Muppavarapu Venkaiah Naidu is an Indian politician who served as the 13th vice president of India from 2017 to 2022. He has also served as the minister of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation,Urban Development and Information and Broadcasting in the Modi Cabinet.
Keshari Nath Tripathi was an Indian politician,who served as Governor of West Bengal from July 2014 to July 2019 and also as Governor of Bihar,Meghalaya,and Mizoram at various times. He was a member of Bharatiya Janata Party. He was the Speaker of Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly three times,and the president of Bharatiya Janata Party,Uttar Pradesh.
Dharmendra Pradhan is an Indian politician currently serving as the Union Minister of Education for India since 2021. From 2021 to 2024,he also held the position of Minister of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship in the Government of India. An alumnus of Talcher Autonomous College and Utkal University,Dharmendra Pradhan has previously served as the Minister of Petroleum &Natural Gas and the Minister of Steel.
Aruvanpalli Puthiyapurayil Abdullakkutty(born 8 May 1967) is an Indian politician. He was elected as the National Vice President of the Bharatiya Janata Party on 26 September 2020. He has also served as the BJP Vice President of Kerala state. He is also a former member of Lok Sabha from Kannur and former MLA from Kannur constituency of Kerala state.
Pradhan Mantri Gramin Aawas Yojana is a social welfare programme under the Ministry of Rural Development,Government of India,to provide housing for the rural poor in India. A similar scheme for urban poor was launched in 2015 as Housing for All by 2022. Indira Awas Yojana was launched in 1985 by Rajiv Gandhi,the Prime Minister of India,as one of the major flagship programs of the Ministry of Rural Development to construct houses for the Below Poverty Line population in the villages.
Agriculture in India is highly susceptible to risks like droughts and floods. It is necessary to protect the farmers from natural calamities and ensure their credit eligibility for the next season. For this purpose,the Government of India introduced many agricultural social insurances throughout the country,the most important one of them being Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana.
Chandrakant Bacchu Patil is an Indian politician and the Higher and technical education minister of Maharashtra state in the present Government of Maharashtra. Chandrakant Patil was the Maharashtra state President of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from 2019 to 2022.
Girish Dattatray Mahajan is a politician from Jalgaon district of Maharashtra. He is the current MLA of Jamner taluka representing Jamner vidhan sabha constituency. He is a senior leader of Bharatiya Janata Party. Girish Mahajan is the Rural development minister of Maharashtra state.
Dr. Sanjay Kute is a member of 11th,12th,13th,14th,15th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. He represents the Jalgaon (Jamod) Assembly Constituency. He belongs to the Bharatiya Janata Party. Kute was a member of the 11th and 12th Assemblies too,and has been president of Buldhana district Bharatiya Janata Party. In July,2007,Kute was arrested during an agitation for compensation to rain hit farmers.
Chandrashekhar Krishnarao Bawankule is President of Bharatiya Janata Party,Maharashtra and Member of 15th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly representing Kamptee Vidhan Sabha. He was member of the 13th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly &Minister for Energy,New and Renewable Energy Maharashtra,Ministry of State Excise (Maharashtra),and also appointed Nagpur Guardian Minister on 26 December 2014.
Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) is a credit-linked subsidy scheme by the Government of India to facilitate access to affordable housing for the low and moderate-income residents of the country. It envisaged a target of building 2 crore (20 million) affordable houses by 31 March 2022. It has two components:Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana(Urban) (PMAY-U) for the urban poor and Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana (Gramin) (PMAY-G and also PMAY-R) for the rural poor,the former administered by Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs and the latter by Ministry of Rural Development. This scheme converges with other schemes to ensure that houses have a toilet,Saubhagya Scheme for universal electricity connection,Ujjwala Yojana LPG connection,access to drinking water and Jan Dhan banking facilities,etc.
Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojana is a national mission to improve farm productivity and ensure better utilization of the resources in the country. The budget of ₹53 billion (US$620 million) in a time span of one year 2015-2016 has been allocated to this scheme. The decision was taken on 1 July 2015 at the meeting of Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs,approved with an outlay of 50000 crore for period of 5 years.
Give Up LPG Subsidy is a campaign that was launched in March 2015 by the Indian government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. It is aimed at motivating LPG users who are able to afford to pay the market price for LPG to voluntarily surrender their LPG subsidy. As of 23 April 2016,10 million people had voluntarily given up the subsidy. The surrendered subsidy is being redistributed by the government in order to provide cooking gas connections to poor families in rural households free of cost. Maharashtra,Uttar Pradesh,Karnataka,Delhi and Tamil Nadu are the top five states to give up the subsidy.
Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi is an initiative by the government of India that give farmers up to ₹6,000 (US$70) per year as minimum income support. The initiative was announced by Piyush Goyal during the 2019 Interim Union Budget of India on 1 February 2019. The scheme has cost ₹75,000 crore per annum and came into effect December 2018.
Atal Bhujal Yojana is a groundwater management scheme launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the 95th birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee,on 25 December 2019. The purpose of the scheme is to improve groundwater management in seven states of India.
Gramin Bhandaran Yojana,or Rural Godown Scheme,is an Indian government initiative to offer subsidies to individuals or organizations which build or repair rural godowns.
Legislative Assembly elections were held in Madhya Pradesh on 17 November 2023 to elect all 230 members of Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly. The results were declared on 3 December 2023.
Bharatiya Janata Party,Gujarat is the state unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party that operates in Gujarat. C. R. Patil currently serves as state president of the party. The leader of the party is Bhupendrabhai R Patel,the incumbent chief minister of Gujarat. The head office of the party is located in Gandhinagar,Gujarat.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is one of the two major political parties in India and has been the ruling party since the 16th Lok Sabha. It is seeking re-election in the 2024 parliamentary election as the leading party of the National Democratic Alliance,with Narendra Modi as its Prime Ministerial candidate.
