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The government is planning to bring convergence between the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) and the Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana (PMKSY) to restore degraded land and reverse desertification in India.Key Points Increasing Degraded Land:According to the Desertification and Land Degradation Atlas 2021, at least 30% of India’s total geographical area is … Continue reading convergence between Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme and the Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana

The President of India, launched ‘herSTART’ – a start-up platform of Gujarat University.Key Highlights: Women entrepreneurs: Start-up platform dedicated to women entrepreneurs.Aim:It will boost innovation and start-up efforts of women entrepreneursPlatform in connecting women entrepreneurs with various government and private enterprises. #pib

The Ministry of Education, Department of Higher Education has recently launched YUVA 2.0 – Prime Minister’s Scheme for Mentoring Young Authors, an Author Mentorship programme.About Young, Upcoming and Versatile Authors(YUVA 2.0) – It is an Author Mentorship programme to train young and budding authors (below 30 years of age) in order to promote reading, writing … Continue reading YUVA 2.0

Ayurwasthya Yojana It is a central sector scheme under Ayush Ministry to roll out authentic classical AYUSH interventions for promoting community health care and establishing the Ayush Medical health unit. AYUSH is an acronym for Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy and are the six Indian systems of medicine prevalent and practised in … Continue reading Ayurwasthya yojana

In order to reduce the use of chemical fertilisers by incentivising states, the Union government plans to introduce a new scheme called PM PRANAM. Key features of the scheme- PM PRANAM stands for PM Promotion of Alternate Nutrients for Agriculture Management Yojana. The proposed scheme intends to reduce the subsidy burden on chemical fertilisers, which is expected to … Continue reading PM Pranam scheme

State government of Tamil Nadu has recently launched the Chief Minister’s Breakfast Scheme for students of Class I to V in government schools.  About the scheme- The scheme covers around 1.14 lakh students in 1,545 schools.  As of now, there are nearly 46.7 lakh beneficiaries spread over 43,190 nutritious meal centres. This includes around 3,500 students of National Child … Continue reading Breakfast scheme

The Ministry of Social Justice Ministry has so far received 402 online applications from across the country to avail benefits under Scheme for Economic Empowerment of Denotified/Nomadic /SemiNomadic(SEED). However, none of the applications have been approved yet with multiple officials explaining that the exercise to bring all DNT, NT and SNT communities under SC, ST … Continue reading SEED