Through Implementation Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana - Gramin (PMAY-G), overarching goal of rural housing is to be achieved by 2022. The scheme envisages provision of financial assistance for construction of pucca house to all houseless and households living in incomplete dilapidated houses. Under the visionary approach, government of India has taken upon itself the onerous task of making availabl...
Social Media
Category: Civil Services
Powerful Social Media
Social media in today’s technology - driven world encompasses whole range of tools facilitating electronic communication through which people form online communities to exchange information, ideas, personal messages and a lot more across global internet system, which not only has converted the vast expanse of the earth and the ocean into what can at best be described as small hamlet expanding the horizons of...
National SC/ST Hub Scheme
National SC/ST Hub scheme under the Ministry of Medium and Small Enterprises - MSME- has been launched with an objective to promote the SC/ST entrepreneurs. It may be recalled that the announcement with regard to National SC/ST Hub scheme was made in the budget speech of 2016-17, in order to empower the Dalits and the downtrodden communities in the country so that a culture of entrepreneurship can be cultivated ...
Immigrant Crisis of Europe
The European migrant crisis been one of the important developments in the year gone -by and has captured the world attention after the pathetic images of helpless migrants coming to Europe by crossing the Mediterranean sea and other channels and some of them meeting miserable death in the sea, hogged the headlines which was enough to jolt the collective human conscience across the globe. The human tragedies t...
Green Urban Transport Scheme
Green Urban Transport Scheme (GUTS) is an idea whose time has come, because the way, the veins and the arteries of cities are being choked due to abnormal rise in carbon level and depriving the citizens of pollution free life. The phenomenon of smog which recently engulfed New Delhi – India’s capital was an eye opener, requiring official intervention to deal with the rising pollution that has contaminated the ai...
Earth’s Crystallized Iron Inner Core Remains Solid Despite Being Hotter than the Surface of the Sun
A recent study by scientists at KTH Royal Institute of Technology has found that iron at the core of the Earth, is in Body-Centered Cubic (BCC) phase crystal architecture with eight corner points and a center point, where pressure is 3.5 million times higher than surface pressure and temperatures are some 6,000 degrees higher. Study reveals that though the inner core of the Earth is hotter than the surfa...
Digi Dhan Vyapar Yojana Cashback Award Scheme for Merchants
The era of playing fraud with the system came to a sudden halt when the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in his historic announcement of November 8, 2016, declared the high values currency as null and void. The declaration came as shock to those who took the laws, rules and regulations for granted; but the honest citizens across the length and breadth of the country celebrated the unshackling of the system from sco...
Brexit-Britain Leaving European Union
Brexit is the term derived from the addition of two words -Britain and exit- implying British declaration of abandoning the membership of European Union (EU) which finally came on 23 June, 2016 through a referendum in which 51.9% of British voters exercised their votes in favour of withdrawing from European Union whereas the rest voted against the proposal. The results of the referendum came as a shock to the in...
Pakistan’s Former NSA Admits 26/11 Mumbai Terror Attacks were By Pakistan Based Terror Groups & Mastermind Hafiz Saeed
Inaugurating the 19th Asian Security Conference (ASC), India’s Defence Minister, Manohar Parrikar stated on March 6, 2017; that terrorism remains the most pervasive and serious challenge to global security and while threat of terror is transnational but the response to this threat is generally local and uncoordinated, largely due to conflicting definitions of terrorism and geopolitical constrain...
Surge in Digital Payments Leads to Less Cash Economy
Surge in digital payments is leading India to the cusp of a digital revolution as more than one billion Indians have a unique identity number with a biometric identifier which is unique in its own way. Even countries which are technologically far more advanced than India with comparatively much smaller size population do not have such a system in place. The Aadhaar card initiative is a watershed event in the dev...