Draft Food Safety and Standards (Food Product Standards and Food Additives ) Amendment Regulations, 2016 relating to 'revision of carbonated fruit beverages or fruit drinks'.

This Report deals with the results of audit of 83 Government companies and four Statutory Corporations for the year ended 31 March 2015 for submission to the Government of Maharashtra under Section 19 A of the Comptroller and Auditor General’s (Duties, Powers and Conditions of Service) Act, 1971, as amended from time to time.

The Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs, present this One Hundred and Ninety Eighth Report on 'Disaster in Chennai caused by torrential rainfall and consequent flooding in the Country'.

This Report of the Committee deals with the action taken by the Government on the recommendations contained in the First Report (Sixteenth Lok Sabha) on the subject ‘Occurrence of High Arsenic Content in Ground Water' pertaining to the Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation.

Question raised in Lok Sabha on Sewage Treatment Plants Under Namami Gange Mission, 11/08/2016. As on 30th June, 2016, 58 project on Sewerage and Sanitation have been sanctioned. This includes 51 projects for STPs and sewerage network Schemes and 7 projects only for laying / rehabilitation of sewer lines.

Question raised in Lok Sabha on Safe Drinking Water, 11/08/2016. As per information provided by States / UTs on online portal Integrated Management Information System (IMIS) of the Ministry, there are total 17,14,528 rural habitations in the country. Out of them; 13,09,567 rural habitations are fully covered (getting 40 litres per capita per day (lpcd) or more potable drinking water);

Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Prevention of Floods, 11/08/2016. Floods are a natural calamity that India faces almost every year, in varying degrees of magnitude. The frequent occurrence of floods can be attributed to various factors, including wide variations in rainfall both in time and space with frequent departures from the normal pattern, inadequate carrying capacities of rivers, river bank erosion and silting of river beds, landslides, poor natural drainage in flood prone areas, snowmelt and glacial lake out bursts.

Question raised in Lok Sabha on Inter-State River Water Sharing Disputes, 11/08/2016. On the basis of complaints made by the State Governments, the Central Government has, so far, set up 08 tribunals to settle water disputes among the States under the inter-state river water disputes (ISRWD) Act, 1956.

Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Impact of Global Warming and Climate Change on Rainfall Pattern, 11/08/2016. Government has undertaken many research studies to analyze the impact of global warming and climate change on rainfall pattern in India.

Question raised in Lok Sabha on Drinking Water and Sanitation Schemes, 11/08/2016. As per the information entered by the States on the Integrated Information Management System (IMIS) of the Ministry, as on 07.08.2016, there are 57,489 ongoing schemes in different States of the Country to provide drinking water to the rural population in the country. The details are given in Annexure. In
Jammu & Kashmir there are 1838 ongoing rural drinking water supply schemes.

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