Every house will get tap water under Nal Jal Scheme, stated Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan. “I promise every village will have drinking water through river Narmada. Our daughters will not have to get water from hand pumps anymore,” said Chief Minister Chouhan, at an event on Friday. ...

In a big relief to the farm sector, Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy today announced a mega Rs 34,000 crore farm loan waiver scheme in the maiden budget of the Congress-JDS coalition government. Unveiling the budget proposals in the Assembly, Kumaraswamy, who also holds the finance portfolio, said he ...

President Ram Nath Kovind today launched the Solar Charkha Mission covering artisans in 50 identified clusters and the Sampark portal — a digital platform to connect five lakh job seekers with recruiters — at an event to mark the important economic role played by micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs). ...

The Gujarat government on Saturday launched a solar power scheme for farmers- Suryashakti Kisan Yojana (SKY) enabling them to generate electricity for their captive consumption as well as sell the surplus power to the grid and earn an extra buck. Announcing the pilot project of the scheme in Gandhinagar, chief ...

State Bank of India (SBI) offers various supply chain financing schemes to provide liquidity to businesses, as mentioned on the official website of country’s largest lender. Currently, SBI offers two types of financing schemes- electronic vendor financing scheme and electronic dealer financing scheme. These can be applied online. ‘Supply Chain Financing’ ...

After initial hiccups in implementing the maternity benefit programme Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana (PMMVY), the government has finally made some headway and provided cash incentives to nearly 23.6 lakh beneficiaries out of an estimated 51.6 lakh a year. The scheme was approved by the Union Cabinet in May 2017 ...

Eight States and four Union Territories have signed MoUs with the Union Health Ministry to implement the government’s ambitious national health protection mission — Ayushman Bharat — which aims to provide a cover of ₹5 lakh per family annually to 10 crore vulnerable families, an official said on Saturday. Four ...

The Narendra Modi government today announced a reward scheme to crackdown on benami properties. The scheme promises to give a person reward of upto Rs 1 crore for giving specific information about benami property in a prescribed manner. The scheme is named, the Benami Transactions Informants Reward Scheme, 2018. To ...

The Madhya Pradesh government is mulling to introduce a new scheme to facilitate better price of farm produce, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has indicated, ahead of the proposed nationwide stir by cultivators from June “I am going to sit with farmers to work out the possibility of giving remunerative ...

State Bank of India (SBI) has announced mega e-auction scheme under which bids are open for 1,000 commercial and residential properties, informed country’s largest lender on its official twitter handle. People willing to avail the scheme can register on May 29, 2018. Loans are also available for successful bidders, the ...