About the Portal In August 2021, the Ministry of Labour and Employment unveiled the e-shram portal which aims to register 38 crore unorganised workers, such as construction labourers, migrant workforce, street vendors and domestic workers, among others. The workers will …
What’s in the news? The Ministry of Education has launched a mobile app called Bhasha Sangam in order to help people acquire basic conversation ability in languages other than one’s mother tongue to at least 75 lakh people. This language …
About MPC The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) is a committee of the RBI which is entrusted with the task of fixing the benchmark policy interest rate (repo rate) to contain inflation within the specified target level. The 2016 amendment of …
About PMAY-G The Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana–Gramin (PMAY-G) was launched in 2016 to address the housing gaps existing in the rural areas. It aims to provide a pucca house with basic amenities to all rural families who are homeless or …
About SEZs Special Economic Zone (SEZ) is a geographic area in which the business and trade laws are different from the rest of the country. The objective of developing SEZs include increasing the balance of trade and attracting newer inward-investments …
About PMKKKY Launched in 2015, the Pradhan Mantri Khanij Kshetra Kalyan Yojana (PMKKKY) is meant to provide for the welfare of areas and people affected by mining related operations. Objectives The overall objective of PMKKKY scheme include to implement various …
About CPGRAMS The Centralized Public Grievance Redress And Monitoring System (CPGRAMS), is an online web-enabled system developed by the National Informatics Centre in association with the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG). It has been developed with an …
What is it? Face recognition is a technology capable of identifying or verifying a subject through an image, video or any audiovisual element of his face. Generally, this identification is used to access an application, system or service. The facial …
Context Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent visit to New Delhi for the 21st India-Russia Summit meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi highlights the constant efforts by both leaders to nurture and to provide further impetus to the ‘India-Russia Special and …