2009-06-29 05:24:13 - Noise of divesting stake in public sector unitsare high on agenda which was severly criticised during NDA regime. Fiscal deficit to be revamped from the sale of nine PSUs may make it to the market over the next few months.BHEL, BSNL,Power Grid Corporation and Rural Electrification Corporation, NHPC, RITES, Coal India,Oil India are on dilution spree to contribute .Federal Ministers on 100 days agenda has worthwhile to speak in public which may arouse controversy on various issues.Law and Justice M Veerappa Moily said the government would soon make it mandatory for the members of the higher judiciary, including the Chief Justice of India, Judges of the Supreme Court and the state High Courts, to disclose their assets and liabilities.“The draft is almost ready. I am trying to introduce it in the coming session of the Parliament,” he told The Indian Express. He said he would try to bring the judiciary around to ensure that judicial reforms take place without any hitch.“I will talk to them (judiciary) on the issue of accountability. While, like other sections of the society, the judiciary is also not beyond reforms, we need to take into account that Indian judiciary enjoys the highest credibility in the world,” Moily said.

The broadcasters in fear with imposition of a content code could fetter their freedom. Soni, who took charge as information and broadcasting minister, last week listed the building of a consensus on content code for news broadcasters as one of her top priorities and promised to take up all issues relating to the media industry in a transparent manner.

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of Opposition in the Delhi assembly V.K. Malhotra criticised Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit for reportedly saying that cleaning of the Yamuna river would take several more years.“For the last three elections, the Congress government has constantly promised a clean Yamuna and has spent over Rs.2,000 crore on the Yamuna Cleaning Campaign. Despite all politically motivated campaigns, today we find that the holy Yamuna has been reduced to a dirty drain and may be the most polluted river in the country,” Malhotra said.

Yammuna funds goes infractuous and Dikshit too accepted that her government’s Yamuna Action Plan has failed and it will not be able to clean the river before the Commonwealth Games next October. Dikshit had reportedly said that the government would need several years to clean the river. Experts put up the Yammuan cleaning plan is not too difficult as envisaged by the three time CM of Delhi.

A Congress funtionary counts himself as “close” to Sonia, had talked openly taht the the ministers “transgressed” his mandate by going public with the roadmap without consulting anybody. Further he had said that before unrolling changes that “struck at the kernel” of the education system, Sibal should have met Congress Working Committee members and representatives of the parliamentary standing committee on human resource development.A Congress central minister had also taken a swipe at Sibal. In a different context, some officials were heard talking about how M. Veerappa Moily had gone “overboard” with his law and justice ministry’s proposals.