Invest India has joined hands with energy sector companies to offer a unique lab-to-market opportunity for Indian startups through the Integrate to Innovate Programme. Integrate to Innovate is a 3-month corporate acceleration programme for energy startups housed at the corporate premises. The application for the programme is hosted on Startup India Hub – an online platform bringing together all stakeholders ...

The total cotton production and consumption in the country during the current crop year i.e. 2018-19 is not available. However, State-wise estimated production of cotton, as per the Third Advance Estimates for the year 2017-18, is as under:   State Production (in lakh bales of 170 kgs. each) Andhra Pradesh 20.38 Gujarat 126.37 Haryana 16.26 Karnataka 12.24 Madhya Pradesh 18.69 ...

The Minister of State for Shipping, Road Transport and Chemical & Fertilizers Shri Mansukh L Mandaviya in a written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha today informed that the development of viable National Waterways is being undertaken for the movement of cargo and passenger vessels.  Besides, under the Sagarmala Programme, a Central Sector Scheme is being implemented for providing support to ...

Prime Minister’s Employment Generation Programme, (PMEGP), aimed at generating employment in rural and urban areas of the country, has helped women entrepreneurs set up 30,437 projects during 2016-17 and 2017-18 with financial assistance of over Rs. 85,305 lakh. This was stated by the Minister of State (I/C) for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises(MSME) Giriraj Singh in a written reply in theLok ...

 The CIL coal production has increased by 105 MT (approx) during the last four years as compared to an increase of 31 MT (approx) during the period of 2010-11 to 2013-14 (4 years). Similarly offtake of coal from CIL has increased by about 109.12 MT during the last four years as compared to an increase of about 55.04 MT during ...

  The Government is continuously taking steps to boost industrial growth including infrastructure sector which includes putting in place a policy framework to create conducive business environment, strengthening infrastructure network and ensuring availability of required inputs. Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) policy and procedures have been simplified and liberalised progressively. The Government has also taken up a series of measures to ...

The State Level Single Window Clearance Authority Meeting held under the Chairmanship of Chief Secretary Sri Aditya Prasad Padhi accorded in principle approval to 4 investment proposals envisaging investment of around Rs.349 cr.  These projects, mainly in pharmaceuticals, textiles, downstream industries in metals and minerals sectors would create employment opportunities for more than 6000 people. The meeting was held today ...

 Government of India is aware of the fact that 10.98 million tonnes of resources of Molybdenum Ore is located in Tamil Nadu. However, Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) has not taken up any project for exploitation of Molybdenum available near Harur Taluk, Dharmapuri District in Tamil Nadu. Atomic Minerals Directorate for Exploration and Research (AMD), a constituent unit of Department of Atomic ...

As per Public Enterprises Survey 2016-17 laid in Parliament on 13.03.2018, the total number of permanent employees employed in Central Public Sector Enterprises as on 31.03.2017 are 11,30,840 of which Managerial/Executives are 2,65,486. The total number of contract workers engaged by CPSE as on 31.03.2017 stood at 3,38,521. This information was given by Shri Santosh Kumar Gangwar, Union Minister of ...

For incubation and funding support more than 550 Startups have been mentored, 2,20,000 registrations have been achieved and over one lakh queries have been handled by the Startup India Hub as of June, 2018. Eighty incubation centers including Atal Incubation Centres and Established Incubation Centres have been selected for funding by the NITI Aayog in the second phase of Statrup ...