The high-level panel has been constituted by the union Education Ministry in the wake of the row over the NEET UG 2024 examination to bring reforms to the National Testing Agency (NTA) under the chairmanship of Dr K Radhakrishnan.
In almost all democratic countries in the world, the Auditor General is appointed from professionals specialising in Auditing and Financial Management because the work of the Auditor General is treated everywhere as a technical job. It is in India that the Government has deluded itself with the idea that a generalist can function better than a specialist and hold any post in the Government. This has created considerable credibility gap vis-à-vis Auditor Generals of the advanced countries
Chief Justice Lalit will demit office on Tuesday.
The need for reforms was always felt in the country but there was always a lack of political willpower. Because of this, the country stayed away from reforms and from taking big decisions, he said while participating in the celebration of the completion of 20 years of ISB, Hyderabad.
In a major change, it brings the pope’s advisory commission on preventing sexual abuse into the Vatican’s powerful doctrine office which oversees the canonical investigations of abuse cases.
Presently, standalone licenses for VMS/Audiotex/ UMS are being issued by DOT as per the existing guidelines in 2001.
Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade ( DPIIT) Secretary Arurag Jain has already interacted with various stakeholders to prepare a roadmap to reduce compliance burden and to carry forward the next phase of reforms, said a senior officer of the Commerce and Industry Ministry.
"Today, 9 structural reforms and 5 process reforms in the telecom sector have been approved. These reforms will change the framework of the entire telecom sector."
But during his brief address, the Prime Minister made no direct reference to the new laws or the farmers’ protests. “Reforms are needed for development. Reforms are very much needed for a new order and to give new facilities. We cannot build the next century with the laws of the previous century,” he said.
Hitting out at those who blocked the government from carrying out reforms in its first term, she admitted that the numbers were limited (in the Upper House) and the country paid the price for that.
