16 MUMBAI | WEEKEND, 24 MARCH 2012 1 > UPA allies decline to go along on Lok Pal Bill All-party meet has government in minority, as other parties say too much encroachment on state powers; Left asks government to try harder for consensus Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee at an all-party meeting of Rajya Sabha members on the Lok Pal Bill, at PM House in New Delhi on Friday. PHOTO: PTI > FROM PAGE 1 BEST FOOT FORWARD Business Standard lists key decisions these new chief ministers took during their first week in office OTHER CANDIDATES AKHILESH YADAV PARKASH SINGH BADAL Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister of Punjab since since March 15, 2012 March 14, 2012 MANOHAR PARRIKAR VIJAY BAHUGUNA José Antonio Ngozi Okonjo- Jeffrey Chief Minister of Goa since Chief Minister of Uttarakhand Ocampo Iweala Sachs March 9, 2012 since March 13, 2012 Former finance Nigerian finance Development minister of Colombia minister and former economist & Director, | Capped iron ore exports | Ordered preparation of a | Announced unemploy- | To make six cities slum- and a United Nations World Bank official Earth Institute at from the state at 40-42 blueprint for the overall official Columbia University ment allowance of ~1,000 free, Badal announced million tonnes per annum development of per month, besides free construction of over 5,000 to arrest illegal mining Uttarakhand, with laptops and computer houses for people living in special focus on the | Revamped the Directorate tablets to passouts of slums at a cost of ~273 crore of Mines and Geology. tourism sector classes 10 and 12 in the state | Took measures to Changed staff at the | Requested the central | Directed the Public Works improve Punjab’s financial directorate’s office government to transfer Department to complete position. On the second 25 per cent stake in | Stopped recruitment of within a year all bridge- day in office, he approved the 2,400-Mw Tehri 1,500 new staff to govern- construction projects, the the excise policy for hydel project to ment departments, under- foundation stones of which 2012-13, at a revenue Uttarakhand taken by previous regime were laid before 2007 increase of ~570 crore.