Tag: Assistance

WEBWIRE – Thursday, June 16, 2022 Advanced technologies designed to help drivers navigate intersections could address a third of the crashes that cause older driver injuries and fatalities, a new study from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety shows. “Left turn assist and other, upcoming intersection-assistance technologies could deliver big safety benefits for drivers in their 70s and 80s,” says the paper’s author, IIHS Research Associate Aimee Cox. The number of older drivers in the U.S. is growing rapidly because Americans are living longer and retaining their licenses later in life. That raises safety ... Read more

Under Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) program, Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) sponsors youths living in the periphery of the SAIL Plants and Mines for training in Industrial Training Institute (ITI) in various trades like Fitter, Electrician, Machinist, Turner, etc. The eligibility criteria for undergoing these ITI training is matriculation and financial status of the parents. The needy matriculate students living in the periphery of the Steel Plants and Mines are given priority in selection for sponsorship of their ITI training. This information was given by the Union Minister for Steel Shri Ram ... Read more

Under the schemes implemented by the Department of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare (DA&FW), Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare; the women farmers can avail benefits as per eligibility. The guidelines of the various beneficiary oriented schemes of the DA&FW also provide that States and other Implementing Agencies to incur atleast 30% expenditure on women farmers. The Ministry of Rural Development started a scheme to provide facilities to women farmers namely, Mahila Kisan SashaktikaranPariyojana (MKSP), a sub-component of Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana- National Rural Livelihood Mission (DAY –NRLM), which is under implementation since 2011 through State Rural Livelihoods Mission as Project Implementation ... Read more