India Official: No Government Edict On Open Source - Computerworld Backers of opensource software had been hoping the indian government, a key buyer of information technology in india, would throw its weight clearly behind http://www.computerworld.com/printthis/2003/0,4814,79918,00.html
Extractions: APRIL 01, 2003 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) The Indian government will not back open-source software to the exclusion of proprietary software, according to Arun Shourie, India's minister for information technology and communications. The government is a key buyer of information technology in India, and backers of open-source software had been hoping the government would throw its weight behind open source. "In India we always like to think in terms of either/or. The formula we want to adopt instead is 'and also,' and encourage all kinds of software development in the country," Shourie told reporters shortly after the formal launch in Bangalore today of the PARAM Padma supercomputer, designed by the government-run Center for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) in Pune. "If there is an important security software that we need urgently, for example, we are more likely to buy it than spend time deciding whether we should develop it in India in open source," Shourie said.
CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF COIR TECHNOLOGY, BANGALORE india. government institute, established to undertake research in the utilization of brown coir fiber, and involved in machinery and product development, testing, training and technical assistance, and the formulation of standards. List of technical articles on PDF files. http://www.coirindia.org/cict/index.htm
Extractions: TOP No. 3A, PEENYA INDUSTRIAL AREA, BANGALORE-560 058, KARNATAKA, INDIA Phone: 080-8394875 FAX: 080-3722074 E mail: coir@bgl.vsnl.net.in Telegram: COIRTECH INTRODUCTION Central Institute of Coir Technology is a research institute of Coir Board , an autonomous body, under the control of Ministry of Agro and Rural Industries, Government of India. It was established in 1979 for undertaking research in the utilizations of brown coir fibre. OBJECTIVES OF THE INSTITUTE Product development such as development of new products from coir fibre. Machinery development and standardization in the existing machinery to improve the productivity. Testing of Coir and Coir products in the brown coir fibre sector. Diversified activities for the coir polymer composites in building materials, automotive, transportation, moulded gift articles and interior decorations in false ceiling, wall paneling and flooring. Process development such as optimization of process parameters and arriving at suitable machinery for the new product developed. Collaborating with other research institutes for the goal of above objectives Training and development of skill power in specialized areas of coir Formulating Indian standards for the coir products developed and amendment of the existing standards.
SIR STAFFORD CRIPPS STATEMENT ON INDIA London, August 5, 1942 The Gandhi has asked that the British government should walk out of india and No one will expect the British government or the government of india to give http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/policy/1942/420805b.html
Extractions: SIR STAFFORD CRIPPS STATEMENT ON INDIA London, August 5, 1942 The Times ," London, August 6, 1942. Many hard comments have been made on my efforts in India from the side of the Congress party, yet I feel content in the deep conviction that the offer I traveled 22,000 miles to discuss with Indian leaders was a real contribution to a solution of our differences. Concerning the attitude of the British Government there can be no doubt the Secretary of State for India made a statement last week which makes it plain that "His Majesty's Government stand firmly by the broad intentions of their offer in the draft declaration" which I took with me to India, and that they "reiterate their resolve to give the fullest opportunity for attainment by India of complete self-government." It is, therefore, plain beyond doubt that Indian self-government is assured as soon as hostilities are over and it becomes possible to re-plan life in India upon a new basis. It is of no avail for protagonists of sectional interests in India to deny these simple facts. A promise has been made and that promise will be carried out. Is it reasonable then for people of India, while hostilities are continuing, to demand some complete and fundamental constitutional change? Is it practical in the middle of a hard-fought war in which the United States, China and Britain are exerting all their strength to protect the Eastern world from domination by Japan?
Extractions: Web posted at: 11:18 a.m. EST (1618 GMT) NEW DELHI, India (CNN) After days of political uncertainty, India's President K.R. Narayanan Sunday invited the Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate Atal Behari Vajpayee to form the next government. The president's decision to call on the BJP to try to form the next government came after Sonia Gandhi the widow of assassinated Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and new head of the Congress party told the president that her party did not have the numbers to form the next government. The president's decision ended days of intense political negotiations by the BJP and the Congress to secure support from smaller parties in order to build a workable parliamentary majority to guarantee a stable government. The BJP, a key rival of Congress, had won the most seats in the February-March parliamentary elections but fell short of an absolute majority. On Saturday, the BJP won support from the Tamil Nadu-based All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK), which delivered the backing of 27 lawmakers it commands.
Child Slaves Abandoned To India's Silk Industry The Indian government is failing to protect the rights of hundreds of thousands of children who toil as virtual slaves in the country s silk industry, http://www.pucl.org/Topics/Child/2003/silk.htm
Extractions: The 85-page report, "Small Change: Bonded Child Labor in India's Silk Industry," calls on the Indian government to implement its national laws to free and rehabilitate these "bonded children." Bound to their employers in exchange for a loan to their families, they are unable to leave while in debt and earn so little that they may never be free. A majority of them are Dalits, so-called untouchables at the bottom of India's caste system.
