In a significant step towards enhancing the competitiveness of the food processing industry in India, the Ministry of Food Processing Industries (MoFPI) launched the Pradhan Mantri Formalisation of Micro Food Processing Enterprises (PM FME) Scheme.
Is it not time to finally give up our pretences about India’s improved economic development, or will it take some existential global storm to wake us?
The dawn of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s third term commenced with the release of the 17th installment of the PM Kisan Samman Nidhi, leading to the disbursement of ₹20,000 crore to benefit 9.3 crore farmers across the Indian subcontinent.
PM POSHAN earlier known as the National Programme of mid-day meal in schools is one of the foremost rights based centrally sponsored schemes under the National Food security act, 2013 (NFSA). It provides one hot cooked meal to all school children studying in classes I-VIII in government and government-aided schools. The scheme covers about 11.8 crore children studying in 11.2 lakh schools across the country. The scheme is proposed to be extended to students studying in pre-primary or Balvatikas. The concept of Tithi Bhojan will be encouraged extensively. Tithi Bhojan is a community participation programme in which people provide special food to children on special occasions/festivals.
The article addresses caste-based discrimination in India's labor market, highlighting the need for reforms.
Railways has an estimated 2.74 lakh vacancies, of which 1.7 lakh are related to ensuring safety. Running an organisation with such a huge number of vacancies, especially in roles that underpin safety, is gross managerial failure.
Using a draconian law like UAPA to prosecute a speech made by Arundhati Roy 14 years ago is to profess a fragility that does injustice to the solidity of the nation, however incomplete the task of building Indian democracy might still be.