About the Campaign The ‘Nasha Mukt Bharat Abhiyaan’ or the ‘Drugs-Free India Campaign’ was flagged off on 15th August 2020 by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment. The Nasha Mukt Bharat Annual Action Plan for 2020-21 focuses on 272 …
About the Scheme Bharatmala Pariyojana is an umbrella program for the highways sector that focuses on optimizing efficiency of freight and passenger movement across the country by bridging critical infrastructure gaps through effective interventions like development of Economic Corridors, Inter …
About the scheme The Scheme seeks to improve the operational efficiencies and financial sustainability of all DISCOMs/ Power Departments excluding Private Sector DISCOMs. It provides conditional financial assistance to DISCOMs for strengthening of supply infrastructure. The assistance will be based …
Cancer Treatment The three major forms of treatment for any cancer are Surgery (removing the cancer), Radiotherapy (delivering ionising radiation to the tumour), Systemic therapy (administering medicines that act on the tumour). Surgery and radiotherapy have been refined significantly over …
About INS Vikrant INS Vikrant/Indigenous Aircraft Carrier 1 (IAC-1) is the first indigenously built aircraft carrier, constructed by Cochin Shipyard Ltd, a public sector shipyard under Ministry of Ports, Shipping & Waterways. With a displacement of 43,000 tonnes when fully …
About GeM Launched in 2016, the Government e-Marketplace (GeM) is a 100 percent government-owned company setup under the aegis of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. It is a completely paperless, cashless and system driven e-market place that enables procurement …
About To strengthen e-Governance in Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs) across the country, the Ministry of Panchayati Raj (MoPR) has launched eGramSwaraj portal. It is a user-friendly web-based portal. eGramSwaraj aims to bring in better transparency in the decentralised planning, progress …
About Government of India launched Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana (DDUGJY) in 2014 for strengthening the electricity distribution system. The work included setting up new substation, separation of agriculture and non-agriculture feeders; augmentation of old substation adding 850000 ckt. …
What’s in the news? During 2021-22, India received foreign inward remittances of $89,127 million which was the highest ever inward remittances received in a single year. The share of major countries in inward remittances to India, based on survey conducted …