The Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises is striving to increase the number of micro and small industries in the country on a sustainable basis through the implementation of various schemes and programs. The Ministry provides better credit facility, technology upgradation, and skilling to boost the entire MSME eco-system.

Followings are the major schemes being implemented by the Ministry of MSME: 

(i)     Prime Minister’s Employment Generation Programme (PMEGP): This is a credit-linked subsidy programme aimed at generating self-employment opportunities through establishment of micro-enterprises in the non-farm sector by helping traditional artisans and unemployed youth. The Scheme was launched during 2008-09. A total of 5.45 lakh micro enterprises have been assisted with a margin money subsidy of Rs.12074.04crore, providing employment opportunities to an estimated 45.22 lakh persons since PMEGP’s inception till 31.03.2019.  

An amount of Rs. 2247.10 crore has been allocated under PMEGP for the financial year 2019-20 which is substantially higher with respect to allocation in an earlier financial year which would further lead to an increased number of units assisted and employment generation.

(ii)        Scheme of Fund for Regeneration of Traditional Industries (SFURTI): It is a cluster-based scheme for development of khadi, village industries, and coir clusters by providing them with improved equipments, common facilities centers, business development services, training, capacity building and design and marketing support, etc. SFURTI Scheme has been revamped in 2015. A total of 34,791 artisans have benefitted with an assistance ofRs. 143.15 crore during 2018-19.

(iii)       A Scheme for Promotion of Innovation, Rural Industry and Entrepreneurship (ASPIRE): was launched on 18.3.2015 to set up a network of technology centres and to set up incubation centres to accelerate entrepreneurship and also to promote start-ups for innovation and entrepreneurship in agro-industry. Under ASPIRE, 74 Livelihood Business Incubation (LBI) centres and 11 Technology Business Incubators have been approved since inception of the scheme.

(iv)  Coir Board: Ministry of MSME, through Coir Board, is also implementing various Schemes/programmes to assist entrepreneurs to set up new Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in all coconut producing states. Under Coir VikasYojna, 36,30,653 employment opportunities have been created since 2014-15 till 2018-19 in the Coir Sector.

(v)        Credit Guarantee Scheme for Micro and Small Enterprises (CGTMSE): The scheme facilitates credit to the MSE units by covering collateral- -free credit facility (term loan and /or working capital) extended by eligible lending institutions to new and existing micro and small enterprises. The Scheme has extended guarantee cover to over 35 lakh enterprises leading to approx. 1 crore employment generation. During FY 2018-19, a total of 4,35,520 proposals have been approved providing guarantee to a tune of Rs. 30,168 crore.

(vi)       Credit linked Capital Subsidy Scheme (CLCSS): CLCSS facilitates technology upgradation of small scale industries, including agro & rural industrial units by providing 15% upfront capital subsidy (limited to maximum of Rs.15.00 lakhs). Since inception of the scheme in 2000-01 till date, a total of 62,827 MSE units have been assisted utilizing subsidy of Rs.3888.13 crore.

During 2018-19, a total of 14,155 MSE units have been assisted utilizing subsidy of Rs. 980.44 crore.

(vii)      Micro & Small Enterprises-Cluster Development Programme (MSE-CDP):The Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME), Government of India (GoI) has adopted the Cluster Development approach as a key strategy for enhancing the productivity and competitiveness as well as capacity building of Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) and their collectives in the country. A cluster is a group of enterprises located within an identifiable and as far as practicable, contiguous area and producing same / similar products / services.

During 2018-19, 17 Common Facility Centres and 11 Infrastructure Development projects have been established.

This information was given by Nitin Gadkari, Union Minister for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises in reply to a question in Rajya Sabha today.

Source – PIB

The National Policy on Biofuels-2018 notified on 8.6.2018, inter-alia, allows production of ethanol from damaged food grains like wheat, broken rice etc. which are unfit for human consumption. The policy also allows conversion of surplus quantities of food grains to ethanol, based on the approval of National Biofuel Coordination Committee. 

Use of damaged foodgrains and surplus foodgrains for production of ethanol will increase its availability for Ethanol Blended Petrol (EBP) Programme. During the ethanol supply year 2017-18, 150.5 crore litres of ethanol was blended in Petrol which resulted in foreign exchange impact of about Rs. 5070 crore and carbon emission reduced to the extent of 29.94 lakh tonnes.           

