What’s in the news? The Indian Navy is set to participate in ‘Exercise Sea Dragon 23’, the third edition of the coordinated multi-lateral anti-submarine warfare exercise (ASW) exercise, conducted by the US Navy. The exercise would stress on coordinated anti-submarine …
About the scheme In 2017, the Ministry of Civil Aviation launched the Regional Connectivity Scheme (RCS) “UDAN” (Ude Desh Ka Aam Naagrik) which aims at providing connectivity to un-served and under-served airports of the country through revival of existing air-strips …
Context: “Arresting land degradation” was included among the top priorities by the G20 Working Group on Environment and Climate Sustainability. This issue is highly relevant to India, which has to support 18 percent of the world’s population on only 2.4 …
About the Scheme The “Ocean Services, Modelling, Application, Resources and Technology (O-SMART)” scheme is an umbrella scheme of the Ministry of Earth Sciences. The O-SMART scheme encompassing oceanographic research activities is being implemented with the objectives for providing forecast and …
About the Scheme Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana (SAGY) was launched in 2014 with the aim to translate the comprehensive vision of Mahatma Gandhi about an ideal Indian village into reality, keeping in view the present context. Under SAGY, each Member …
About UMANG (Unified Mobile Application for New-age Governance) is a Government of India’s all-in-one single unified secure multi-channel multi-platform multi-lingual multi-service freeware mobile app for accessing over 1,200 central and state government services in multiple Indian languages. It includes services …
About the Mission Announced by the Government of India in 2018, Gaganyaan is the first Indian Human Space Flight Programme (HSP) with the objective to demonstrate the capability to send humans to low earth orbit on board an Indian launch …
About the scheme Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana (PMMY) is a flagship scheme of Government of India to “fund the unfunded” by bringing such enterprises to the formal financial system and extending affordable credit to them. Launched in 2015 to promote …
About DMFs Setting up of District Mineral Foundations (DMFs) in all districts in the country affected by mining related operations was mandated through the Mines and Minerals (Development & Regulation) Amendment Act, (MMDRA) 2015. Under the Act, mining lease holders …