The Indian Army inducted the first batch of 12 indigenously designed and developed Short Span Bridging systems into the Corps of Engineers at Delhi which are designed by DRDO and manufactured by Larsen and Toubro Limited.
The first of its kind exercise in India, project BOLD (Bamboo Oasis on Lands in Drought) has launched from the tribal village Nichla Mandwa in Udaipur, Rajasthan.
The Union Minister of Tribal Affairs Shri Arjun Munda laid the foundation stone for the construction of five Eklavya Model Residential School (EMRS) in three districts of Jharkhand.
The Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister re-launched the YSR Bima scheme with new guidelines, where the government itself will directly pay the insurance amount to the family of the deceased to make the insurance claims easier.