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RAJASTHAN Jaipur’s Gandhinagar Railway Station Becomes Fully Women Operated Station The Gandhi Nagar railway station in Jaipur, Rajasthan became railway station to be fully-managed by women. Gandhi Nagar is an important railway station in Jaipur situated on the Jaipur-Delhi rail route. The station has a footfall of more than 7,000 passengers every day. There are … Read more 20.02.18 (RPSC) Rajasthan Current Affairs
RAJASTHAN Union Government Inks $100 Million Loan Agreement With NDB For Rajasthan Water Project The union government has signed second Loan Agreement with New Development Bank (NDB)for the financing of Rajasthan Water Sector Restructuring Project for the Desert Areas. This is the first tranche loan of $100 million was approved by the NDB under Multi-Tranche … Read more 18.02.18 (RPSC) Rajasthan Current Affairs
RAJASTHAN Rajasthan gets Rs 784 cr for smart city projects The Centre has released Rs 784 crore for Rajasthan’s four cities – Jaipur, Udaipur, Kota and Ajmer – which were selected under the smart city projects. The housing and urban affairs ministry has announced 99 cities for central assistance under the BJP government’s flagship programme. The state has … Read more 17.02.18 (RPSC) Rajasthan Current Affairs
RAJASTHAN Rajasthan falls to sixth rank in ease of doing business Rajasthan’s ranking in ‘ease of doing business’ has slipped from top five positions as local bodies and urban improvement trusts (UITs) lag in implementing business reforms. The state’s real-time ranking was third till January 2018, but now it has slipped to sixth position. … Read more 16.02.18 (RPSC) Rajasthan Current Affairs
RAJASTHAN State can leverage land bank to attract industries With the implementation of GST, the scope for using tax as an incentive has gone out of window for the government. Chief minister Vasundhara Raje has to look for other avenues to drive the state’s industrialization and job generation thereof. The one nation, one tax (GST) regime … Read more 13.02.18 (RPSC) Rajasthan Current Affairs
RAJASTHAN State touches rock bottom in NITI Aayog health index The state has secured an appalling last rank among 21 bigger states in the ‘performance in health outcomes’ category when NITI Aayog released the health index of the country. It has done slightly better and come 20th in the overall ranking for 2015-16 in the NITI Aayog … Read more 15.02.18 (RPSC) Rajasthan Current Affairs
RAJASTHAN Highlights of the Rajasthan budget 2018 Royalty exempted to carry out mining in many areas. Zero belt mining policy will be promoted. GST will be reduced on Kota stone Tax relief of Rs 650 crore given in the budget No new taxes imposed in the current budget District Lease … Read more 14.02.18 (RPSC) Rajasthan Current Affairs
RAJASTHAN Rajasthan govt puts Public Private Partnership policy for school education in cold storage The state government has put the policy for Public Private Partnership (PPP) in School Education-2017 on a cold storage after series of protests by the teachers’ associations, opposition party and even their own members of legislative assembly. Under the … Read more 11-12.02.18 (RPSC) Rajasthan Current Affairs
WEST BENGAL KISS to start innings in Kolkata from next year The Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS), that provides free education from kindergarten to Post-graduation to 37,000 tribal students in Odisha, would run a similar centre in Kolkata for poor children. The KISS has entered into an agreement with a Kolkata based NGO to run … Read more 10.02.18 West Bengal(WBPSC) Current Affairs
RAJASTHAN Smart transmission management system launched in Rajasthan Pushpendra Singh, minister of state for energy, launched the smart transmission operation management system through web in the state. Through this system, functions of scheduling of generation and demand, deviation settlement, energy accounting and billing, approval of open access, etc., are automated through web-based services. … Read more 10.02.18 (RPSC) Rajasthan Current Affairs