Initiatives

The first budget of the newly elected cabinet is scheduled for July 2019 Finance minister has announced on twitter that this time she wants to take suggestions from the people. People with good knowledge on finance and economics can submit their ideas at mygov.in Ministry of finance is going through ...

RBI has removed charges for NEFT, RTGS payments. It has asked banks to pass on benefits to customers. This move will benefit the small traders who deal in small value transactions and operates on small margins. This is a milestone in push for Digital India, since it’s goes light on ...

Fee for SC/ST candidates, who join vocational training under Jan Shikshan Sansthans (JSS), operating under the aegis of Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, has been waived off. This was decided in the first review meeting held by Union Minister for Skill Development and EntrepreneurshipDr. Mahendra Nath Pandey with senior ...

An amount of Rs 11 crore has been released for the construction of JNU hostel for north eastern students in Delhi. This is the first of its kind hostel in JNU. The hostel will have 224 rooms and accommodates 424 students. Out of 224 rooms, 24 rooms have been assigned ...

Xavier School of Human Resource Management (XAHR) held an International Conference on the theme ‘Organisational Metamorphosis for Innovation, Inclusion and Agility’, on 28th-30th January, 2019 in the Xavier City Campus, the new campus of XUB. The event witnessed the participation of various stakeholders of the Xavier fraternity, as well as ...

The government on Monday extended Ujjwala Yojana of providing free cooking gas (LPG) connections to all poor households, Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said. The scheme, launched in 2016, originally targeted giving LPG connections to mostly rural women members of below the poverty line (BPL) households. The list was later expanded ...

Guidelines will be notified by January-end: RBI   With digital transactions growing rapidly in India, so have the complexities and challenges such as fraudulent transactions. Hence, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has decided to set up an ombudsman scheme for digital transactions to address these issues and promote customer ...

The Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship (PMRF) scheme is aimed at attracting the talent pool of the country to doctoral (Ph.D.) programs of Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and Indian Institute of Science (IISc) for carrying out research in cutting-edge science and technology domains, with focus on national priorities. The Prime ...

The Centre plans to merge the process with Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems Project (CCTNS), a project first conceptualised by the UPA government in 2009; this will eliminate the need of doing the physical police verification for getting a new passport. With the implementation of CCTNS, the manual ...

In order to promote its ambitious rural business process outsourcing (BPO) scheme, the ministry of electronics and IT will soon list its services on the government e-marketplace portal (GeM) — which has become a one-stop destination for all government buying — said union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said on Wednesday ...