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Category: State Wise Current Affairs

Indian Railways: World’s tallest Pier Bridge in Manipur

August 18, 2020
World’s tallest Pier Bridge in Manipur
  • The Indian Railways is constructing the world’s tallest pier bridge in Manipur, across river Ijai. The height of the bridge will be 141 meters and its estimated outlay is Rs 280 crore. The bridge is being built at Marangching village and will be completed by March 2022.

‘Karma Sathi Prakalpa’ scheme launched by West Bengal

August 17, 2020
Karma Sathi Prakalpa
  • ‘Karma Sathi Prakalpa’ scheme launched by West Bengal through which the state govt will provide Soft loans to one lakh unemployed youth and subsidies to make them self-reliant.
  • A budget of Rs 500 crore is allotted for this scheme.

Price Monitoring and Resource Unit launched by NPPA in Karnataka

August 17, 2020
NPPA
  • Price Monitoring and Resource Unit launched by the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority(NPPA) in Karnataka with the help of the Karnataka State Drug Control Department to help the NPPA in monitoring the prices of drugs and also the availability of such drugs in the state.

Entrepreneurship Development Programme launched by Arunachal Pradesh

August 16, 2020
Entrepreneurship Development Programme
  • To boost startups and encourage youths to become job creators, Arunachal Pradesh govt recently launched a program named ‘Entrepreneurship Development Programme’.
  • IIM Calcutta Innovation Park will be the knowledge partner of this program.

‘Nasha-Mukt Bharat’ campaign launched in J&K

August 16, 2020
Nasha-Mukt Bharat
  • ‘Nasha-Mukt Bharat’ – Drug free India campaign launched in J&K by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Govt. of India to spread awareness about the side-effects of Drug Addiction in the society.

“Orunodoi scheme” launched by Assam Govt.

August 14, 2020
  • A mega scheme for women’s financial empowerment named “Orunodoi scheme” launched by Assam Govt.
  • The main objective of this scheme is to help the poor households to meet their medical, nutritional, and academic needs besides to meet the additional spending during various festivals and for that the state government has allocated a sum of Rs.280 crore.
Orunodoi scheme

‘Him Haldi Dudh’ launched by the Himachal Pradesh Govt.

August 14, 2020
Him Haldi Dudh
  • A Nutritional Immunity Boosting product manufactured by MILKFED named ‘Him Haldi Dudh’ launched by Himachal Pradesh Govt. This immunity booster drink is a Detox drink which has anti-hangover, anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory.

‘Khaje’, ‘Harmal Chilli’ and ‘Moira banana’ of Goa get GI tag

August 14, 2020
GI tag
  • ‘Khaje’, ‘Harmal Chilli’ and ‘Moira banana’ of Goa get GI tag from the Geographical Indications Registry.

Punjab to will soon launch a scheme to distribute smartphones

August 12, 2020
mobile
  • The Punjab government will soon launch  a scheme to distribute free smartphones to students across the state. In the first phase the scheme will be launched  at 26 different locations in Chandigarh and Punjab.

“Indira Van Mitan” Yojana rolled out by Chhattisgarh

August 12, 2020
Indira Van Mitan
  • “Indira Van Mitan” Yojana was rolled out by Chhattisgarh government with an aim to make the forest dwellers of the state self-reliant. Under this scheme, the government will form groups of youth in 10,000 villages of tribal areas of the state to conduct all forest based economic activities that will create self-employment opportunities for the forest dwellers.