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Central Thrust of the Rail Budget NDA Govt’s Rail Budget 2016-17 comes up with a strong vision to Reorganize, Restructure & Rejuvenate the Indian Railways by New Processes & Structures, New Norms & New sources of Revenue. Great focus on passengers’ comfort and convenience, while ensuring no hike in fares. Introduction of Antyodaya Express, a long-distance, fully unreserved, superfast train service, to be operated on dense routes. Addition of 2 to 4 Deen Dayalu coaches in long distance trains for unreserved trains with facility of drinking water and high number of mobile charging points. ‘Clean My Coach’ service through SMS. Additional 30,000 bio-toilets Bio-Toilets at stations for senior citizens, divyang and women travellers Facility of cancellation through the 139 helpline. ‘Vikalp’ ( Alternative Train Accommodation System)scheme to be expanded to provide choice of trains to wait-listed passengers. Introduction of a new policy where each stall at station can p...

This year, imports are already down by 16% resulting in savings of Rs 22,000 crore so far. India will save Rs 30,000 crore in 2015-16 by cutting down on coal imports as domestic production has picked up. The government is aiming to completely eliminate the import of the kind of coal that is available domestically. Coal India, the state-run company that is the largest coal producer in the country, plans to double its production to 1 billion tonne by 2020. It would have scaled up production to 550 million tonne which is likely to increase to 600 million tonne next year. Typically, Indian coal is almost 40% cheaper than imported coal. India has been importing coal as Coal India was unable to match growing demand. Source:- India to save Rs 30,000 crore in FY16 by cutting down coal imports - The Economic Times

Delta's new R&D centre, Bangalore Delta was one of the multinational companies invited by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi , to the opening event of “ Digital India ” in July 2015. Delta India plans to develop smart energy management solutions at its new R&D centre which is expected to create up to 500 engineering jobs within the next 3 years. Within the next 10 years, Delta’s new factory in Hosur will create up to 20,000 jobs for the manufacturing of power electronics, renewable energy and automation solutions. Delta India Electronics has announced the expansion of its R&D and manufacturing operations with new facilities in Bangalore and Hosur respectively. Delta India plans to develop smart energy management solutions at its new R&D centre. We believe our new R&D centre in Bangalore will be instrumental in the creation of innovative and energy-efficient technologies that will support the realization of national initiatives such as “M ake in India”...

Over 36,700 Gram Panchayats covered by optical fibre so far It is said that the Indian Government has so far laid out 36,738 optical fibre connections in Gram Panchayats across the country and targets to reach the 50,000 mark by March. Now pay online while booking LPG cylinder Consumers can now make online payment for the cooking gas or LPG cylinders at the time of booking.The payment facility can be availed at My LPG.in | Home which can be accessed in 13 Indian languages. Read more:- eGovWatch: Now pay online while booking LPG cylinder Free public Wi-Fi service at Mumbai Central goes live Making Internet available to commuters who travel through railway stations everyday, the Indian Railways’ arm RailTel which provides Internet services as RailWire via its fiber network, has announced the launch of free public Wi-Fi service in partnership with Google at Mumbai Central. Read More:- eGovWatch: Free public Wi-Fi service at Mumbai Central goes live

StartUpIndia summarised in 16 points Compliance regime based on self certification – To reduce regulatory burden, startups shall be allowed to self-certify compliance with labour and environment laws. In case of labour laws, no inspection will be conducted for three years. In case of environment laws, startups under ‘white’ category would be able to self certify compliance. Startup India hub – Will be single-point of contact and hand-holding. Simplifying the startup process – A startup will be to able to set up by just filling up a short form through a mobile app and online portal that will be launched in April. Patent protection – PM Modi said patent protection and IP rights are a major concern for Indian startups. The government will make IPR procedure transparent for stratups. Fast track mechanisms of startup patent applications – in order to allow startups to realise the value of their IPRs at the earliest possible. Patent applications of the startups shall be fast trac...

A job portal exclusively for Persons with Disabilities (PwDs) has been launched to assist differently-abled person in getting a job. Through the National Job Portal, PwDs will be able to avail the different facilities such as self employment loan, education loan, skill training, link to scholarships and information about jobs in a single window platform. “Government has given very high priority to skill training programme for persons with disabilities and has a target for skilling five lakh persons in next three years. The skill training will be provided by a network of 200 clusters of ‘Training Partners’ with financial assistance from government. A time-bound action plan has been prepared for this purpose, the government will also pursue private sector for providing them job after the training He said assistance for education and medical treatment has been given a big thrust by government Recently, a scheme has been launched to plant an especial device for assistance t...