Morpho Launches MorphoRapID™ 2

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December 15, 2015

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Morpho (Safran), a global leader in identity and security solutions, announces the launch of MorphoRapID™ 2, a new robust and mobile ID device.

MorphoRapID 2 was developed for law enforcement, border control, immigration, and airport security officers who need to have autonomous operational capabilities in their hands. Using Morpho’s fingerprint and face matching algorithms, and featuring multiple credential readers,MorphoRapID 2 empowers security professionals to perform real-time operations in the field.

Equipped with a fingerprint sensor certified FAP 30 by the FBI, and a high resolution camera, it enables remote identification, by capturing and transmitting to an ABIS (Automated Biometric Identification System) an unknown subject’s fingerprints or portrait, then receiving match results. MorphoRapID 2 is fully integrated into the Morpho Criminal Justice Suite and handles multiple searches simultaneously.
It also enables on device identification by matching a person’s fingerprints against those previously stored in local watch lists in the device’s memory.

Finally, MorphoRapID 2 verifies ID documents, by comparing the biometric data embedded in the document with the holder’s live fingerprint or portrait capture. Supported credentials include contact and contactless ID cards or driving licenses, 2D barcodes, as well as e-passports.

Handheld and 4G wireless, MorphoRapID 2 combines high performance identification capabilities with modern smartphone-like features (Android operating system, large color touchscreen) for quick user adoption. Its easy grip and sturdy design are suited for extensive use under demanding conditions.

Samuel Fringant, Executive Vice President of Morpho’s Security division, said: “Our new generation mobile ID device results from the highly valued feedback received from our worldwide customer base. It has been designed to anticipate market needs, for controlling identities in the field. We are preparing the first deployments for customers in the Middle East, Latin America and Africa.”

Cancer Screening Camp in NTPC

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Female Cancer Screening Camp for ladies was organized by NTPC Medical Cell and Saheli Club in association with Dharamshila Hospital, New Delhi.

The Camp was inaugurated by Smt. Nisha Jha, Chief Guest, President of Saheli Club alongwith Ms Geeta Pani, Vice President Ms Nalini Pandey, Ms Naina Sharma, Ms. Minati Biswal and other senior members of Saheli and Sanyukta Ladies Club and Bal Bhawan, Ms. Gitika Shiv, GM(HR-S) and Doctors from Medical Cell, Noida & Badarpur, were also present. 94 ladies were registered out of which 75 Pap smear were taken and 88 fibro scan were done.

Lecture for awareness on prevention of breast and cervical cancer was delivered by Consultant Gynae Oncologist, Dr.Satinder Kaur.

Turn low Oil Price into opportunity for the E&P industry

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Mr Dharmendra Pradhan, Hon’ble Minister of State (Independent Charge), Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Government of India inaugurated the three day SPE Oil and Gas International Conference organized by the Society of Petroleum Engineers . Other dignitaries present included,Mr K D Tripathi, Secretary, MoPNG, Mr D. K Sarraf, CMD ONGC, Mr U P Singh. Additional Secretary, MoPNG, Mr Nathan Meehan, President- SPE 2016 and Mr T K Sengupta, Director (Offshore), ONGC.

Speaking on the occasion, Mr Dharmendra Pradhan said that the low oil prices are a challenge to the upstream industry but it has also resulted in lowering the cost of exploration and related services and we need to convert this challenge into opportunity to upscale production.

Mr Pradhan said that only half of India’s sedimentary basins have been explored and there is an immense potential in the remaining half. Exploration of the remaining half should be taken up on top priority in order to curb imports by ten percent by 2022 as envisioned by the Prime Minister.

Mr Pradhan emphasized on the aptness of the conference theme of “Converting Resources into Production” and shared the various Policy initiatives of the Government like uniform licensing policy, pricing and marketing freedom and easy to administer revenue sharing models.

Mr Pradhan pointed out that suitable project management and technology innovation can resolve half of the problems of upstream oil companies even under the volatile price regime.

Earlier Mr K D Tripathi, Secretary MoPNG said that besides conventional oil we need to look at the potential of unconventional sources like shale oil and gas, CBM, Gas Hydrates etc. Mr Tripathi noted that the second Gas Hydrate Program which has been completed recently has shown remarkable potential, which needs to be tapped .

Mr. U P Singh, Additional Secretary MoPNG shared the path breaking interventions of the government in increasing the exploration activity like Pre NELP, NELP and subsequently new formula for gas pricing, policy on marginal fields, uniform licensing policy, freedom of pricing, open acreage policy and the role of Minimum Government & Maximum Governance . He said the government was proactively taking all possible measures to provide a conducive environment to both Indian and foreign firms so that E&P activity in India could be developed.

In his address Mr D K Sarraf , CMD ONGC said that this is not the first time that the oil sector is facing the challenge of low pricing .Mr Sarraf emphasized on the need for resilience in financial , operational and portfolio management to stay afloat in the current market scenario. He stressed on the need for innovative approach and stressed on the need to monetize the marginal fields, managing the deepwater, and reversing the tide.

