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PM Mega Integrated Textile Region and Apparel (PM MITRA) ✅PM MITRA Parks will offer an opportunity to create an integrated textiles value chain right from spinning, weaving, processing/dyeing, and printing to garment manufacturing at 1 location ✅An integrated Textile Value chain at 1 location will reduce logistics costs of the Industry ✅Intended to generate ~1 […]

SWAMIH Fund ✅The Special Window for Affordable and Mid-Income Housing (SWAMIH) Investment Fund I is a social impact fund specifically formed for completing stressed and stalled residential projects. ✅The Fund is sponsored by the Ministry of Finance, Government of India, and is managed by SBICAP Ventures Ltd., a State Bank Group company. ✅The fund considers

Dhara Initiative The unique and flagship initiative “Dhara: Ode to Indian Knowledge Systems”, taken up under the aegis of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav by the Ministry of Culture has completed one year in February 2023. ✅The Indian Knowledge Systems (IKS) Division of the Ministry of Education located at AICTE, New Delhi is the key execution

Genetic Improvement program for Indigenous  Fish species ✅Genetic Improvement Programme of Indian White Shrimp: The farmed shrimp sector contributes about 70% of India’s seafood exports worth Rs. 42000 crores, but it mostly depends on one exotic Specific Pathogen-Free stock of Pacific white shrimp species (Penaeus vannamei). To break this dependence on one species and to

Lord Macaulay’s Minute • The famous Lord Macaulay’s Minute settled the row in favour of Anglicists— the limited government resources were to be devoted to the teaching of Western sciences a lone literature through the medium of English language alone. • Lord Macaulay held the view that “Indian learning was inferior to European learning”. •

FIRST ANGLO-MYSORE WAR (1767-1769) • The English were confident of their military strength after their success in Bengal. They concluded a treaty with the Nizam of Hyderabad (1766) persuading him to give them the Northern Circars (region) in lieu of which they said they would protect the Nizam from Haidar Ali. Haidar already had territorial

Scheme: Urja Ganga Project Key Facts about the scheme : Urja Ganga is a pipeline project which aims to provide eco-friendly fuel natural gas to households, vehicles and industries. The first phase of ‗Urja Ganga‘ taken up Jagdishpur – Haldia and Bokaro – Dhamra Pipeline project (JHBDPL). The pipeline is being executed by GAIL (India)

Mission Shakti ✅It is an integrated-umbrella scheme of MWCD aimed at strengthening interventions for women safety, security and empowerment during the 15th Finance Commission period 2021-22 to 2025-26. It has two sub-schemes – ∆Under Samarthya, a new component of Gap Funding for Economic Empowerment has also been added.

Clean Plant program ✅With the demand for foreign planting materials of fruits like apples, avocados and blueberries rising over the years, the Central government plans to set up 10 ‘Clean Plant Centres’ ✅Objective: To boost domestic production of the selected fruit crops ✅Services offered: disease diagnostic, therapeutics, multiplying of plants and generation of mother plants

Pradhan Mantri Virasat Ka Samvardhan Scheme ✅It is a Central sector scheme which focuses on the skilling, entrepreneurship and leadership training requirements of the minority and artisan communities across the country. This is an integrated scheme that converges five erstwhile schemes of the Ministry of Minority Affairs viz, 1.Seekho aur Kamao 2.USTTAD 3.Hamari Dharohar 4.Nai