About PM CARES Fund The Prime Minister’s Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations (PM CARES) Fund was set up in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic to mobilize resources. The Fund was established in 2020. PM CARES Fund is …
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. Under the flexible inflation …
About The Government has been promoting blending of ethanol in petrol under the Ethanol Blended Petrol (EBP) Programme wherein Public Sector Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) sell petrol blended with ethanol. The blending percentage has touched 15.83% in the month of …
About Warli painting is a form of tribal mural art created by the tribal people from the North Sahyadri Range in Maharashtra. It is based on the concept of Mother Nature and the elements of nature are often kept in …
About SDB In 2022, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) introduced the Standing Deposit Facility (SDF), allowing banks to park their excess funds at a higher rate but without taking any collateral from the central bank. Currently, the SDF rate …
About Government of India launched Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana (DDUGJY) in 2014 for various rural electrification works including separation of agriculture and non-agriculture feeders, strengthening and augmentation of sub-transmission & distribution infrastructure, metering of distribution transformers/ feeders/consumers and …
What is GLOF? Glacial lakes are large bodies of water that sit in front of, on top of, or beneath a melting glacier. A Glacial Lake Outburst Flood, or GLOF, is a sudden release of water from a lake fed …
About NCAP The National Clean Air Programme (NCAP) was launched in 2019 by the Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) to tackle the air pollution crisis in a comprehensive manner. NCAP envisaged a reduction by 20-30% in Particulate …
Background The Commission for Air Quality Management in the National Capital Region and Adjoining Areas Act, 2021, was passed by the Parliament in 2021. What is the Act all about? The monitoring and management of air quality in the Delhi-NCR …
About The Grameen Udyami Scheme was launched to augment skill training in tribal communities for their inclusive and sustainable growth. Under the programme, the endeavor is to multi-skill India’s youth and impart functional skills to them for enabling livelihoods. It …