New Delhi [India], July 20 (ANI): For the development of Railway stations, the Ministry of Railways has formulated various developmental schemes that are Model Station Scheme, Modern Station Scheme and Adarsh Station Scheme for the upgradation, modernization and augmentation of stations on Indian Railways including stations in various small and big cities, said Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Wednesday.

New Delhi Mar 26 PTI Aiming to clean the Yamuna river in Delhi in the next two years and provide 24X7 water supply to all households by 2025 the Delhi government has doubled the outlay for water and sanitation to Rs 6710 crore in the Budget 2022-23 The allocation for water and sanitation is 104 per cent more than Rs 3274 crore earmarked in 2021-22 Presenting the budget in the Assembly Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said all the drains falling into the Yamuna will be checked and sewage treated either by taking it to STPs or it will be converted into clean water by in-situ treatment All these plans are progressing at a rapid pace And in two years the Yamuna in Delhi will be completely cleaned It is the resolution of the Delhi government that not even a drop of dirty water should fall in the Yamuna from the side of the people of Delhi he said Earlier Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had said the river will be cleaned by 2025 Advancing the deadline for the cleaning of the Yamuna in Delhi Water Minister Satyendar Jain had on Tuesday said the river will be completely cleaned by December 2023 and not 2025 All the wastewater in Delhi will be tapped in the next six months and all areas will be linked to the sewer network in the next 15 months he had said at a virtual session organised by Assocham We will clean the Yamuna by December 2023 and not 2025 All the drains will be completely cleaned I am confident We will invite you all to take a dip in any stretch of the river in Delhi he had said Sisodia said that all the unauthorised colonies in the capital will be connected to the sewer network by the end of this year According to government data sewer lines have been laid and commissioned in 706 of the 1799 unauthorised colonies in the capital and the work is in progress in 448 others The 22-km stretch of the river between Wazirabad and Okhla which is less than 2 per cent of its length of 1370 km from Yamunotri to Allahabad accounts for around 80 per cent of the pollution load in the river Untapped wastewater from unauthorised colonies and jhuggi-jhopri clusters and poor quality of treated wastewater discharged from STPs and common effluent treatment plants are the main reasons behind high levels of pollution in the river At least 29 per cent of the sewage generated in Delhi in the financial year 2021-22 fell into the Yamuna untreated Sisodia also said the availability of drinking water in Delhi has increased by 10 per cent -- from 915 million gallons a day to 985 MGD Better management of water coming to Delhi from outside and better harvesting of rainwater will ensure round-the-clock water supply in the coming three years he said The deputy chief minister said the scheme of providing 20 kilolitres of drinking water a month free to the people of Delhi will continue this year as well On an average 650 lakh consumers are availing the benefit of the scheme which was started in 2015 PTI GVS SMN SMN

New Delhi Mar 26 PTI Aiming to strengthen the night-time economy and promote the food and beverages industry the Arvind Kejriwal government on Saturday said it will provide land for cloud kitchens redevelop major food hubs and bring in a food truck policy in the national capital Presenting the Budget for the financial year 2022-23 Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said the government is preparing a policy to allow food trucks to operate at designated places in the city from 8 pm to 2 am This will strengthen the night economy of Delhi and new employment opportunities will be created Sisodia said He said cloud kitchens in Delhi are emerging as a strong part of the restaurant industry and are growing at a rate of more than 20 per cent every year At present there are more than 20000 cloud kitchens in Delhi which provide direct employment to around two lakh people and indirect employment to 50000 people the deputy CM said during his budget speech A cloud kitchen is a restaurant with no physical storefront or simply a delivery-only restaurant In such a set-up people operate in a commercial centralised kitchen where they partner up with third-party delivery service apps such as Swiggy and Zomato to distribute their food to the public Cloud kitchens are one of the sectors that support the night-time economy With a huge potential for revenue generation this sector creates a large number of both direct and indirect job opportunities he said Considering the immense potential for growth and in order to maximize the potential of this industry it is planned to provide land to cloud kitchens with plug and play facilities and ease the number of licenses and regulations in the Budget 2022-23 This industry also has the potential to create 42000 new job opportunities within the next 5 years Sisodia noted He said that new policies to promote traders and employees of the food and beverages industry in Delhi will create more than 60000 jobs in the next five years Major food hubs of Delhi will be identified redeveloped and promoted as a social and cultural heritage of Delhi the deputy CM said The Delhi government is also looking to invest in the retail and food and beverage sectors which are growing at a rate of 25 per cent and have the potential to generate high-income jobs he said A Grade A retail and food hub facility will be developed in Delhi so that the premium shopping experience of world class brands and retail facilities for which people visit NCR can be availed in the capital itself These hubs will be developed using the land available at bus depots and terminals as these are major places that are easy to access and areas with a large number of consumers in Delhi Sisodia said With an aim of creating 20 lakh new jobs in the next five years Sisodia presented a Rs 75800-crore Rozgar Budget for the financial year 2022-23 which focuses on setting up an electronic city and promoting night economy retail and wholesale markets in the national capital The government has identified seven priority sectors for job creation -- food and beverages logistics and supply chain travel and tourism entertainment construction real estate and green energy PTI GVS SMN SMN

New Delhi [India], February 16 (ANI): Overall economic activity remained resilient amid the third wave, stated Finance Ministry in its Monthly Economic Review (MER) report for January 22 released on Wednesday.

New Delhi [India], February 1 (ANI): A Union Cabinet meeting is underway ahead of the presentation of Budget 2022-23 by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman at the Parliament on Tuesday.