Under Smart Cities Mission, 100 Smart Cities have been selected and these Smart Cities have issued tenders for 6,721 projects valued at Rs 1,88,507 crore. In 6,124 projects among these Rs 1,62,908 crore worthe work orders have been issued and Rs 58,735 crore worth 3421 projects have been completed. For these projects the Central Government…
Committed to enhance the coal production, the Government has taken various actions which include auction of commercial mining and approval of the sale of excess coal production, besides single window clearance among others. The initiative for total two tranches have been completed under which total 28 coal mines have been auctioned and the vesting order…
Under the Rooftop Solar Programme, the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has simplified procedures for the residential consumers to install rooftop solar plant. As per the simplified procedure, the household beneficiary will have to apply on national portal to install rooftop solar plant after submitting the necessary information such as the details of…
Chattisgarh is the latest addition in the league of One Nation One Ration Card (ONORC) enabled states. It’s now the 36th state/UT that has implemented ONORC plan. After successful testing of portability transactions in the state, the Department of Food & Public Distribution has approved the integration of Chhattisgarh with the existing cluster of…
The country’s exports of Ready to Eat (RTE), Ready to Serve (RTS) and Ready to Cook (RTC) foods under Agriculture and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) basket have exceeded USD 2 billion during 2020-21. India exports RTE food products majorly to USA, UAE, Nepal, Canada, Sri Lanka, Australia, Sudan, UK, Nigeria and Singapore….
Marine Products exports have registered a commendable growth of 35% between April to December last year (Provisional) in comparison to the year 2020. While the exports of Marine products witnessed the growth of 12% and 38% in comparison to April-December 2019 and April-December 2014 respectively. Notably the exports of Marine Products reached USD 720.51 Million…
In order to promote investment in Gems and Jewellery sector the Government has announced various measures to promote investment like reduction in import duty of Gold, mandatory hallmarking, revamped Gold Monetisation Scheme, etc. The government has announced the Gems & Jewellery sector as a key area for export promotion. In its efforts to make Gems…
Union Minister Piyush Goyal in a meeting reviewed the pace of implementation of various infrastructure projects monitored through the Project Monitoring Group (PMG). One-of-a-kind institutional mechanism of Invest India the PMG portal is intended to facilitate the resolution of bottlenecks in infrastructure projects. PMG monitors milestone-based project and currently its monitoring over 1,351 projects under…
Engineering Goods sector that constitutes the largest total exports basket of the country has witnessed the value of USD 81.8 Billion during April-December 2021. It was USD52.9 Billion last year during the same period. Thus the Engineering Goods sector has registered the impressive growth and it constitutes more than 27% of the country’s total exports…
Punjabi music singer Prince Kumar has come out with yet another song ‘Catwalk’ which has set the internet on fire. The singing sensation has launched this song on his own YouTube channel ‘Wanted Prince Music’ and the song is earning equal praise from both national and international audiences. While the song ‘CatWalk’ has gone viral…
