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Union minister of Law has said, a total of Rs 21,586 crore has been disbursed under it so far benefiting over 33 lakh people under Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana. Reserve Bank of India had issued necessary circular that no collateral security should be insisted for loans up to Rs 10 ...

News: Germany has offered to rejuvenate a segment of the river in Uttarakhand by using technology it had employed to clean the Rhine, said External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj. Calling Indian embassies “home-away-from-home” for the diaspora community,the External Affairs Minister said approach of Indian missions towards the citizens have changed ...

News: Accessible India, the next sweeping initiative bearing the stamp of the Prime Minister’s Office, will introduce landmark initiatives over the next five years to make the country disabled-friendly. For starters, the government is working to introduce set-top boxes that will make TV programmes more useful for the visually impaired. Officials ...

News: Fitted with powerful cameras, Special Purpose Aircraft may soon fly over the Ganga to survey the river as it courses through five states for a geospatial mapping of its basin to rid it off the pollution and encroachment. The survey would be conducted under the ambitious ‘Namami Gange’ programme of the ...

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: Corporation Bank is the first bank to launch the MUDRA card based on the RuPay platform. MUDRA card is a part of the Pradhan Mantri MUDRA Yojana which aims to fund the unfunded under non-farm micro units in manufacturing, trading and services with affordable credit up to Rs 10 ...

News The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, today chaired his third interaction through PRAGATI . Review Prime Minister reviewed the implementation of key issues pertaining to ex-servicemen. Expressing serious concern at the perceived “atmosphere of indifference” with regard to issues pertaining to ex-servicemen such as delay in pension and retirement ...

Plan Part of the plan will be a `4 crore project under the National Rural Drinking Water Programme, and 16 other water supply projects totalling `1.4 crore. Among Mahajan’s first priorities was lavatories for those who did not have it. In the last four months, 30 households have built lavatories ...

News The Union Cabinet today approved a massive Rs 20,000 crore budget for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s pet ‘Namami Gange Programme’ for the next five years, which is a five-fold increase over the money spent in the last three decades towards the conservation of the river. The programme would be ...

News Union HRD minister Smriti Irani on Monday made a second visit to Maghrol village in Anand district, which she adopted under the Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana, Irani laid the foundations stone for 21 developmental projects in the village that will come up at the cost of Rs 7.14 crore. ...