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Asia’s Nobel Prize-Ramon Magsaysay Awards cancelled
A Manila, Philippines based foundation that gives out Ramon Magsaysay Award announced that the awards are being cancelled due to COVID-19. Highlights The Ramon Magsaysay Award has been cancelled thrice in 6 decades. The awards were cancelled for the first time in 1970 due to financial crisis. It was cancelled again in 1990 due to ..
Category: Awards, Persons & Places in News
Topics: Government services • Journalism Award • Literature • Nobel Prize • Philippines • Public Service • Ramon Magsaysay Award
Karnataka launches Janasevaka Scheme
On February 5, 2020, the State Government of Karnataka launched Janasevaka scheme. The Government aims to provide doorstep government services under the scheme. Also, it intends to digitize several services and make these services easily available to the citizens through the scheme. Highlights Under the scheme, the government has launched an exclusive mobile number (080-44554455), ..
Month: Current Affairs - February, 2020
Topics: Bengaluru • Government Schemes • Government services • Janasevaka scheme • Karnataka Government • Ration card • Schemes
Union Government launches UMANG app
The Union Government launched new all-in-one mobile application called UMANG with an aim to make Government services accessible on mobile phone of the citizens. The UMANG app offers 162 services from 33 state and central government departments and four states under a one-single platform. UMANG app The term UMANG stands for Unified Mobile Application for ..
Month: Current Affairs - November, 2017
Topics: Digital India • E-governance • Government services • MEITY • National • National e-Governance Division • UMANG app