INDIA
E
– Tourist visa
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Extended to 113 countries
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E – tourist visa can now avail in 16
airports in India
Nuclear
Energy
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India ranks 12th position in nuclear
energy
Top 5 countries in terms of nuclear reactors and their
capacity of production
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Countries
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Number of Reactors
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Total Generation
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USA
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99
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98639 MWe
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France
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58
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63130 MWe
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Japan
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43
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40290 MWe
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Russia
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34
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24654 MWe
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China
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21
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23025 MWe
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21 countries in the world including
India which are generating electricity from nuclear source
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Current installed nuclear power
capacity in India is 5780 MW (expected to increase by 10080 MW by 2019)
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Indi ahs signed nuclear agreements
with USA, France, Russia, Namibia, Mongolia, Republic of Korea, Argentina, UK,
Kazakhstan, Canada, Sri Lanka and Australia
Tourist
arrivals in India
Tourist Arrivals
in India during 2014
[Top 5 States]
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#
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Foreign Tourists
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Domestic Tourists
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1
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Tamil Nadu
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Tamil Nadu
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2
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Maharashtra
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Uttar Pradesh
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3
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Uttar Pradesh
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Karnataka
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4
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Delhi
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Maharashtra
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5
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Rajasthan
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Andhra Pradesh
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Tamil Nadu ranked number one in
attracting both domestic and foreign tourists during 2014
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13.12% of increase of foreign tourist
visits to India
#100Women
Initiative
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Union Ministry of Women and Child
Development along with Facebook
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To select 100 women achievers of India
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Aimed at recognizing and acknowledging
women who are making a difference in their communities across the country
VYAPAM
Scam
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The scam erupted in 2013 in Madhya
Pradesh now got some attention
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55 cases have been filed so far
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Supreme Court ordered CBI to
investigate the scam
Independence
Day 2015
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69th Independence Day celebrated
across India on Aug 15, 2015
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Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi
launched a new campaign “Start-up India, Stand up India” to promote bank
financing for start-ups and offer incentives to boost entrepreneurship and job
creation
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Union Agriculture Ministry renamed as
Agriculture and Farmer’s Welfare Minister
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To replace the current practice of
interview –based selections for low – skilled government jobs with online merit
based recruiting
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President of India approved 67
gallantry awards
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Web-based portal (www.vidyalakshmi.co.in)
was launched for the benefits of students seeking educational loans
Ramacharitmanas
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi released
digital recordings of epic Ramcharitmanas, as a set of digital CDs produced by
All India Radio (AIR).
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The recordings of Goswami Tulsidas
work, sung by leading singers of Bhopal gharana, have been done by the AIR over
several years and are regularly broadcast especially in the Hindi
heartland.
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The Ramcharitmanas was composed and
recorded for the first time in 1980 at Akashvani Bhopal.
Stamp
on Asoka
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Union Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar
Prasad released a commemorative postal stamp on emperor Ashoka.
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The postal stamp of 5 rupees will be
available for sale in the post offices.
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Prasad announced to release the postal
stamp during a Bharatiya Janata Party function to celebrate the birth
anniversary of Ashoka.
Twin
Heritage Cities
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Union Tourism Ministry will confer the
title of `twin national heritage cities' on the temple towns of Rishikesh and
Haridwar, the first instance of such a tag being given to any city in the
country
73rd
anniversary of Quit India Movement
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On August 09, 2015
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Both the houses of Parliament paid
homage to the martyrs of the Quit India Movement.
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In Rajya Sabha Chairman Hamid Ansari
mentioned that August 9 marked the 73rd anniversary of the historical call
given by Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi for the British rulers to Quit
India in 1942.
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In the Lok Sabha, Speaker Sumitra
Mahajan said, “on this occasion, we pay our homage to the Father of the nation
and to all martyrs who sacrificed their lives for the freedom of our motherland
and rededicate the high ideals for which they stood.’
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Both the houses reaffirmed its
commitment to uphold the sovereignty, integrity, unity and economic well being
of the country.
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As a mark of respect they also
observed a few minutes of silence.
