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Union HRD Minister Dr Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’, while replying to the starred question in Rajya Sabha said that the deadline to submit suggestions on draft of New Education Policy is extended for a month i.etill 31 st, July 2019. The draft of New Education policy has been put on a public domain

Pradhan Mantri Kisan SAMPADA Yojana (PMKSY) is expected to leverage investment of Rs 31,400 crore, handle of 334 lakh MT agro-produce valuing Rs 1,04,125 crore, benefit 20 lakh farmers and generate 5,30,500 direct/ indirect employment in the country by the year 2019-20. This was stated by Union

Presently, women are inducted in Indian Army through Short Service Commission (Technical) and Short Service Commission (Non-Technical) entries. The induction is governed by Special Army Instruction (SAI) I/93 and AI 3/98. Women are inducted in all the branches and streams of Indian Air Force (IAF)

Kerala, Andhra Pradesh & Maharashtra ranked on top in terms of overall performance Haryana, Rajasthan and Jharkhand ranked top three States in terms of annual incremental performance NITI Aayog released the Second Edition of “Healthy States, Progressive India” today. The report ranks states and

Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilizers, D.V. Sadananda Gowda, while giving a written reply to a question on Plastic Parks, in Lok Sabha on Tuesday, stated that there is a scheme in place to establish Plastic Parks across the country. Gowda stated that in phase-I of the scheme, four Plastic

The fund released by the Government to States/UTs under e-NAM scheme based on need during 2015-16 to 2018-19 is Rs. 423.23 crore. Many facilities are available to farmers at e-mandis for using e-NAM platform among which the major facilities are as under: (i) Farmers can access the prevailing

In the Lok Sabha, on Tuesday, Union Minister for Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Narendra Singh Tomar, informed that all landholder farmers’ families in the country are eligible for the PM-Kisan Scheme, except those covered under the following exclusion criteria: (I) All Institutional Land holders

The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways vide, GSR 174 (E) dated 1 st March 2019 has decided to modify the format of driving licenses to laminated card without chip or smart card type driving licences. The Ministry has prescribed a common standard format and design of the Driving Licence for

As per information given by the Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan, in a written reply in the Lok Sabha today, 723,25,948 connections have been released under Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana. 714 districts of the country have been covered under the scheme. The salient

Department of School Education and Literacy has launched an Integrated Scheme for School Education-Samagra Shiksha, subsuming three erstwhile Centrally Sponsored Schemes of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan(SSA), Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan(RMSA) and Teacher education (TE) with effect from 1 st April

Indian Banks' Association (IBA) has formulated and circulated to all Member Banks including State Bank of India (SBI) a ‘Model Education Loan Scheme’ for providing financial support to meritorious students for pursuing higher education in India and abroad. Salient features of the Scheme inter-alia

To promote water conservation across the country ahead of the monsoon season, Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, recently wrote letters to all Sarpanches, urging them to undertake Rainwater Harvesting and Water Conservation activities in rural India. Gram Sabhas were convened across the country on