International
Gotthard Base
World’s longest and deepest railway tunnel “Gothhard Base” is inaugurated in Switzerland. This tunnel is 57 kilometers long overtaking Japan ‘Seikan Tunnel’ which was 53.9 km long. Gotthard Base tuunel is build through ’Alps Mountain’ which is connecting North and South Europe. This project took 17 years and 12 billion Dollars to build after starting in 1996.
New plans
National Disaster Management plan (NDMP), a first of its kind to make country disaster resilient and control loss of lives during disasters has been launched with the theme of “Sendai Framework for disaster risk maanagment 2015-2030”. It is included in Section 11 of , Disaster Management Act, 20015
NMDP is based on 4 priority objectives a) Disaster preparedness , early warning b)understand disaster risk c) disaster risk governance improvement and d) Investing in Disaster risk reduction through all measures.
Approvals
IPPB
India post payments Banks (IPPB) gets approval from central government as Public limited company for setting up of banks across country with expenditure of 800 Crore. This IPPB will be beneficial for almost 40 % of rural population who are outside of formal banking .
Agreements
India – World Bank
A 9.2 million Dollars ( Around 600 crores) agreement for Efficient and Sustainable City Bus service Project” has been done between World Bank and India for improving efficiency and attractiveness of City bus transport and also to reduce Green house gases emissions.
Awards
Dr. R. Seetharaman , CEO of ‘Doha bank’ is conferred with ‘Green Economy Visionary Award 2016’ for contribution in eco friendly activities and promoting green economy from last 20 years. This award is given at ‘Union of Arab banks International Banking summit’ held at ‘Rome’ and presented by Mohammed Jarrah Alsabah , who is Chairman of Union of Arab Banks.
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