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Government policies and interventions
e- Nam platform:
Why it is in News?
- The Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare launched the integration of 177 new mandis with the National Agriculture Market (e-NAM).
About e – Nam platform:
- This is to strengthen agriculture marketing and facilitate farmers to sell their harvested produce through the online portal.
- National Agriculture Market (e-NAM) is an electronic trading portal across India.
- The objective of the portal is to integrate the existing Mandis to “One Nation One Market” for agricultural commodities in India.
- e-NAM was launched on 14 April 2016 by the Indian Prime Minister.
- Small Farmers Agribusiness Consortium (SFAC) is the lead agency for implementing eNAM. The portal functions under the aegis of the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare, GoI.
- The NAM Portal provides a single-window service for all Agriculture Produce Market Committee (APMC) related information and services which includes commodity arrivals, quality & prices, provision to respond to trade offers, and electronic payment settlement directly into farmers’ accounts and helping them for better market access.
FIR Aapke Dwar Yojana:
- Madhya Pradesh state government launched FIR Aapke Dwar Yojana in Bhopal.
- Madhya Pradesh has become the first state in the country to implement such an innovative scheme. It was launched by the Madhya Pradesh Home Minister.
About Scheme:
- Under the scheme, the people would not be required to visit the police station to lodge an FIR.
- The scheme has been started as a pilot project in 23 Police Stations including one urban and one rural Police Station at 11 Divisional Headquarters.
- Under the scheme, the Dial 100 vehicle will have trained Head Constables to lodge FIR.
- FIRs in complaints of general nature will be lodged on the spot. In case of serious complaints, guidance will be sought from senior officers.
- The Minister also launched helpline ‘Dial 112’.
- It will facilitate the immediate availability of ambulance, police, and fire fighting services wherever needed.
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Economy
CHAMPION portal:
Why it is in News?
- Union Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) have launched the CHAMPIONS portal, a Technology-driven Control Room-Cum-Management Information System.
- The CHAMPIONS stands here for the Creation and Harmonious Application of Modern Processes for Increasing the Output and National Strength.
About Portal:
- CHAMPIONS’ portal aims to make the smaller units big by solving their grievances, encouraging, supporting, helping, and handholding.
- It has been developed as a real one-stop-shop solution of MSME Ministry.
- It is a technology-packed control room-cum-management information system.
- The system is enabled by Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data Analytics, and Machine Learning in addition to ICT tools including telephone, internet, and video conference.
- As part of the system, a network of control rooms is created in a Hub & Spoke Model. So far, 66 state-level control rooms are created as part of the system.
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