Positive News

Prime Minister’s Employment Generation Programme, (PMEGP), aimed at generating employment in rural and urban areas of the country, has helped women entrepreneurs set up 30,437 projects during 2016-17 and 2017-18 with financial assistance of over Rs. 85,305 lakh. This was stated by the Minister of

Health Minister J P Nadda will launch an ambitious programme to control viral hepatitis later this week, under which an expensive antiviral for hepatitis C infections will be made available free of cost at all government hospitals. The National Viral Hepatitis Control Programme will be launched at

An ambitious scheme that will see distribution of 50 lakh smartphones to rural households, urban poor and college students across Chhattisgarh has been launched by President Shri Ramnath Kovind. The scheme, Sanchar Kranti Yojana (Information Revolution Project) envisages distribution of smart phones

R Ramanan, Mission Director, Atal Innovation Mission and Arvind Gupta CEO, MyGov launched the “#InnovateIndia Platform” on Thursday. This is a collaboration between the Atal Innovation Mission and MyGov, a citizen centric platform of the Government of India. The #InnovateIndia portal will serve as

Union Minister for HRD Prakash Javadekar, in a reply to a starred question in Rajya Sabha, on Thursday said that in pursuance of the proposal of the Union Budget, 2018-19, to treat school education holistically without segmentation from pre-school to Class XII, the Department of School Education and

Union Minister for Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday reviewed the projects under Namami Gange programme in Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal. Even as significant progress is being made in Namami Gange projects in the three States, the Minister

Sale of Khadi and Village Industries (KVI) products has increased during the last two years registering the sale of Rs. 52138.21 crore in 2016-17 and Rs. 59098.04 crore in 2017-18. Minister of State (I/C) for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME), Giriraj Singh, stated this in a written reply

The Ministry of Women and Child Development has launched a contest, #Childline1098, inviting people to share images of the Childline 1098 logo that they spot at unique locations and send it with a tagline, to mark World Day against Trafficking in Persons on July 30. CHILDLINE is India's first 24

Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs has approved the construction of 2,67,546 more affordablehouses for the benefit of urban poor under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban). The approval was given in the 36 thmeeting of the Central Sanctioning and Monitoring Committee in its meeting held here today

The Swachh Survekshan Grameen 2018 (SSG 2018) announced by the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation on July 13 th, 2018, was launched by three States this week. Under the SSG 2018, an independent survey agency will conduct the survey in all districts from 1st to 31st August 2018, and the

Residents of Lutyens’ Delhi will soon be able to discard their electronic waste in an environment-friendly manner and will also be able to earn some extra money in the process. In a first-of-its-kind initiative, the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) will start a facility for door-to-door collection

His house does not have electricity or a toilet and his father collects garbage to make ends meet. The odds were always against 18-year-old Asharam Choudhary, but he battled all challenges and cleared the prestigious AIIMS entrance exam in the first attempt. Choudhary, who hails from Dewas in Madhya