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Minister of State for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship AnantKumar Hegde, in a written reply to the Lok Sabha on Monday informed that there are 15044 Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) functioning in the country, affiliated with National Council of Vocational Training. Directorate General of

The Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) had embarked on a major and new initiative called 'Study Webs of Active Learning for Young Aspiring Minds' (SWAYAM), which provides one integrated platform and MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) portal for online courses, using Information and

The Credit Linked Subsidy Scheme (CLSS) for MIG Scheme has been extended by the Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs by another 12 months i.e..till 31.03.2020. Announcing this Minister of State (I/C), Hardeep S Puri, has informed that “the growth and performance of CLSS for MIG scheme has been very

Launched in August 2016, Mission Bhagiratha, Telangana’s ambitious project to supply drinking water to every household outside municipal corporation limits, is nearing its March 31, 2019 deadline. And government officials say 1,00,200 km of the 1,04,749-km network of pipelines — around two-and-a

In a touching re-union, 93-year-old EK Narayanan Nambiar, who was jailed for participating in the 1946 violent farmers' struggle in Kerala's Kavumbayi village, met his first wife after 72 years, leaving them both speechless and teary-eyed. As the two sat quietly and wiped away tears, Sarada, now 89

In order to boost exports of onions from the country, the central government announced it has doubled the export incentive granted to the bulb under the Merchandise Exports from India Scheme (MEIS) from 5 per cent to10 per cent on Friday. The move comes at a time when onion prices have collapsed in

A larger space for children to play and learn — that’s the big change workers at Delhi’s new anganwadi ‘hub-centres’ are most excited about. With 101 such hub-centres inaugurated earlier this week, the idea is to combine resources, workers and helpers from three-four anganwadi centres to create a

Union Cabinet has approved the Gaganyaan Programme with demonstration of Indian Human Spaceflight capability to low earth orbit for a mission duration ranging from one orbital period to a maximum of seven days. A human rated GSLV Mk-lll will be used to carry the orbital module which will have

Government has revised the Minimum Support Price of 23 items of Minor Forest Produce items and has introduced MSP for 17 new MFP items. The 23 items whose MSP has been revised include those Minor Forest Produce items which have been covered under the scheme since its inception in the year 2013-14

Out of the 111 National Waterways (NWs) declared under the National Waterways Act, 2016, 13 NWs are operational for shipping and navigation and cargo/passenger vessels are moving on them. The details of operational NWs are as follows: Sl. No. National Waterway (NW) No. Length (km) Location (S) 1. NW

100 Smart Cities selected in 4 rounds—SPVS incorporated in all 5,151 projects identified by cities worth more than Rs. 2 lakh crore under implementation in 100 cities 534 projects worth Rs. 10,116 crore completed Implementation commenced for 1,177 projects worth Rs. 43,493 crore Tendering started

Uttar Pradesh gets 1,08,135 houses Karnataka – 1,05,502 Andhra Pradesh – 57,433 Odisha – 21,894 and Gujarat – 17,633 The Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs has approved the construction of another 3,10,597 more affordable houses for the benefit of urban poor under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban)