News Urban local bodies in all 118 towns on banks of the river Ganga in five states will maintain the 500 metre area along the river and connecting drains as a ‘litter-free zone’. Unemployed youth in these urban areas will be hired to ensure the upkeep of the zone. The ...
Read More »Professional agency to be hired for Swachh Bharat campaigns
News The government has decided to outsource the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan publicity campaign to a professional agency for the next four years and has earmarked nearly Rs 200 crore for this. The Swachh Bharat mission is to be implemented at a total cost of Rs 62,009 crore with a targeted ...
Read More »Gujarat team to co-ordinate ghat facelift in Varanasi
News PM Narendra Modi is deputing his trusted lieutenants from Gujarat to his constituency Varanasi. To clean up the famed Ghats of Ganga in Varanasi, it is now the turn of Loksabha MP from Navsari CR Patil to co-ordinate the efforts, particularly from Gujarat. Already his close aide Sudhanshu Mehta ...
Read More »Airbus Ready to Make in India, will Hike Outsourcing Kitty to $2 billion
News Aircraft maker Airbus Industrie has assured Prime Minister Narendra Modi that its outsourcing from India will increase to $2 billion from $ 400 million over the next five years as part of the Indian government’s Make in India initiative. Benefits 500% increase in 5 years. Indian outsourcing to increase ...
Read More »Postal Stamps on Swachh Bharat Mission
News Government launched postal stamps for Swachh Bharat mission. The stamps have been designed through the participation from the people and what makes them more special is that they have been designed by children. Reason The idea behind such exercises is to reach out to the people in all possible ...
Read More »E-money Order to be available across 70% Post Offices
News DoP is procuring digital handheld terminals to transform various services. The Department of Posts is working on a plan to provide electronic money order service at 70 per cent of its about 1.55 lakh post offices by December. Following the introduction of e-money order service, the department has seen ...
Read More »Broadband Network Roll Out in 20,000 Panchayats: BharatNet
News Government has completed the roll out of national optical fibre network (NOFN) in 20,000 village panchayats to provide high speed broadband connectivity. It had set target to roll out the network across 50,000 village panchayats by March 31, 2015 and all the 2.5 lakh VPs by the end of ...
Read More »Spectrum Auction and Digital India
News India bids for airwaves crossed Rs 1 lakh crore or $18 billion, making the spectrum auction the biggest ever sale of spectrum by value. Benefits The auction has opened a number of new opportunities for subscribers in new circles for 3G services in 2100 Mhz band and LTE in ...
Read More »Varanasi’s Assi Ghat Cleaned
News Cleaning up and beautifying India’s spiritual capital was one of Modi’s biggest electoral promises to the people of Varanasi. A year later, it doesn’t appear to be an empty one. There may be some delay in work but transformation of Varanasi looks inevitable,’ says Praveen Kumar, an employee of ...
Read More »New Campaign to Scout for Chinese Investments
News India launched a new campaign to scout for Chinese investments under the ‘Make in India’ initiative with an investor’s meeting in Hong Kong, ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s expected visit to China next month. Ajith Ranade, member of the CII core group on China, said India’s youth population ...
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