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Delhi gets its first ‘Smog Tower’
In view of the alarming pollution levels in the capital city of India, in November 2019, the Supreme Court of India to combat air pollution has directed the Central Government along with the Delhi Government for the installation of Smog ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2020
Finance Commission suggests GST Council for Three Slabs
The fifteenth Finance Commission headed by Retired IAS officer Nand Kishore Singh is about to commence its tenure of 5 years from 1st April 2020- 31st March 2025. The commission constituted on 27th November 2017 will recommend fiscal matters and ..
Phase-III of Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) launched
The Union Minister of Rural Development, Agriculture and Farmers Welfare & Panchayati Raj, Narendra Singh Tomar on Wednesday, 18th December 2019 launched the Phase-III of Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) in New Delhi on the sidelines of the National ..
National Outreach Program ‘GeM Samvaad’ launched by GeM
The Government e-Marketplace (GeM) is a dedicated national public procurement e-market for different goods and services that are procured by the Central and State Government Departments, Autonomous institutions and local bodies. The GeM was started on 9th August 2016 and ..
What is Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan?
The Union Budget of 2018-19 proposed that without segmentation from pre-nursery to class 12, school education must be treated holistically. Samagra Shiksha is an overarching programme in the sector of school education extending from pre-school to class 12. The programme ..
Kalia Scheme to merge with PM-KISAN
The flagship Kalia scheme of Odisha government that provides marginal and small cultivators, farmers Rs 10,000 in two installments in a year for two crops will be merged with the Central governments Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN). Under the ..
Rs 3.26 Lakh Crore Central GST Collection in First 8 Months of the Fiscal
Minister of State for Finance, Anurag Singh Thakur in a written reply to the Lok Sabha on Monday, November 25 informed that the central Goods and Service Tax (GST) collections till October 2019 for the financial year 2019-20 stood at ..
Constituting Foreigners Tribunals
The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has amended the Foreigners (Tribunals) Order, 1964 empowering district magistrates in all States and Union Territories to set up tribunals to decide whether a person staying illegally in India is a foreigner or not. ..
RBI sets the limits for Ways and Means Advances (WMA)
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in consultation with the government of India has set the limits for Ways and Means Advances (WMA) for the first half of the financial year 2019-20 (April 2019 to September 2019) at Rs 75000 ..
Month: Current Affairs - April, 2019
Centre asks states to step-up spending under District Mineral Fund
The Central government has asked the states to step-up the spending under District Mineral Fund as just 24 per cent of the Rs 23,606-crore mopped up under the Pradhan Mantri Khanij Kshetra Kalyan Yojana (PMKKKY) was actually spent. The central government ..