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Category: State Wise Current Affairs

First-ever Special Economic Zone (SEZ) was laid to foundation stone

September 13, 2020
Special Economic Zone
  • First-ever Special Economic Zone (SEZ) was laid to foundation stone by the Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb at Sabroom which is the southernmost town of the state bordering Bangladesh. It is around 120 km from Agartala.

Scheme ‘Garima’ launched by Odisha

September 12, 2020
Garima
  • With an objective to provide social security and financial benefits for the sanitation workers and their families the scheme ‘Garima’ was launched by the Odisha government.

Heritage Tourism Policy introduced by Gujarat

September 12, 2020
Heritage Tourism Policy
  • With an aim to attract tourism in the unused historical buildings Gujarat state govt recently introduced Heritage Tourism Policy.

India’s largest “Piggery Mission” launched Meghalaya

September 12, 2020
Piggery Mission
  • India’s largest “Piggery Mission” launched Meghalaya with an outlay of Rs 209 Crores to reduce the annual import of Pork worth Rs 150 Crore and make Meghalaya self-sufficient (“Aatma Nirbhar”) in pork production over the next 3 years.

J&K launched ‘Integrated Grievance Redress and Monitoring System’

September 12, 2020
Jammu and Kashmir
  • J&K launched ‘Integrated Grievance Redress and Monitoring System’ (JK-IGRAMS) with an objective to provide a grievance redressal mechanism that will ensure good governance.

Andhra Pradesh tied up with UiPath for skill development corporation

September 11, 2020
UiPath
  • Andhra Pradesh State Skill Development Corporation (APSSDC) partnered with UiPath, an enterprise Robotic Process Automation (RPA) software company, as part of its Academic Alliance Programme.

Amount under ‘Pragati and Saksham’ schemes for J&K students increased to Rs 50,000

September 11, 2020
Pragati and Saksham
  • Govt increases scholarship amount under ‘Pragati and Saksham’ schemes for J&K students from Rs 5,000 to Rs 50,000.
  • Pragati scheme provides scholarships to the girls of UT Jammu and Kashmir from those families whose annual income is less than Rs 8 lakh.
  • The Saksham scheme provides scholarships to all specially-abled students with 40% disability and belonging to families with annual income less than Rs 8 lakh.

Karnataka launched the country’s first integrated air ambulance

September 10, 2020
first integrated air ambulance
  • To provide long distance emergency medical transportation, Karnataka Chief Minister, Yediyurappa launched the country’s first integrated air ambulance service recently. It was jointly launched by the International Critical Air Transfer Team (ICATT) and the Kyathi. ICATT-Kyathi’s fixed wing aircraft have capacity.

Andhra Pradesh launches ‘YSR Sampoorna Poshana’ scheme

September 9, 2020
Andhra Pradesh Govt
  • Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, YS Jagan Mohan Reddy has launched two nutrition schemes ‘YSR Sampoorna Poshana’ and ‘YSR Sampoorna Poshana Plus’ to provide nutritious food to pregnant women, lactating mothers and children in the state.

Electronic Hardware Manufacturing Policy 2020 released by TamilNadu

September 8, 2020
Electronic
  • New Electronic Hardware and Manufacturing Policy-2020 released by TamilNadu with an aim at increasing the state’s electronics industry output to $100 billion by 2025.