PIB News - Dec 2013

Appointments : 

Resignations/Retirements

Obituaries

Awards

Sports

International

1. Agartala-Akhaura and Agartala-Sabroom new line projects with Bangladesh

National

Polity

Economics

1. GDP growth : 
   
   
   
   

Env & Ecology

1. Waterways that are being developed as National Waterways (NWs) presently are:
1.  Ganga-Bhagirathi-Hooghly river system (Allahabad-Haldia-1620 km) in the states of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal as NW-1, declared in 1986.
2. River Brahmaputra (Dhubri-Sadiya-891 km) in the state of Assam as NW-2 declared in 1988
3. West Coast Canal (Kottapuram-Kollam) along with Udyogmandal and Champakara Canals – (205 km) in the state of Kerala as NW-3 declared in 1993.