India Water Pitch-Pilot-Scale Start-Up Challenge: Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Singh Puri announced the results of India Water Pitch-Pilot-Scale start-up challenge launched under Amrut 2.0 in March this year. A total of 76 startup have been selected out of 222 entries, which through their innovative ideas will help local civic bodies and water supply […]
Category: Important Scheme
PM-SHRI Yojana
PM-SHRI Yojana: On the occasion of Teacher’s Day today, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced a new initiative – the development and upgradation of 14 thousand 500 schools across the country under the Pradhan Mantri Schools For Rising India (PM-SHRI) Yojana. These PM-SHRI schools will become model schools which will encapsulate the full spirit of […]
Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY) Scheme
Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY) Scheme: The Ministry of Education informed Lok Sabha that, during 2021-22, more than 3 Lakh women were trained under Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY) scheme. Skill India Mission was launched by the government in 2015 under which the flagship scheme Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY) is run. […]
PAREKH
PAREKH: Union government is planning to set up a national regulator PAREKH (Performance Assessment, Review and Analysis of Knowledge for Holistic Development) for achieving a benchmark framework to assess students at the secondary and higher secondary level. PARAKH, is also part of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020. PAREKH is a proposed regulator, which will […]
Scheme For Economic Empowerment Of Denotified, Nomadic, Semi-nomadic (SEED) Tribes.
Scheme For Economic Empowerment Of Denotified, Nomadic, Semi-nomadic (SEED) Tribes: The Union Social Justice Ministry received 402 applications online from across the country for benefits under the Scheme for Economic Empowerment of Denotified, Nomadic, Semi-nomadic (SEED) Tribes. More than 10 crore Indians from 1,400 communities belong to these groups, show the latest estimates available with […]
Multi-Modal Logistics Park (MMLP)
Multi-Modal Logistics Park (MMLP): Agreement for swift development of modern Multi Modal Logistics Park (MMLP) under Bharatmala Pariyojna The tripartite agreement was signed by National Highways Logistics Management Limited (NHLML), Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI) and Rail Vikas Nigam Limited (RVNL). Aim: To centralize freight consolidation (freight is goods transported in bulk by truck, […]
Nikshay Poshan Yojna
Nikshay Poshan Yojna: Only two-thirds of people living with tuberculosis benefitted from the Union government’s Nikshay Poshan Yojana (NPY), sole nutrition support scheme, in 2021, which raises major public health concern. The NPY was launched in 2018 by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. It aims to support every Tuberculosis (TB) Patient by providing […]
Swachh Bharat Mission Grameen
Swachh Bharat Mission Grameen: Over 1 lakh villages declared themselves as ODF (Open Defecation Free) Plus under Swachh Bharat Mission Grameen (SBM-G). These villages are sustaining their ODF status and have systems in place for managing solid and/or liquid waste and they would continue on their sanitation journey as they work towards making their villages […]
Matsya Setu App
Matsya Setu App: The Union Minister for Fisheries launched the Online Market Place feature, Aqua Bazar, in the MatsyaSetu mobile app during the ninth general body meeting of the National Fisheries Development Board. Matsya Setu App: The app was developed by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research ICAR-Central Institute of Freshwater Aquaculture (ICAR-CIFA), Bhubaneswar, with […]
Rashtriya Puruskar Portal
Rashtriya Puruskar Portal: The Union Government has launched Rashtriya Puruskar Portal to bring together all the awards of the various Ministries, Departments and agencies of the government under one platform. This has been done to ensure transparency and public partnership. Home Ministry in a statement said that this common portal facilitates every citizen or organization […]
