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35 unusual facts about Government of India


Afsir Karim

He was a member of India's National Security Advisory Board (1999–2001), and was awarded the AVSM for distinguished service of an exceptional order by the Indian government for his military service.

Arsh Malsiani

From 1948 up to his retirement in 1968, Malsiani worked in the Publications Division of the Government of India firstly as an Assistant Editor of the Urdu monthly journal Aaj Kal then edited by Josh Malihabadi whom he succeeded as Editor in 1954.

Bachelor of Science in Agriculture

(Ag.) is currently not considered as a 'professional' degree by Government of India.

Bharat Operating System Solutions

The software has also been endorsed by the Government of India for adoption and implementation on a national scale.

Chitrapu Uday Bhaskar

Later, was appointed as secretary to the Government of India's task force on Global Strategic Developments.

Combined Medical Services Examination

The "Combined Medical Services" Examination or the CMS Exam is conducted by the Union Public Service Commission for recruitment as Medical Officer in various organizations such as the Indian Ordnance Factories, Indian Railways functuning under the Government of India.

D. V. Gajjar

1. Seminar and workshop organised by Handloom Development Corporation, Government of India.

Dabhol Power Station

The plant was moth-balled for 5 years, while the various claimants, including MSEB, GoM, GE, Bechtel, Indian banks and the Government of India, settled their disputes over payments.

Economic survey of India

A flagship annual document of the Ministry of Finance, Government of India, Economic Survey reviews the developments in the Indian economy over the previous 12 months, summarizes the performance on major development programs, and highlights the policy initiatives of the government and the prospects of the economy in the short to medium term.

Economy of Punjab, India

The traditional long-term financial policy of the Union Government is to reward well-performing States.

Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act, 2003

More recently, in February 2011, the PMEAC recommended the need for reinstatement of fiscal discipline of the Government of India, starting 2011–12 financial year.

In 2011, given the process of ongoing recovery, Economic Advisory Council publicly advised the Government of India to reconsider reinstating the provisions of the FRBMA.

Habibia High School

The Indian government funded the rebuilding of the school in 2003, it committed $5 million for the restoration project.

Henry Medd

Post inauguration of New Delhi, when most of architects left, he stayed on, designed may more buildings and eventually remained, Chief Architect to the Government of India (1939–47).

Homalin

The Tamanthi Dam which is component part of the Tamanthi Hydroelectric Project (installed capacity 1200 MW) on the Chindwin River, which was under planning and investigations since 2004, is to be implemented with assistance from the Government of India, following a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed on September 16, 2008 between the National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) of India and the Government of Burma, as a joint venture project.

Islamabad–New Delhi hotline

According the Indian media sources, the hotline was established by the governments of India and Pakistan shortly after the end of 1971 war.

Jagadeeshwar Goud

Jagadeeshwar was appointed General Secretary of Greater Hyderabad Congress Committee in year 2008 and nominated as State executive member for Nehru Yuva Kendra Hyderabad, Ministry of Sports and youth affairs Government of India 2008.

Jagadish Gupta

The Government of India granted him a ‘Distinguished Man of Letters Allowance’ in 1954.

Jamshed Gulzar Kiani

In October 2002, both Indian and Pakistani governments had begun to demobilize their troops along their border and, in 2003, a cease fire pact was signed.

Kisan Credit Card

It was started by the Government of India, Reserve Bank of India (RBI), and National Bank for Agricultural and Rural Development (NABARD) in 1998-99 to help farmers access timely and adequate credit.

Lambretta GP/DL

The Indian Government purchased much of the tooling from Lambretta and continued production of GP/DL clone scooters under Scooters India Ltd (SIL).

Lok Sabha TV

Lok Sabha TV is an Indian cable television network channel from Government of India that offers coverage of federal government proceedings and other public affairs programming.

M. M. Somaya

In 2007 Somaya was bestowed the Life Time Achievement award by the Government of India.

Marri Shashidhar Reddy

In 2005, he became part of the high-powered National Disaster Management Authority, he has been responsible for formulating the Government of India guidelines that would ensure prompt and effective response to cyclones in any part of India.

Microsoft India PL

The company first entered the Indian market in 1990 and has since worked closely with the Indian government, the IT industry, academia and the local developer community to usher in some of the early successes in the IT market.

Mizo Union

When the Mizoram District Council was created by the Government of India, the first general election in April 1952 was cleanly captured by Mizo Union (17 out of 18 electorates), and President Lalsawia became the first Chief Executive Member.

National Horticulture Mission

National Horticulture Mission (NHM) is an Indian horticulture Scheme promoted by Government of India.

National Institute of Sports

NIS is housed in the Old Moti Bagh palace of earstwhile royal family of Patiala, which was purchased by Government of India after Indian Independence.

Nuclear Command Authority

The Nuclear Command Authority (denoted as NCA) is the name given to the respective government agencies of the governments of Pakistan and India.

Onida Electronics

Mirc Electronics won an “Award for Excellence in Electronics” in 1999, from the Ministry of Information Technology, Government of India.

Rabindranath Tagore's political views

Today, Tagore's school is a Central University under the Government of India.

Shiraz Minwalla

He was awarded the Swarnajayanti Fellowship 2005-06 by the Department of Science & Technology, Government of India.

Spices Board of India

The Spices Board is the Indian government regulatory and promotion agency for Indian spices.

