What’s in the news? Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud recently said that a seven judge bench will soon be set up to hear a batch of pleas challenging the Centre’s use of the money bill route to pass certain …
What is PMI? Purchasing Managers’ Index is an economic indicator which indicates the business activity & economic health of both the manufacturing and service sectors. PMI of India is compiled and constructed by IHS Markit, an information services provider. PMI …
About NPCI NPCI was incorporated in 2008 as an umbrella organization for operating retail payments and settlement systems in India. It is an initiative of the RBI and Indian Banks’ Association (IBA) under the provisions of the Payment and Settlement …
What’s in the news? More than 1.36 crore school students from all 36 States and UTs participated enthusiastically in the 3rd edition of the Veer Gatha Project. The students sent poems, paintings, essays, videos, etc. to honour the acts of …
About the Programme The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), 2005, guarantees 100 days of work each financial year to any rural household willing to do public work-related unskilled manual work at the statutory minimum wage. In addition …
Context: This article tries to analyze how changes in population geography have a lasting impact on the political and economic geography in Indian federal democracy. Also it insists that the five southern States that have effectively controlled their population should …
About NIIF National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF) is an Indian-government backed entity established in 2016 to provide long-term capital to the country’s infrastructure sector. It was established with a planned corpus of ₹40,000 crore. The NIIF aims to maximize …
About PMUY The Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas launched PMUY in 2016 to provide clean cooking fuel to poor households. Initially, it aimed at providing 8 crore deposit free LPG connections to poor households. The connections are issued in …
About the scheme The Prime Minister Street Vendor’s Atma Nirbhar Nidhi (PM SVANidhi) Scheme was launched by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs for providing affordable Working Capital loans to street vendors to resume their livelihoods that have been …