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The Office of Chief Adviser Cost, Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance, celebrated the Indian Cost Accounts Service (ICoAS) Day, today in New Delhi. This year’s theme of ‘ICoAS @ Viksit Bharat’ underscores the pivotal role of ICoAS officers in contributing to the vision of a developed India by 2047. …

In Financial Year 2023-24, Govt eMarket place, GeM, has clocked a Gross Merchandise Value (GMV) of more than ₹4 lakh crore representing a growth of almost 1000 times as compared to the FY 2016-17.The cumulative GMV for Goods and Services on GeM since its inception is more than ₹9.82 lakh …

The Government has approved setting up of 7 (Seven) PM Mega Integrated Textile Region and Apparel (PM MITRA) Parks in Greenfield/Brownfield sites with world class infrastructure including plug and play facility with an outlay of Rs. 4,445 crores for a period of seven years upto 2027-28. The Government has finalized …

The National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG), in collaboration with the National Institute for Urban Affairs (NIUA), successfully concluded the 4th Season finale of the Student Thesis Competition (STC) on ‘Re-Imagining Urban Rivers’. The 4th Season of STC was co-hosted at the Tata Institute of Social Science (TISS), Mumbai, on 6th – 7th August, …

In alignment with Digital India vision, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) continues to drive the integrated and standardized approach to Digital Governance through the Capacity Building Scheme of National e-Governance Division (NeGD). The 2-day training programme on ‘Applications of AI/ML’ being conducted by NeGD, MeitY, in collaboration …

Union Minister of Commerce & Industry, Shri Piyush Goyal, chaired an interaction with the Industry captains here yesterday. The interaction aimed to foster dialogue between the Government and Industry leaders on critical aspects of Commerce and Industry. Shri Piyush Goyal, addressed the gathering, emphasizing the government’s commitment towards fostering a …

As on 30th June 2024, DPIIT has recognized 1,40,803 entities asstartups.Since the launch of Startup India initiative in 2016, the DPIIT- recognised startups have created over 15.53 lakh direct jobs as on 30thJune2024.Further,67,499DPIIT-recognised start-ups haveatleastone-womandirectoras on 30thJune 2024. The Government unveiled an Action Plan for Startups comprising of schemes and …

In order to boost continuous improvement in food processing sector, Ministry of Food Processing Industries (MoFPI) is currently implementing Research and Development Scheme, which is a part of Human Resource & Institutions Scheme under the umbrella scheme of the Ministry i.e. Pradhan Mantri Kisan SAMPADA Yojana (PMKSY). Under the scheme, …

As per the 3rd Advance Estimates 2023-24 released on 4th June 2024 by Department of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare, Government of India, the area under commercial/cash crops has been increased from 18,214.19 thousand hectares in agriculture year 2021-22 to 18,935.22 thousand hectares in agriculture year 2023-24. The state wise details for the last three …

Government time to time constitutes high power committees of distinguished agricultural technocrats and other experts to review the research programs and efforts of the Indian Council of Agricultural research (ICAR) and suggest ways for enhancing research outputs of the ICAR.  Last such committee was constituted in 2017 to undertake outcome …