Swadesh Darshan Scheme: The Ministry of Tourism has revamped its Swadesh Darshan scheme as Swadesh Darshan 2.0 (SD2.0) with an aim to develop sustainable and responsible infrastructure at destinations. Swadesh Darshan Scheme was launched in 2014-15 for integrated development of theme-based tourist circuits — Buddhist Circuit, Coastal Circuit, Desert Circuit, Eco Circuit, Heritage Circuit, Northeast […]
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6th Meeting Of National Association Of Street Vendors Of India (NASVI)
6th Meeting Of National Association Of Street Vendors Of India (NASVI): The Minister for Housing and Urban Affairs addressed the 6th meeting of National Association of Street Vendors of India (NASVI) with the theme as “From Encroachers to Self-Employed”. Street Vendor is a person who offers goods for sale to the public at large without […]
Operation Hawk-Eye
Operation Hawk-Eye: Delhi police project to curb street crimes, snatching and robbery by analyzing the behaviour, body type, clothing etc. of the perpetrators and using best practices. Spotters would be recruited and trained to identify snatchers and robbers. A person with an ‘ectomorph’ body type (tall and slim) and bikers riding either a dilapidated or […]
Swadesh Darshan Scheme 2.0
Swadesh Darshan Scheme 2.0: Ministry of Tourism (MOT) revamps Swadesh Darshan Scheme Key features of the revamped scheme: Develop sustainable and responsible tourism Development of benchmark and standards Promote domestic tourism mainly in tier-II and tier-III cities State government will designate implementing agencies for the projects (earlier ministry of tourism used to do that) 100% […]
JJM Hit 51% Completion Of The Project
JJM Hit 51% Completion Of The Project: JJM hit 51% completion of the project. From less than 17% of households with a running tap water connection, JJM has enabled reach to more than 34% now in less than 3 years. About 1.4 million soak beds have been constructed in schools and anganwadis to use recycled […]
GOAL 2.0
GOAL 2.0: Ministry of Tribal Affairs and Meta (formerly Facebook) have launched the second phase of the GOAL Programme (GOAL 2.0). GOAL (Going Online as Leaders) was launched as a pilot project in May 2020 and it was completed by December 2021. It aimed at digital empowerment of tribal youth and women through the concept […]
Nasha Mukt Bharat Abhiyaan
Nasha Mukt Bharat Abhiyaan: The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment has launched ‘Nasha Mukt Bharat Abhiyaan’ in 272 most vulnerable districts since August 2020 to address the problem of Drug Abuse among youth of India. The Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment said, there has been a change in the pattern of […]
e-Shram Portal
e-Shram Portal: The government said around 28 crore unorganised workers have been registered on e-Shram Portal. In a written reply in Lok Sabha, Minister of State for Labour and Employment Rameswar Teli said the government had launched e-Shram portal in August last year with an objective to create a national Database of unorganised workers. It […]
NAMASTE Scheme For Cleaning Of Sewers And Septic Tank
NAMASTE Scheme For Cleaning Of Sewers And Septic Tank: Minister of State for Housing and Urban Affairs Kaushal Kishore said, the Government has formulated a National Action Plan for Mechanized Sanitation Ecosystem- NAMASTE scheme for cleaning of sewers and septic tank. The scheme is a joint venture of Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation, Ministry […]
Farm Loan Waivers Scheme
Farm Loan Waivers Scheme: Only about half of the intended beneficiaries of farm loan waivers announced by nine States since 2014 have actually received debt write-offs, shows a study by State Bank of India researchers. As of March 2022, the poorest implementation of farm loan waiver schemes in terms of proportion of eligible farmers who […]
