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From village to IFS: Chhattisgarh youth shares journey from tendu leaf collection to gazetted officerHailing from a forest-dependent family in Chhattisgarh's Raigarh district, Ajay Gupta achieved an All India Rank of 91 in the IFS and 452 i...
Return-to-origin shipments, not customer returns, are India's biggest e-commerce margin problem, says Blue DartReverse logistics is evolving from a cost centre into a strategic driver of customer trust, retention and margin protection in India’s fast...
Social justice ministry spends Rs 2,042 crore on educational schemes in FY-26The Union Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment has allocated over Rs 2,000 crore for educational initiatives benefiting OBC, EBC, and...
Need of the hour to revise creamy layer income ceiling for OBCs: Parliamentary panelA parliamentary panel urges revising the OBC creamy layer income ceiling, last updated in 2017, to include more eligible families due to in...
Rahul Gandhi writes to PM Modi, flags delay in scholarships for students from marginalised communitiesRahul Gandhi has addressed Prime Minister Narendra Modi regarding critical issues. He highlighted the poor state of hostels for Dalit, ST, ...
Minority Affairs Ministry allocated over Rs 5,020 crore in 2022-23 Union BudgetMinority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi hailed the 2022-23 Budget and said it advances the opportunity for self-reliant India amid th...
Centre seeks poll panel go-ahead to release Rs 200-crore SC scholarshipsThis is the first of the Centre's 'references' to the poll panel amid the model code of conduct that has kicked in with respect to election...
28% increase in outlay for SC, OBC welfare plansThe overall budget for ministry of social justice and empowerment has gone up from ₹8,207.56 crore to ₹10,517.62 crore – a 28% increase. Th...
Scholarship for 60 lakh Scheduled Caste school students stuck after end of Central fundingThe issue, pending Cabinet approval for nearly a year now, was recently escalated to the Prime Minister’s Office and discussed in detail in...
25 million meritorious students from deprived sections to be tracked across IndiaIn a major welfare outreach, the ministry of social justice and empowerment is working on creating a central database of all meritorious st...
Budget 2020: Social sector push with enhanced allocations for welfare schemesThere is a 14% increase in the budget allocation for ministry of social justice and empowerment and a 7.5% increase in that of tribal affai...
Rs 7,200-crore scholarship plan for reserved classProposal is for class 9 to postgrad students of OBC, SC, Denotified tribe, EBC categories. Centre also proposes to link senior citizens wit...
Government mulling revising scholarship norms for SC studentsThe move comes in the backdrop of unearthing of corruption in implementation of centrally-sponsored 'post-matric scholarship and freeship' ...
Tamil Nadu CM Jayalalithaa seeks PM's intervention on post-matric scholarship issueJayalalithaa said her government had to incur a total expenditure of Rs 1,295.55 crore towards post-matric scholarships in 2015-16.
2.43 crore students benefited from Central schemes for minoritiesA total of 2.43 crore students including 1.24 crore girl students benefited from three Central schemes for youngsters from minority communi...
Only 4.5 per cent population is graduate or above: CensusOnly 4.5 per cent of the population in the country is educated upto the level of graduate or above while a majority of 32.6 per cent popula...
- Make scholarship schemes for minorities 'demand driven': Panel
During 2014-15, Rs 1,129.27 crore was released for the pre-matric scholarship for awarding 74.97 lakh scholarships up to March 2015.
- Government implementing 72 out of 76 Sachar panel recommendations
Government has accepted 73 recommendation of Sachar Committee and 72 of these are being implemented by various ministries and department, M...
- Government hikes scholarship amount for ST students, disabled
Government decided to substantially hike the post-matric scholarship amount and other benefits given to students from scheduled tribes and ...
- Free education for Dalits up to PhD?
HRD ministry has asked the Centre to make education free for Dalits up to PhD, in a recommendation from Congress veteran Arjun Singh which ...