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Schemes, Portals, Campaigns, Committee and Initiatives of November Month 2020

Scheme	Chhattisgarh	Swami Atmanand English Medium School Scheme
Scheme	Punjab Chief Minister Amrinder Singh	Mission Shat Pratishat	to achieve 100% results despite the COVID-19 pandemic
Scheme	Punjab Cabinet	Divyangjan Sashaktikaran Yojana	to empower persons with disabilities
Scheme	West Bengal	Duare Duare Paschim Banga Sarkar	for redressing grievances of people at the block level and providing motorbikes to youths to help them run small businesses
Scheme	Andhra Pradesh	Jagananna Thodu	to provide an interest-free loan to small traders and artisans
Campaign	Harsh Vardhan	All India CSR Campaign	against COVID-19
Campaign	Dehradun	Plastic Lao Mask Le Jao	to fight against the menace of plastic waste and contain the spread of COVID-19
Campaign	HDFC Bank	Mooh Band Rakho	to raise awareness on cyber frauds and how to prevent them
Campaign	Himachal Pradesh	Him Suraksha Abhiyan	to sensitize people about COVID-19 pandemic
Portal	Minister of State for Education Sanjay Dhotre	Bandhu	- self-help website - for students of IIT-Bombay
Portal	e-launched by Thaawarchand Gehlot	National Portal for Transgender Persons
Portal	Vadodara	Garima Greh: A Shelter home for Transgender Persons	applying for a certificate and ID digitally from anywhere in the country -
Portal	Minister of Environment, Forest & climate change Prakesh Javedekar	India Climate Change Knowledge Portal	to provide information on the different climate change initiatives taken by various ministers
Programme	Kerala	Parivarthanam	- a pioneering eco-sustainable programme - to help the fishing community
Programme	Narendra Singh Tomar	Sahakar Program	to impart training to primary cooperative societies in rural areas
Project	- Lower Dibang Valley District, Arunachal Pradesh - Launched by Union Minister Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat	Integrated Multi Village Water Supply	India's First Solar-based
Project	Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar	Project Air Care	to combat raising Air Pollution in Gurgaon
Project	Manipur Chief Minister N. Biran Singh	Oil Palm Project
Project	Andhra Pradesh	Abhayam	- Government of India initative - for the safety and security of women and girl passengers during travel by autos and cars
App	Chief Minsiter Naveen Patnaik	Secha Samadhan	bilingual Mobile App
App	Delhi Government	Jeevan Seva	for transportation of COVID-19 patients
App	Google (in India)	Task Mate

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List of Partnerships, Agreements, Loans, MoUs of November 2020

Topic	Source	Purpose/Amount
Partnership	TransUnion CIBIL and Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation (MOSPI)	to launch MSME Credit Health Index
Partnership	Paytm and Credit Card Card company SBI Card	to launch Paytm SBI card co-branded credit cards
Partnership	NSDC and American Indian Foundation, Sell technologies and University of Mumbai	- launched "Project Future Ready" - to impact career skills to 1 lakh students
Partnership	Tata Consultancy Services and Centre of Digital Enterprise (CODE) at University of Auckland Business School	to develop a world 1st APAC Digital Sustainability Index
Partnership	Card Network American Express (Amex) and Mobiwik	issued its 1st prepaid payment card "Mobikwik Blue Card" with flexible credit limit
MoU (imp.)	Government of Bangladesh, Beximco Pharmaceutical Ltd. and Serum Institute of India (SII)	for priority delivery of 3 crore COVID-19 vaccine doses
MoU	Government of Himachal Pradesh and ADB	- to improve the infrastructure in Mandi district of state - estimated cost of construction is re. 15 crore out of which rs 19 cr. is being paid by ADB and rest by government of Himachal Pradesh
MoU	India and Finland	for developing cooperation between two countries in the field of environmental protection and biodiversity conservation
MoU	Union Cabinet and BRICS	on cooperation in the field of physical cultural sports
MoU	United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and Rajasthan Government	for proposed participation to achieve food and nutritional security goals
Agreement	Department of Investment and Public Asset management (DIPAM) with World Bank	to provide advisory services to DIPAM for asset monetization
Agreement	Government of India and West Bengal	- $120million - to improve and modernize the transport sector of state of Meghalaya
Loan	Government of India, National Capital Region Transport Corporation Ltd. and NDB	- $ 500million - for "Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut Regional rapid Transit System Project"
Loan (imp.)		- $ 132.8 million - to improve power distribution network in Meghalaya
Loan		- $ 50million - to improve operational efficient and resource planning and management in West Bengal

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