New Delhi: Two Memorandum of Understanding (MoUs) have been signed between Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs, Atal Innovation Mission – Niti Ayog and Haryana Vishwakarma Skill University.With an aim of enabling millions and millions of Indian youth acquire necessary skills and contribute towards making India a modern country, India has launched ‘Skilling India’ as a multi-skill development programme on ...
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SAIL to go for Value Addition
Focusing predominantly on value added products, Steel Authority of India Ltd. (SAIL) is looking forward to offer an array of differentiated and quality products in market while focusing on value along with volume. During interaction with employees at SAIL’s Durgapur Steel Plant (DSP), Chairman, SAIL, PK Singh said, in the prevailing stiff market competition, value addition to our products and ...
Read More »Transform Poor Odisha to a Rich One through Mineral Based Industries
Minerals along with the availability of sufficient water, land and man power resources, Odisha should have been the leading state in India for production of large amounts of energy as well as various types of metals and alloys. It is expected that, the integrated iron and steel, special steels, sponge iron, ferro alloys, aluminium and aluminium alloys and strategic metal ...
Read More »THE IRON ORE DEPOSITS OF ODISHA: STRATEGIES TO AUGMENT THE RESOURCES
A peep into the stratigraphy of iron ore can give some scope of locating iron ore at deeper level, which is not mineable with present mining technology. There are other resources in the freehold areas which could be included in the mining leases to add to the dwindling resources. The crises of meeting the needs of steel making industries, we ...
Read More »India Developing Military-Industrial Complex
Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO), an R&D wing of Ministry of Defence (MoD), is mandate to design and develop strategic, complex and security sensitive systems in the fields of missiles, unmanned aerial vehicles, radars, electronic warfare systems, sonars combat vehicles, combat aircraft, sensors, etc. for the Armed Forces as per their specific Qualitative Requirements for enhancing the national security ...
Read More »FDI in Agriculture
Foreign direct Investment (FDI) received in the agriculture sector during the last three years and the current year is given below: Sl. No. Year (Apr-Mar) FDI Equity in (Rs crore) 1 2014-15 365.31 2 2015-16 553.14 3 2016-17 515.49 4 2017-18 (Up to May, 2017) 354.77 S.S. Ahluwalia, the Minister of State for Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, informed the ...
Read More »140 Research Projects on medicinal plants
140 research / studies on medicinal values of plants are being carried out by various government as well as private universities / research institutions/ organizations in India. Presently, research projects on various aspects (viz. literary research, survey, identification, documentation, micropropagation, agrotechnology, drug standardization, pharmacological and clinical research etc.) of medicinal plants are being supported by different Ministries/Departments of Government of ...
Read More »Implementation of Bio-Fuel Scheme
For the development of Biofuels, a National Policy on Biofuels has been announced in the year 2009. The Government, is implementing the Ethanol Blended Petrol (EBP) Programme under which, Oil Marketing Companies sell ethanol blended petrol with percentage of ethanol up to 10% as per BIS specifications, depending upon its availability. This was stated by Piyush Goyal, Minister of State ...
Read More »World Bank Loan for Solar Park Projects
World Bank financing of USD 100 Million for development of internal infrastructure of solar parks has been planned by Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency Ltd. (IREDA) under the aegis of Ministry of New & Renewable Energy. The World Bank loan is proposed to flow to the interested Solar Power Park Developers (SPPDs) through IREDA. This was stated by Piyush Goyal, ...
Read More »National Fertilizers Limited OFS over-subscribed
The Retail Portion of the National Fertilizers Ltd (NFL) OFS has been oversubscribed by the retail investors. Against the 20% portion amounting to Rs. 107.14 crore reserved for retail investors, the total bids of Rs.178.67 crore has been received, thus the Retail Portion got oversubscribed approximately by 1.66 times. The Non Retail portion of the OFS opened on 26th July, ...
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