Initiatives

News: I-CLIK(Instant-Complaint Login Internet Kiosk) service enables women, who are generally apprehensive about visiting a police station, to file a complaint online from kiosk. On Abhayam (fearlessness), a mobile application to come to the rescue of distressed women, can also be utilised to check the menace of ragging. The complaint ...

News: Union Minister of Urban Development, Venkaiah Naidu declared nominations of 98 cities for NDA government’s flagship program. Centre has earmarked Rs 48,000 crore for development of 100 smart cities. The cities were selected through intra-city competition evaluated on parameters such as service levels, financial and institutional capacity, past track ...

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: Companies including Airbus, Essel Infra and Srei Infra have evinced interest in setting up large defence and aerospace parks in Andhra Pradesh that could lead to investments of thousands of crores of rupees in the state over the next few years. Andhra Pradesh, given its proximity to Bengaluru, the ...

News: According to the Governor’s directives, funds from the state budget meant for different irrigation projects have to be allocated as per a prescribed formula to Marathwada, Vidarbha and remaining Maharashtra region. “We will take permission from the Governor to allow us to complete a specific irrigation project with help from funds that are raised ...

News: The Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje approved the Aarogya Rajasthan programme and a drive to collect health information of citizens to build an online database. The three-month programme will have health camps organised across the state, where residents would be issued health cards based on spot diagnoses. The state owned ...

News: The Andhra Pradesh government entered into an agreement with Tata Trusts for community empowerment and improvement of overall living standards of people in 264 villages in the Vijayawada region, said Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu. The programme intends to implement “interventions in the thematic areas” of bamboo cultivation, fisheries, nutrition ...

News: Several reforms will be introduced in Rajasthan Public Service Commission (RPSC) to improve its system quality in years to come. Effective steps will be taken to prevent use of unfair means during exams and clear pendency of legal cases. RPSC’s image suffered a setback in recent years after cases ...

News: The West Bengal State Electricity Board has announced a new mobile app for payment of bills. Christened mywbsedl, the app would be free of cost for users and available on android and windows app store. Consumers would have an option of paying their bills directly through the mywbsedl app. The ...