Earlier, in his welcome address Mr T K Sengupta, Director (offshore) presented an overview of the conference particularly at a time when oil sector is passing through a critical juncture world-wide.

Keep close watch on Pay Commission impact on inflation, RBI raises concerns: ASSOCHAM

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While maintaining status quo on benchmark policy interest rates was on expected lines, RBI Governor Dr Raghuram Rajan’s assertion that the central bank remains “in accommodative stance” is quite reassuring for the industry, said ASSOCHAM President, Mr Sunil Kanoria.

He said the Credit Policy review has rightly raised a concern about the possible impact of the 7th Pay Commission on quality government expenditure.

“The industry is fully in agreement with Governor Rajan who has stressed the government to maintain the quality of the Budget while trying to keep the Fiscal Deficit intact, faced with the pressure of the Pay Commission resulting in additional cost of over Rs. 1 lakh crore,” Mr Kanoria said.

The ASSOCHAM President stated the banks have not fully transmitted the earlier cuts in the policy rates and the RBI move to shift to the marginal cost for determining the bank base rate should be pursued to its logical conclusion.

“As pointed out in the policy document, vigilance of the top order is required to ensure that the retail inflation particularly of the items of common consumption does not increase again. Or else, the RBI would not be able to maintain the accommodative stance. The ball in now in the court of the government to see to it that inflation is kept low through better food management, banks are nudged to do more on transmission and the public investment is stepped up to spearhead the investment recovery,” Mr Kanoria said.

The impact of the Pay Commission on the overall wage costs and rentals also needs to be monitored, added the ASSOCHAM chief.

He said the government, RBI and the banks must continue to work in the area of infrastructure financing which has remained subdued thanks to stalled projects, viability mismatch. “Governor’s assertion on strengthening the Asset Recovery Companies is a welcome development since sooner the banks’ books are cleaned of unsustainable level of debt, better it would be for the economy.”

ASSOCHAM opines that the government policy, both monetary and fiscal, must directly support creating more production capacities and ensuring adequate supply response on one hand and boost the demand growth on the other. Banks are presently risk averse due to past problems. Once the issue of non-performing loans get sorted out, the private investment cycle will re-start.

National Savings Schemes

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Shri Jayant Sinha, Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance has informed. Presently 13th National Saving Schemes (NSS) viz Post Office Savings Accounts, Time Deposits (1 year, 2 year, 3 year and 5 years), Monthly Income Scheme, Post Office Recurring Deposit Scheme, National Savings Certificate (VIII Issue), National Savings Certificate (IX Issue) [to be discontinued with effect from 20.12.2015], Kisan Vikas Patra Scheme, Public Provident Fund Scheme, Sukanya Samriddhi Account Scheme and Senior Citizens Savings Schemes are under operation.

There has been no reduction in the amount being deposited under the NSS. In fact, the gross collection figures have risen during the last three years as under:

Rs. in crores

Year	Deposits (gross collection)
2012-13	234152.69
2013-14	250421.04
2014-15	304733.82
2015-16 (upto October 2015)	211977.52

The NSS are available for all Indian Nationals in rural areas as well as urban areas. However, these schemes are mainly operated through Post Offices which have large network in rural areas. At present, the Government has no proposal to bring a new small savings policy for senior citizens and weaker sections.

Gujarat Becomes Tenth State to Join UDAY Scheme

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December 15, 2015

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With number of States joining the UDAY Scheme (Ujwal Discom Assurance Yojana) reaching the double digit, Shri Piyush Goyal, Union Minister of State (IC) for Power, Coal and New & Renewable Energy has said in his tweet “ We are progressing towards realizing the Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi’s vision of 24×7 .”

With Gujarat Government communicating its in-principle to Ministry of Power (MoP) of joining UDAY , Shri Goyal congratulated Hon’ble Chief Minister of Gujarat Smt Anandiben Patel on Gujarat becoming 10^th State to join UDAY . Andhra Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Chhattisgarh, Jammu & Kashmir , Jharkhand , Punjab and Rajasthan have already joined UDAY Scheme.

Expressing confident of more States joining the UDAY, Shri Goyal further said in his tweet “ All States have expressed strong interest for joining UDAY and are at various stages of getting internal approvals. We remain confident of all States joining UDAY and together creating an Ujwal Bharat .”

Performance of Sail

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During the first two quarters of 2015-16, SAIL incurred a total loss of Rs.1378 crore. The major reasons for losses are reduction in the Net Sales Realisation of saleable steel, increased expenditure towards royalty on iron ore, volatility in foreign exchange rates and higher incidence of capital related expenses; i.e. interest and depreciation, etc.

The Ministry of Steel has decided to appoint an external consultant to study the overall working of SAIL with a view to improve its performance.

SAIL is implementing a major modernisation and expansion programme to increase its production, to eliminate technological obsolescence, to improve energy efficiency and to increase value added products in its product basket. In addition, in order to restore financial health of the company, it has formulated a Turnaround Plan on immediate basis which broadly includes optimizing production and sales volume, product-mix enrichment and increasing production from new facilities, operational efficiency improvement and cost reduction, rationalizing production from relatively inefficient routes, marketing initiatives for improved realization, expenditure control and capital expenditure prioritization.

