Groundwater is a significant source of freshwater and is crucial for domestic, agricultural, and industrial purposes. However, unchecked extraction, overexploitation, and contamination pose serious threats to its sustainability
National Water Commission (NWC) subsumes the Central Water Commission (CWC) and Central Ground Water Board (CGWB)
Bharat Maps is an integrated Geospatial Portal of the Survey of India, the National Mapping Agency of India, functioning under the Ministry of Science and Technology. It is officially the web-based GIS (Geographic Information System) portal of India, and it does offer a common and standard geospatial data repository accessible to government agencies, businesses, and individuals.
Bharat Vandana Park is a flagship initiative by the Delhi Development Authority (DDA), introduced as a national integration and ecological park with the objectives of creating a space for human health and wellbeing, social cohesion, tourism, protection of biodiversity and ecological and environmental benefits.
The National Bank for Financing Infrastructure and Development (NaBFID) was introduced in 2021 to promote and fund long-term infrastructure projects in India. It began its operation in December 2022 with the disbursement of its first loan. By March 2024, it had sanctioned ₹86,804 crore for projects in various infrastructure sub-sectors, including roads, renewable energy, water sanitation, among others
Introduced by the Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD) in June 2016, the District Development Coordination and Monitoring Committee—emerged from a pressing need: streamline oversight of 41+ key centrally sponsored schemes across rural India. Evolving from the predecessor District Vigilance and Monitoring Committees, DISHA became a statutory fixture under MoRD guidelines and parliamentary directives.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah's statement that a day would come when those who speak in English would hang their heads in shame has met with the predictable responses pointing out English's utility as an essential link language, within India and for the globalizing world, as the language of knowledge acquisition, and as a competitive edge for India over China. Some have pointed out that English is no longer a foreign tongue; Indians have evolved an Indian version of English that is all our own.