Topic: Ministry of Civil Aviation
How a Modi govt innovation is taking air-connectivity to small-town India
UDAN, launched in 2016, has connected 29 new destinations. By the time phase two ends, 73 cities will be linked, doubling India’s air-connectivity.
Centre’s new gambit to win over the Northeast: Air dispensaries
Govt set to introduce helicopter-based medical services for people living in tough terrain. Minister says nothing to do with polls in 3 northeastern states.
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SPARSH will make defence pension digital, but problems won’t disappear. Ask pensioners
Failure to implement revised OROP and go for SPARSH should ring alarm bells for defence minister. And it won’t be ‘minimum govt, maximum governance’.
‘We are cracking down’— how Modi govt plans to make it tougher for states to fund freebies
The Narendra Modi government is looking at ways to check states’ spending on handouts like free electricity and rations. The first step is to tighten the noose on state borrowings.
Defence
First batch of 19 women cadets join NDA, set to begin training this week
The cadets will train for three years at NDA, Khadakwasla for the 148th course. The Supreme Court last year paved the way for women to take the NDA test for the first time.
In Kashmir 3 years on, 3 positive changes, 3 things that should’ve happened & 3 that got worse
Kashmir as a crisis has fallen off our headlines and from the top of our collective minds. Which is precisely the most important change for the better.