Name of the scheme: National Award for Prevention of Pollution Number of Categories in which the award is given: Awards numbering up to 18 will be given each year, one in each of the identified category of highly polluting industries. These industries have been identified as- Sugar Fertilizer Cement Fermentation ...
Read More »Medini Puraskar Yojana for Promoting Original Authorship on Books Concerning Environment in Hindi
Name of the scheme: Medini Puraskar Yojana Purpose: The purpose of the scheme is to promote original authorship on books concerning Environment in Hindi by conferring recognition to the Indian authors who bring out original Hindi books. Subjects: Subjects relating to Environment, identified for the purpose are given below: Pollution ...
Read More »Amrita Devi Bishnoi Wildlife Protection Award
Name of the scheme: Amrita Devi Bishnoi Wildlife Protection Award Purpose: The award is given for significant contribution in the field of wildlife protection, which is recognised as having shown exemplary courage and valour or having done exemplary work for the protection of wildlife in the Country. Nature of the ...
Read More »Textile Industry Workers’ Hostel Scheme
Name of the scheme: Textile Industry Workers’ Hostel Purpose: The main purposes are- Provide a safe and secured accommodation for the workforce. Ensure better retention of the work force by way of decent accommodation in/vicinity of the textile parks, thereby improving the productivity. Project The Project aims to establish workers’ ...
Read More »Group Insurance Scheme for Powerloom Workers
Name of the scheme: Group Insurance Scheme Purpose: The main purpose objective of this scheme is to provide insurance cover to the powerloom weavers in the case of natural death, accidental death as well as partial and permanent disability due to accident. Eligibility: Age criteria: The Powerloom weavers who are between ...
Read More »Comprehensive Powerloom Cluster Development Scheme
Name of the scheme: Comprehensive Powerloom Cluster Development Scheme (CPCDS) Purpose: Main purpose of this scheme is to enhance the competitiveness of the clusters in terms of increased market share and ensure increased productivity by higher unit value realization of the products. In order to ensure effective integration of scattered ...
Read More »Market Access Initiative and Market Development Assistance Scheme for Indian Textile Industry
Name of the scheme: Market Access Initiative (MAI) The scheme: MAI Scheme is an Export Promotion Scheme which is envisaged to act as a catalyst to promote India’s export on a sustained basis. The scheme is formulated on focus product-focus country approach to evolve specific market and specific product through ...
Read More »Various Export Promotion Schemes Available for Textile Sector Firms in India
Name of the scheme: Interest Equalization Scheme Purpose: This scheme was brought in with an aim to provide relief to the exporters from India who were facing extensive competition because of higher interest rates than competing countries like Vietnam, China etc. With Effect From April 1, 2013 to July 31, ...
Read More »Scheme of Merchandizing Exports from India
Name of the scheme: Merchandize Exports from India (MEIS) Scheme Purpose: Launched in April 2015, the MEIS provides duty reward to eligible textile and apparel categories to an extent of 2-5% of FOB value in the countries categorized later part of the scheme. MEIS – Country List Country Groups Country ...
Read More »Central Govt. Scheme of Digitization of Museums in India
Name of the scheme: Digitization of Museum Collection Purpose: The main purpose of this scheme is to digitize management system of the museums over the country with a view to modernizing the collections management system of these museums. Eligibility: All museums under the State Governments, Registered Societies, voluntary institutions, trusts ...
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