The National Policy on Biofuels-2018 approved by the Government envisages an indicative target of 20% blending of ethanol in petrol and 5% blending of bio-diesel in diesel by 2030. Under EBP programme, ethanol blending in petrol is being undertaken by the Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) in whole country except island Union Territory (UT) of Andaman Nicobar and Lakshadweep wherein, OMCs blend up to 10 % ethanol in petrol under the EBP Programme.         

Further, Government has approved Pradhan Mantri JI-VAN Yojana to provide Viability Gap Funding (VGF) to Second Generation bio-ethanol manufacturing projects to increase availability of ethanol for EBP programme. Ministry has also issued Gazette Notification dated 1.5.2019 on “Guidelines for sale of Biodiesel for blending with high speed diesel for transportation purposes-2019” dated 30.4.2019.

Government has decided to leapfrog directly to  BS-VI quality w.e.f. 1st April, 2020 in the entire country. Considering the rise in environmental pollution in National Capital Region, Government has started supply of BS-VI auto fuel in National Capital Territory of Delhi from 1st April, 2018.  Further, in line with the directions issued by Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, supply of BS-VI auto fuel has started in ten districts of National Capital Region and three other districts/cities outside of National Capital Region (Karauli, Dhaulpur and city of Agra) w.e.f. 1st April, 2019.

Digital Advertising can turn business fortunes from Zero to millions & billions to based on the efforts. But for that, you need an expert who understands the concept of business and applies his/her tactics to take clients business or individual popularity to a distinct level. We have heard about Neil Patel, Rand Fishkin and many ultra mind influencers who are changing the world with their skills and magic work of Digital Marketing.

Jitesh Tilwani a Software Developer by profession and a Digital Marketer by Interest is changing the rules of Advertising and Marketing digitally.

The digital marketing landscape in India has been on a steady growth for the last two decades, mostly due to the increasing accessibility to the internet and the proliferation of mobile users. The current internet penetration in India is at 35%, but it’s projected that by 2025, the Indian population with access to the web will touch a magic figure of 55%.

Jitesh said, “I never thought of this that I need to try one thing like this and enter this field of Advertising and promoting, back in the college days I was running one blog which was related to entertainment so I interviewed few Youtuber’s and Celebrities , I never thought about earning from that I just used to do it for my Interest but after a few months the media agencies got in touch with me and they offered a good price for advertising for their clients. Then I thought about how to increase this business and how powerful digital advertising is. According to me, Digital marketing gives a wide exposure to your business as compared to traditional offline channels. All you need to do is to insert a social media plug-in in your online website manifesting your online visibility with facebook likes or twitter shares etc. Further, you need to keep updating your promotions through product news, discounts, upcoming items, etc. You will surely feel astonished with the outcomes. You can build a good reputation with a fast pace through digital marketing. It offers you a platform to communicate and interact with your customers through your website, e-mail, various social media channels. This way you ought to build a long-lasting bonding by answering their doubts and queries eventually getting a good reputation.”

At present Jitesh is the owner of ‘Examplad Media & Advertising’ which is own firm providing clients the service of Digital Marketing and Advertising.

So Know Who Vineet Rajan Is

Vineet is a south Indian by birth but he’s mostly only seen South Delhi. His mom was a journalist and dad a telecom engineer; both of whom rose through the ranks in their respective lines of work. His brother is also a techie and is based in the UK. To sum it up – his family has shaped his professional outlook in life, which is defined by hard work and creativity. 

His parents moved a lot, so the taste of travel and road trips has been around since childhood. His mom also wrote about it in this blog post.  

Vineet is today directly managing a team of around 40 members who look into the core operations of ScoutMyTrip and The Road Trips Co which are in the travel and mobile tech space.  

ScoutMyTrip is a road trip itinerary planner with a market place of travel experts. It has been helping people plan their road trip holidays to explore our beautiful country for 2 years now. With over 30,000 active users and over 2000 trips planned, it is all led by a core community of travel experts referred to as ‘Scouts’. Sitting in the hotbed of e-commerce, travel and mobile tech; ScoutMyTrip is now hitting the growth stage in its lifecycle.  

With a strong technology as the backbone, the platform has custom-made algorithms that simplify your travel planning. This app merges the tools required to plan a road trip with the support of a large community that helps you better understand and experience your destination, as well as the journey. 

ScoutMyTrip aims to create the next wave of employment in India by giving a viable career option to the many travel experts, in various parts of the country, access to a large traveler base who seek curated experiences and itineraries. 

