Category Public Policies, Programs and Schemes

Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration(SPARC), 2018: Strengthening India’s global research footprint

The scheme for promotion of academic and research collaboration is a flagship initiative launched in August 2018 by the Ministry of Education. Officially coordinated by the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, the basic idea behind the scheme was to improve the research ecosystem in Indian higher educational institutions.

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. 

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.

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

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