- PM Surya Ghar Muft Bijli Yojana: In this scheme, the central government will provide 300 units of free electricity per month to its beneficiaries by investing worth ₹75,000 crores. The free electricity scheme was earlier announced by the Finance Minister in an interim budget speech. It aims to light up 1 crore households. Under the scheme, Urban Local Bodies and Panchayats shall be incentivised to promote rooftop solar systems in their jurisdictions.
The Central Government will guarantee no financial burden on the people by providing significant subsidies directly to their bank accounts and offering highly concessional bank loans.
Expected benefits:
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- Savings of up to fifteen to eighteen thousand rupees annually for households from free solar electricity and selling the surplus to the distribution companies;
- Charging of electric vehicles;
- Entrepreneurship opportunities for a large number of vendors for supply and installation;
- Employment opportunities for the youth with technical skills in manufacturing, installation and maintenance.
- National Generic Document Registration System: It is a project initiated by the Department of Land Resources, Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India. It is a common, generic application developed for registration departments across the country under the One Nation One Software initiative. The NGDRS application is developed by the National Informatics Centre, Pune. It is a common, generic and configurable application developed for registration departments across the country. The application is specifically designed for the use of sub-registrars, citizens and apex users from registration departments. NGDRS facilitates states to create state-specific instances and configure the software as per requirements.
Offering a complete user interface for property and document registration, the application enables citizens to proceed with land buying online. They can find out the circle rate for land, calculate property valuation as per prevailing rates and understand the type of land.
Transactions of prohibited properties are restricted for sale like government land, tribal land, mortgaged land etc., are also available, which ultimately helps them decide where and what type of land they should buy
- e-Jagriti Portal: It is an initiative of the Department of Consumer Affairs, Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food, and Public Distribution. It is a portal for consumer commissions. This portal has been designed to further improve the customer experience.
It provides a simple, fast, and cost-effective consumer dispute redressal software solution at all levels. It is envisaged to integrate consumer grievance platforms, namely, the Online Case Monitoring System (OCMS), E-Daakhil, the National Consumer Dispute Redressal Commission (NCDRC) Case Monitoring System, CONFONET website, mediation application, on a single platform. The e-Jagriti platform has case filing, online fee payment, case monitoring modules for seamless disposal of cases by all the Commissions, has Smart search facility on archived consumer complaints/cases/judgements using AI technology for metadata and keyword creation, and Voice-to-text conversion of judgements, case history and other details using AI / ML technology.