Subramanian Krishnamoorthy

He also knows Hindi, Bengali,English,Sanskrit,and German.He taught at a college for a few years.Then he joined the audit department of the Government of India at Madras in 1954.In 1955 he was transferred to Kolkata, where he has been living ever since, except for a 3-year spell in Delhi.

Wireless Monitoring Organisation

The Wireless Monitoring Organisation(WMO), setup in 1952, is responsible for monitoring all wireless transmissions and is essentially the eyes and ears of the Wireless Planning & Coordination Wing (WPC) in the Ministry of Communications & IT of the Government of India.


Cairn India

Previously, Mr Chandra was the Chairman of the Committee on Corporate Governance, India’s Ambassador to the USA, Advisor to the prime minister, Governor of Rajasthan, Cabinet Secretary to the Government of India, and Chief Secretary to the Government of Rajasthan.

Central Industrial Security Force

However the role of CISF has undergone a diversification and it now also protects airports, seaports, metro rail networks, government buildings, heritage monuments (including the Taj Mahal), opium and alkaloids extractions, nuclear power plants, and space installations.

Centre for Excellence in Telecom Technology and Management

Centre for Excellence in Telecom Technology and Management (CETTM) located in Hiranandani Gardens, Powai, Mumbai is the telecom training centre of MTNL, the incumbent operator of Government of India (GOI).

Chattisinghpora, Pathribal, and Barakpora massacres

The massacre, which took place on the eve of U.S. President Bill Clinton's visit to the Subcontinent, was widely condemned by both the Indian and Pakistani governments, as well as the leaders of the Kashmiri separatist movement.

Department of Electronics and Accreditation of Computer Classes

The Department of Electronics and Accreditation of Computer Courses (DOEACC) is an autonomous scientific society under the Indian Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, and is involved in training, consulting, product development, entrepreneurship and human resource development in information, electronics & communication technologies.

Gladys Staines

In 2005, she was awarded the Padma Shri, a civilian award from the Government of India, which drew negative protests from many people in the country.

Heavy Vehicles Factory

HVF was set up in 1965 by the Ordnance Factories Board, Government of India to manufacture heavy battlefield equipment, including Vijayantas and T-72 tanks.

Indian Tamil nationalism

Most major Tamil Nadu regional parties such as DMK, All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK), Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) and Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (MDMK) frequently participate as coalition partners of other pan-Indian parties in the Union Government of India at New Delhi.

Krant M. L. Verma

When Verma applied to the Government of India for senior fellowship in order to research the writings of people who had been involved in the Indian independence movement, he was very senior officer in the Central Bank of India.

Languages of India

The Government of India attempts to assuage these conflicts with various campaigns, coordinated by the Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore, a branch of the Department of Higher Education, Language Bureau, Ministry of Human Resource Development.

North-Eastern Space Applications Centre

North-Eastern Space Applications Centre is a regional space centre established in September, 2000 by joint initiative of Department of space, Government of India and North Eastern Council to expedite the usage of remote sensing technology to discover natural minerals uncovered in the North-Eastern states of India and to promote overall growth of North Eastern states of India using space science and technology.

Original jurisdiction

In India, the Supreme Court has exclusive original jurisdiction on all cases between the Government of India and the States of India or between Government of India and states on side and one or more states on other side or cases between different states.

Politics of Karnataka

C.K. Jaffer Sharief from Bangalore is a veteran Congressman and 9-time MP and former Minister of Railways of Government of India.

Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences

The Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences (RMRIMS), which is located at Agam Kuan, Patna, Bihar, India is a permanent research institute of the Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi and an autonomous body of Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India.

Ramchandra Shukla

Doordarshan the official TV station of the Government of India commissioned and showed a documentary on the eve of his birth centenary in 1984 produced by Kusum Chaturvedi and Mukta.

Sagat Singh

For his leadership and command for the race to Dacca the Government of India honored Sagat Singh through an award of Padma Bhushan, Sagat Singh being the only other corps commander besides T N Raina and Sartaj Singh to be so awarded in 1971.

Separatist movements of Pakistan

The name Balawaristan is used mainly by nationalists of the Gilgit, such as the Balawaristan National Front, who are seeking to define a separate identity for Gilgit, Baltistan and Ladakh regions from that of the Kashmir Valley and Jammu; Not recognised by either the Government of India, Pakistan and China.

Shree Shankar Sharan

also the Additional Secretary,Department of Telecommunications in the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India.

Sikh Reference Library

In April 26, 2004, the Punjab and Haryana High Court ordered the Central Government, Government of Punjab, and the CBI to return the "valuables, books, scriptures, paintings, etc, that were seized from the Golden Temple during “Operation Bluestar” in 1984".

Since 1988, the SGPC has written to the Central Government asking for the return of the material taken by the CBI but has only received minor office files.

Sree Vidyanikethan Educational Trust

It was established in 1993 as a collaboration of the Government of India and the Government of Andhra Pradesh.

Thang-Ta

In 2009 Gurumayum Gourakishor Sharma, a leading exponent and teacher of thang-ta, received the high Padma Shri honor award from the Indian Government for his contributions to the preservation and advancement of the art.

Tibetan diaspora

However, in 1961, following growing tensions between China and India, India sealed its northern border with Bhutan, prompting Bhutan to arrange an emergency meeting with the Government of India (GOI) and the CTA to deal with the Tibetans stuck in the country.