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State companies have received 1.81 crore applications for fresh connections under the PMUY. About 1.56 crore applicants have been found eligible, of which about 1.01 crore have already been handed fresh gas connections Balance will be covered in the coming months This is expected to increase cooking gas consumer base by 60% and protect more and more women from the hazardous kitchen smoke. Source:- Free LPG connections given to one crore BPL families: Dharmendra Pradhan - The Economic Times

Giving special attention to the interests of Divyang citizens, Government is providing them with aid kits across the country. Almost 10 thousand kits will be distributed at this... the third largest event of this program. The organizers say that in the future such events will be organized on both small and large scales. The mood is upbeat about the Prime Minister's visit to Vadodara. Divyangs will also perform for the Prime Minister, for which they have been preparing for ten days. The government is paying special attention to the welfare of Divyangs with a number of schemes that are receiving wholehearted participation from them, making the schemes highly successful. Source:- http://ddinews.gov.in/Home%20-%20Headlines/Pages/PMinVadodara.aspx

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday laid the foundation stone of Urja Ganga, the ambitious R51,000-crore gas pipeline project, in his Lok Sabha constituency Varanasi. The project aims to provide piped cooking gas to residents of Varanasi within two years and, in another year after that, cater to millions of people in states like Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal and Odisha. The 800-km pipeline will be laid and 50,000 households and 20,000 vehicles will get PNG and CNG gas respectively. The project is said to be a major step towards collective growth and development of the eastern region of India. GAIL has built a network of pipelines covering around 11,000 km. With Urja Ganga project, the total length will increase by 2540 km. Work on the 2540-km long Jagdishpur-Haldia and Bokaro-Dhamra Natural Gas pipeline project will begin and the project is expected to be completed between 2018 and 2020 . The government has combined the development of gas pipeline across the eastern region...

deposits under this flagship financial inclusion scheme have crossed Rs 42,000 crore-mark and the percentage of zero-balance accounts has fallen below 25 per cent. Since April, there has been an addition of about Rs 6,000 crore under the Prime Minister Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY). As many as 24.27 crore accounts have been opened under the scheme and the percentage of zero balance has come down to 24.43 per cent. "No target has been set for reduction of zero balance account, instead strategy is that these accounts are ready for DBT purpose and ensure that there are banking trails for various transactions Source:- PMJDY deposit on rise, crosses Rs 42,000-crore mark: Officials - The Economic Times

India is on the path of becoming a "pivot" for high-tech world manufacturing even as global manufacturing growth is expected to remain low in 2016 due to weakened financial support for productive activities, a new UN report said. The quarterly 'World Manufacturing Production report', published by the UN Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) said world manufacturing output is expected to increase by only 2.8 per cent in 2016. However, in contrast to recent years, there will be no breakout from the low-growth trap in 2016. According to the latest GDP data released in India, the manufacturing sector grew 9.1 per cent during April-June 2016, a slight decline from the 9.3 per cent clocked in January to March. Source:- India on path of becoming pivot for hi-tech manufacturing: UN - Times of India

India’s image as a tourist destination has improved considerably, Country has witnessed upto 40 percent growth in tourist footfall from countries which have been visited by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his last two years in office. 144 investors from 70 companies have already confirmed their participation in the first-of-its-kind mega tourism summit — Incredible India Tourism Investors Summit — to be inaugurated by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on September 21. Around 600 projects would be showcased during the summit. We expect to attract Rs 50,000 crore investment, 144 investors have already confirmed their participation in the event,” Sharma said. Source:- Domestic tourism expected to attract Rs 50,000 crore investment

Industrial Corridors About Rs 22,000 crore will be granted for industrial corridor to the state in the next two or three years. Irrigation Centre to bear 100% cost of Polavaram project 16000 crore around Creation of new capital of State An amount of Rs .2,500 crore has already been paid as support for creation of new capital of State of Andhra Pradesh and a balance of Rs.1,000 crore would be paid in due course. Package for backward areas An amount of Rs.1,050 crore has been disbursed as special package for backward areas and a further amount of Rs.1,050 crore would be paid in the coming years. Education A Petroleum University has already been established. The IIT has already been functioning from a transit campus and the main campus is being constructed. The National Institute of Technology has already been functioning since September 2015 in a temporary campus and its main campus is being constructed. The Indian Institute of Information Technology, Kurnool has alrea...