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Scholarship Scheme: National Means-cum-Merit Scholarship Scheme (NMMSS), 2008

National Means cum Merit Scholarship Scheme is a central sector scheme announced by the former Finance Minister, P Chidambaram, in the 2007-08 annual budget. The Ministry responsible for the scheme's functioning is the Department of School Education & Literacy, Ministry of Education. This scheme provides scholarships to economically disadvantaged students to prevent dropouts after class VIII and encourage continued education. 

From the Himalayas to the High North: India’s Arctic Programme, 2007 and the Future of Polar Engagement

Despite being a tropical nation, India took its first step in the Arctic with the signing of the Svalbard Treaty in February 1920 and then first laid the scientific expedition in the year 2007. All of India’s Arctic ambitions are codified in a formal India’s Arctic Policy document titled “India and the Arctic: Building a Partnership for Sustainable Development”, released on 17 March, 2022.

Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA)

The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) performs various duties, the significant ones among them in - Internal Security, Administration of the Border, Centre-State Relationship, The Administration of Union Territories, The Administration of the Central Armed Police Forces, Disaster Management, etc.

Genome India Project: Decoding the Genetic Diversity of the Indian Population

The Genome India Project (GIP) was launched in January 2020 by the Department of Biotechnology under the Ministry of Science and Technology. The purpose of the Genome India Project is to map the genetic diversity of the people of India. The project’s ambition is to curate a rich and comprehensive catalogue of genetic variations of the Indian population. The need for it arises from the population groups of India being largely endogamous, resulting in genetic variations and harmful, disease-causing mutations.

Centre For Marine Living Resources & Ecology – Marine Living Resources Programme, 1998

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

Commissioning of Polarimetric Doppler Weather Radars

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

Justice on Paper: Why Public Policy Still Fails Rural Women

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.

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