Revenue Earning System of Railways

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Minister of State for Railways Shri Manoj Sinha has informed. Against huge requirement of resources for expansion and modernisation, Railways’ revenue earning system does not leave much surplus for investment and modernisation in Railways. Railways’ internal resource generation for plan investment in 2013-14 and 2014-15 was Rs. 11,668 crore and Rs. 15,440 crore respectively.

Investment on expansion and modernisation of Railways is financed from multiple sources i.e. Gross Budgetary Support from the Ministry of Finance, Internal Resources generated by Railways and Extra Budgetary Resources like market borrowings and Public Private Partnerships etc. Efforts towards enhancing internal resource generation in Railways is a continuous endeavour. Towards this end, Railways have targeted progressively higher revenue through an inter-mix of capacity augmentation, pricing adjustments and expenditure control such as:

• Targeting progressively higher volume of passenger and freight traffic;

• Periodic rationalisation of both freight and passenger tariffs and fares;

• Periodic adjustments of various charges incidental to passenger and freight;

• Exploration of alternate sources of revenue like commercial exploitation of surplus Railway land, advertisement on Railway premises/assets etc;

• Constant endeavour by Railways to effect economy in expenditure.

• Austerity and economy measures in areas such as hospitality, publicity, advertisements, inaugural ceremonies, seminars and workshops, contingent office expenses etc.

• Implementation of guidelines on expenditure control & management circulated by the Ministry of Finance on the Railways also.

• Rigorous monitoring of expenditure with reference to the monthly budget proportions.

E-Courts Mission Mode Project

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Union Minister of Ministry of Law & Justice, Shri D. V. Sadananda Gowda has informed that as on 30^th November, 2015, more than 93% of the mandated activities of Phase I of the Project have been completed.

S. No.	Module	Status as on30.11.2015	%Completion
1.	Sites readiness	14249	100.0
2.	Hardware installation	13436	94.29
3.	LAN installation	13643	95.75
4.	Software deployment	13273	93.15

In addition to above, ICT infrastructure of the Supreme Court and High Court has also been upgraded. A unified national core application software – Case Information System (CIS) software – has been developed and made available for deployment at all computerized courts. The national e-Courts portal (http://www.ecourts.gov.in) has become operational and has been opened for public access through websites of individual districts as well as through the National Judicial Data Grid (NJDG). The portal provides online services to litigants such as details of case registration, cause list, case status, daily orders, and final judgments. Currently, litigants can access case status information in respect of over 5.59 crore pending and decided cases and more than 1.93 crore orders/judgments pertaining to district and subordinate Courts. NJDG data will also help the judiciary in judicial monitoring and management and the Government to get data for policy purposes.

Against the approved cost of Rs.935 crore, Rs.617.35 crore have been released to National Informatics Centre (NIC), the Implementing Agency for Phase I of the Project) upto 30^th November, 2015 for the above components of the e-Courts Phase I project for all the states on consolidated basis.

E-filing was taken up in Phase I of the Project, but it is included in Phase II of the Project. The implementation of Phase II commenced on 4^th August, 2015.

IndianBureaucracy.com wishes the very best for the project.

Employment Exchanges as Career Centres

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Shri Bandaru Dattatreya, Minister of State (IC) for Ministry Labour and Employment, has informed. The Government is implementing the National Career Service Project for linking employment exchanges and other institutions using technology to provide a variety of employment related services like career counselling, vocational guidance, information on skill development courses, apprenticeship, internships. These service are available online on the National Career Service Portal (https://www.ncs.gov.in/) supported by Call Centre/Helpdesk. The portal provides for training/skilling institutions to register and post their courses which can be accessed by all users. The NCS service can be availed directly through the Employment Exchanges/Career Centres and Common Service Centres.

Further, the Government has decided to convert the Employment Exchanges into Career Centres in collaboration with the State Governments for providing employment services to the students and job-seekers along with other employment related assistance. Guidelines have been circulated to States/UTs for adoption. The portal is accessible to all employers both government and private to register and post their vacancies and shortlist the candidates.

Vikas Gupta appointed as Dir.Urban Local Bodies, Livelihood Mission- HY

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Shri Vikas Gupta IAS (Haryana 2001) presently posted as Commissioner , Municipal Corporation,Gurgaon has been appointed as Director, Urban Local Bodies, Livelihood Mission Government of Haryana.

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M M Shrivastava to be Additional Judge of Chhattisgarh High Court

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December 15, 2015

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In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (1) of article 224 of the Constitution of India, the President is pleased to appoint Shri Manindra Mohan Shrivastava, to be an Additional Judge of Chhattisgarh High Court, for a period of three months with effect from 10th December, 2015.

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Morpho Launches MorphoRapID™ 2

Cancer Screening Camp in NTPC

Turn low Oil Price into opportunity for the E&P industry

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