The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Wednesday approved PM Vidyalaxmi, a new Central Sector scheme that seeks to provide financial support to meritorious students so that financial constraints do not prevent anyone from pursuing higher studies.
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) chaired by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has approved two Railway projects of Ministry of Railways with total estimated cost of Rs.6,798 crore (approx.).
The NCoE will be set up in Mumbai, Maharashtra, in pursuance of the announcement in the General Budget 2022-23 for setting up of an AVGC Task Force in the country.
The mission to the moon constitutes demonstration of the technologies to come back to Earth after successfully landing on the moon and also collect moon samples and analyse them on Earth.
Under the scheme, the acquiring banks will be incentivised by the Government, by way of paying percentage of value of transactions (P2M) done through RuPay Debit cards and low-value BHIM-UPI modes of payments, at an estimated financial outlay of Rs 1,300 crore for a period of one year with effective from April 1, 2021.
The approval came at the 56th meeting of the Central Sanctioning and Monitoring Committee (CSMC) of PMAY (U) held yesterday under the chairmanship of Durga Shanker Mishra, Secretary, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA).
