Swagat Dash India’s Companies Act of 2013 and subsequent SEBI regulations mandated female board representation in listed companies. While the reforms boosted the percentage of women on boards—from around 5% in 2013 to over 18% by 2025—the depth of change…
GPS Aided GEO Augmented Navigation (GAGAN) is a step by the Indian Government towards initial Satellite-based Navigation Services in India. It is a system to improve the accuracy of a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) receiver by providing reference signals. Satellite Navigation service is an emerging satellite-based system with commercial and strategic applications.
Rural Technology Action Group (RuTAG) is a key initiative sponsored by the Office of Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India in 2004. Ideally designed as a demand-driven mechanism, RuTAG is meant to bridge the gap in rural Science & Technology (S&T) awareness by promoting higher-level S&T interventions to suit specific grassroots needs.
Adopting engineering and technology as a vehicle to address the social needs, the Ministry of Human Resource Development has formulated a catalytic scheme for Impacting, Research, Innovation and Technology(IMPRINT) as a pan india initiative on November 5, 2015.
In 1992, the Government of India allowed conversion to freehold properties through one-time conversion fees. This created a funding mechanism where specific revenue streams supported urban development through revenue recycling. UDF is also central in bridging central and state schemes.
Heavy industries have always served as an accelerator of the economic growth of our country and employ a major share of people in the manufacturing sector. Previously called the Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprise, the ministry was renamed as the Ministry of Heavy Industries on 13th June,1956.
The Ministry of Heavy Industry is concerned with the development of the Heavy Engineering and Machine Tools Industry, Heavy Electrical Engineering Industry, and Automotive Industry, and administering the following 40 Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs) and their subsidiaries and four autonomous bodies.