JOIN USThe Union Cabinet on Wednesday has approved a Rs 500-crore plan to set up a national war memorial and national war museum in India Gate in the next five years.
To be set up on 14 acres of land, the memorial is likely to display names of around 22, 500 soldiers, who made supreme sacrifices in post-independent India.
The Cabinet approval comes exactly a year after the defence ministry put its stamp of approval on the project, which was announced by the Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in his first budget speech in 2014.
3 new AIIMS
The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved three tertiary care hospitals in the line of Delhi’s prestigious All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), DHNS reports from New Delhi.
The centres would come up in Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and West Bengal at a total cost of Rs 4949 crore.
Bonus to rail employees
The Unions Cabinet Wednesday approved 78-day wages as productivity-linked bonus (PLB) to railways’ employees. The decision which has apparently been taken ahead of DurgaPuja and Diwali festivals will benefit 12.58 lakh non-gazetted railway employees.
Each worker could get up to Rs 8,975 this month as bonus.It will cost the exchequer around Rs 1,030.02 crore.