State wise Ground Water Resources Availability

(AS ASSESED IN THE YEAR 2011)

Sl. No.	States / Union Territories	Annual Replenishable Ground Water Resource (In Billion Cubic Meter)
1	Andhra Pradesh (undivided)	35.89
2	Arunachal Pradesh	4.51
3	Assam	28.52
4	Bihar	29.34
5	Chhattisgarh	12.42
6	Delhi	0.31
7	Goa	0.24
8	Gujarat	18.57
9	Haryana	10.78
10	Himachal Pradesh	0.56
11	Jammu & Kashmir	4.25
12	Jharkhand	6.31
13	Karnataka	17.03
14	Kerala	6.69
15	Madhya Pradesh	35.04
16	Maharashtra	33.95
17	Manipur	0.44
18	Meghalaya	1.78
19	Mizoram	0.03
20	Nagaland	0.62
21	Odisha	17.78
22	Punjab	22.53
23	Rajasthan	11.94
24	Sikkim	-
25	Tamil Nadu	21.53
26	Tripura	2.59
27	Uttar Pradesh	77.19
28	Uttarakhand	2.04
29	West Bengal	29.25
30	Andaman & Nicobar	0.31
31	Chandigarh	0.02
32	Dadar & Nagar Haveli	0.06
33	Daman & Diu	0.02
34	Lakshadweep	0.01
35	Puducherry	0.19
	Grand Total	432.72

Annex-II

(Annexure referred to in reply to Parts (a) & (b) of Unstarred Question No 3533 to be answered on 11.8.2014 in the Rajya Sabha regarding Availability of Water Resources)

WATER RESOURCES POTENTIAL OF RIVER BASINS OF INDIA

S. No.	River Basin	Average Water Resources Potential (In Billion Cubic Meter)	Utilisable surface water resources (In Billion Cubic Meter)
1	Indus	73.3	46.0
2	Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna
	(a) Ganga	525.0	250.0
	(b) Brahmaputra	537.2	24.0
	(c) Barak & others	48.4	-
3	Godavari	110.5	76.3
4	Krishna	78.1	58.0
5	Cauvery	21.4	19.0
6	Subernarekha	12.4	6.8
7	Brahmani-Baitarni	28.5	18.3
8	Mahanadi	66.9	50.0
9	Pennar	6.3	6.9
10	Mahi	11.0	3.1
11	Sabarmati	3.8	1.9
12	Narmada	45.6	34.5
13	Tapi	14.9	14.5
14	West Flowing Rivers from Tapi to Tadri	87.4	11.9
15	West Flowing Rivers from Tadri to Kanyakumari	113.5	24.3
16	East Flowing Rivers between Mahanadi and Pennar	22.5	13.1
17	East Flowing Rivers between Pennar & Kanyakumari	16.5	16.5
18	West Flowing Rivers of Kutch and Saurashtra including Luni	15.1	15.0
19	Area of Inland Drainage in Rajasthan	Negligible	--
20	Minor Rivers draining into Myanmar (Burma) and Bangladesh	31.0	--
	Total	1,869.4	690

Major River Basins of India

Sl. No.	River Basin	Catchment Area  (Sq. Km.)
	Indus (up to Border)	321289
	a) Ganga	861452
	b) Brahmaputra,	194413
	c) Barak & Others	41723
	Godavari	312812
	Krishna	258948
	Cauvery	81155
	Subernarekha	29196
	Brahamani & Baitarni	51822
	Mahanadi	141589
	Pennar	55213
	Mahi	34842
	Sabarmati	21674
	Narmada	98796
	Tapi	65145
	West Flowing Rivers from Tapi to Tadri	55940
	West Flowing Rivers from Tadri to Kanyakumari	56177
	East Flowing Rivers between Mahanadi & Pennar	86643
	East Flowing Rivers between Pennar and Kanyakumari	100139
	West Flowing Rivers of Kutch and Saurashtra including Luni	321851
	Area of Inland drainage in Rajasthan	-
	Minor River Draining into Myanmar (Burma) & Bangladesh	36202

New Judicial appointments commission bill introduced

The Union Government has introduced national Judicial appoints commission bill, in Lok Sabha. The NDA government has withdrawn the previous government’s bill which was introduced through 120th amendment bill. Now the 121st amendment bill was introduced. This bill is aimed insertion of new articles 124A, 124B and 124C

The Constitutional Amendment Bill……….

• Scraps the Collegium System and establishes a six-member body for appointment of judges
• It is proposed that the Chief Justice of India will head the commission
• The judiciary will be represented by two senior judges of the Supreme Court
• Two eminent personalities and the Law Minister will be the other members of the proposed body

The other important points are…………

• It provides for the establishment of a six-member Judicial Appointments Commission (JAC) to make recommendations to the President on appointment and transfer of judges to the higher judiciary.
• ouraging collaborations between the judiciary and executive, the members constituting JAC will comprise of the Chief Justice of India, two other senior most judges of the Supreme Court, the Union Minister for Law and Justice, and two eminent persons to be nominated by the Prime Minister, the CJI and the Leader of Opposition of the Lok Sabha. Law Commission of India Chairman and former Delhi High Court Chief Justice AP Shah has recommended the strength of the body be raised to seven.
• sic function of the JAC would include making recommendations for appointments of the CJI, SC judges, Chief Justice and other High Court judges, and even the transfer of HC judges.
• would empower the Parliament to pass a law providing for the composition, functions and procedures of the JAC.
• e entire process under the JAC will be aimed at ensuring transparency. It has been suggested that the entire record of the process, starting from the nominations received up to the final recommendation made to the President, must be publicly disclosed.
• e JAC will work in a stipulated time frame. It provides time periods within which vacancies will be filled up. Even the government has time limit of upto 2 months to intimate the Commission of the vacancy.

