Welfare Ministries

Special Component Plan and Tribal Sub Plan are strategies for Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes that were introduced in by the central government in the Sixth Five Year plan to give the people of SC/ST community their share of physical as well as financial benefits and dues. In the state ...

Self-employment Schemes under West Bengal Minorities Development & Finance Corporation (WBMDFC) are schemes launched by the state to provide loans to promising entrepreneurs from minority communities i.e. Muslims, Christians, Buddhists, Sikhs, Farsi, etc to improve their finances as well as a social condition. Loan provided: A term loan is given ...

After the poverty line, the Indian government is looking to move to a new framework to determine beneficiaries of welfare entitlements. This framework is grounded in the Socio Economic Caste Census (SECC), the numbers for which were released this July for rural India. SECC divides households into three brackets: Automatic ...

Swayam Saksham Scheme The Other Backward Classes (OBC) comprise about almost half of India’s total population and is permitted to 27% of job reservation by Government of India but have been at times subjected to exclusion.  In a bid to instill confidence and self-employment, the Swayam Saksham Scheme has been ...

Sports Minister Sarbanand Sonowal formally declared the sanction of central assistance of Rs. 200 crore to J & K to boost sporting activities in state. The Minister of State (Independent Charge)Youth Affairs and Sports Sarbananda Sonowal has said that sports play a crucial role in the physical fitness and well ...

Trade Related Entrepreneurship Assistance and Development (TREAD) scheme was launched by the central government for illiterate and semi-literate women in rural and urban India to improve their overall condition. It has been put into action with the 12th year plan. This economic scheme focuses on women empowerment through trade related ...

Pushed actively by minister and animal rights activist Maneka Gandhi, the testing ban will soon be notified by the Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion (DIPP) and the commerce ministry. The decision on the animal testing ban was taken at a meeting of the Committee for the Purpose of Control ...

The efforts by Accredited social health activists (ASHA), Auxiliary Nurse Midwives (ANM) and anganwadi workers will now be supervised through multimedia-enabled ‘m-sakhi’ application and the ‘m-sehat’ programme. The move is aimed to front line health workers in improving maternal, neonatal and child health. Qualcomm, providing technical support to the project, ...

News: The Ministry reviewed the categorization of various Sports disciplines and the revised categories of sports disciplines and the scale of financial assistance admissible to each category was conveyed to IOC and all recognized National Sports Federations on 23rd March, 2015. The Ministry also decided to upgrade Fencing from ‘Others’ ...

News: All central government employees, including officials of Army and para military forces, were today warned of “action” if they raise service matters related grievances to the Prim Minster directly. As per these instructions, wherever a government servant wishes to press a claim or to seek redressal of a grievance, ...