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The order was placed on BHEL by Urban Transport Directorate (UTD) in Lucknow. “These low floor, disabled-friendly electric buses will be deployed by UTD at the Gorakhpur airport,” the company said in a statement.
The center along with the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship has recently decided to give training to more than 41,000 youth of Rajasthan under the ambitious Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana. As per reports, Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana aims to connect the youth with skill development and employment.
In the first stage, the EV chargers, named ChargeGrids, would be installed at Hindustan Petroleum Corporation’s retail outlets in major cities all over India.
According to Dubey, these zones are located in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal.
HAL is also poised to scale another summit this year, with its operational turnover for 2019-20 on track to exceed Rs 20,000 crore – for the first time ever
As per data of National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), there is declining trend in Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN) seized during the years 2017, 2018 and 2019. This was stated by Shri Anurag Singh Thakur, Minister of State for Finance & Corporate Affairs, in a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha today.
Government of India launched the Skill Loan Scheme on July 15, 2015 to provide loan facility to aspirants wanting to do skill development courses aligned to National Skill Qualification Framework (NSQF).
Ministry of Tribal Affairs through Tribal Cooperative Marketing Development Federation of India Limited (TRIFED) has already developed an e-commerce portal ‘tribesindia.com’ and also using e-marketing channels like Amazon.com, Flipkart.com, Paytm, Snapdeal.com and GeM to market tribal products including promotion of tribal handicrafts.
Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana (PMMVY) is a maternity benefit scheme. As on 9th March 2020, 1.36 crore of eligible beneficiaries have received maternity benefit of one or more than one instalment amounting to Rs.5657.10 crore (US$ 809.43 million) through Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) directly in their bank accounts.
Post the abrogation of Article 370 from Jammu and Kashmir, the Modi-Government has begun a crackdown on encroachments trying to recover 1 lakh hectares of occupied land from the volatile region
