The Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister re-launched the YSR Bima scheme with new guidelines, where the government itself will directly pay the insurance amount to the family of the deceased to make the insurance claims easier.
The Indian Army inducted the first batch of 12 indigenously designed and developed Short Span Bridging systems into the Corps of Engineers at Delhi which are designed by DRDO and manufactured by Larsen and Toubro Limited.
The Union Minister of Tribal Affairs Shri Arjun Munda laid the foundation stone for the construction of five Eklavya Model Residential School (EMRS) in three districts of Jharkhand.