Reiterating the pledge given to the people of India four years ago to give this nation an honest, clean and transparent Government, and to build a strong, confident and a New India, Finance Minister, Arun Jaitley in Budget 2018-19 speech said that the Government led by PM Narendra Modi has successfully implemented a series of fundamental structural reforms. With the result, India stands out among the fastest growing economies of the world.

Union Budget 2017 was a watershed moment in the history of India. The Government ended the 92-year-old practice of presenting a separate railway budget and the announcement of the budget was advanced by a month to February 1, setting a new precedent.

The ambitious programme of Digital India focuses on utilising technology to enable change and BharatNet works as the very backbone of the programme.

Every year on the 12th of January, the country in high spirits celebrates National Youth Day which marks the birth anniversary of one of the greatest souls of modern India, Swami Vivekananda.

The Government led by PM Narendra Modi came to power with the commitment of an honest and incorruptible government, efficient administration and giving momentum to economic reforms that had gone into a tailspin during the earlier regime.

The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports has been conferring National Youth Award (NYA) every year since 1985 to young persons to give recognition to their outstanding work and to motivate them to achieve excellence in the field of National Development and Social Service, to encourage them to develop a sense of responsibility to the community and also to improve their own potential as a good citizen

The Economic Survey 2017-18 has been tabled in the Parliament on 29th January. The Survey projected that the real GDP growth for 2017-18 averaged 6.75% and nominal GDP growth to be 10.5%. The real GDP growth for year 2018-19 is projected to be 7 – 7.5%.

“No Indian leader in 3,000 years of our own sovereign existence and our history has visited Israel”, said Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu citing PM Narendra Modi’s visit to his nation in 2017. Marking the 25th anniversary of relations between India and Israel, the visiting PM kick-started his 6 day diplomatic tour to India on 14th January, 2018.

In Prime Minister Modi’s words “Democracy is about people’s participation and its true essence lies in Jan Bhagidari. Government and people must together work and script a roadmap for a New India.”

ONGC launched an “ONGC Innovation Challenge” on MyGov, to seek solutions/ innovations/ ideas from public to few challenge areas in the sector of exploration and production of oil and gas.