Jaipur, July 1 (IANS) Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma inaugurated the 29th National e-Governance Conference at the Rajasthan International Centre (RIC) on Wednesday, officials said. Addressing the inaugural session, the Chief Minister said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision of leveraging technology for good governance since 2014 has transformed public service delivery across the country.He noted that the Jan-Dhan, Aadhaar, and Mobile (JAM) trinity has eliminated the role of mi…
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New Delhi, June 28 (IANS) The government on Sunday said that DIKSHA, the Digital Infrastructure for Knowledge Sharing platform, has emerged as the country’s “One Nation, One Digital Platform” for school education, providing curriculum-linked digital learning resources in multiple languages and supporting inclusive, technology-enabled learning for students and teachers across India.Launched in 2017, DIKSHA is spearheaded by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) i…
New Delhi, June 26 (IANS) In a move aimed at improving the ease of doing business and reducing regulatory burdens on the food sector, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Friday notified amendments to the Food Safety and Standards (Licensing and Registration of Food Businesses) Regulations, 2011. The changes exempt non-manufacturing food businesses from certain record-keeping and stock rotation requirements while retaining key food safety controls for manufacturers.Under the earlier regu…
New Delhi, June 11 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday urged states to transform India’s demographic dividend into a ‘development dividend’ by investing in education, skilling and capacity-building of young people, as he chaired the 11th Governing Council Meeting of NITI Aayog.Emphasising that nearly 70 crore Indians are below the age of 25, PM Modi said the country’s youth are its greatest asset and called for coordinated efforts by the Centre and states to harness their potenti…
New Delhi, June 11 (IANS) In a landmark moment for cooperative federalism, the 11th Governing Council Meeting of NITI Aayog witnessed participation from all 28 States and five Union Territories, with Chief Ministers from every State attending the meeting for the first time since the council’s inception. The meeting, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Rashtrapati Bhavan Cultural Centre in New Delhi, was held under the theme “Inclusive Human Development for Viksit Bharat@2047.”Along wi…
New Delhi, June 10 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi will chair the 11th Governing Council Meeting of NITI Aayog at the Rashtrapati Bhavan Cultural Centre here on Thursday with this year’s theme of ‘Inclusive Human Development for Viksit Bharat @2047’, focusing on the well-being and development of every Indian, regardless of age, region, gender, or socio-economic background, according to an official statement.The Governing Council Meeting will deliberate on the approach to realise this visio…
New Delhi, June 10 (IANS) The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) will hold a crucial meeting in the national capital on Wednesday to celebrate the completion of 12 years of the NDA government at the Centre and to mark Prime Minister Narendra Modi becoming India’s longest continuously serving elected Prime Minister.The meeting, scheduled to be held at Bharat Mandapam, is expected to witness the participation of Prime Minister Modi, top Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders, chief ministers and d…
New Delhi, June 9 (IANS) Union Rural Development Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that the Centre released an interim allocation of Rs 95,692 crore to states and Union Territories on Tuesday in addition to the Rs 30,000 crore already allocated under MGNREGA, taking the total outlay past the Rs 1.25 lakh crore mark. Chairing a meeting of Rural Development Ministers of states regarding the implementation of ‘Viksit Bharat-Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin)’, Union Minister C…
Gandhinagar, June 9 (IANS) Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel and Deputy Chief Minister Harsh Sanghavi will participate in the NITI Aayog Governing Council meeting in New Delhi on June 11, sources confirmed to IANS.The meeting, to be chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is expected to bring together chief ministers, lieutenant governors of Union Territories, Union ministers, and senior officials to deliberate on key national development priorities and Centre-state coordination.The Govern…
New Delhi, June 3 (IANS) The National Statistics Office (NSO) has released the uniform guideline for the compilation of District Domestic Product (DDP) estimates with the base year 2022-23, according to an official statement issued on Wednesday.The guideline provides a comprehensive and uniform framework for compilation of District Domestic Product estimates across States and Union Territories with the objective of ensuring consistency, comparability and methodological standardisation in distric…