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In 2018 the Ministry of Home Affairs came up with the Witness Protection Scheme. The scheme aims to provide protection of witnesses based on the threat assessment. Particularly, the scheme intends at enabling a witness to depose fearlessly and truthfully. In addition to this, protection measures are also included as ...

We always read in history books that how our freedom fighters fight for the independence of India. Many heroes we knew and many we don’t .To honor the unsung heroes, the Government of India has initiated “Swatantrata Sainik Samman Pension Scheme” to provide pension to freedom fighters. Objectives: Grant of ...

Ministry of HUPA (Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation) and Common Services Centre SPV signed a MoU to initiate e-KYC enabled online submission of applications by the urban poor for affordable houses under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana(Urban). Out of the over two lakh Common Services Centre across the country, about ...

Department of Fisheries, Goa Government, has a scheme for developing a housing model for its native fishermen. Objectives To provide affordable housing facility to the fishermen. To increase the supply of affordable housing in slum and non slum areas. To uplift the traditional Fishermen community to construct their new house/renovate ...

Tackling child pornography and online abuse will be the top priority of a highly sophisticated centre to be set up by the government. The initiative comes after an expert committee constituted to prepare a roadmap for effectively tackling cyber crime submitted its report to the Home Ministry. According to the recommendations ...

News: The home ministry has decided to establish a national fingerprint database of nearly 28 lakh convicts and those arrested for criminal offences, by collating records from all the states. The National Informatics Centre is creating a ‘cloud’ for this integration. Central Finger Print Bureau (CPFB) has data of over 9.7 lakh finger ...

News: The Financing Agreement for World Bank (IDA) assistance of US$ 308.40 million for National Cyclone Risk Mitigation Project-II (NCRMP-II) was signed between Government of India and the World Bank. The Financing Agreement was signed by Mr. Raj Kumar, Joint Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs on behalf of the Government ...

News: Pension of freedom fighters has been increased by the government after introducing a hike of 218% in DA in 2014-15, said Home Minister Rajnath Singh. The number central freedom fighters pensioners as on January 1, 2015 were 11,434 and the widows and eligible dependents were 24,466, total of which ...

News: The home ministry’s proposal before the Union Cabinet on extending the Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems (CCTNS) till 2017 involves preparation of analytical reports for the first time to understand pattern of crime taking place in different parts of India. The proposal also involves integrating CCTNS applications ...

News: A senior official from the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) informed that the Rs 951-crore exercise is expected to link the National Population Register (NPR) with Aadhaar numbers. The core purpose behind the entire operation is to avoid duplication in collecting biometrics and also to get a check on ...