NITI Aayog was established in 2015 in place of Planning Commission which was dissolved in 2014.

The Eighth Plan could not take off in 1990 due to the fast changing economic situation at the centre and the years 1990–91 and 1991–92 were treated as Annual Plans. The Eighth Plan was finally formulated for the period 1992–1997.

Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DDU-GKY) aims to skill rural youth who are poor and provide them with jobs having regular monthly wages or above the minimum wages. It is one of the cluster of initiatives of the Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India that seeks to promote rural livelihoods.

To enquire into the causes and apathy of the rural population towards these programmes and to suggest some corrective measures, a committee was constituted under the chairmanship of Shri Balwantrai Mehta. The committee submitted its report on the 24th of November 1957. This committee in fact laid the foundation stone of the Panchayati Raj in India.

The Bharatmala Pariyojana envisages development of about 26,000 km length of Economic Corridors, which along with Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) and North-South and East-West (NS-EW) Corridors are expected to carry majority of the Freight Traffic on roads.

As per Ministry of Ports, Shipping & Waterways Website – There are 28 Shipyards in the country, 6 under Central Public Sector, 2 under State Governments and 20 under Private Sector Undertakings.

The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) was established in the year 1995 and was reconstituted in the year 2000 with the merger of the Department of Industrial Development.

The base year of the ICI has been revised to 2011-12 from 2004-05 in alignment with the new series of IIP. Combined weight of these eight core industries is 40.27 percent of IIP with base 2011-12.

The Udaan Scheme, a Special Industry Initiative (SII) for the state of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), is funded by the Ministry of Home Affairs and implemented by National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC). Based on the recommendations of the Rangarajan Committee, the scheme has been a major initiative of the central government towards making the educated youth – graduates, post-graduates and three-year diploma holders in engineering – of J&K employable. The Rangarajan Committee was formed in August 2010 and the report by the committee was submitted in February 2011, post which the Udaan scheme was promptly launched in financial year 2011-12. The aim of the Udaan scheme is capacity building of the youth in J&K through skill development and subsequently exposing them to the best of corporate in India. The initiative also aims at providing the corporate sector in India access to the rich talent pool in J&K.

Under the Concessional Credit/Weaver MUDRA Scheme, Margin Money assistance at 20% of loan amount subject to a maximum of Rs.10,000/- per weaver, loan at 6% interest rate and Credit Guarantee for a period of 3 years is provided to handloom weavers/weaver entrepreneurs across the country.

The Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship is a Ministry of Government of India set up on 9 November 2014 to coordinate all skill development efforts across the country.

ICI measures combined and individual performance of production in selected eight core industries viz. Coal, Crude Oil, Natural Gas, Refinery Products, Fertilizers, Steel, Cement and Electricity.

The Eight Core Industries comprise 40.27 percent of the weight of items included in the Index of Industrial Production (IIP).

The Power development in India commenced at the end of the 19th century with the commissioning of electricity supply in Darjeeling during 1897, followed by the commissioning of a hydropower station at Sivasamundram in Karnataka during 1902.

The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi launched the Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana – Saubhagya, at Deendayal Urja Bhawan, in New Delhi on September 25, 2017.

After Independence, India’s first Finance Minister, Shri Shanmukham Chetty, presented the first budget of independent India on 26th November, 1947.

In yet another step to foster innovation in India, the Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), flagship initiative of NITI Aayog, launched the Atal Community Innovation Centre (ACIC) program in NITI Aayog, New Delhi on 31 JUL 2019. The programme aims at spurring community Innovation in underserved and unserved areas of the country.

Union Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas and Steel, Shri Dharmendra Pradhan inaugurated the ACIC program. Stressing upon the significance of innovation, he said that through innovation, India can become a USD 5 trillion economy by 2024-25.

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India’s merchandise exports recorded a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 7.09 percent from April- March 2009-10 to April-March 2018-19 (QE).

SOURCE: Annual Report 2018-19 | Department of Commerce p23

The Infrastructure & Project Monitoring Division (IPMD) of the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) is the Project Management arm and apex monitoring institution of the Government of India. It performs triple role in monitoring the implementation status of central sector projects costing more than Rs 150 Crores in infrastructure sectors and performance of key 11 infrastructure sectors. The IPMD brings out several analytical reports.

The Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission, also known as National Solar Mission, is one of the eight key National Mission’s which comprise India’s National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC). NAPCC was launched on 30th June 2008 which identified development of solar energy technologies in the country as a National Mission. The mission was approved on January 11, 2010 by the government.

The Mission has set the ambitious target of deploying 20,000 MW of grid connected solar power by 2022, which was revised to 1,00,000 MW by 2022 during June 2015.

All Money bills are Financial bills but all Financial bills are not Money bills. Only those financial bills are Money bills which contain exclusively those matters which are mentioned in Article 110 of the Constitution.

Under Article 112 of the Constitution, a statement of estimated receipts and expenditure of the Government of India has to be laid before Parliament in respect of every financial year which runs from 1st April to 31st March. This statement titled “Annual Financial Statement” is the main Budget document.