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Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, launched the Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana, or Saubhagya, at New Delhi yesterday. The aim of this scheme is to provide power to all homes. On the occasion of the birth anniversary of Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay, the Prime Minister also dedicated a new

In Saharanpur district of Uttar Pradesh, 200 young women, mostly graduates, have motivated over 1,500 villagers, so far, to construct toilets in their houses, that too without getting any government aid. These girls stay at each village and educate residents about sanitation and hygiene. They use

Mysteries solved years ago are helping the Delhi Police make a splash on Twitter, with a tweet highlighting an interesting case, photo or trivia being posted on its handle every Thursday. While the entire cycle — from the tweet being posted to it going viral — takes a few hours, a three-member

Close to one crore people joined the Swachhata Hi Seva campaign in its inaugural week. The nation wide Swachhata Hi Seva campaign is now entering its second week. The inaugural week saw a wave of cleanliness activities across the country. In Chennai to keep the city ‘clean and green’, a battery of

Last month, all 4,480 villages in 52 districts spanning five states on the banks of the Ganga — Uttarakhand, UP, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal — were declared Open Defecation Free under the Namami Gange project. Of the 200 households along the ghats of the Ganga at Dalmau nagar panchayat in Rae

The general perception is that government schools are not good, and if possible even the poor want to send their children to private schools. This mind set prevails all over the country, and if one talks of Uttar Pradesh one can not think of a good government school. However, one government primary

Pollution-plagued Delhi can finally heave a sigh of relief, now that the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) and a few biomass power units have expressed their intent to purchase crop residue from farmers in surrounding states. Agricultural stubble running into millions of tonnes is burnt by

Central Government has announced a new PPP Policy for Affordable Housing that allows extending central assistance of up to Rs.2.50 lakh per each house to be built by private builders even on private lands besides opening up immense potential for private investments in affordable housing projects on

Not far from the densely packed industrial belt in Ahmedabad's Pirana Piplaj areas where 1,500 factories and warehouses jostle for space, a 29-acre green zone, packed with 47,000 trees, now brings a whiff of fresh air to the Sabarmati, named the third most polluted river in the country by the

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs chaired by PM Shri Narendra Modi, has approved the proposal for revision of cost norms with annual cost indexation for Supplementary Nutrition (SN) for the beneficiaries of Anganwadi Services and Adolescent Girls (out of school 11-14 years) under the

Some municipal corporations are planning to make rules for compulsory compost plants in big residential colonies to help in managing waste. While these rules are made and come into effect, some individual efforts have yielded good results. Here is a story of a residential colony in Gurgram in

While the civic agencies battle with the city's mounting garbage and overflowing landfill sites, in the middle of the thickly populated east Delhi, a family hardly generates any waste. "All it took was a visit to a friend who was using the waste to make 'black gold'," said Priyanka Dev, a housewife