About the scheme It is a special micro-credit facility scheme for providing affordable loans to street vendors. The scheme is aimed at enabling the street vendors to resume their livelihoods that have been adversely affected due to COVID-19 lockdown. Street …
About the scheme 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 …
About the initiative The SWADES- Skilled Workers Arrival Database for Employment Support- initiative aims to conduct a skill mapping exercise of the returning citizens under the Vande Bharat Mission. This is a joint initiative of the Ministry of Skill Development …
About: World Environment Day has been celebrated since 1974 on June5, to mark the Conference on the Human Environment, or the Stockholm Conference, held from June 5-16. World Environment Day has helped UNEP to raise awareness and generate political momentum …
Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) The Code creates time-bound processes for insolvency resolution of companies and individuals. These processes will be completed within 180 days (unless extended by a one time extendable period of 90 days). If insolvency cannot be …
What’s in the news? The RBI has created a Payment Infrastructure Development Fund (PIDF) with a corpus of Rs 500 crore, with an aim to give a push to digital payments. The RBI has made an initial contribution of Rs …
About PLFS In India, the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) has been quinquennially collecting data on employment and unemployment but from 2017 onwards, the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) was launched by the NSSO. It aimed to provide quarterly employment …
What is the CPEC project? China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) refers to a clutch of major infrastructure works currently under way in Pakistan, intended to link Kashgar in China’s Xinjiang province to Gwadar deep sea port close to Pakistan’s border with …
About UNSC The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) was established in 1946 as one of the six principal organs of the UN. It is generally viewed as the apex of the UN system. It is responsible for the maintenance of …