SRESHTA Scheme: • The Government of India is to launch SRESTHA Scheme for the Scheduled Caste students. • The scheme is to be implemented by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment. • It targets the meritorious students of Scheduled Caste. It will also help to control the drop out ...

Rythu Bandhu ✓ Rythu Bandhu is a scheme under which the state government extends financial support to land-owning farmers at the beginning of the crop season through direct benefit transfer. ✓ The scheme aims to take care of the initial investment needs and do not fall into a debt trap. ✓ ...

Amarkantak Mountain Range ▪️ The Amarkantak region is a unique natural heritage area and is the meeting point of the Vindhya and the Satpura Ranges, with the Maikal Hills being the fulcrum. ▪️ Location: District Anuppur, State Madhya Pradesh ▪️ This is where the Narmada River, the Son ...

■  Chennai to be developed as a ‘sponge city' - ∆ To combat urban floods, it is necessary to use new water management systems and convert Chennai into a sponge city. ∆ The idea behind sponge cities is to make cities more permeable, with more open spaces to collect rainfall and enable it ...

■ DEMAND FOR A CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY ◇ It was in 1934 that the idea of a Constituent Assembly for India was put forward for the first time by M.N. Roy, a pioneer of communist movement in India. ◇ In 1935, the Indian National Congress (INC), for the first time, officially demanded a ...

COMMODITY MONEY • Commodity money is money whose value comes from a commodity of which it is made. • Commodity money consists of objects having value or use in themselves (intrinsic value) as well as their value in buying goods – for example, gold not only use as medium of exchange but also ...

∆Money ✓ “Anything which is widely accepted in payment of goods or in the discharge of other kind of payment obligations”. ✓ “Money can be defined as anything that is generally acceptable as a medium of exchange and at the same time act as a measure and a store of value”. ✓ Economist has ...

Monetary Policy Committee: • It is a statutory and institutionalized framework under the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934, for maintaining price stability, while keeping in mind the objective of growth. • The 6-member Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) constituted by the Central Government as ...

■ INTERIM GOVERNMENT (1946) ✓Members and portfolio they held. ◇ Jawaharlal Nehru - Vice-President of the Council; External Affairs & Commonwealth Relations. ◇ Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel - Home, Information & Broadcasting. ◇ Dr. Rajendra Prasad - Food & Agriculture. ◇ Dr. ...

Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritva Abhiyan ✅ launched by the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (MoHFW), Government of India. ✅ The program aims to provide assured, comprehensive and quality antenatal care, free of cost, universally to all pregnant women on the 9th of every month. ✅ ...