The Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics (DGCI&S), Kolkata, under the Ministry of Commerce, Government of India, is the pioneer official organization for collection, compilation and dissemination of India’s Trade Statistics and Commercial Information.
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India was one of the first in Asia to recognize the effectiveness of the Export Processing Zone (EPZ) model in promoting exports, with Asia's first EPZ set up in Kandla in 1965. With a view to overcome the shortcomings experienced on account of the multiplicity of controls and clearances; absence of world-class infrastructure, and an unstable fiscal regime and with a view to attract larger foreign investments in India, the Special Economic Zones (SEZs) Policy was announced in April 2000.
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My Security web portal is a platform for individuals, companies, students, NGOs etc to develop and deploy security applications which may be useful to people. It promotes innovation in developing security related applications.
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BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China & South Africa), is a unique Grouping with shared opportunities and common challenges. Formalized with the first meeting of the Foreign Ministers of Brazil, Russia, India and China in New York on the margins of the United Nations General Assembly in September 2006, in a short span of time, the Grouping has come a long way and has evolved a number of mechanisms for consultation and cooperation in a number of sectors.
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External Affairs Spouses Association or EASA is a welfare organization. The members of the Association are the spouses of serving and retired gazetted officers of the Indian Foreign Service. The spouse of the Foreign Secretary is the ex-officio President of EASA.
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IBSA (India Brazil South Africa) is a trilateral developmental initiative amongst the governments of India, Brazil and South Africa to promote, inter-alia, South-South cooperation and exchange.
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The tradition of the World Hindi Conferences began with the first conference in Nagpur in the year 1975. Since then, these conferences have achieved a global profile and momentum of their own. Nine World Hindi Conferences have been organized in different world cities, namely, twice in Port Louis (Mauritius), twice in India, Port of Spain (Trinidad and Tobago), London (UK), Paramaribo (Suriname), New York (USA) and Johannesburg (South Africa).
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"Seekho aur Kamao (Learn & Earn)" is a scheme implemented since 2013-14 for skill development of minorities. The scheme aims at upgrading the skills of minority youth in various modern/traditional skills depending upon their qualification, present economic trends and market potential, which can earn them suitable employment or make them suitably skilled to go for self-employment.
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The Ministry has taken a number of new initiatives to strengthen scientific research in the area of environmental sciences. Some of these include institution of National Environmental Sciences Fellows Programme, Mahatma Gandhi Chair in Ecology and Environment etc.
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The Environmental Information System acronymed as ENVIS was implemented by the Ministry by the end of 6th Five Year Plan as a Plan Scheme for environmental information collection, collation, storage, retrieval and dissemination to policy planners, decision makers, scientists and environmentalists, researchers, academicians and other stakeholders.