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Historical Event on 8/21/1997

Government extends the provision of the payment of Gratuity Act, 1972 to all those societies and trusts which employed 10 or more people.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/6/1933Kripal Singh Govindsingh, Amritsar, India, 100* on debut v NZ 1959, was born at Madras.
3/29/1996SC asks All India Indira Congress to modify its name as All Indira Congress (Tiwari).
4/26/1990V. R. P. Menon, an Air Force Engineer, broke the world record in Chandigargh.
12/1/1993World AIDS day.
8/5/1965M. V. Sridhar, cricketer (scored 366 for Hyderabad vs Andhra Pradesh, 1994), was born.
11/5/1995Narsimha Rao, PM, reaches Argentina for G-15 summit at Buenos Aires.
12/23/1954Tito, Nehru reject plan for neutral third bloc, yet insist on peaceful co-existence.
6/23/1993RBI cuts minimum lending rate by 1%.
7/18/1996Union Finance Ministry gives final clearance to the Enron power project in terms of issuance of counter-guarantee.
8/22/1922Alluri Seetaram Raju inspired and organised the tribals to wage a war against the British. Raju's army raided Chintapalli police station and there was regular warfare between him and the British forces.