Rental Housing Scheme for Students in UP
LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh government is mulling to kick off the Affordable Rental Housing and Complexes (ARHC) scheme for students, urban migrants, and poor people living in cities. The idea is to ease the financial burden on poor migrants, students, urban migrants, low-income groups including factory workers, people from economically weaker sections (EWS), and people associated with hospitality by providing affordable rental accommodation. Priority sections under the scheme include widows, working women & minorities, scheduled castes, scheduled tribes, and other backward classes. This scheme will be implemented under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban) to promote the participation of private and public
Gandhi Peace Prize
NEW DELHI: In a move to improve relations with Bangladesh, the Indian Government has conferred the Gandhi Peace Award 2020 on Sheikh Mujibur Rahman posthumously. The decision comes ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s scheduled visit to Bangladesh on March 26 to attend the celebrations of the golden jubilee of the independence and birth centenary of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Earlier in 2019, the peace prize was conferred on the late His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said Al Said of Oman. This is an International Gandhi Peace Prize presented by the Government of India and has been named after the