Identify the ministry which may have released the following news items. Would this be a ministry of the central government or the State government? Why?

A. An official release said that in 2004-05 the Tamil Nadu Textbooks Corporation would release new versions for standards VII, X and XI.


B. A new railway loop line bypassing the crowded Tiruvallur- Chennai section to help iron ore exporters. The new line, likely to be about 80 km long, will branch off at Puttur and then reach Athipattu near the port.


C. The three-member sub-divisional committee formed to verify suicide by farmers in Ramayampetmandal has found that the two farmers who committed suicide this month have had economic problems due to failure of crops.

A. Ministry of Human Resource development or education department this would be the ministry of state government. Education in a particular state publishes the correct type of textbook for its student and the publishing responsibility is of the state government. So, education ministry might have released this news item. This ministry will fall in state government as it is concerned with the subject of state-list. It is the government which is able to implement this item.


B. Ministry of Railways and this falls under the central government. The railway sector is a monopoly of the government that mean an all India organization. Whole control is in the hands of the central government; thus, railway ministry is the subject of the Central Government.


C. Ministry of Agriculture falls under state government. The agriculture at sub-divisional level is supervised under the agriculture department of the state government. The suicide news of two framers in the Ramayampetmandal due to failure of crops which led to economic problems so, on the issue of the Agriculture Ministry of state government may have released this news.


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