When

• 2007: Co-founded IndiBlogger 
• 2007: Co-founded reltok
• 2008: Graduated from MBA
• 2008 – 2009: First and only job 
• 2009: Quit corporate role to build IndiBlogger full time. Shuts down reltok.
• 2016: Exits IndiBlogger. Co-founds ScoutMyTrip with Deepak Ananth 
• 2017: Raises Angel round of funding from Z Nation Labs for ScoutMyTrip 
• 2018: Starts The Road Trips Co Â–which is now India’s biggest vehicle-agnostic community for road trippers

The average Indian boy

Till the age of 23, Vineet would have been called quintessential Indian boy who grew up by first nurturing ambitions of becoming an engineer and then joined a premier B-School for an MBA degree. It all ended in 2009 when he called it quits with a well-paying corporate job and went back to his first venture full time (IndiBlogger) with absolutely no business plan. 

Maximum City and the discovery of a passion

He moved to Mumbai with a couple of bags in his hand, after selling off all he owned; including a car. With the savings he had, he bought a bike. He went by the moniker – The guy who sold his car to buy the Royal Enfield Bullet. 

He grew revenues to $1M in 2014. All this was with an 8-member team, and the revenues they were plowing could give any large digital agency nightmares. 

Following the passion 

In 2016, he went back to his love of biking and co-founded ScoutMyTrip with longtime biker buddy Deepak Ananth. 

• Made famous as one of the first bullet-baraats on 22 Royal Enfield bikes at his wedding in 2013.
• Road tripped over 300,000 kilometers on two wheels and four

Set two records for ScoutMyTrip, filed in India Book of Records 2017 

• For Highest Bloggers meet (Khadung La, Ladakh) at 5359m
• First Bloggers meet at Khardung La, Ladakh at 5359m

Short Bio of Vineet – He’s usually found on the highway and a die-hard Old Monk lover. Marketer, community manager and pretty much the office boy/admin. Carnivore.

There are over 1.5 billion websites on the world wide web today. Of these, less than 200 million are active. During 2016, the total number of sites has grown significantly, from 900 million in January 2016 to 1.7 billion in December 2016. From 2016 to 2018, the level has held pretty much unchanged. From 1 website in 1991 to 1 billion in 2014. According to Internet Live Stats.

The first-ever website (info.cern.ch) was published on August 6, 1991, by British physicist Tim Berners-Lee while at CERN, in Switzerland.

Over 50% of websites today are hosted on either Apache or nginx, both open source web servers

Here is the list 

1. Google.com – Enables users to search the world’s information, including webpages, images, and videos. 
2. Youtube.com – YouTube is a way to get your videos to the people who matter to you.
3. Facebook.com – A social utility that connects people, to keep up with friends, upload photos, share links and videos.
4. Baidu.com – The leading Chinese language search engine, provides “simple and reliable” search experience, strong in Chinese language and multi-media content including MP3 music and movies, the first to offer WAP and PDA-based mobile search in China.
5. Wikipedia.org – A free encyclopedia built collaboratively using wiki software. (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License).
6. Qq.com – China’s largest and most used Internet service portal owned by Tencent, Inc founded in November 1998. Presently, Tencent is aiming its operations at the strategic goal of providing users with a “one-stop online life service”.
7. Taobao.com – Launched in May 2003, Taobao Marketplace (www.taobao.com) is the online shopping destination of choice for Chinese consumers looking for a wide selection, value, and convenience.
8. Tmall.com -Launched in April 2008, Tmall.com (www.tmall.com) is dedicated to providing a premium shopping experience for increasingly sophisticated Chinese consumers in search of top-quality branded merchandise. Tmall.com is a business within Alibaba Group. 
9. Yahoo.com – A major internet portal and service provider offering search results, customizable content, chatrooms, free e-mail, clubs, and pager.
10. Amazon.com – Amazon.com seeks to be Earth’s most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the lowest possible prices.

Website Rank Source – Alexa.com

Harish Pednekar, one of the most popular Entertainment journalists and an influencer has success coming all his way from the past 3 years. At 25, Harish made a great space for himself in the field of journalism and entrepreneurship. However, the journey hasn’t been a cakewalk for Harish. He worked hard to reach where he is in his professional life today. In 2017, he won ‘The Most Active Person of Media’ by the media fraternity.

