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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
6/14/1997Rajya Sabha chairman recognises split in AIADMK parliamentary party and designates Jayalalitha-led AIADMK as AIADMK(I) and Thirunavukkarasu group as AIADMK(II).
10/16/1994IRS P-2 successfully placed in orbit.
9/2/1956Collapse of a RR bridge under a train kills 120 (India).
10/26/1934Akhil Bharatiya Gramin Udyog Sangh (All India Small Scale Industries Association) was founded and inaugrated by Mahatma Gandhi.
11/2/1990Many die in firing in Ayodhya as Karsevaks storm the Ram Janma Bhumi/Babri Masjid structure. Curfew in many areas in north and west India to prevent communal violence. Several people die in violence.
8/30/1908Ganpatrao Tapase, senior freedom fighter and former Governor of Uttar Pradesh and Haryana, was born.
5/30/1950Devdutta Ramkrishna Bhandarkar, great historian and archaeologist, passed away.
6/16/1992P. D. Dhhavle, former editor of daily newspaper `Maharashtra', passed away.
8/15/1947Hindu-Muslim association in Calcutta.
11/9/1962Dhondo Keshav Karve, social reformer and educationist Bharat Ratna awardee, died.