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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 AICTE lauds Rajasthan’s ranking system for engineering colleges Rajasthan Technical University’s (RTU) system of ranking its engineering colleges on a scale of 1000 points has won praise from the All India Council for Technical Education(AICTE), the body governing all technical institutes in the country. AICTE has sought details of the system after which it … Read more 06.02.18 (RPSC) Rajasthan Current Affairs
RAJASTHAN Rajasthan budget to focus on farmers, tribal welfare Chief minister Vasundhara Raje has hinted at focusing the election year budget on farmers and tribal welfare during a pre-budget meeting. Following Central government’s budget, Raje asserted that the state budget will also aim to double the farmers’ income by 2022. The Union government in the … Read more 04-05.02.18 (RPSC) Rajasthan Current Affairs
RAJASTHAN Alumni associations at govt schools soon in Rajasthan State education department will ask the district education officers to form alumni associations in each government secondary and senior secondary schools from the coming academic session. It aims to bring confidence among students and seek assistance from the alumni in developing infrastructure. The formal announcement of … Read more 21.02.18 (RPSC) Rajasthan Current Affairs
RAJASTHAN Rajasthan gears up to fight child mortality with new vaccine The state is getting ready for a new vaccine for preventing mortalities among under-5 children. Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV) has been included in Universal Immunization Programme(UIP) in the state. About 4.6 lakh children will be benefited in a year in selected nine districts, which have highest … Read more 09.02.18 (RPSC) Rajasthan Current Affairs
RAJASTHAN Gender balance programme planned at schools in 9 Rajasthan districts The state education department is undertaking a special training programme, ‘Gender Balance’, for teachers in nine districts where the gender gap in literacy level is above 20%. The State Institute of Education Research and Training (SIERT), Udaipur, has integrated the gender balance component in their training modules … Read more 03.02.18 (RPSC) Rajasthan Current Affairs
RAJASTHAN 14-yr-old swimmer Gauravi Singhvi does Rajasthan proud in Mumbai Ninth-grader Gauravi Singhvi, 14, from the City of Lakes set another record by covering a distance of 48 kilometers in 9 hours 22 minutes in Mumbai on Tuesday. She is the youngest swimmer in the state to do so. She began her mission from … Read more 08.02.18 (RPSC) Rajasthan Current Affairs
RAJASTHAN PM to launch nutrition mission from jhunjhunu PRIME Minister Narendra Modi will launch the National Nutrition Mission on the occasion of International Women’s Day on March 8 from Rajasthan’s Jhunjhunu. The Centre in December approved the mission to tackle under-nutrition, low birth weight and stunting, and sanctioned ₹ 9,046 crore for a … Read more 24.02.18 (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