INDIA

• Over 80 million children will be lininistered oral polio vaccine on
ecember 9 and JImuatT 20, courtesy
e Union health ministry, as part of
; plan to make the country free from
dioinyelitis by 1997.

• The World Bank will finance two prots in Uttar Pradesh - rural water
pplyand environmental sanitation,
id diversified agriculture support
oject for development of cash crops
x sugarcane, cotton and herbs.

• The Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam
ts been given permission by the
-ntre last month, to raise Rs 300 crore through bonds which will be
offered to public and private sector
financial companies.

• A telecom package, offering Rs two
billion sops annually to rural subscribers, was announced by the
Union communications ministry on
November 22. It includes an increase
in free calls entitlement and a reduction in registration fees.

• A massive grant of VS $216 million
was announced on November 20, by
the European Commission for a primary education and a poverty allmation programme in Maharashtra,
Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Bihar.

• Those likely to be affected by the Tehri power project will benefit from
a new rehabilitation package announced last month by the Tehri Hydro
Development Corporation. The oustees can avail the low interest hire
purchase scheme to buy flats.
Quake-resistant houses are ready for
possession in the Javalgawadi village
which lay on the epicentre of the 1 "3
earthquake in Latur. The reconstruc-
tion work was carried out by the
Rainakrishna Mission.

• The Bhabha Atomic Research Centre,
Bombay, has developed the first bio-
technology-based process for producing concentrated invert sugar, a
valuable sweetener in food, pharmaceutical, and beverage industries.