Aatmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan

 Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit India’s top vaccine hubs today to review the development of corona virus vaccine and the manufacturing process. A s per the Prime Minister Office, PM will visit the Zydus Biotech Park in Ahmedabad, Bharat Biotech in Hyderabad and Serum Institute of India in Pune. As India enters a decisive phase of the fight against COVID-19, The Prime Minister’s visit to these facilities and discussions with the scientists will help him get a first-hand perspective of the preparations, challenges and roadmap in India’s endeavour to vaccinate its citizens. From Ahmedabad, PM will fly to Pune’s Serum Institute of India (SII). PM Modi is likely to review the status of the vaccine, including its launch, production and distribution mechanisms during the visit. Later, he will travel to Hyderabad and visit Bharat BioTech, which is working on Covaxin, pitched as India’s first indigenous vaccine candidate. Prime Minister had chaired a high-level meeting with Chief M...

  Dear Members,       We are in an era of economic challenges. Business or work business stopped. Payments are not forthcoming, sales are negligible. Remember that these circumstances have not come because of us. Do not blame yourself Do not give up, feel humiliated. The path will not be seen but do not give up. spend at least. Cut it in installments. Do not be alone with your mental troubles. Talk to friends, talk to relatives. Do not let any kind of bad idea come. No one can escape this situation. Slowly prepare yourself to make a new path by cutting the mountain. Do not spoil your language or thinking. Whatever happens, live for tomorrow. Be patient. Have to live for less. This time has come to take our examination. Have faith that once we started from zero to here, then we will reach from somewhere to start from zero one more time. Just understand that we were playing Ludo (snake ladder). The snake has bitten at 99 but we have not been out of the game. Do yo...

In a bid to promote Aatmanirbhar Bharat (self-reliant India) and push India’s ‘Make in India’ cause, the government’s procurement portal, Government e-Marketplace (GeM), has made it mandatory for sellers to mention ‘country of origin’ on products they wish to sell through the platform. The Government e-Marketplace (GEM) has also enabled a provision for the indication of the percentage of local content in products with a view to promote ‘Make in India’. “GeM has taken a significant step towards Aatmanirbhar Bharat and has made it mandatory for sellers to enter the country of origin while registering all new products on GeM,” the portal’s CEO Talleen Kumar told news agency PTI. Sellers, who had already uploaded their products before the introduction of this new feature on GeM, are being reminded regularly to update the country of origin, with a warning that their products will be “removed” from the platform if they fail to update the same, he said. “With this new feature, now, the c...

Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal has said most startups will be eligible for additional liquidity and funding under the credit and  funding support announced for MSMEs  under the Aatmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan package. Goyal told that the government is ready to support stressed startups. "Most of the startups will be eligible for additional liquidity and funding under the Rs 3 lakh crore, 100% credit guarantee credit facilities under the Aatmanirbhar Bharat package," Goyal said in an interview with the channel on Saturday. "Apart from that, Sidbi gets financial assistance through the government of India, and through the Startup India Fund we are able to supplement SIDBI’s efforts to provide adequate funding to startups. I have had discussions with startups to understand their issues and have also had SEBI, RBI, SIDBI on discussions with startups and the venture capital industry. We are conscious of their concerns and we will handhold and support companies which are stressed,...

True self-reliance won’t come from relentless industrialisation, but from localisation and decentralisation, as demonstrated by these remarkable stories of empowered rural communities . Not so long ago, Dalit women farmers in Telangana used to face hunger and deprivation. Today, they have contributed foodgrains for pandemic relief. Farmers on the Tamil Nadu-Karnataka border have been sending organic produce to Bengaluru even during the lockdown. And Adivasi villages in central India are using community funds to take care of migrant workers who have returned home. These inspiring stories show the potential of empowered rural communities to cope with crisis. And they expose the tragedy of a path of ‘ development ’ and governance that has not recognised or, worse, taken away the extraordinary agency of ordinary villagers to manage their lives. Take Chandramma , who grows 40 varieties of crops, chemical free, on her rainfed plot in Bidakanne village in the Medak district...

  Self Reliance is defined by The Free Dictionary as the “Reliance on one’s own capabilities, judgment, or resources; independence” . Most searches of the term “self-reliance” on the Internet also return this description.  “Self-Reliance is an essay written by American transcendentalist philosopher and essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson .” In his notorious essay, written in 1841 , Emerson himself defined self-reliance as “the need for each individual to avoid conformity and false consistency, and follow his or her own instincts and ideas”. One of Emerson’s most famous quotations went like this, “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.” Or, as Albert Einstein famously coined about insanity, “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”. Self-reliance is based on the fundamental belief that you can, and should, change and control your circumstances. I have and so can you. Sel...