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Jal Shakti Minsitry launches famework for water quality testing, monitoring

According to a 2018 assessment by the Central Ground Water Board, 52 percent of all the blocks in the country have inter alia any one of the geogenic contaminants like arsenic, chloride, fluoride, iron, nitrate, and salinity. Nearly 20 states in India have drinking water sources contaminated with arsenic, fluoride, nitrate, iron, salinity, or heavy metals.

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Govt developing dedicated portal for facilitation of domestic investors

“In order to further strengthen efforts to promote domestic investments, the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) is in the process of finalising a dedicated digital portal – Atmanirbhar Niveshak Mitra – for hand holding, information dissemination, and facilitation of domestic investors,” it said.

The special features of the portal will be daily updates on policies and new initiatives by central and state governments; information about approvals, licences, clearances and different schemes and incentives; information on manufacturing clusters and land availability; and applicable taxation system.

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Under Ayushman Bharat, 3 crore women screened for Cancer

“In the past two years, under the Ayushman Bharat Yojana alone, three crore women from poor and rural families got themselves screened for cervical and breast cancer. It means the woman who would have never spoken about the diseases now have support from the government and she utilised the policy and under that she got herself screened, which means she is prepared for a medical challenge and she has prepared herself for solutions,” the union minister said.

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Junk your old car and get 5% rebate from automakers on new buy: Gadkari

“There are four major components of the policy…Apart from rebate, there are provisions of green taxes and other levies on old polluting vehicles. These will be required to undergo mandatory fitness and pollution tests in automated facilities. For this automated fitness centres would be required through out in the country and we are working in that direction,” Gadkari said.

Automated fitness tests will be set up under public private partnership (PPP) mode while the government will assist private partners and state governments for scrapping centres, he said.

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