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Historical Event on 8/30/2000

A. B. Vajpayee, Prime Minister, announced a package for small units raising the ceiling on loans from Rs. 10 lakhs to Rs. 25 lakhs. For the handloom sector, a separate scheme costing Rs. 447 crores was also finalised.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/24/1938Farooq Rehmany Mohammad, journalist, social reformer and political worker, was born at Bandipur.
4/4/1998G. Sarala Devi, 62, CPI leader and general secretary of the National Federation of Indian Women, passed away in Hyderabad.
2/9/1917Homi Talyarkhan, great politician, was born.
8/6/1991Ramakrishna Hegde disqualified as MLA.
4/18/2000A. B. Vajpayee, Prime Minister, constitutes a Group of Ministers to review the national security system in its entirety in the light of the recommendations of the Kargil review committee.
5/4/1959Nehru rejects proposals that India and Pakistan resolve their differences and set up a common alliance against Communist China.
1/30/1959Uranium Metal Project started producing Uranium at Trombay, Mumbai.
1/17/1771Govind Patwardhan Mirajkar, first Rao of Peshwai, passed away.
10/9/199627-member ministry of National Conference headed by its president Dr. Farooq Abdullah sworn-in in J&K.
9/28/1964The simmering dispute of India and Pakistan between the Hindus and Muslims erupted again in Kashmir. Fighting was also reported on this day in the Indian province of Rajasthan. China, which supported Pakistan in the dispute, sent massed troops on its border.