The Standing Committee report to Rajya Sabha in December 2013 noted that, "Because of its inherent deficiencies in the collegium, as many as approximately 275 posts of judges in various High Courts are lying vacant, which has direct bearing upon justice delivery system and thereby affecting the 13 institutional credibility of judiciary.

Other suggestions to the JAC urge to provide it constitutional validation, thus making it a permanent body and not an ad hoc set up. It is also recommended that its decision be binding on the President and in case the President rejects any name, it should be open to judicial review.

Jaitley, Karan Singh, Sharad Yadav felicitated with Outstanding Parliamentarian Awards

President Pranab Mukherjee on 12 August 2014 conferred the Outstanding Parliamentarian Awards on Arun Jaitley, Dr Karan Singh and Sharad Yadav. The awards were given for their invaluable contribution in discharge of their parliamentary duties. The awards were given at Balyogi Auditorium in Parliament Library, New Delhi. 

• BJP leader Arun Jaitley received the award for the year 2010
• Congress Veteran Karan Singh received the award for the year 2011
• JD(U) leader Sharad Yadav received the award for the year for 2012

President while conferring the awards asked all Parliamentarians to uphold the prestige and dignity of Parliament, as it’s a responsibility of every Parliamentarian. 

About Outstanding Parliamentarian Award
The Outstanding Parliamentarian Award was instituted in 1992 by Shivraj Patil who was then the Speaker of Lok Sabha from 1991-96. The award is given by the Indian Parliamentary Group to an outstanding sitting Member of the Indian Parliament for overall contribution in Indian Parliament. 

Previous important Parliamentarians to be awarded include
• Indrajit Gupta was honoured with the Outstanding Parliamentarian Award in 1992
• Atal Bihari Vajpayee was honoured with the award in 1994
• Pranab Mukherjee r was honoured with the award in 1997
• Lal Krishna Advani was honoured with the award in 1999
• Manmohan Singh was honoured with the award in 2002 
• Sushma Swaraj was honoured with the award in 2004
• P Chidambaram was honored with the award in 2005
• Murli Manohar Joshi was honoured with the award in 2009

Former RBI Governor Bimal Jalan to head the Expenditure Management Commission

The Union Government decided to appoint former RBI governor Bimal Jalan as the head of the Expenditure Management Commission on 12 August 2014. He would be tasked to suggest ways for managing public finances by reducing food, fertiliser and oil subsidies to include fiscal deficit. 

Expenditure Management Commission
Union Finance minister Arun Jaitley had announced the setting up of an Expenditure Management Commission in the Union Budget 2014-15 in July 2014. The purpose of setting up the commission is to cut-off the spending and review government expenditure to get maximum output.

The Commission will submit its interim report before the Budget of 2015-16 and its final report before the Budget of 2016-17.

Subsidies on Food, petroleum and fertilisers
In revised estimates for 2013-14, the subsidy bill on food, petroleum and fertilisers was 245451.50 crore rupees. For 2014-15, the subsidy bill is estimated to be 251397.25 crore rupees. 

The increase in subsidy bill for 2014-15 is due to the increased allocation for fertiliser sector. The government estimated total fertiliser subsidy bill of 72970.30 crore rupees than the amount of 67970 crore rupees that was proposed in the interim budget.

The government allocated the total amount of 115000 crore rupees which includes a provision of 88500 crore rupees for the implementation of National Food Security Act.

Previous Expenditure Reforms Commission
During the year 1999-2000, Atal Bihari Vajpayee government initiated Expenditure Reforms Commission (ERC) headed by former finance secretary K P Geethakrishnan. This commission recommended for reducing the central government machinery and winding up of some government departments. Certain recommendations of the commission were implemented during the reign of finance minister Yashwant Sinha. 

In 2002, UPA government appointed Vijay Kelkar Committee, former finance secretary, for fiscal consolidation plan which included reduction in subsidies. His panel suggested increasing diesel and cooking gas prices gradually. His recommendations are followed today.

ANDHRA PRADESH STATE STATISTICAL ABSTRACT

National Policy for Older Persons

The National Policy on Older Persons (NPOP), 1999 envisages State support to ensure financial and food security, health care, shelter and other needs of older persons, equitable share in development, protection against abuse and exploitation, and availability of services to improve the quality of their lives. The policy also covers issues like social security, intergenerational bonding, family as the primary caretaker, role of Non-Governmental Organizations, training of manpower, research and training. 

The Ministry of Rural Development has been implementing Indira Gandhi National Old Age Pension Scheme (IGNOAPS) since 1995 with the aim to provide financial security to senior citizens living below the poverty line. Under the Scheme Central assistance is given towards pension @ Rs. 200/- per month to persons above 60 years and @ Rs. 500/- per month to persons above 80 years of age. 

The National Council of Older Persons was constituted in 1999 to monitor the implementation of the Policy and advise the Government on issues related to the welfare of senior citizens. The Council has been reconstituted in 2012 as National Council of Senior Citizens with wider national impact. Similar Councils have been constituted at the State level also. Further, the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act has been enacted in 2007 for providing more effective provisions for maintenance and welfare of senior citizens. 

Due to continuous increase in the life expectancy, there is an increase in the population of senior citizens. Ensuring that the senior citizens lead a secured, dignified and productive life, the allocation of funds under Integrated Programme for Older Persons (IPOP) for the current financial year (2014-15) has been increased from 45 crores (2013-14) to Rs. 51 crores. 

Setting up of Export Promotion Mission

The Export Promotion Mission as announced in the budget of 2014-15 is aimed at preparing a comprehensive policy for promoting foreign trade which will include deeper involvement of States in achieving targets to be fixed under the Foreign Trade Policy. 

CENSUS 2011 FINAL STSTISTICS