Religion
Survey
Religion
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Population
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%
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Hindu
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96.63
crore
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79.8%
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Muslim
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17.22
crore
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14.2%
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Christian
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2.78
crore
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2.3%
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Sikh
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2.08
crore
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1.7%
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Buddhist
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0.84
crore
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0.7%
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Jain
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0.45
crore
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0.4%
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Other
Religions
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0.79
crore
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0.7%
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Religion
Not State
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0.29
crore
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0.2%
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Registrar General and Census Commissioner
of India (RGI) released the Census 2011 on population by religion communities
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Hindu population declined by 0.77%,
Muslim population declined by 0.8%, Sikh population declined by 0.2% and
Buddhist population declined by 0.1%; No change in Christian and Jain
population
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Maximum Hindu Population (in %):
Himachal Pradesh > Dadra & Nagar Haveli > Odisha > Chhattisgarh
> Madhya Pradesh
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Maximum Muslim Population (in %):
Lakshadweep > Jammu & Kashmir > Assam > West Bengal > Kerala
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Maximum Christian Population (in %):
Nagaland > Mizoram > Meghalaya > Manipur > Arunachal Pradesh
Swachch
Bharat Ranking
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Urban Development Ministry released
the list of 476 cities in the country on the performance ranking on Swachh
Bharat Abhiyan (Cleanest cities)
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Top 3 cities that are clean in India
are: (1) Mysuru (2) Trichy (3) Navi Mumbai
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West Bengal’s performance was
extraordinarily as it listed 25 cities in top 100
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Prime Minister’s constituency of
Varanasi ranks 418
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Damoh (Madhya Pradesh) ranked at 476th
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Other cities in the rank are: (4)
Kochi (5) Hassan (6) Mandya (7) Bengaluru (8) Thiruvananthapuram (9) Halisahar
(10) Gangtok
Women Police force in India
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On an average, women police force in
India is just 6%
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Chandigarh tops the char with 14.16%
of women force followed by Tamil Nadu with 12.42%, Andaman & Nicobar Is
with 11.27%, Himachal Pradesh with 11.17% and Maharashtra with 10.48%
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On absolute numbers of women police
force, Maharashtra tops the list followed by Tamil Nadu
Web
portal for farmers
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Union Agriculture Minister, Mr. Radha
Mohan Singh launched 3 web portals – Soil Health Card portal, Fertilizer
Quality Control System portal and Participatory Guarantee System India portal.
SAMANVAY
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Rural Development Minister Chaudhary
Birender Singh launched SAMANVAY, a compilation of all schemes of both Union
and State governments for Gram Panchayats.
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SAMANVAY was launched with an aim to
help MPs in utilising relevant schemes in the planning and implementation of
Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana (SAGY)
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Besides, Rural Development Minister
also launched 'Panchayat Darpan' magazine to monitor the progress of the
Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana.
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It will act as a mirror of all the
development activities in the village panchayats.
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Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana was
launched in October 2014 under which MPs are to develop three Adarsh Gram
Panchayats by 2019.
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The objective of the programme is to
create Model Villages
Santhara
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Rajasthan High Court stayed the
Santhara festival; it is a ritual festival of Jainism
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Santhara is a voluntary religious
practice of facing death at the end of one's life
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Later, Supreme Court stayed the
Rajasthan High Court judgment
PAHAL
Scheme
· Union
Government’s ambitious Pratyaksha Hastaantarit Laabh (PAHAL) scheme was
acknowledged as the world’s largest cash transfer program (households) by the
Guinness Book of World Records
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The scheme was formally launched as
Direct Benefit Transfer Scheme for LPG subsidy in 2013 in 291 districts under
the aegis of Union Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas.
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The scheme was modified and named as
Pahal in November 2014 and was then again launched in 54 districts.
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Later it was extended nationwide on 1
January 2015.
Green
Highways Policy, 2015
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Union Minister of Road Transport &
Highways and Shipping Nitin Gadkari launched Green Highways (Plantation,
Transplantation, Beautification and Maintenance) Policy, 2015.
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The policy that seeks to promote green
covers along National Highway corridors was launched at the National Conference
in New Delhi.
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The Green Highway Policy will make it
compulsory for road developers to set aside 1 percent of the Total Project Cost
(TPC) for Highway Plantation and Maintenance.
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The policy calls for creation of fund
account called Green Highways Fund (GHF) for developing green covers along the
NH corridors.
Google
to team up with India for free Wi – Fi facility in railway stations
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Internet search engine giant Google
announced its tie-up with Indian Railways that will provide free Wi-Fi
facilities to 400 stations.
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The Wi-Fi facilities will be provided
under Project Nilgiri.
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The plan will initially start with 100
busiest railway stations.
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Later, the facility will be extended
to the remaining stations.
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The project will make Internet
hot-spots available to more than 10 million people just with the first 100
stations online.
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This will make it the largest Wi-Fi
project in the country.
National
Encryption Policy
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Department of Electronics and
Information Technology (DeitY) released the Draft National Encryption Policy.
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The purpose of the policy is to
encourage use of encryption technologies and products among governmental
agencies, businesses and citizens for more secure communications and financial
transactions in the cyber space.
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The draft policy was framed under
Section 84A and Section 69 of Information Technology Act, 2000 that deals with
prescribing modes or methods of encryption and decryption respectively.
NOTA
symbol
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The Election Commission (EC) has
introduced a specific symbol for ‘None of the Above (NOTA)’ option.
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This symbol will appear in the last
panel on EVMs and other ballot papers at all elections from now on.
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It may be recalled that the EC had
introduced NOTA option on EVMs and all other ballot papers with effect from
October11, 2013, pursuant to Supreme Court’s order dated September 27, 2013.
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The main objective of the option is to
enable electors who do not wish to vote for any of the candidates to exercise
their right not to vote without violation of the secrecy of their decision.
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The symbol has been designed by
National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad.
