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Raghuram Rajan Believes India Should Focus on Industry & Services
INDIA

Raghuram Rajan Believes India Should Focus on Industry & Services

Raghuram Rajam, Former Governor of Reserve Bank of India stated on Friday that the country should encourage its workforce to step out of the agricultural sector to move into the industry and services as the latter will provide the population with higher income. "We have to try and give people the ability to move out of agriculture into industry and services, where income is much higher. We need to figure out ways to do this," Rajan said here. He added that the populace should not be afraid of machines replacing humans because society has always found ways of adapting to industrialization and mechanization which worked well in the past. "Two hundred years since the industrial revolution, jobs are still around. People and society adapt to do the things that machines cannot do," he s...
Indian Government New Mobile App Give Access to over 1,000 Government Services
INDIA

Indian Government New Mobile App Give Access to over 1,000 Government Services

Government is working on a mobile app which will give access to over 1,000 services from Centre and state governments and would be launched by December 2016, Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said today. "We are going to launch a common mobile. In this app we will give services of central government, state government and local bodies. On a click of button people will be able scan 1000 services of government. We will start it in December with National student scholarships, women safety and health care," Prasad said. Umang (Unified Mobile App for New Age Governance) will be available in 12 Indian languages in addition to English. Prasad said that with help of technology the government is improving governance in the country. "A former prime minister of India has said that...