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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Kerala government today announced an education loan repayment scheme to help students from financially backward families. The scheme is to provide relief to debt-ridden families, who had taken education loans for their wards, State Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said while making a statement under Rule 300 in the ...

Madhya Pradesh has wide spread area of 154.55 lakh hectare of agricultural land, in which 89.70 lakh hectare of land is irrigated. More over 27% of the irrigation is done by small, medium and large enterprises and rest 73 % of irrigation is done by diesel pumps. Apart from Government ...

PANAJI: A state-level steering committee (SLSC) will be constituted for the implementation and monitoring of Blue Revolution schemes, following a new notification issued by the state government. The steering committee will attend the policy issues enabling environment for the growth of the fisheries sector in the state and will be ...

Mumbai: Amidst demands of farm loan waiver in Maharashtra, the State government has announced ‘Advanced Farming – Enriched Farmer’ scheme, with an aim to increase farmers’ income by cutting production cost and increasing the output. The scheme will be launched in the upcoming kharif season. Under the initiative, the government ...

The Telangana government has completed the final round of a loan waiver scheme to the farmers in the state. The total quantum of loans waived now stands at `16,374 crore, benefiting over 35 lakh farmers. The loan waiver was one of the main poll promises of the ruling Telangana Rashtra ...

Ahmedabad: State govt removes cap on installation of solar plant at 50 per cent of sanctioned load; now, households with single phase power connection can also install solar power plant; green energy initiative to get big boost In a bid to promote clean energy generation, the state government has decided ...

The Telangana government is set to come up with a scheme of Equated Monthly Installment (EMI) based installation of rooftop solar energy for individual consumers. According to official sources in the Telangana New and Renewable Energy Development Corporation Limited (TNREDCL) the scheme is in the final stages of development and ...

Road accident in India kills more people than some epidemics. The antiquated traffic management and transportation system resulted in 1, 50,000 deaths and left more than half a million injured last year. Seeing this death menace, the Government of Karnataka has initiated “Mukhyamantri Santwana –Harish Scheme” to help victims of ...

A company of Ministry of Power, EESL Group will invest Rs 24,500 crore for energy efficiency and solar projects in Andhra Pradesh. Multiple MoUs have been signed between the EESL and Andhra Pradesh government in this regard. The execution of the projects will help the state reduce consumption of power ...

All the BPL and APL families besieged with chronic, sudden or acute health issues have now all the reasons to cheer as Government of Assam designed a health assurance scheme with Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal launched ‘Atal-Amrit Abhiyan’. Atal-Amrit Abhiyan is a health assurance scheme which will give comprehensive coverage ...