Key Provisions of the Act The Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 addresses the issue of workplace sexual harassment faced by women in private institutions and government organisations. The act superseded Vishakha Guidelines laid …
What’s in the news? The Ministry of Commerce and Industry announced that India has registered the highest ever annual Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflow of 81.97 billion dollar in 2020-21. FDI inflows in the last seven financial years is over …
What’s in the news? The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) has launched the Unified Logistics Interface Platform’s (ULIP) Hackathon – ‘LogiXtics’ in order to crowdsource more ideas which will benefit the logistics industry. ULIP is designed …
In India, 35% of females marry before reaching the age of 21. In certain states, the situation is dire. According to the data on maternal mortality, the majority of maternal deaths occur in the lower age category. Although India’s maternal …
Major Recommendations The Kasturirangan committee report proposes 37 per cent of the total area of Western Ghats, which is roughly 60,000 square kilometres, to be declared as eco-sensitive area (ESA).Out of this, 20,668 sq km of the area falls in …
About ZBNF In the recent past, there has been a global demand to shift to sustainable farming systems, such as Zero Budget Natural Farming (ZBNF). India, too, introduced ZBNF in its Union Budget 2019-20. ZBNF is a method of chemical-free …
About the Scheme The Setu Bharatam scheme was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2016. It was an initiative to make all national highways free of various railway crossings. The scheme was launched with the focus towards the importance …
About NAPCC The National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC) was formally launched in 2008. The NAPCC identifies measures that promote development objectives while also yielding co-benefits for addressing climate change effectively. There are eight “National Missions” which form the …
About the Portal Udyam Sakhi portal (http://udyamsakhi.msme.gov.in/) was launched in 2018 to provide information regarding financial schemes, policies and programmes of the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises to existing/prospective women entrepreneurs in the MSME sector. The portal is …
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) introduced a prompt corrective action (PCA) framework for non-banking finance companies (NBFCs). The framework has been designed to trigger supervisory intervention at the suitable time, helping nurse the entity back to health, and limit …