About PMUY The Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas launched PMUY in 2016 to provide clean cooking fuel to poor households. It aims to provide 8 crore deposit free LPG connections to poor households. The connections are issued in the …
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 …
AFSPA empowers armed troops to protect public order in “disturbed areas.” They have the ability to prevent a gathering of five or more people in a given location, to use force, or even to open fire after providing sufficient warning …
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 …
Stubble burning is the act of igniting crop residue in order to remove it from the field in order to sow the next crop. Farmers in Haryana and Punjab must move quickly in order to plant the following winter crop …