It was in 2016 when Harish started working for a Bollywood website called Business of Cinema or BoC. He was hired for doing backend work for the website, but his boss was impressed with him and granted a promotion. That’s when Harish got a chance to go on the field and interview various Bollywood celebrities like Shah Rukh Khan, Amitabh Bachchan, Katrina Kaif, Varun Dhawan and many others.

In fact, Harish Pednekar’s first celebrity interview was with Shah Rukh Khan during Dilwale. For Harish, SRK is his inspiration and lucky charm. He believes that the passion and determination he has in himself is because Shah Rukh motivates him to do his best. 

At 21, Harish realized he wants to do more than working for someone else. That’s when he along with his friend Pallavi Mukherjee came up with an idea of starting their own Bollywood website called Pop Diaries. Harish and Pallavi are partners of Pop Diaries which started 3 years ago. 

Because of its positive and interesting content, Pop Diaries came into celebrity and PRs attention immediately and they started loving it. In these 2 years, Harish and Pallavi’s website have interviewed almost all the top celebrities which helped them to be in the top with other Bollywood sites that are functioning for more than 8-10 years.

Harish says in a statement, “I always wanted to do something big, but I know I have to start from the bottom. There were hurdles and failures of course, but I knew if I want to create something of my own, I have to be positive and never give up. That’s what I did.”

About Pop Diaries, Harish says, “I call it as my baby. But it wouldn’t have been possible with my friend Pallavi who is the partner of my website. I want to bring in positive content on my website rather than doing gossips because that’s everywhere. We’ve been doing it earlier and have bigger plans which our readers will get to see in the coming time.”

When asked what he plans to do further, Harish answered, “I am not stopping here. Now that I have built contacts and people know me, I am going to make sure I use to for the best. I have something big planned in my head. One the plan is set right, I will speak about it.”

“When your desires are strong enough, you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.” This Bengaluru boy brings life out of this quote, riding for the passion he says.

Met with a life-threatening accident a few years back on a motorcycle when the doctors said he’ll hardly be able to walk again let alone ride a motorcycle, after 6 months of bed rest here comes our Champion riding his way out of this with flying colors! At this crucial time, his family and friends helped him see the light he was missing and turning his will making him join Gym to fight his depression of two long years, after which he started a special body training and then there was no looking back.

All his superbikes are built/tuned by Mantra Racing, a dream of all motorbike enthusiasts and aspiring riders. The shenanigans of his achievements are won 2 times Indian National Superbike Drag Racing Champion 2017-2018, 2018-2019, Indian National Superbike Drag Racing Champion 2017/2018 Indian National Superbike Drag champion 2018/2019, Triple Champion, Categories for a triple championship are (851-1050cc) Yamaha R1 (1050cc and above ) Suzuki Hayabusa, (Open Unrestricted) BMW s1000rr, National Drag racing Record Holder with a record of 9.024s on BMW s1000rr, Fastest Drag Racer in India.

The Rampur police, in an encounter, shot a person named Nazil, who was accused of abducting, raping and subsequently killing a 6-year-old minor girl on May 7 in Rampur district, Uttar Pradesh. SP of Rampur Ajay Pal Sharma, who is known for neutralizing criminals, shot the accused in both the legs during an encounter.

SP of Rampur, Uttar Pradesh Dr. Ajay Pal Sharma has at least nine encounter deaths to his credit and claims to have injured around 190 alleged criminals in other encounters. A former dentist, Sharma is a 2011-batch IPS officer hails from Ludhiana.

The police have also recovered the dead body of the minor victim on Saturday, confirmed the Superintendent of police, Rampur, Uttar Pradesh.

Talking to media the Rampur police confirmed that the civil line Rampur police got engaged in an encounter with Nazil, who was absconding after executing the crime. Encounter specialist IPS Dr. Ajay Pal Sharma shot three rounds at Nazil. The accused was arrested after he injured both his legs in the encounter. The police admitted him to a local hospital where is recovering, confirmed the police.

Disturbingly, such incidents of sexual abuse against children have become rampant in India. Today, we had reported how a man named Tausif Imran Khan (19) in Vadodara had repeatedly raped a 14-year-old class X girl and recorded her on his mobile phone. Allegedly the man had also attempted to brainwash her to convert to Islam by taking her to various religious places.

In yet another horrific incident, a teen boy was allegedly raped by four men of his village in the Puwaya area in Shahjahanpur. The incident took place on June 17th evening when the four accused forcibly took the 13-year-old boy to an orchard and allegedly raped him, said the police.

