Tag: Government Policies & Interventions

In News  Recently ,A 25-year-old pregnant woman moved the Supreme Court seeking an abortion after the Delhi High Court declined her plea . More In News  The woman has also challenged Rule 3B of the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Rules, 2003, which allows only some categories of women to seek termination of pregnancy between 20 […]

In News  Consultative Committee of Ministry of Civil Aviation discussed ‘DIGI YATRA’ project About ‘DIGI YATRA’ It is a project conceived to achieve contactless, seamless processing of passengers at Airports, based on Facial Recognition Technology (FRT).  The project basically envisages that any traveller may pass through various checkpoints at the airport through a paperless and […]

In News Recently, the Union govt. has amended the Legal Metrology (Packaged Commodities) 2011 Rules.  About The Legal Metrology (Packaged Commodities), (Second Amendment) Rules 2022 It has allowed the electronic products to declare certain mandatory declarations through the QR Code for a period of one year, if not declared in the package itself. Earlier, all […]

In News  Economist and Nobel laureate Michael R Kremer has said that for a diverse country like India Randomised Controlled Trials (RCTs) must be carried out at multiple sites for better analysis and to see differences across states. More In News  RCT was heavily discussed after Kremer and fellow economists Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo […]

In News NITI Aayog and the World Food Programme (WFP), India, will launch the ‘Mapping and Exchange of Good Practices’ initiative for mainstreaming millets in Asia and Africa. They will prepare a compendium of good practices for scaling up the production and consumption of millets in India and abroad. About Millet  It is a common […]

In News Recently, the Ministry of Women and Child Development has issued detailed guidelines for the ‘Mission Shakti’ scheme. Mission Shakti About: It is an integrated women empowerment programme as an umbrella scheme for the safety, security and empowerment of women for implementation during the 15th  Finance Commission period 202l-22 to 2025-26.  The norms of […]

In News Recently, UNICEF in a study said that three million children in India have missed DPT doses in 2020 because of a pandemic.  About Diphtheria, Tetanus and Pertussis (DTP3) vaccine The DPT vaccine or DTP vaccine is a class of combination vaccines against three infectious diseases in humans: diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough), and tetanus. […]

In News According to the recent guidelines issued by the Women and Child Development Ministry Beti Bachao Beti Padhao will now be extended across the country.  About Beti Bachao Beti Padhao It is a flagship scheme of the Government of India, launched by the Prime Minister in 2015 in Haryana to arrest the declining Child […]