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Kaiga – Karnataka
Kakrapar- Gujarat
Tarapur- Maharashtra
Narora- Uttar Pradesh

The state-of-the-art missile was launched from Sukhoi-30 MKI. Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) successfully flight tested the Beyond Visual Range Air-to-Air Missile (BVRAAM) ‘Astra’ from Su-30 MKI platform off the coast of Chandipur, Odisha. It is indigenously developed.
Astra is designed to be capable of engaging targets at varying range and altitudes allowing for engagement of both short-range targets at a distance of 20 km (12 mi) and long-range targets up to a distance of 80 km (50 mi).

China
Ex HAND IN HAND
2015-16, 2016-17

USA
Ex YUDHABHAYAS
2015-16, 2016-17, 2017-18

Sri Lanka
Ex MITRA SHAKTI
2015-16, 2016-17, 2017-18

The Nuclear Command Authority comprises a Political Council and an Executive Council. The Political Council is chaired by the Prime Minister. It is the sole body which can authorize the use of nuclear weapons.

 The Executive Council is chaired by the National Security Advisor. It provides inputs for decision making by the Nuclear Command Authority and executes the directives given to it by the Political Council.

It works under the Ministry of Rural Development.

The main purpose of this committee is to coordinate with Central and State and local Panchayat Governments, for successful and timely implementation of the schemes. Efforts will be made to ensure the participation of people’s representatives at all levels in it and successful implementation of the flagship programme of the central government. 

The Chairperson of the committee will be the senior most Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha) elected from the district, nominated by the Ministry of Rural Development. The other Members of Parliament (Lok Sabha) representing the district will be designated as Co-Chairpersons.

RISE scheme was announced in Union Budget 2017-18. It aims to lend low-cost funds to government higher educational institutions. Under it, all centrally-funded institutes, including central universities, IIts, NITs and IISERs can borrow from a Rs 1,00,000 crore corpus over next 4 years to expand and build new infrastructure. It will be financed via restructured Higher Education Financing Agency (HEFA), a non-banking financial company

IMPRESS : Human Resource and Development
Impactful Policy Research in Social Science (IMPRESS) is to promote policy research in social science. The objective is to identify and fund research proposals in social sciences with maximum impact on the governance and society.
MGNREGA :Rural Development
Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act is an employment scheme to enhance livelihood security in rural areas by providing at least 100 days of guaranteed demand based wage employment in a financial year to every household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work. Beneficiaries are willing rural population, unskilled manual labourers and seasonally unemployed.· A 60:40 wage and material ratio has to be maintained.
HRIDAY :Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs
National Heritage City Development and Augmentation Yojana (HRIDAY) is focused on holistic development of heritage cities. The main objective is to preserve the character of the soul of heritage city and facilitate inclusive heritage linked urban development in partnership with the State Government.

Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana(PM-JAY) is a pioneering initiative of Prime Minister Modi to ensure that poor and vulnerable population is provided health cover.

PM-JAY covers more than 10 crore poor and vulnerable families across the country, identified as deprived rural families and occupational categories of urban workers’ families as per the latest Socio-Economic Caste Census (SECC) data

Services under the scheme can be availed at all public hospitals and empaneled private health care facilities.

There is no capping on family size and age of members, which will ensure that all family members specifically girl child and senior citizens will get coverage.

Key highlights • For agriculture, on-lending by NBFCs for term lending is permitted up to Rs 10 lakh rupees per borrower. • For micro and small enterprises, on-lending by NBFCs is permitted up to Rs 20 lakh rupees per borrower. • For housing, the existing limits for on-lending by NBFCs to be classified as priority sector has been doubled from Rs 10 lakh rupees to Rs 20 lakh rupees.
• The total bank credit to NBFCs for the purpose of on-lending should not exceed 5% of the bank’s total priority sector lending. These guidelines are valid till March 31, 2020. • Excluded NBFC: The above changes are not applicable for NBFCs which are microfinance institutions (NBFC-MFI).
An NBFC-MFI is a non-deposit taking NBFC with a minimum net worth of Rs 5 crore and 85% or more of its assets as loans which meet certain thresholds such as, loans given to households with annual income below Rs 1 lakh in case of rural households and Rs 1.6 lakh in case of semi-urban or urban households.

To supplement the efforts of Jal Shakti Ministry, NITI Aayog has prepared the second Round of Composite Water Management Index (CWMI 2.0).
NITI Aayog first launched and conceptualized the Composite Water Management Index in 2018 as a tool to instil the sense of cooperative and competitive federalism among the states. This was a first ever attempt at creating a pan-India set of metrics that measured different dimensions of water management and use across the lifecycle of water. The report was widely acknowledged and provided actionable guidance to States on where they were doing well absolutely and relatively and what they needed to focus on to secure their water future.