Rural Development Ministry releases Community Enterprise Fund loans worth Rs. 8.60 crore to 2600 Self Help Group (SHG) entrepreneurs for starting micro-enterprises in their villages.
Centre announces major changes in Telecom sector. It includes improving 4G networks and creating investment to create 5G networks, and allowance of 100% FDI under automatic route for telecom sector, enhancing spectrum auction limit to 30 years from current 20, etc.
HCL Foundation is starting HCL Samuday, a transformational rural development program, in Jharkhand by collaborating with Srijan Foundation. The program will create a repeatable development model, which can be scaled up for rural India. It will create sustainable changes in Education, Livelihood, WASH and Health areas.
In 2020-21, Household to GDP debt rose to 37.3% as compared to 32.5% earlier, and it may have doubled in 2021 as compared to 2018. Debt to asset ratio rose to 3.8% in 2018: SBI report.
61,767 environment-related crimes committed in India in 2020, an increase of 78.1% from the previous year. Tamil Nadu tops the list under environmental cases with 42,756.
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