• Mr. Thaawarchand Gehlot, Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment launched, first of its kind “Rashtriya Vayoshri Yojana” in Nellore; Andhra Pradesh aimed to make life comfortable for senior citizens of India.
• Finance Ministry has notified the reduction in interest rates on Small Saving Schemes for April-June 2017 quarter by 10 basis points (0.1%) as compared to Jan-Mar 2017 quarter .
• UDAN scheme will start operating from April 2017. Bhatinda and Shimla will be the first towns to be connected, wherein the regional flight is expected to start operating from April 2017.
• Indian railways has announced the 5 Green Corridors under which Barmer Munawab and Pipad Road-Bilara rail routes in Rajasthan have been declared by North Western Railways as Green Corridors. This initiative is taken under “Swachh Rail- Swachh Bharat” mission.
i. The five green corridors are
1.Manamadurai– Rameswaram corridor,
2.Okha-Kanalus corridor,
3.Porbandar-Wasjaliya corridor,
4.Barmer-Munawab corridor and
5.Pipad Road-Bilara corridor.
ii. Among these corridors Manamadurai – Rameswaram is India’s first green corridor.
• South Asia Sub-regional Economic Cooperation (SASEC) program of Asian Development Bank (ADB) accepts Myanmar as its 7th member in 2017.
• Private sector Karnataka Bank in collaboration with SBI Card launched co-branded credit cards for Karnataka Bank customers on March 31, 2017. Two types of credit cards are launched namely
1.Karnataka Bank Platinum SBI card and
2.Karnataka Bank Simply SAVE SBI
• Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak is on a six-day visit to India.
• India, world’s 3rd largest energy consumer has joined International Energy Association (IAE) as associate member.
• The Uttarakhand High Court today declared the "rivers, streams, rivulets, lakes, air, meadows, dales, jungles, forests wetlands, grasslands, springs, and waterfalls" in the state as living entities.
• Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu was selected for the US India Business Council Award of ‘Transformative Chief Minister’.
• Japan has committed an Official Development Assistance (ODA) of 371 billion yen (about Rs 21,590 crore) for various infrastructure projects, including the dedicated freight corridor, in India for the FY 2016-2017.
• Today (2nd April 2017) is World Autism Awareness Day.
Theme of World Autism Awareness Day 2017 : "Toward Autonomy and Self-Determination"
• Haryana government will provide a one-time grant of ₹21,000 to all those families whose third girl child was born after August 24, 2015, under the Aapki Beti, Hamari Beti scheme.
• Modi today inaugurated India's longest road tunnel – the Chenani-Nashri tunnel on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway.
• India's women's T20I team captain Harmanpreet Kaur has been named Player of the Year by Australia's Women's Big Bash League team Sydney Thunder.
• India’s first International Centre for Foot and Mouth Disease (ICFMD) has been inaugurated by Union Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh at Argul near Bhubaneswar in Odisha .
• Rajiv Kumar Chander appointed as Permanent Representative to Geneva UN offices from India .
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