Extractions: Web posted at: 4:12 p.m. EDT (2012 GMT) NEW DELHI, India (CNN) The party headed by Sonia Gandhi said Tuesday it had enough support to form a new Indian government, but Prime Minister 's ousted coalition immediately challenged the claim. The Congress Party will be ready to form a new government by Wednesday, party officials said, after the lower house of parliament votes on a national budget, a priority of President K. R. Narayanan. A spokesman for the party said after three days of maneuvering it had letters of support from the parties that helped it bring Vajpayee down over the weekend. But it remained unclear whether the Congress Party would have enough support to form a minority government with the alliance of regional, leftist and caste-based opposition groups with which it joined to defeat Vajpayee. None of the parties on which Congress Party would rely for a majority of 272 lawmakers confirmed their support, and a leader of one 20-deputy group denied it had sent a letter of support.
Free CDs Spread Open Source In India | CNET News.com The Indian government is trying to encourage the use of computers across the country The Indian government s decision to ship free software in this way http://news.com.com/Free CDs spread open source in India/2100-7344_3-5720008.htm
Extractions: TrackBack Print E-mail TalkBack The Indian government is trying to encourage the use of computers across the country by distributing free CDs that contain localized versions of popular open-source applications. The government has started distributing CDs containing Tamil-language versions of various open-source applications, including the Firefox browser, the OpenOffice.org productivity suite and the Columba e-mail client. It plans to freely distribute 3.5 million copies of the CD to Tamil speakers worldwide, according to R.K.V.S. Raman , a researcher at the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, a Bangalore-based organization involved in the production of the CD. Open Source Software
Child Labor And India - Embassy Of India, Washington, DC Covers the causes of child labor, statistics and government policies which tackle this socioeconomic phenomena. http://www.indianembassy.org/policy/Child_Labor/childlabor_2000.htm
Extractions: Child Labor and India A proactive policy towards eliminating child labor India has consistently followed a proactive policy to tackle child labor, and has adopted constitutional, statutory and developmental measures with a view to eliminating it. The Indian Constitution prohibits the employment of children in factories, mines or other hazardous employment (Article 24); enjoins the State to direct its policy towards securing that children are not abused, that citizens are not forced by economic necessity to enter avocations unsuited to their age or strength (Article 39 (e)); that children and the young are protected against exploitation and moral and material abandonment (Article 39(f)); and requires provision of free and compulsory education to children up to the age of 14 years (Article 45). Indian labor laws are in compliance with ILO Conventions on child labor to which India is a Party. India has ratified six ILO Conventions relating to child labor (see Annex A) and played a leading role in the adoption of ILO Convention No. 182 on Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labor at the 87 th Session of the International Labor Conference in Geneva in June 1999.
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Extractions: www.emergingplanet.com Textile industry in the South India is predominantly a spinning industry supplying yarn to the decentralised sector all over the country.The South has also large cotton growing areas with a number of ginneries. In the early fifties, the industrialists in the South under the leadership of Cavalier G.K.Devarajulu and Padmabushan K.Sreenivasan took the initiative to set up a laboratory at Coimbatore to specialise in fibre technology and spinning. The late Dr. R.K. Shanmugam Chetty, former Finance Minister was instrumental in bringing about the organisation, thus The South India Textile Research Association (SITRA) was born.And today, SITRA is equipped with state-of-art machinery and instruments that could be seen only in the best laboratories of the World. The South India Textile Research Association
Government Of India Sites government place to start to get to know the indian government machinery and other interesting information on events, places and activities in india. http://www.india.org/IndiaSites/GovernmentSites.htm
Indian Rubber Manufacturers Research Association Rubber Certification Authority, an autonomous body of government of india, conducting quality tests in rubber and allied products. http://www.irmra.org
Central Research Institute Of Jute & Allied Fibres india. government of india run organization for the development of jute cultivation and marketing. Data base of jute. Publications, news and events. List of books and journals. http://www.crijaf.org/
Index Non government Organization working in the area of women development, health awareness and child care initiative in india. http://www.vishwaparivarfoundation.org
Extractions: Web posted at: 9:09 a.m. EST (1409 GMT) NEW DELHI, India (CNN) India's new 13-party coalition government led by the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday presented a policy agenda that emphasizes ridding the nation of poverty, promoting national security and encouraging wide-ranging economic nationalism. The BJP's Prime Minister-designate Atal Behari Vajpayee presented a "national agenda for governance" that includes the following key priorities: Continue the economic reforms India began in the early 1990s, but largely limit international investment to infrastructure.
Atanu Dey On India’s Development » The Government’s Anti-Midas Touc Then the government took Air india over. Now it can only be described as a thirdrate explain the failures of the indian government. I guess I will http://www.deeshaa.org/archives/2005/04/18/the-governments-anti-midas-touch
