Prior to this appointment the officer was the Air Officer...
by rakesh | Jan 16, 2007 | India News
It is a multi-campus Institute functioning from its centers at Gwalior, Bhubaneswar, Goa and a new center being set up at Noida. The Minister of Tourism & Culture Smt. Ambika Soni will lay the foundation stone of the new campus at Sector-62, Noida on 18th January, 2007. IITTM has been a pioneer in the field of education, training, research and consultancy in the highly dynamic travel and tourism sector. The Institute has been designated as the International focal point of the Asia Pacific Educational and Training Institutes in Tourism (APETIT) with an objective of strengthening the quantitative and qualitative need for training, education and research in Asia-Pacific countries. The institute offers both post-graduate and under-graduate programmes in tourism and travel. The Institute also conducts short term Management Development Programme (MDP) on various aspects of tourism and travel apart from sponsored programmes for different states and central government and autonomous bodies. IITTM through its programmes, has upheld its objective in achieving excellence in developing human resources in tourism & travel & allied sectors.
Owing to the phenomenal growth of the tourism industry and the necessity for grooming world class manpower. Government of India has decided to set up another center of IITTM at Delhi/NCR. Five acres of land have been allotted in Noida and 14.52 crores have been sanctioned by Ministry of Tourism for the construction of the campus. Proposed courses to commence are:
Two Year Post Graduate Diploma in Tourism & Leisure Management
Management Development Programmes (MDPs), Capacity Building for Service Provider (CBSP) and other short term programmes on tourism travel and allied sectors like other centers.
by rakesh | Dec 19, 2006 | India News
It has been forecasted that annual air traffic growth in Bangalore upto the year 2011-12 would be about 25%. This information was given by Shri Praful Patel, Minister for Civil Aviation in the Parliament today.
Airports Authority of India (AAI) has collected data on the international passenger traffic of Bangalore, International Airport , Karnataka. The growth of international passenger traffic at Bangalore Airport during 2004-05 and 2005-06 was 42% and 27% respectively.
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