A Geographical Indication (GI) tag is given to an entrepreneur or a group of businessmen of a particular area/state/country to manufacturer goods of good quality.The GI tags are issued as per the Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration and Protection) Act,1999. Meaning of Geographical Indication (GI) Tag:- A Geographical Indication (GI) is a name or symbol…
Sahyog App: The Government of India has launched ‘Sahyog’ mobile application to collect geotagged data on the highly contagious COVID-19 to curb the deadly virus from the country. The Government of India has launched ‘Sahyog’ mobile application to collect geotagged data on the highly contagious COVID-19. This data will help the government and public health…
PM-AASHA is a new umbrella scheme aimed at ensuring remunerative prices to the farmers for their produce. The three components that are part of AASHA are: 1. Price Support Scheme 2. Price Deficiency Payment Scheme 3. Pilot of Private Procurement and Stockist Scheme The other existing schemes of Department of Food and Public…
It is a Centrally Sponsored Scheme to supplement farm income with the development of complete value chain of bamboo sector and link growers with markets Its Objectives are, 1. To increase the area under bamboo plantation in non-forest Government and private lands. 2. To improve post-harvest management through establishment of innovative primary processing units…
It is a new central sector and pension scheme for only small and marginal farmers who own less than 2 hectares of land. (while PM-KISAN is for all farmers) Under this Scheme, a minimum fixed pension of Rs.3,000/- is provided to the eligible small and marginal farmers, on attaining the age of 60 years.…
Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) is a central sector scheme that guarantees direct income support of Rs 6,000 for Farmers. Eligibility – It will be given per year to all landholder farmers‘ families in the country except, All Institutional Land Farmer families in which one or more of its members belong to following categories,…
About PMSSY: The Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (PMSSY) was announced in 2003 with objectives of correcting regional imbalances in the availability of affordable/ reliable tertiary healthcare services and also to augment facilities for quality medical education in the country. • It is a central sector scheme. • The scheme has two components: Setting up…
• Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana has achieved the 5-crore mark. • Through PMUY, initially, 5 crore BPL households were targeted for providing deposit free LPG connections to BPL households by 31st March, 2019. • In a record time of 28 months for its launch, PMUY achieved the initial target of providing 5 crores LPG connection…
India recently became the ninth country in the world to launch a National Database on Sexual Offenders (NDSO). It was rolled out by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) along with Ministry of Women and Child Development. Features of NDSO:- • Contains details of around 4.5 lakh people convicted of various sexual offences: It will…
• ‘Mission Indradhanush’ has been selected as one of the 12 best practices globally and has been featured in a special issue of the British Medical Journal titled ‘Improving vaccination coverage in India: lessons from Intensified Mission Indradhanush, a cross-sectoral systems strengthening strategy’. • Mission Indradhanush was showcased during the ‘Partner’s Forum’ held at New…
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