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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 Surprise inspections, hefty fines and strict vigil have ensured that New Delhi railway station looks clean and tidy and meets commuters’ expectations. Thanks to Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, Northern Railway has taken a slew of measures to raise the sanitation standard of the station. A comprehensive cleaning contract is being ...

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. ...

News The Defence ministry has cleared procurements worth Rs 1,10,000 crore, of which 90% are under ‘Make in India’. Finalistion of defence procurement procedures will be completed in the next 2-3 months.

News Luxury car major BMW India will increase the localization of  its vehicles to 50 per cent, which is in line with the Make-in-India programme. BMW has localised production of engines and gearboxes at its Chennai plant with a capacity to produce 14,000 vehicles per year About 95 per cent of cars ...

The National Research Development Corporation (NRDC) has proposed to develop a technology data bank in the country. In the lines of Make in India initiative, it also proposed to explore for technologies to be explored using PPP model for high risk technologies. Developing an Indian technology data bank will support ...

News British PM David Cameron said Britan supports Modi’s Make in India and offered to sell Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jets to India, terming it as a “better deal” than the Rafale made by France. The British offer of Eurofighter Typhoons to India is still pending. It will come along with technological ...

News Ambassador of India, Ajay Bisaria, participating in a panel discussion at the India-Central Europe economic meeting, welcomed ”Go India” as a strong compliment to ”Make in India”. He also announced that Poland had been included in the next phase of India’s e-visa scheme. This would further facilitate business engagement. On ...

News Maharashtra government has decided to appoint ‘swacchata doots’ or cleanliness ambassadors in every village to help achieve the target of building 56 lakh toilets across the state over the next five years. Half of them will be women and each cleanliness ambassador will be given an annual renumeration of ...

News If you book a venue for any social, political or family event, you will be held responsible for cleaning up the area. You may lose a certain portion of the security deposited with municipal bodies or local authorities for failing to clean up the venue within six hours after ...