The Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has been implementing the ‘National Policy and Action Plan’ since 2015 to combat Left Wing Extremism (LWE). This envisages a multi-pronged strategy involving security and development related measures. MHA had categorized 106 districts in 10 states as Left
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R K Singh, Minister of State (IC) for Power and New & Renewable Energy, launched a number of initiatives for the welfare of the underprivileged, on Saturday. At this occasion, Singh expressed the Government’s commitment to provide 24x7 power supply to all. He said that every household in country
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) soon plans to install more than 500 plastic bottle-crushing machines across the city, to help in implementation of the ban. More than 30 lakh plastic bottles are circulated in the city on a daily basis. The machines, which the civic body will obtain
Shantanu Lodh, a pioneer in performance arts, was in the prime of his career when he met with an accident two years ago which left him in a coma. When doctors couldn't get him out of it, and his friends failed to find someone to take care of him, they shifted him to Anandam rehabilitation centre in
Union Rural Development Ministe Narendra SIngh Tomar on Thursday said his ministry has chosen 21,000 villages across the country for saturation of seven Central welfare schemes during the 22-day "Gram Swaraj Abhiyan" programme to be started from Saturday. A total of 1,000 Central government
The government will expand its flagship rural income generation programme to cover 10 million more households across states, officials said on Friday. The National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM) — a scheme to generate new income avenues and provide financial stability to rural households — will be
On his 76th birthday last year, Ramesh Kumar Vij decided to give a unique gift to other senior citizens. Along with Kritarth Malhotra, he launched HUM Communities, an online community-based job platform dedicated to finding and creating job opportunities for elderly people. “As an electrical
Mission Buniyaad, a campaign by Delhi government to group children from classes III to IX on their maths and reading abilities, was launched by deputy CM and education minister Manish Sisodia on Wednesday. The campaign aimed at 76,000 students in classes III to V in Sarvodaya schools and classes VI
Sandeep is a 12- year-old who can leap 13 feet in the long jump, ranks second in his class, and can calculate the cost of a dozen bananas in a split second if given the current rate. Till a year ago he was a street child. Today, he is among 13 such children in west Delhi who have earned one of the
Beginning with the introduction of 57 bio-toilets in one train i.e. Gwalior-Varanasi Bundelkhand Express in January 2011, Indian Railways has provided about 1,25,000 bio-toilets in its coaches till March 2018. This covers about 60% of coaching fleet of Indian Railways. During 2017-18, IR has
Approximately 1.5 Million rural residents of Madhya Pradesh are going to directly benefit from improved livelihoods, education and mobility with the USD $ 140-Million loan approved by the Board of Directors of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) in a meeting held on 11th April in Beijing
In drought ridden areas of Rajasthan the programme to construct cost effective water storage tanks are helping fight shortage of water. More than 57,000 tanks, which will store some 17531 lakh litres of water, at a cost of 730.71 crore Rupees have been constructed. Read more.... प्रदेश के 12