About PLFS In India, the National Statistical Office (NSO) has been quinquennially (over a period of five years) collecting data on employment and unemployment but from 2017 onwards, the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) was launched by the NSO to …
What’s in the news? The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has launched the EOS-08 Earth Observation Satellite onboard the Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV)-D3 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota. This is SSLV-D3’s third and final development flight. …
Definition: DREs are small-scale energy generation units (structure), at or near the point of use, where the users are the producers—whether individuals, small businesses and/or local communities. These production units could be stand-alone or could be connected to nearby others …
Definition: An Integrated Farming Cluster (IFC) comprises two to three adjoining intervention villages covering about 250-300 households. These households are supported with improvement in two to three livelihood options (farm and non-farm) with strong backward and forward linkages. The IFC …