Schemes

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday came to the aid of 12,000 civilian porters working for the Army in high-risk and active field areas such as Rajouri, Jammu and Poonch by directing the Centre to finalise a scheme providing them better pay, medical facilities, enhanced compensation and a severance ...

New Delhi: 1.5 crore LPG connections have been issued to the Below Poverty Line (BPL) households under the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) scheme, the petroleum ministry said on Thursday. The PMUY is an ambitious social welfare scheme launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on May 1 2016 from Ballia ...

NEW DELHI: The Union Government on Wednesday approved a Centrally-sponsored road connectivity scheme for 35 districts worst affected by Naxalism and nine other critical districts with an outlay of over Rs 11, 724 crore entailing construction/upgradation of over 5,411 km of roads besides erection of 126 bridges. The Cabinet Committee ...

Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi launched National Apprenticeship Promotion Scheme (NAPS) during his visit to Kanpur. The scheme aims to provide apprenticeship training to over 50 lakh youngsters in order to create more jobs. NAPS is implemented by Director General of Training (DGT) under the aegis of Union Ministry of ...

Swasthya Rakshan Program has been launched by the AYUSH Ministry initiated through Central Council for Research in Ayurvedic Sciences (CCRAS), Central Council for Research in Unani Medicine (CCRUM), Central Council for Research in Homoeopathy (CCRH) and Central Council for Research in Siddha (CCRS) in selected districts/ villages. Objectives To promote ...

The new income disclosure scheme gives tax evaders another chance to come clean on black money. The second such income disclosure scheme brought in by the government this year, and the first after the cancellation of old high-value banknotes on 8 November, gives tax evaders another chance to come clean. ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the two schemes ‘Lucky Grahak Yojna’ and ‘Digi Dhan Vyapar Yojna’ to encourage cashless transactions. These 2 schemes will further incentivise digital payments. “Strategic push towards increased cashless transactions. A big boost to move towards cashless and corruption free India. Two new schemes launched,” Earlier, ...

[tii_pullquote]“In the age of Information, Ignorance can be a costly Affair” [/tii_pullquote] Indian Railways came up with a scheme of accident travel Insurance cover in September with bumper benefits upto Rs. 10 lacs. [tii_youtube url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCe0woRhZjo”] We heard couple of news about accidents of derailing trains in past month. There were ...

JAIPUR: Around 18 lakh farmers have been associated with the new insurance scheme in Rajasthan which is the first state to provide Rs 5 lakh accidental insurance to farmers by charging only Rs 27 premium per year. The government is targetting to associate 25 lakh farmers in the current fiscal ...

After the withdrawal of the legal tender character of the Rs 500 and Rs 1000 denomination notes with effect from November 9, 2016, there has been a surge in the deposits with the banks. Consequently, there has been a significant increase of liquidity in the banking system which is expected ...