The Centre for Marine Living Resources & Ecology (CMLRE), based in Cochin, Kerala, under the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES), was established in 1998 by upgrading the then Sagar Sampada Cell with exclusive facilities for implementing the Marine Living Resources (MLR) Programme
Polarized Doppler Weather Radars (DWRs) are forecasting systems that use both horizontal and vertical polarization to gather detailed information about precipitation. The operating frequencies of DWRs can range from S-band to X-band, depending on terrain, application, and coverage range. Commissioning PDWRs is an initiative by the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) and is part of one of the eight sub-schemes of ACROSS (Atmospheric & Climate
When I first stepped into a remote village in Rajasthan for a legal literacy camp, I thought I
carried something powerful — knowledge of the law. I believed the law, especially Public
Interest Litigation (PIL), could open doors for those who had always been shut out. But what I
didn’t expect was the silence that followed when I asked a group of rural women if they had ever heard of PIL.
As civilisation has evolved, the migration of individuals from rural areas to urban centres has been a persistent phenomenon, driven by the pursuit of better job opportunities, education, and living standards.
The Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya National Mission on Teachers and Teaching is an umbrella scheme that aims to enhance education quality at all levels by improving the standards of teachers and teaching.
The Indian Government has tried to promote entrepreneurship time and again through initiatives like Startup India, MUDRA Yojana, Atal Innovation Mission, etc. as small businesses not only help create jobs and opportunities for Indians, but also ensure national growth and development as well. However, the benefit of such measures was found to be inequitable.
National Initiative for Design Innovation is a scheme set up by the Department of Higher Studies, Ministry of Education, in March 2014. The main aim of the scheme is to promote innovation, invention and design to contribute to improving the standard of living. Twenty DESIGN INNOVATION CENTERS (DIC), were set up in Government Institutions like IITs, NITs, IIITs and IISc and other State Institutions throughout the country, as a part of the Scheme.