PDS in India Under the National Food Security Act, 2013, about 81 crore persons are entitled to buy subsidized foodgrain — rice at Rs 3/kg, wheat at Rs 2/kg, and coarse grains at Re 1/kg — from their designated Fair …
About: Perform Achieve and Trade (PAT) scheme is a flagship programme of Bureau of Energy Efficiency under the National Mission for Enhanced Energy Efficiency (NMEEE). The scheme is a market based compliance mechanism to accelerate improvements in energy efficiency in …
About Jal Jeevan Mission Jal Jeevan Mission is envisioned to provide safe and adequate drinking water through individual household tap connections by 2024 to all households in rural India. The goal of JJM is to provide functional household tap connection …
About National Infrastructure Pipeline To achieve the GDP of $5 trillion by 2024-25, India needs to spend about $1.4 trillion (100 lakh crore) over these years on infrastructure. To implement an infrastructure program of this scale, the government has envisaged …
About: The project aims at initiating the process of commencing operations of the Seaplane services, on the select routes, under a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) framework through prospective airline operators. The project execution and implementation would be through Sagarmala Development …
About Unnat Jyoti by Affordable LEDs for All It was launched in 2015 with a target of replacing 77 crore incandescent lamps with LED bulbs and to nullify the high-cost of LEDs that acted as a barrier previously in the …
Recently, the Vice President of India has highlighted the fact that Single use plastic is a major cause of concern for the world today. A Glance at the Magnitude of the issue: In today’s Era, around 300 million metric tonnes …
What’s in the news? The Union Cabinet has approved the expansion of interest subvention scheme to also include grain-based distilleries besides molasses-based distilleries for the production of ethanol. The government would bear interest subvention for five years including one year …
Recently, the Prime Minister laid the foundation stone of Light House Projects (LHP) under Global Housing Technology Challenge-India (GHTC-India) across six States. Significance of Technology in Urban Transformation As of now, Urbanisation in India is around 31% whereas Global urbanisation …