Hybrid
vacuum toilets in Indian Railways
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Indian Railways announced that it has
developed a prototype of Hybrid Vacuum Toilet.
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It is hybrid because the design is
based on both vacuum toilets and biotoilets.
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At present, the technology is only
seen aircrafts.
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It was installed in the
Delhi-Dibrugarh Rajdhani train on trial basis.
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- UIDAI shifted from NITI Aayog to Union IT Ministry
- National Health Profile (NHP) 2015 was released. It was prepared by the Central Bureau of Health Intelligence (CBHI).
- West Central Railway Zone: first to eliminate all Unmanned level crossings
- 15,000 jobs for disabled by Feb. 2016: Centre
States
ANDHRA
PRADESH
- Interlinking rivers Godavari and Krishna (Pattiseema Project); Union Government earlier constituted a Task Force (B N Navalawala) on interlinking of rivers across the country
- E – Pragati Project; The Andhra Pradesh government launched the AP State Enterprise Architecture (APSEA) e-Pragati project to bring all the government services under one roof.
DELHI
- Delhi Government announced a new City Taxi Scheme 2015 under which permits will be issued to 600 vehicles
GUJARAT
- The Gujarat government issued a notification making voting in local body elections compulsory under the controversial Gujarat Local Authorities Laws (Amendment), Act 2009 (2014).
HARYANA
- Mhara Gaon – Jagmag Gaon Scheme: 24 hour uninterrupted power supply to domestic rural domestic consumers in phased manner
- Thari Pension Thare Pass Scheme: to ensure transparency in disbursement of social security pensions will be implemented phase wise
- Qualification set for Local Body elections; becomes the second State after Rajasthan to set such qualifications
- Sakhi scheme: help the women, who are suffering from sexual, mental and emotional harassments (Including eve-teasing, domestic violence and rape).
HIMACHAL
PRADESH
- RISHTA Project: Rajiv Gandhi Illuminating Scheme for Hill Town Advancement – an efficient LED based street lighting project; Scheme is also known as Centralized Control and Monitoring System (CCMS)
- Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh announced that Sanskrit will be introduced as a mandatory subject in all Government schools of the state
JHARKHAND
- Jharkhand Government empowered Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) to arrest Minister, MLA and senior civil servants without taking permission from the concerned authorities in cases of being caught on taking bribes
KERALA
- Kerala Tourism gets PATA Award (Pacific Asia Travel Association) in the ‘Heritage & Culture’ category
- Kerala government signed a MoU with Adani Group led Adani Vizhinjam Port Private Ltd for developing 7525 crore rupees Vizhinjam International Deepwater Multipurpose Seaport near Kovalam beach
- Cochin (Kochi) International Airport becomes the first Indian airport or may be the first in the world to operate on solar power and turn itself to a “Green Airport”
- Kochi became the first Indian city to be a member of Beijing headquartered World Tourism Cities Federation (WTCF) Council and join its league of leading tourism cities across the world
- Chief Minister announces the State as ‘complete digital state’
- 'Chengalikondan' banana variety of nendran gets GI tag
MADHYA
PRADESH
- M – Shiksha – Mitra: a mobile application; to provide various services and teaching-related work to teacher in a simple and easy way
- Swachhata Sangraam Abhiyan: to make the entire district (Depalpur) open defecation-free by the end of the financial year 2015-16
MAHARASHTRA
- Shyamprasad Mukherjee Jan Van Vikas Scheme: aim of the scheme is to create comprehensive development of villages in the buffer zone of tiger reserves
- Declared the year 2017 as the Visit Maharashtra Year to promote tourism in the state and thus to attract more tourists
RAJASTHAN
- Arogya Rajasthan Campaign: from Dec 2015 to Mar 2016; campaign will help in collection and compilation of health data of the rural population in the state. During the campaign, the rural residents would be issued health cards based on spot diagnoses. The cards would be used for further treatment and follow-up of patients.
- Annapurna Bhandar Yojana: aim to provide better quality multi – brand consumer goods at competitive prices to the public of the State through Fair Price Shops
- VASTRA – 2015: Government has approved seven textile parks under SITP (Scheme for Integrated Textile Parks) in Rajasthan to generate jobs and attract investments
- Rajasthan became the first Indian state to submit State Annual Action Plan under Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT)
TELANGANA
- Grama Jyothi Scheme: aimed at comprehensive development of rural areas allowing planning and execution of works by villages themselves
TRIPURA
- Tripura legislative assembly passed a resolution against the death penalty.
- The resolution moved by Congress MLA Jitendra Sarkar requested the Union government to amend the Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and replace it with life sentence unto death.
- The resolution passed is apparently the fallout of recent hanging of Yakub Memon, prime accused in 1993 Mumbai serial blasts.
- National Food Security Act came into effect from Sep 01, 2015; will be continued till 2021; Tripura is the first State to implement NFSA in entire North – Eastern region; as of now 15 States / UTs implemented the NFSA scheme fully or partially
UTTARAKHAND
- First State in India to get earthquake warning system
India in 2015 (April - June)
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