India is launching an ambitious project to develop its own shealth combat drones or UCAV’s (unmanned combat aerial vehicles), which will be capable of firing missiles and precision-guided munitions at enemy targets and then returning to home bases to re-arm for further missions. The government was close to approving a Rs ...
Read More »Welfare Schemes to the trainees of Tamil Nadu Govt ITIs
Objective of the scheme: To encourage admission and active participation in skill training programme and to help the poor and downtrodden youth, tuition fee is waived by the Government and free training is offered to all the trainees of Government ITIs. Concessions to the Government ITI and Government aided Private ITI trainees:- 1. Bus pass ...
Read More »Uyarntha Uzhaipalar Virudhu Scheme for factory workers in Tamil Nadu
About the scheme: To encourage the workers who suggest useful and outstanding improvements in productivity better working environments and improvement in Safety Standards “Tamilaga Arasin Uyarntha Uzhaipalar Virudhu” are awarded every year. The scheme was launched to enhance and motivate the participation of more workers. Due to this enhancement for the year 2012, the number of applications ...
Read More »Tamil Nadu State Safety Award Scheme for factory employees
Objective of the Scheme: In order to motivate the management for better safety performance, State Safety Awards are presented to the management every year based on their performance in reducing accidents in their Factories. Key Highlights: Under the scheme, every year 90 first prizes are awarded to the managements besides 90 second prizes and 90 third ...
Read More »Personal Accident Insurance scheme for firework workers in Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu Government have introduced a new Group Personal Accident Insurance Scheme for a sum of Rs. 50,000/- for every employee working in Match and Firework factories in Tamil Nadu. Number of persons to be covered is the maximum number of workers actually employed on any one day during the calendar year + 10% extra on ...
Read More »Indian Railways partners with Google to provide WiFi to 400 stations
The telecom wing of the Indian Railway, RailTel, has signed an agreement with the subsidiary of Google India to provide WiFi facilities at 400 stations across the country. In first phase, as many as 100 stations out of the total A1 and A categories would be covered with the offering, while ...
Read More »National Child Labour Project by Tamil Nadu Government
In Tamil Nadu, National Child Labour Project (NCLP) is functioning in 15 Districts viz., Chennai, Coimbatore, Dindigul, Dharmapuri, Erode, Krishnagiri, Kancheepuram, Namakkal, Thoothukudi, Tirunelveli, Trichy, Tiruvannamalai, Salem, Vellore and Virudhunagar. In all 10,832 rescued and out of school children are studying in 259 Special Training Centres . So far 98,155 ...
Read More »Indian Railways inks pacts with Alstom and GE Transport: Make in India
The first big ‘Make in India’ projects, worth Rs 40,000 crore, are approved with the Ministry of Railways signing formal agreements with global giants Alstom and GE transport to set up locomotive manufacturing factories in Madhepura and Marhaura in Bihar. It has taken almost a decade for the final contracts to ...
Read More »Japan to provide loan worth Rs 5,536 cr for metro projects
Indian and Japan today exchanged notes for the approval of Official Development Loan Assistance (ODA) worth Rs 5,536 crore for Chennai and Ahmedabad rail metro projects. The Japanese government of Japan has committed Official Development Assistance (ODA) loan of an amount of about Rs 1,080 crore for the Chennai Metro Rail ...
Read More »AP CM asks China to plan proposed silk route through Visakhapatnam
Andhra Pradesh CM has appealed to the Chinese government to design the proposed silk route via Visakhapatnam in the state, The Chief Minister informed them that Andhra Pradesh lies between Kolkata and Chennai ports and would be developed as a logistics hub for South East Asia. He also explained to them ...
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