About: The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) scheme is the largest social security scheme in the world — guaranteeing 100 days of work to any rural household willing to do public work-related unskilled manual work at the …
Recently, the Prime minister mentioned that Northeast has the potential to become India’s growth engine while establishing the foundation stone for the Manipur Water Supply Project. Importance of North-East Region The North-east region is the most recent geographic territory which …
About Financial Action Task Force (FATF): It is an intergovernmental organization that designs and promotes policies and standards to combat financial crime. Recommendations of created by the FATF target Money laundering Terrorist financing Other threats to the global financial system …
Why in News ? The Ministry of Defence has formulated a draft Defence Production and Export Promotion Policy 2020 (DPEPP 2020). The DPEPP 2020 is envisaged as an overarching guiding document to provide a focused, structured and significant thrust to …
About: eVIN (Electronic Vaccine Intelligence Network) is an indigenously developed technology system in India that digitizes vaccine stocks and monitors the temperature of the cold chain through a smartphone application. Introduced in 2015, the eVIN is being implemented under the …
About Babri Masjid, also called the Mosque of Babur or Baburi Mosque, formerly Masjid-i Janmasthan, was a mosque in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh. According to inscriptions on the site, it was built in the year 935 of the Islamic calendar (1528–1529 …
What is it? Market Intervention Scheme is a price support mechanism implemented on the request of State Governments for procurement of perishable and horticultural commodities in the event of a fall in market prices. The Scheme is implemented when there …
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 published by Japanese firm Nikkei but compiled and constructed by IHS …
About the mission Demo-2 Demo-2 is a crewed mission to send NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley to the International Space Station (ISS). It was executed by SpaceX, an American private space company, in association with NASA. The Crew …
Every sector in the Indian Economy has been hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. But agriculture has shown a good progress in these times and has been engaged rightfully. What are the factors which represent growth in the agriculture sector? Sowing …