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The announcement states that thirty Central Public Sector Enterprises joined the discussion, and names BHEL, BEL, NTPC, AAI, BEML and Coal India Limited among them.

The Joint Secretary told the round table that the promotion and handholding done under this scheme has steadily raised the share of SC/ST micro and small enterprises in public procurement, and the scheme's field offices are the ones being asked to coordinate more closely with the Government e-Marketplace and with…

The round table with Central Public Sector Enterprises was convened precisely to monitor how far they have met the mandated four per cent sourcing from micro and small enterprises owned by Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe entrepreneurs.

The fair is organised in seven distinct thematic zones, named Kala Aangan, Prakash Chowk, Pooja Path, Sajawat Bazaar, Gharana, Swad Chowk and Manch, and together they cover crafts, festive lighting, worship articles, decorations, textiles, food and cultural performance.

That is the combined figure reported for the four participating corporations over the window from the first to the ninth of November, and the Ministry presents it as a sign of the market response to products made by beneficiary communities.

The fair is its own initiative, meant to open markets for artisans and beneficiaries from the Scheduled Castes, the Other Backward Classes, Safai Karamchari communities and persons with disabilities, and the four corporations whose sales are reported all fall under that ministry.

The campaign uses it to set out a sequence: generations meet through community platforms and educational institutions, share experiences and stories, take up joint activities, exchange knowledge and skills, and then keep that engagement going as a regular community-led practice.

The Ministry has invited citizens aged eighteen years and above to register, and it names students, young professionals and community volunteers as the groups it has in mind.

The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment describes Vayo SAATHI as an important component of that recently launched national intergenerational bonding campaign, which itself runs under the Atal Vayo Abhyuday Yojana.

That is the total outreach reported for the campaign, and the other figures quoted are parts of it or measure something else entirely.

The Abhiyaan was first taken up in 272 districts identified as vulnerable to substance use, and its reach was later expanded so that every district in the country is covered.

The announcement states plainly that the Nasha Mukt Bharat Abhiyaan was launched on that date and that it has now entered its seventh year, which fits the Independence Day launch in 2020.

The quiz was opened by that ministry under the Nasha Mukt Bharat Abhiyaan, the drug-demand-reduction campaign it runs, and it is the same ministry whose department supports the network of de-addiction centres quoted in the announcement.

The announcement lists the vacancies reported by the Government academy by academy, and the Air Force Academy at Hyderabad accounts for 32 of them, including 3 kept aside for holders of the NCC 'C' certificate of the Air Force Wing under the NCC special entry.

The result states that successful candidates have qualified for admission to the 162nd (DE) Course of the Indian Military Academy at Dehradun.

The merit lists put out by the Union Public Service Commission for the Combined Defence Services Examination (I), 2026 carry 243 names in all, and that total is itself broken into three groups of 155, 63 and 25 candidates meant for the three training academies.

Dr Rajesh S. Gokhale, Secretary of the Department of Biotechnology and Director General of BRIC, said the council’s core vision was to unify thirteen premier biotechnology institutions spread across eleven cities into a decentralised national network supported by a lean secretariat.

The Wellcome Trust announced this grant at BRIC’s third Foundation Day for a five-year immersion training programme that will cover more than 250 iBRIC+ PhD scholars.

Speaking at the Foundation Day of the Biotechnology Research and Innovation Council, Dr Jitendra Singh said the bioeconomy had expanded from about ten billion dollars when the government took office to more than this figure.

At BRIC’s third Foundation Day on 10 November 2026 a Letter of Intent was signed with this British centre to strengthen India-UK collaboration in biomanufacturing and to help build biofoundries, the minister having already named such hubs at Mohali, Hyderabad, Pune and Thiruvananthapuram.