PM Modi launched the Jal Jeevan Mission mobile application. Details of the mission like households receiving water, quality of water, etc., will be available on the app. This will facilitate transparency and accountability.
MoS for Education announced that tablets will be distributed to 75000 undergraduate students and 2000 school students of ST communities in J & K.
Skill India, in association with DGT and NSDC, is organising an ‘Apprenticeship Mela’ or job fair across India today in 400 locations. Over 2000 organisations from 30 sectors to participate.
Krishak Bharat Cooperative and CSC e-Governance Services India to work together to give farmers options to get fertilizers and agri inputs. They will do this with the help of 4 lakh village entrepreneurs at Common Services Centres (CSCs). It will help farmers with timely support and good quality imports at cost-effective prices.
The World Bank is financing ‘Assam Agriculture and Rural Transformation Project (APART). It will encourage sale of Premium quality rice, mainly the Joha rice, in exhibitions in markets.
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