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Indian Railways is raising an all-women patrol squad that will guard running trains, ensure women’s safety at busy stations and assist women and children on railway premises, seeking to triple the number of female personnel in the Railway Protection Force (RPF). Indian Railways plans to add 4,500

The Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has been implementing the ‘National Policy and Action Plan’ since 2015 to combat Left Wing Extremism (LWE). This envisages a multi-pronged strategy involving security and development related measures. MHA had categorized 106 districts in 10 states as Left

R K Singh, Minister of State (IC) for Power and New & Renewable Energy, launched a number of initiatives for the welfare of the underprivileged, on Saturday. At this occasion, Singh expressed the Government’s commitment to provide 24x7 power supply to all. He said that every household in country

Union Rural Development Ministe Narendra SIngh Tomar on Thursday said his ministry has chosen 21,000 villages across the country for saturation of seven Central welfare schemes during the 22-day "Gram Swaraj Abhiyan" programme to be started from Saturday. A total of 1,000 Central government

The government will expand its flagship rural income generation programme to cover 10 million more households across states, officials said on Friday. The National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM) — a scheme to generate new income avenues and provide financial stability to rural households — will be

On his 76th birthday last year, Ramesh Kumar Vij decided to give a unique gift to other senior citizens. Along with Kritarth Malhotra, he launched HUM Communities, an online community-based job platform dedicated to finding and creating job opportunities for elderly people. “As an electrical

Beginning with the introduction of 57 bio-toilets in one train i.e. Gwalior-Varanasi Bundelkhand Express in January 2011, Indian Railways has provided about 1,25,000 bio-toilets in its coaches till March 2018. This covers about 60% of coaching fleet of Indian Railways. During 2017-18, IR has

Prime Minister launched Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana – Gramin (PMAY-G) on 20 th November, 2016 from Agra. The erstwhile rural housing programme, Indira AwaasYojana (IAY), was restructured into PMAY-G. To achieve “Housing for All by 2022”, a target of completing one crore PMAY-G new pucca houses in

The Ministry of Human Resource Development has launched the Rashtriya Avishkar Abhiyan (RAA), a convergent framework across School Education and Higher Education to encourage children towards learning Science and Mathematics through activities related to Science and Mathematics. Some of the

The Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) has launched many schemes for promoting e-learning across students in schools & Universities.The key e-learning initiatives run by MHRD are as follows:- (i) SWAYAM: The ‘Study Webs of Active Learning for Young Aspiring Minds' (SWAYAM) an integrated

Efficient logistics is critical for countries like India to harness trade and facilitate greater & faster integration with both the domestic as well as world economy. Keeping this in mind 56 new airports will become functional in the next few years, Union Minister for Commerce & Industry and Civil

The Vice President of India, Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu has said that we need a scientific renaissance in our country and the excellence and quest for the best should be the goal posts of the new India. He was addressing the 9th Indian Youth Science Congress at Career Point University in Hamirpur