Accelerating efforts towards transforming India into a Gas-based economy, Dharmendra Pradhan, Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas laid the foundation stone for the country’s first 50 LNG fuelling stations. To be commissioned and set up in partnership by BPCL, IOCL, GAIL, HPCL, PLL, and Gujarat Gas, besides the subsidiaries and Joint Venture Companies of all…
Responding to a representation made by JNU’s Alumni Association, the Bihar State University Service Commission has agreed to recognise MA Politics (with specialisation in International Relations) as equivalent to PG degree in Political Science. Thus, the employment prospects of JNU students will no longer be jeopardised In a commendable initiative, Alumni Association of JNU (AAJ) has…
Madhya Pradesh Tourism Board has organised an all-woman 6-day bike trip, covering a distance of 1,500 KM. A total of 15 women riders from different parts of the country participate in this journey called “Tigress on the Trail” that started from Bhopal on the 19th of November 2020. Sheo Shekhar Shukla, Managing Director, MP Tourism…
PM SVANidhi, a special micro-credit facility for street vendors, has received more than 25 lakh applications out of which over 12 lakh have been sanctioned loans and 5.35 lakh applicants have already received loans. In Uttar Pradesh itself, over 3.27 lakh loans have been sanctioned out of which 1.87 lakh loans have been disbursed. Stamp…
Taking into consideration that the lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in the loss of stable income for daily wage earners and that a large number of small as well as micro-enterprises have pulled the shutters down, the government has announced several AatmaNirbhar Bharat schemes to make workers self-reliant and in due course…
The Tribal Cooperative Marketing Development Federation of India (TRIFED), under Ministry of Tribal Affairs, has included several new products in its portfolio. These also comprise the goods manufactured by the inmates of Jagdalpur Central Jail, among others. In this new product expansion drive, the company has chosen mainly the immunity boosting forest fresh and organic…
POWERGRID (Power Grid Corporation of India Limited), a Government of India Maharatna Company has posted a record profit after tax (PAT) of Rs 3,094 crore with a total income of Rs 9,831 crore on a consolidated basis for the second quarter of FY21. It has registered an increase of 23% increase in PAT and an…
In order to provide financial support to various public-private partnerships (PPPs) for core sector infrastructure, the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has approved the continuation and revamping of PPPs in the infrastructure viability gap funding (VGF) scheme till 2024-2025. The total outlay of the scheme is Rs 8,100 crore. The scheme is intended to ramp…
As part of its efforts to bring cheer among tribal producers encompassing forest dwellers and artisans, the Tribal Cooperative Marketing Development Federation of India has added 300 new products, collected as well as processed by tribals from natural habitates and jungles on “TRIFED–Tribes India”, an E-marketplace devoted to empower tribal enterprises. These products are mainly…
In a first, the central government received financial bids for 19 coal mines out of 38 coal mines put on auction and the success rate of the auction was about 50 percent. It is the highest number of mines auctioned successfully if compared with any earlier tranche. In the earlier 10 tranches of the auction,…
