NEW DELHI: The government is working on a scheme to promote energy efficient homes by offering cheaper loans and lower registration fee for green residential units as it ramps up efforts to mitigate climate change by moving towards a net zero-energy building regime. Government sources said the proposal is part ...

Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu launched the Urban Housing Scheme in Vijayawada today. Speaking on the occasion, he said that the scheme is being implemented to 1,20,000 houses in 38 towns for the poor living in urban areas for which the permission has already been given. Chandrababu asaid that they are ...

The revamped Persons with Disability Act 2016 might have come as a respite for several but it has disappointed those who are beneficiaries of government-run Swavlambhan scheme. Exclusion of the recently included disabled categories under the Persons with Disability Act 2016 did not come as a relief to Sanjive Gauhri, ...

The chief minister’s ‘Anila Bhagya’ scheme of providing free LPG connections to BPL families will be in place by July 10, Food and Civil Supplies Minister U T Khader said on Friday. Addressing a press conference in Bengaluru, Khader said BPL card holders who have not been selected for the ...

To expand the outreach of the Atal Pension Yojana (APY), people can now enrol and subscribe digitally to the scheme. “The Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority has now introduced “APY@eNPS” which involves a complete digital enrolment process,” the Finance Ministry said on Friday, adding that it will give additional ...

In order to give fillip to tourism sector, the department of tourism Kashmir has asked hoteliers to avail the ‘central government incentive schemes’ for the construction, renovation and up gradation of their properties. Director Tourism Kashmir Mahmood A Shah said they were encouraging hoteliers to avail GoI incentive schemes for ...

The role of a Chartered Accountant (CA) is evolving continually to assume newer responsibilities in a dynamic environment. In the given scenario, the potentiality of the Chartered Accountancy education system to meet the diverse range of expectations of various stakeholders from the profession becomes the focal point. The Revised Scheme ...

In order to improve family planning services, the Union government is all set to roll out “Mission Parivar Vikas” programme in 146 districts that house 28 per cent of the country’s population. The high density population districts in the seven states of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand ...

The Punjab government today signed a tripartite agreement with the Centre and Airports Authority of India under the country’s flagship programme UDAN in the presence of Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh. A spokesperson of the Chief Minister’s Office said the tripartite agreement was signed by Usha Padhee (Joint Secretary, Ministry ...

To promote low-cost accommodation as part of the housing-for-all scheme, the government will push for building up of steel houses. The project aims at providing affordable houses to urban and rural poor. This in turn will help reduce slums. Each house will have in-built cement chambers to allow cooling and ...