Category: Press Release

All 20.4 Cr household ration cards covering 80.6 Crore beneficiaries digitised; 99.8% ration cards and 98.7% individual beneficiaries Aadhaar-seeded Foodgrain distribution operational through 5.33 lakh e-PoS devices, covering all Fair Price shops across the country The Government of India has undertaken several measures to reform

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has taken several measures to combat the persistence issue of spam calls and SMS. Complaintsagainst Spam Calls show downward trend due to Stringent Measures: TRAI issued Directions on 13thAugust 2024, mandating that any entity found to be making

Significant progress made under National Logistics Policy to reduce logistics costs The Network Planning Group, which includes heads of the planning divisions of various infrastructure Ministries, has convened 83 meetings, during which 228 projects (MNRE – 1, MoHUA – 12, MoPNG – 4, MoPSW –

The Department of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare (DA&FW) held a regional conference on 18th & 19th November at Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh to conduct a midterm review of various agricultural schemes implemented by Southern States & UT. Secretary, Dr. Devesh Chaturvedi and key officers from DA&FW, States of

Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi addressed the session of the G 20 Summit on Sustainable Development and Energy Transition. Prime Minister noted that during the New Delhi G 20 Summit, the group had resolved to triple renewable energy capacity and double the energy efficiency rate

Global growth at just over 3 percent is the lowest since the turn of the century when an average of nearly 4 percent prevailed till the pandemic. At the same time, technology is moving at dizzying pace, and if equitably deployed, affords us a historic

Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of Australia held the 2nd India-Australia Annual Summit on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro on 19 November. The 1st Annual Summit was held on 10 March 2023 in New Delhi

Pan-India Campaign Promotes ‘Healthy Ageing and Longevity’ Aligned with Gandhian Principles In a significant initiative to mark the 7th Naturopathy Day, the National Institute of Naturopathy (NIN), under the Ministry of Ayush, has launched a pan-India campaign focusing on the theme ‘Healthy Ageing and Longevity.’

A steady decline in Out-of-Pocket expenditure as a percentage of Total Health Expenditure has been observed in the last 5 years from 48.8% in 2017-18 to 39.4% in 2021-22 The budget allocation for the Department of Health & Family Welfare increased by 85% from Rs.