TRIUMPH IAS ACADEMY MUMBAI

The Prime Minister has announced that on the occasion of Ambedkar Jayanti  a “Gram Swaraj Abhiyan” would be organised starting from 14 th April to 5 th  May, 2018.  This Abhiyan is being undertaken for reaching out to poor households, spreading awareness about government welfare schemes and other people centric initiatives. As a special initiative during the Gram Swaraj Abhiyan, universal coverage under seven welfare programmes including Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) in 21058 identified villages with large number of underprivileged households across the country has been contemplated. Highest importance is given to saturate these villages with the benefits of seven welfare programmes. Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas and Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, Shri Dharmendra Pradhan held a video conference today with all State Heads of LPG representing three Oil Marketing Companies (OMC) and discussed about preparations undertaken for uni...

The Budget Session, 2018 of Parliament which commenced on Monday, 29 th January, 2018 has been adjourned  sine die  today i.e. Friday, the 6 th  April, 2018. In between both parts of the session, both Houses also adjourned for recess for a period of 23 days on Friday, the 9 th  February, 2018 to reassemble on Monday, the 5 th  March, 2018 to enable Departmentally related Standing Committees to examine and report on the Demands for Grants relating to various Ministries/Departments. Addressing the media here today, Union Minister for Parliamentary Affairs and Chemicals & Fertilizers, Shri Ananthkumar, along with Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs and Statistics & Programme Implementation, Shri Vijay Goel and Minister of State for Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation and Parliamentary Affairs Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal, informed that the first part of the Budget Session yielded a total of 7 sittings of Lok Sabha and 8...

As per the World Economic Situation and Prospects 2018 report of the United Nations, the Indian economy is projected to grow at 7.2 per cent in 2018-19 and 7.4 per cent in 2019-20. The report indicates that the outlook for India remains largely positive, underpinned by robust private consumption and public investment as well as ongoing structural reforms. Share of public sector (including public financial corporations, public non-financial corporations and General Government) in total Gross Fixed Capital Formation (GFCF) increased from 21.4 per cent in 2011-12 to 23.3 per cent in 2014-15 and further to 25.1 per cent in 2016-17 (the latest year for which data is available). The share of public GFCF in GDP at current prices increased from 7.0 per cent in 2014-15 to 7.2 per cent in 2016-17. The average contribution of public sector GFCF to GDP growth was 9.5 per cent from 2014-15 to 2016-17, as compared to 3.0 per cent in 2012-13. The confidence in the Indian economy has...

     An all encompassing coordinated and composite exercise named Gaganshakti is being conducted by the IAF from 08-22 Apr 18. The aim of this exercise is real time coordination, deployment and employment of Air Power in a short & intense battle scenario.       During Gaganshakti IAF will exercise the entire machinery to validate its concept of operations and war waging capability. With each successive exercise, the lessons learnt in the previous exercises and doctrinal precepts are put to test, for developing new concepts. This year the IAF has planned tactics that will be tested in a real time scenario.       Concepts of accelerated operations, Network Centric Operations, long range missions with concentrated weapon releases across all air to ground ranges in India, inter valley troop transfer, flexible use of airspace, Joint Maritime Air Operations with the Indian Navy, Joint Operations with the Ind...

NORTH EAST (DoNER)      Sab Ke Saath- Poorvottar Ka Vikas ·           Naga Peace Accord ·           Promotion of Organic Agriculture ·           Developing North Eastern States as Organic Capitals ·           Sikkim becomes the First fully organic state in the country- 31.12.2016. 75,000 hectares of agricultural land into sustainable cultivation. ·           Mizoram on India’s railway map, first broad gauge freight train enters state on 21.3.2016 ·           Tripura on India’s broad gauge railway map, Tripura Sundari Express flagged on 31.7.2016 ·           Meghalaya on the Indian Railways map. PM Narendra Modi flags off the first passenger...

SOCIAL JUSTICE & EMPOWERMENT (SJ&E) SABKA BHAARAT –SAMAGRA BHARAT BUDGETARY ALLOCATION ·           The allocation for Scheduled Castes has been increased by 35% compared to BE 2016-17. ·           The allocation for Scheduled Tribes has been increased to  Rs  31,920 Cr and for Minority Affairs to  Rs  4,195 Cr  SCHOLARSHIPS FOR SC/ST STUDENTS ·           Scholarships for SC/ST students – 3,30,64,900 student benefitted during 2014-15 and 2015-16 by distribution of  Rs  7565 Cr (HRD) ·           Under the scheme of Venture Capital Fund, 36 proposals worth  Rs . 135.91 Cr have been approved for Scheduled Caste Entrepreneurs. INCREASE IN RESERVATION FOR DIVYANGJAN ·           Reservations for  D...

Resurgent India SELF RELIANT INDIA Samvardhit  Bharat-  Swalalambi  Bharat Technology driven India ( DoS ) Mangalyaan  Mission ·              India’s successful  Mangal  Yan Mission India sends 104 Satellites in Space ·     India scripted a new chapter in the history of space exploration on 15 th  February, 2017 with the successful launch of a record number of 104 Satellites by  ISRO’s  Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle PSLV-C37 in a single mission. ·     Out of these 101 co-passenger satellites carried were international customer satellites from USA (96), Netherlands (1), Switzerland (1), Israel (1), Kazakhstan (1) and Saudi Arabia (1). National Supercomputing Mission NAVIC ·     The Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) with an operational name of NAVIC ("sai...