Miscellaneous

The Ministry of New & Renewable Energy (MNRE) has been promoting “Grid Connected Rooftop and Small Solar Power Plants Programme” with a Central Financial Assistance (CFA) of up to 30% of benchmark cost in general category states and up to 70 % in special category states, North Eastern states

(English news given below) एनर्जी एफिशियेंसी सर्विसेज लिमिटेड (ईईसीएल) तथा झारखंड बिजली वितरण निगम द्वारा अब राज्य के बिजली उपभोक्ताओं को सस्ती दरों पर सिलिंग फैन तथा ट्यूब लाइट उपलब्ध करायी जायेगी। इस योजना का शुभारंभ बुधवार को राज्य के मुख्यमंत्री रघुवर दास ने किया। इस सिलिंग फैन तथा ट्यूब लाइट के

Extolling virtues of the Universal Basic Income (UBI), Finance Minister Mr Arun Jaitley today said at ASSOCHAM event at least one state is willing to take a plunge and launch a pilot on the scheme, proposed by the Economic Survey. “UBI is an idea worth considering. Today I had the first finance

All the two and a half lakh gram panchayats will be getting internet services by 2018 end. Under the first phase of BharatNet project around one lakh panchayats are to be connected by underground optical fibre cable by March. The internet connectivity will help the government's mission of 'less cash

The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has approved 'Pradhan Mantri Gramin Digital Saksharta Abhiyan' (PMGDISHA) to make 6 crore rural households digitally literate. The outlay for this project is Rs.2,351.38 crore to usher in digital literacy in rural India by March

In continuation of the initiative of the Government to acknowledge the contribution of tax payers by paying taxes towards nation building and promptness in filing of Income Tax Returns, CBDT has issued the third round of Certificates to nearly 3.74 Lakh tax payers. With this, the total number of

All the 17000 government hospitals in Rajasthan will have shlokas and verses from the Vedas, Puranas, Smritis, the Ramayana and the Mahabharat painted on their walls. According to the state's health and ayurveda minister Kalicharan Saraf, Hindi translations will be given. Different verses will be

On 19th January 2017 in this web site a news had been posted as to how Aamir Khan's movie Dangal motivated residents of village Kamod, in Charkhi Dadri district of Haryana, to put name plates bearing names of their daughter outside their houses. (Link to this news item : http://bharatmahan.in

Many a times the Banks ask for a succession certificate even when there is no legal dispute on inheritance. And procuring this succession certificate involves payment of a court fee. Only when there is a dispute, a succession certificate is required. Typically, 2.5% of the total amount to be

Ekal & CII India@75 recently organized “Mera Gaon, Swachh Gao” - a cleanliness drive in various parts of the country. In this drive undertaken in 47 blocks more than 1,93,000 beneficiaries were registered in 1401 villages. The aim of the drive was spreading awareness about the cleanliness habits and

How important is the correct weather forecast in an individual's life? Unlike the earlier days when people used to say that if our weathermen have predicted no rains, expect some shower for sure. But, now the situation has changed and our weather forecasts have become pretty accurate. Today one

Finance Minister, Shri Arun Jaitley and Minister of Communications Shri Manoj Sinha launched the operations of the India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) here today as two pilot branches at Raipur and Ranchi. Speaking on the occasion, Shri Jaitley said that about 650 IPPB branches will be opened by