Infrastructure Related

Indian government is launching a scheme Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Sadak Yojana to make Indian roads safer. The scheme will get an amount of Rs.2000 Cr as initial funding. The fund will be utilized in eliminating dangerous spots on highways through better design and road engineering. The hilly roads will be ...

                                         Lump-sum Provision scheme and North-east Lump-sum provision scheme was launched by the ministry of urban development for the benefit of north- east region, including Sikkim, for the financial year 2001-02. 90% of total cost given by the ministry and 10% cost is provided by the state government itself. The central agencies also funded 10% agency ...

Indian government has launched three innovative IT initiatives ePACE, INFRACON and an updated version of INAMPRO. It has been developed in house by NHIDCL (National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation Ltd.) for the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways. ePACE (Project Appraisal and Continuing Enhancement) It is an online integrated ...

Name of the scheme: National Award for Prevention of Pollution Number of Categories in which the award is given: Awards numbering up to 18 will be given each year, one in each of the identified category of highly polluting industries. These industries have been identified as- Sugar Fertilizer Cement Fermentation ...

Name of the scheme: Medini Puraskar Yojana Purpose: The purpose of the scheme is to promote original authorship on books concerning Environment in Hindi by conferring recognition to the Indian authors who bring out original Hindi books. Subjects: Subjects relating to Environment, identified for the purpose are given below: Pollution ...

Name of the scheme: Amrita Devi Bishnoi Wildlife Protection Award Purpose: The award is given for significant contribution in the field of wildlife protection, which is recognised as having shown exemplary courage and valour or having done exemplary work for the protection of wildlife in the Country. Nature of the ...

Introduction: The Department of Administrative Reforms & Public Grievances is implementing a Plan Scheme of Modernization of Government Offices from 1987-88. The Scheme emphasizes on integrated and comprehensive planning for modernization of office with a view to promote efficiency and effectiveness in government functioning.  Such planning should anticipate future requirements ...

Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DDU-GKY) aims to skill rural youth who are poor and provide them with jobs having regular monthly wages or above the minimum wages. It is one of the cluster of initiatives of the Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India that seeks to promote rural livelihoods. ...

Name of the scheme:  Rural Innovation fund Guiding Principles of the fund: The activities must have the rural poor in their focus and must be innovative, experimental and demonstrative in nature leading to replicability and commercial viability. The activities funded may involve development of new products, processes, prototypes, technology, patenting ...

Name of the scheme: Farm Innovation & Promotion Fund (FIPF) Objective: To demonstrate bankability of new concepts in agriculture and farm sector. To extend support for developing proto-types and for further development to make it commercial. To support activities connected with market survey for potential assessment/ market acceptability for new ...