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  ✍️ CRR Cash Reserve Ratio is the minimum fraction of total deposits of a bank’s customers that banks have to hold as reserves with the central bank. ✍️ SLR Statutory Liquidity Ratio is the ratio of liquid assets to the net demand and time liabilities. ✍️ LAF Liquid Adjustment Facility is a tool to allow banks to borrow money through repurchase agreements. It consists of repo and reverse repo operations. ✍️ MSF Marginal Standing Facility allows scheduled banks to borrow funds overnight from RBI against approved government securities. ✍️ MSS Market Stabilization Scheme is a monetary policy intervention by RBI to withdraw excess liquidity by selling government securities in the economy. ✍️ OMO Open Market Operations refers to the buying and selling of government securities in the open market so as to expand or contract the amount of money in the banking system. ✍️ REPO Repo stands for Repurchase agreement where a seller of a security agrees to buy it back from a buyer at a

Welfare Schemes and Policies in India


Welfare Schemes and Policies in India


  • Financial assistance to fisherfolk in pipeline. = May 13, 2017
  • PRELIMS SPECIAL 2017 Schemes of Government of India. =May 11, 2017
  • PT 2017 Schemes/Meetings/Conferences in News. May 09, 2017
  • Over Rs.one lakh cr investment for housing of urban poor.  Apr 29, 2017
  • Portal and Mobile App of RashtriyaUchchatarShikshaAbhiyan (RUSA).  Apr 24, 2017
  • Removing cap on parent maintenance. Apr 11, 2017
  • Rashtriya Vayoshri Yojana  Apr 11, 2017
  • Power Tex India Scheme for Textile sector.  Apr 11, 2017
  • Ratification of the Minimum Age Convention. Apr 10, 2017
  • Even hill stations will be hotter this year warns IMD. Mar 06, 2017
  • Supreme Court makes legal services affordable.  Feb 21, 2017
  • Single vaccine for dual protection against measles and rubella. Feb 13, 2017
  • labour and tax policies to make the Apparel and Leather sector globally competitive . Feb 08, 2017
  • Warning against spurious schemes being floated in the name of Beti Bachao Beti Padhao. Feb 06, 2017
  • Co-operative banks cannot take deposits under PMGKY. Jan 31, 2017
  • TRAI moots free data for rural users.  Dec 29, 2016
  • Lucky Grahak Yojana and Digi-DhanVyapar Yojana.  Dec 24, 2016
  • "Housing for All" in Rural Areas. Dec 03, 2016
  • Food Security act. Nov 17, 2016
  • Amendments to the HIV and AIDS (Prevention and Control) Bill, 2014. Oct 22, 2016
  • USOF support to BSNL. Oct 03, 2016
  • New model concession agreement for shipping industry. Oct 01, 2016
  • One-third of total maternal deaths in 2015 happened in India. Sep 28, 2016
  • Government nod for panel to clean up river Ganga.  Sep 24, 2016
  • Swadesh darshan projects approved.  Sep 19, 2016
  • Govt. clears civil aviation policy, makes flying cheaper.  Jul 05, 2016
  • WCD Ministry and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation sign.  Jun 16, 2016
  • Under Atal Mission Rs.5,534cr investment in basic urban infra approved in 6 States for 2016-17. Jun 11, 2016
  • Draft National Policy for Women, 2016.  Jun 13, 2016
  • Government launches mission aimed at turning rural areas into economically, socially and physically sustainable spaces. Mar 15, 2016
  • Health minister launches National Deworming initiative. Feb 27, 2016
  • Project Sunrise in Manipur. Feb 24, 2016
  • Stand up India scheme: to promote entrepreneurship among SC/ST and Women. Jan 16, 2016
  • National Skill Development Mission: Assessment. Oct 07, 2015
  • Unnat Bharat Abhiyan. Sep 07, 2015
  • Housing for All by 2022 Mission-National Mission for Urban Housing. Jul 23, 2015
  • Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yoiana. Jul 09, 2015
  • ATAL PENSION YOJANA. Jun 08, 2015
  • Pharma Jan Samadhan Scheme (PJSS). Jun 08, 2015
  • Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti BimaYojana & Pradhan Mantri Suraksha BimaYojana. Jun 04, 2015
  • Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation and Smart Cities Mission.  May 07, 2015
  • Price Stabilisation Fund Scheme. Apr 29, 2015
  • MISSION INDRADHANUSH. Apr 28, 2015
  • Jan Aushadhi Scheme. Apr 22, 2015
  • DEENDAYAL UPADHYAYA GRAM JYOTI YOJANA (DDUGJY). Apr 09, 2015
  • PaHaL Scheme for Direct Benefit Transfer for LPG Subsidy.  Mar 07, 2015
  • Sukanya Samridhi Yojana. Feb 24, 2015
  • Beti Bachao Beti Padhao Campaign. Feb 12, 2015
  • Welfare schemes for Scheduled Tribes.  Jan 16, 2015
  • Energy Highway for Eastern India. Jan 13, 2015

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    banking terms

      ✍️ CRR Cash Reserve Ratio is the minimum fraction of total deposits of a bank’s customers that banks have to hold as reserves with the central bank. ✍️ SLR Statutory Liquidity Ratio is the ratio of liquid assets to the net demand and time liabilities. ✍️ LAF Liquid Adjustment Facility is a tool to allow banks to borrow money through repurchase agreements. It consists of repo and reverse repo operations. ✍️ MSF Marginal Standing Facility allows scheduled banks to borrow funds overnight from RBI against approved government securities. ✍️ MSS Market Stabilization Scheme is a monetary policy intervention by RBI to withdraw excess liquidity by selling government securities in the economy. ✍️ OMO Open Market Operations refers to the buying and selling of government securities in the open market so as to expand or contract the amount of money in the banking system. ✍️ REPO Repo stands for Repurchase agreement where a seller of a security agrees to buy it back from a buyer at a