Ministries

The Union Minister of Women and Child Development Smt. Maneka Sanjay Gandhi launched the IAP Health Phone programme in New Delhi . The IAP Health Phone programme is the world’s largest digital mass education programme for addressing the malnutrition in women and children. This programme is launched by the Indian ...

The Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh said  that meanwhile, starting from the forthcoming semester beginning August 2015, Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi will start an “Option Paper” in ...

The minister of Road Transport & Highways and Shipping, Shri Nitin Gadkari said that the Inland Waterways is economically most viable sector, in his inaugural address at the ‘National Conference on Inland Waterways: Issues, Options and Strategies’. He added that development of inland waterways would lower the logistics cost of production and, ...

 The Department of Fertilizers has procured more than 10 Lakh MT of imported Urea in January 2015 for propositioning in the States. Additional procurement of imported Urea has been done in April, May & June 2015. With increased domestic production by 10 Lakh MTs and reduction of demand due to ...

Dr. Ashton Carter, the US Secretary of Defence, accompanied by Mrs. Stephanie Carter and a thirteen member US delegation, visited Visakhapatnam. During the visit, the Secretary of Defence interacted with Vice Admiral BK Verma, Chief of Staff, Eastern Naval Command and held discussions on issues of common interest. During the ...

The Employees Provident Fund Organisation(EPFO) has upgraded the District Offices / Services Centres in Gangtok, Imphal, Aizwal, Itanagar and Dimapur to special state offices.  The Special State Office shall be headed by an Assistant P.F. Commissioner level officer and would have an Enforcement Officer and other supporting staff. The special ...

News The Railways has invited global players for a Rs 2,500-crore project it has lined up under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ambitious ‘Make in India’ programme for the procurement and manufacture of 15 train sets which will be used for faster inter-city travel. While the successful bidder will be importing ...

News India is an emerging economy and has been able to sustain its growth rate more 7 % even after the recession of 2008. The country is experiencing major demographic  shift which can enhance the productivity of our labor force. Thus, the population size which was considered debt to the ...

News The Government proposes to soon open 1000 more stores under the ‘Jan Aushadhi Scheme’ to make available quality generic medicines at affordable prices through these special outlets. Speaking at a function organised by the Indian Social Responsibility Network (ISRN) a facilitation network to build the corporate social responsibility (CSR) ...

News Defence manufacturing is one of the key sectors among the 25 sectors identified under the Make in India campaign launched by the Government of India. A series of consultations have been held across Ministries / Departments under the mentoring of PMO to enable simplification of rules and procedures to ...