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With the aim to accelerate the full immunization coverage and provide greater focus on urban areas and other pockets of low immunization coverage, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has drawn up an aggressive action plan to achieve the target by 2018. According to the plan, States will

The Coir Board is implementing Mahila Coir Yojana(MCY) exclusively for empowering women in the country by giving training and distribution of coir processing equipments. This is a 100% women oriented programme intended to provide self employment to the rural women artisans in coir producing regions

People staying in cities need not be told of the traffic issues that they face every day. Most, talk of how the government has not been doing enough to ease the situation. However, not many come up with their own help to make things easy for themselves and others on the road. Here is a story of one

There will soon be no need for physical authentication of educational certificates during admissions. In a revolutionary move that will benefit students, recruiters and educational institutions. The benefits are two-fold for educational institutions that sign up. First, the task of maintaining a

Every day we hear of news of saplings being planted under the tree plantation drive. This is the only way to save the environment for future generation. However, just planting of saplings is not enough. Care has to be taken to see them grow. We are hearing of extensive drives on the banks of rivers

Rajasthan government will host a 2-day 'Festival of Education' in Jaipur on the 5th and 6th August at the Jaipur Exhibition and Convention Centre. The festival aims at enhancing the opportunities in the education sector. This will also help in improving the quality of education in Rajasthan

The Centre plans to start as many as five residential schools in every state to cater to Dalit girls, but on the condition that states take over their funding and functioning after three years. The schools will provide education from Class VI to Class XII. Boarding schools are seen as the best way

The world’s largest publisher of Hindu religious books, Gita Press in Gorakhpur holds the pride of place for publishing over 65 crore books from Mahabharata, Ramayana, Ram Charitmanas and Shrimad Bhagwad Gita to books on numerous fasts and rituals observed in Hindu homes since its inception in 1923

Government has established National Institute of Ayurveda at Jaipur which offers undergraduate and postgraduate and fellowship programme. Further, the Government has also established two new institutes namely (i) All India Institute of Ayurveda, New Delhi for Post-graduate education and (ii) North

The Ministry of Power has launched the National Awareness Campaign in order to promote energy conservation in the country. Painting competition for students at the School, State and at National level has been included as one of the activities of the campaign, which would not only make aware the

The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), a government recognised institution that offers distance education courses is set to start degree and certificate programmes in Vedic and Indic studies. The course in Vedic studies will be offered in association with a religious faction, the

To promote Sanskrit language, Delhi government will open 75 learning centres which would offer three-month certificate course in Sanskrit. A committee has been constituted to design the course syllabus within a month and the course will be of two-hour duration thrice a week. Delhi Deputy Chief