News: As a part of Accessible India,  Centre is roping in big corporates and asking them to take up a school, hospital, park, mall or other public building in their city for this purpose. The initiative will begin with the identification of public places that are inaccessible to the differently ...

News: Government has released Rs 4,015.20 crore under package of over Rs 7,200 crore for the parched Bundelkhand region. Union government had approved Rs 7,266 crore special package for implementing drought mitigation strategies in Bundelkhand on November 19, 2009. The special package included Rs 3,506 crore for Uttar Pradesh and ...

News: A bill seeking to scrap a set of 295 obsolete Acts dealing with several issues including changes in marriage laws and cement hoarding was today passed by Lok Sabha which continued to witness boycott by Congress and several other opposition parties. The Repealing and Amending (Fourth) Bill, 2015, pertains ...

News: A Bill to revise the liability limits of airplanes on compensation for death, injury and loss of baggage and cargo was introduced in Lok Sabha, under which the compensation for death in an air accident goes up to over Rs 1 crore from Rs 89 lakh.  It would enable the government ...

News: CM Naveen Patnaik, will be distributing free laptops to meritorious students of the 2014-15 academic year on Wednesday, at Berhampur. This scheme is modelled on similar earlier schemes in Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan. The Odisha scheme is under the Biju Yuva Shashaktikaran Yojana. The state government has ...

News: India’s postal department is set to launch a pilot programme that seeks to help farmers sell their produce over the Internet, that too without spending a paisa on transport. The plan is to deploy postmasters in villages to collate details from farmers on their produce and upload the data ...

News: The government plans to push power sector reforms through its new coal supply mechanism, by ensuring that it benefits only those state distribution companies that agree to raise tariffs periodically and cut distribution losses. The government is working on the incentive-based scheme to award coal supply contracts to state ...

News: In an effort to prevent delay in payments to workers under the rural employment guarantee scheme, union cabinet has approved direct benefit transfer to beneficiaries of the MNREGA workers. The rural development ministry will release the money directly into the State Employee Guarantee Funds  once a finance order has been generated. ...

News: Karnatka government will flagship the Digital India scheme. E-governance department is set to roll out 376 government services under the e-district programme within the next three months. The e-district platform will cover services pertaining to the revenue department, motor vehicles department, education, police, forest, industries, Backward Classes department and ...

News: The government is considering a proposal that will make it incumbent on households to hire domestic workers through a placement agency as part of an initiative aimed at ensuring basic rights and better conditions including paid leave and other benefits for an estimated 3 crore people in the unorganised sector. ...