Members of the district unit of the Karnataka Rajya Akshara Dasoha Naukarara Sangha, affiliated to the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU), staged a dharna in front of the Deputy Commissioner’s Office here on Thursday demanding that the Union government increase grants for midday meal scheme. Addressing the protesters here, ...

Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana, under the Micro Units Development and Refinance Agency (MUDRA) Bank is a new institution being set up by Government of India for development and refinancing activities relating to micro units. It was announced by the Finance Minister while presenting the Union Budget for financial year 2016. ...

Telecom Minister Manoj Sinha launched a skill development scheme named after RSS ideologue Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya that will train rural youth to maintain mobile towers, repair optical fibres and fix other communication technologies across India. “We are going to start the skill development programme at 10 rural locations and ...

Awareness about the Rajiv Gandhi Scheme for Empowerment of Adolescent Girls (RGSEAG)-SABLA is poor in the State, claim child rights experts. The SABLA scheme was implemented in 2010 across 205 districts in the country. In Tamil Nadu, nine districts were selected — Chennai, Cuddalore, Tiruchirapalli, Tiruvannamalai, Salem, Coimbatore, Madurai, Ramnathapuram ...

The Prime Minister initiated the Interest Subsidy Scheme on Education Loans for minority communities to uplift their education background.This scheme will promote education enthusiasm in them to study in foreign countries. Objectives: To award interest subsidy to meritorious students belonging to economically weaker section of notifies minority communities. Eligibility: Students ...

Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal announced on Tuesday that the Delhi government’s ‘Higher Education and Skill Development Guarantee Scheme’, which provides financial support from the banking system to meritorious students from the Capital, will be extended to students who want to pursue education outside the State as well. Earlier, the scheme ...

Chandigarh: All districts in Haryana will be linked with Direct Benefits Transfer (DBT) scheme for sale and purchase of fertilisers through Point of Sale (POS) devices. Earlier, Karnal and Kurukshetra districts were selected as pilot for implementation of DBT scheme, and now the project has been extended to the remaining ...

The central government has initiated post-matric scholarship scheme for minority communities.The scheme will form the foundation for their educational attainment and provide a level playing field in the competitive employment arena. Empowerment through education, which is one of the objectives of this scheme, has the potential to lead to upliftment ...

As part of an exercise to promote ‘brain gain’ as against brain drain, the Ministry of Science and Technology is all set to launch a new scheme next month to get distinguished scientists from abroad to work in India. Called ‘Visiting Advanced Joint Research (VAJRA) Faculty Scheme’, it will aim ...

The Punjab government has chalked out a comprehensive strategy to provide security and financial assistance to acid attack victims in order to make them self-reliant, state minister Razia Sultana said on Monday. She said the Punjab financial assistance to acid victims scheme 2017 has been framed in this regard and ...