Friday 8 July 2016

Short Notes on TEJAS



Tejas is a single-engine lightweight multi-role fighter jet

It has been pegged as world’s smallest and lightest supersonic fighter.

• It is outcome of India’s LCA programme, which began in the 1983 to replace country’s aging MiG-21 fighters.

• It is a tailless and having compound delta wing design. It is

powered by a single engine.

• It is mounted with inbuilt MultiMode Radar (MMR), Radar Warning Receiver (RWR) systems.

• LCA Tejas has a limited reach of a little over 400-km. It will be

mainly used for close air-to-ground operations.

• LCA Tejas is not the first indigenous fighter to be inducted into the

IAF.

 In April 1967, IAF had formed the first operational squadron

with the indigenous HF-24 Marut fighter.

Sunday 3 July 2016

Nai Manzil Scheme for Minorities


The scheme aims to benefit the minority youths in the age group of 17 to 35 years who are school-dropouts or educated in the community education institutions like Madarsas

by providing them an integrated input of formal education (up till Class VIII orX) and skill training along with certification, with a view of enabling them to seek better employment in the organized sector and equipping them with better lives.

 Minimum 30% seats are earmarked for minority girls. 

It includes a Non-residential programme of 9-12 months duration involving a Basic Bridge Programme (For Class VIII or Class X) for their education, along with training in trade based skills for sustained livelihood/gainful employment. 

The scheme covers the entire country. 
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