On June 9, a man named Shahnawaj was caught red-handed after he raped a 9-year old Dalit girl. Shahnawaj, a native of the town, had called the victim to his place on the pretext of giving her some clothes. As soon as the victim reached his place, he took her inside a room and allegedly raped her.

Similarly, on June 14, a 55-year-old man, Kalam Ansari was caught raping a 10-year-old girl Meera (name changed) on June 10.

In a similar deplorable incident at Aligarh, a Muslim man named Zahid had brutally choked a minor girl, Tina Sharma (name changed) to death over an argument with her family regarding a small loan amount. The brutal incident had shocked the conscience of the nation.

Zahid had brutally choked Tina with a dupatta (scarf) and hid the body in his house in a straw bag. After three days when the corpse started emitting a foul smell, Zahid threw Tina in a pile of trash. Tina’s body was completely decomposed with her eyes gouged out.

News Source – OpIndia

Yet another shocking case of medical negligence came to fore in Gurugram where the doctors risked the life of a patient in an attempt to hide their folly. The doctors punctured the left kidney of a patient, who was diagnosed with stones in her right kidney.

Having realized their mistake, the surgeon then operated her right kidney to remove the kidney stone. Due to the callousness of the hospital and the patient started bleeding profusely but the hospital administration continued to hide the entire issue until the case went out of their hands. Realizing the gravity of the situation, the family members of patient shifted to another hospital Medanta, the family was shocked to know about Pushpanjali hospital’s blunder and their attempts to cover-up.

The patient, Sheela Devi – who is a resident of Rohtak – and her husband registered a complaint with the police and the Health Minister of Haryana about the gross medical negligence and sought justice.

Sheela Devi’s husband Ajay Kumar, who is an advocate by profession, informed that his wife was admitted to Pushpanjali Hospital (Gurugram) on May 27, 2019, after she was diagnosed with a stone in her right kidney. On May 28, Dr. SP Yadav said that they’ll perform an endoscopy to remove the stone.

Ajay Kumar has alleged that her wife was operated by Dr. SP Yadav’s wife and not him. “The lady doctor was completely unaware about the medical condition of the patient and she punctured the left kidney instead of right. While her husband was continually busy on mobile phone and didn’t even care to have a look at the patient. Having realised her folly, their doctors then punctured the right kidney of my wife and quickly performed the surgery and removed the stone. According to medical practitioners, both the kidneys couldn’t be operated at the same time because it is risk-prone but the doctors here played with the life of my wife to cover up their blunder.”

“Moreover, when my wife came out of the operation theatre she was bleeding profusely to which Dr. SP Yadav said it happened by mistake and he assured they’ll take care of it. Later, they took the patient again to the operation theatre and a stent was inserted in her kidney but that worsened things. Her stomach started swelling and when her condition got out of their control, they referred us to Medanta Hospital.

“The doctors at Medanta Medicity revealed us about the negligence performed during the surgery in the first place. The surgeons here informed that both the kidneys should not be touched upon at the same time during a surgery hence the doctors at Pushpanjali risked the life of the patient,” he complained further.

The victim has now submitted a complaint to the Commissioner of Police, Health Minister (Haryana), Chief Minister, and Medical Council of India and requested to investigate the entire matter.

The victim has also registered a complaint with Chief Minister Grievances Redress and Monitoring Cell in Haryana. The concerned office has assured that they have taken cognizance of the matter and are looking into it.

Central Reserve Police Force, through this challenge, is looking for new concepts & innovations in the areas identified. The objective of this program is to address critical issues hampering the growth of the security sector in the country by leveraging technical expertise and best fundamental concepts thus helping talented and creative innovators to pursue promising avenues at the frontier of technology. 

The program provides a unique opportunity to innovative startups in the security sector having a commercially viable and innovative solution to address the key challenges in the security forces.

Themes for Challenges

Effective utilization of Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS)/UAVs against insurgents

Develop highly effective sensors and tracking devices for RPAS/UAV system(s) to detect and identify insurgents hiding under thick foliage/tree canopies.

Shoes against spikes

Develop terrain agnostic shoes to protect against hidden iron/bamboo made spikes causing fatal injuries to troops.

Controlling blood loss

Development of lightweight, sterile hemostatic agents/drugs/equipment/bandages to control excessive bleeding loss.

Application closes on July 31st, 2019.

Procedure Post Submission

First phase results: 19th August 2019

Winner Announcement: 16th September 2019

Fiscal Incentives

INR 2 lakhs for winner

(one winner per problem statement to be awarded)

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