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174 villages have been electrified across the country during last week (from 18th to 24th July 2016) under Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojna (DDUGJY). Out of these electrified villages, 12 villages are in Arunachal Pradesh , 82 in Meghalaya, 15 in Assam, 12 in Uttar Pradesh, 3 in Mizoram, 18 in

Minister of Urban Development Sri M Venkaiah Naidu, through Twitter has informed that 90 housing projects from 7 states costing Rs.5307.12 Cr have been approved. From the states of Bihar, Odisha, Tripura, Chhattisgarh,Tamilnadu, Maharashtra and Gujarat proposals of 1.25 lakh houses are accepted

The 114 km long Rameshwaram to Manamadurai railway line has become country's first green rail corridor. On this stretch there will be zero toilet discharge with trains of the section now equipped with bio-toilets. Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu inaugurated this corridor through video-conferencing on

10 lakh jawans of paramilitary forces are to be equipped with high-tech, bulletproof, combat helmets. Home minister Rajnath Singh has given approval to procure "light-weight bullet resistant helmets" to protect the jawans from gun shots, injuries from stone pelting and neck injuries. This will also

Ministry of Tourism has sanctioned 25 projects under the Swadesh Darshan scheme worth Rs. 2048 Crore so far to 21 States and Union Territories since its launch of in January 2015. These States and UTs include Jammu and Kashmir, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Kerala, Puducherry, Andhra Pradesh

The State of Madhya Pradesh today declared that 18 districts of the State, taken up by the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation, will become Open Defecation Free (ODF) by March 2017. The declaration was made during a State visit by the Secretary, Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation, Shri

Stents used in heart surgeries will soon cost almost half the present price. This will be made possible with the health ministry's decision to include all types of stents to be put in the National List of Essential Medicines. It is reported that some 5 lakh stents are used in India annually and of

The HRD ministry in Jharkhand had launched a project called 'Prayas' to tackle absenteeism in government schools in 2014. This has been implemented in 40,000 villages and is showing good results. Most schools have shown significant improvement in the attendance of students. Under the scheme if a

14 students of Braj Kishore Netraheen Vidyalaya, a Ranchi-based non-profit school for visually impaired girls, are set to create history by becoming the first batch of visually challenged students in Eastern India and only the second in India after Pune, to be employed by a mobile operator company

Ministry of Tourism has approved project worth Rs. 275 Crore for development of Krishna and Heritage circuit of State of Haryana, Rajasthan and Gujarat under the Swadesh Darshan Scheme. The Central Sanctioning and Monitoring Committee (CSMC) for the Swadesh Darshan Scheme met under the Chairmanship

Government is making all efforts to boost the Housing Finance Sector to ensure that the goal of Affordable Housing for all by 2022 is met. This was stated by Minister of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu at the National Summit on “Finance for Housing for All by 2022”