To enhance and speed up passport services available to citizens, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) initiated the Passport Seva Project (PSP) in May 2010. The PSP is a project that is reliant upon a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), awarded through an open competitive bidding process.
India has a large, complex and multi-layered system of technical and higher education. It has the third-largest higher education system in the world, next to China and the United States. The development of human resources of the country is a critical factor for the progress of the Nation.
The Labor welfare schemes in India were introduced as a means to provide protection and support to workers, especially in the unorganised sector. The Schemes, implemented and monitored by the Ministry of Labor and Employment through the Directorate General of Labor Welfare (DGLW) and its labor welfare organizations (LWOs), are in place to ensure worker safety, provide social security benefits, improve working conditions, and enhance the overall well-being of the workforce.
Very often, students from rural areas, especially those belonging to the weaker sections, discontinue their studies because of lack of secondary schools and colleges nearby and the non-availability of adequate hostel facilities, at a reasonable cost, at places where such educational institutions are located.
Therefore, the Scheme was initiated with a view to facilitating the continuation of education by students belonging to OBCs, especially those hailing from rural and remote areas and poor families.
The International Science and Technology (S&T) Cooperation Policy is an effort set forth by the Department of Science and Technology (DST) to build India’s research partnerships worldwide and to enhance innovation capabilities. The policy is implemented through the International Cooperation (IC) Division that works towards bilateral, multilateral, and thematic collaborations, and unites science with diplomacy to further improve the access to higher-end technologies. India currently has S&T cooperation agreements with 83 countries in the world, including major strategic partners like the United States, Germany, France, Japan, and Australia.
PACER is a research and development (R&D) scheme aimed at studying different aspects of the polar and cryosphere with special attention to the Antarctic, Arctic and the Glaciers of the Himalayas.
India is known to be a country with high biodiversity and a vast array of domesticated crop species and their wild relatives. With more than 811 domesticated crop species and 902 crop wild relatives, the country has a central role in maintaining plant genetic resources that are crucial for agricultural resilience, food security, and fighting the consequences of climate change