The Cabinet approved the solar pump scheme KUSUM (Kisan Urja Suraksha evam Utthaan Mahaabhiyan). It aims to achieve a cumulative capacity of 40,000 MW from Rooftop Solar Projects by the year 2022.
The centre will provide financial support of ₹ 11814 Crore.
Suresh Prabhu launched SWAYATT in New Delhi. It is an initiative to promote Start-ups, Women and Youth Advantage through eTransactions on Government e-Marketplace. It will bring together the key stakeholders within the Indian entrepreneurial ecosystem.
CEO GeM Radha Chauhan introduced the concept of SWAYATT.
PayU India has named a new CEO in Anirban Mukherjee, who was still the co-chief executive of Reliance Payments. It has planned to double its loan book to about $ 2 bn. Jitendra Gupta, MD of PayU will head the company’s credit product LazyPay.
Parent Organization of PayU – Naspers Ltd.
Life Insurance Corporation launched a new microinsurance plan 'Micro Bachat'. It offers a combination of protection & savings. It provides the coverage up to ₹ 2 Lakh. This plan is available for standard healthy lives only in the age group of 18-55 years.
Interim Chairman of LIC – Hemant Bhargava.
President inaugurates a 3-day International Conference & Exhibition on Energy & Environment in New Delhi. It aims to deliberate and identify the R&D needs to innovate new techniques for clean, safe, symbiotic sustenance of society in the post-2020 era.
Event organizer: CSIR-Central Inst. of Mining & Fuel Research
PM inaugurated ‘Param Shivay’ Supercomputer of 833 teraflop capacity built at the cost of ₹ 32.5 Cr under National Super Computing Mission at IIT- BHU. The issues such as irrigation schemes, traffic management can be managed by this supercomputer.
India’s 1st supercomputer called PARAM 8000 was launched in 1991
Thiruvananthapuram is all prepared to host the Attukal Pongala festival which is considered as one of the world's largest religious gathering of women on a single day. Attukal temple is also called 'women's Sabarimala' as only women perform the ritual.
Palanisamy Sathasivam is the governor of Kerala.
Nikhat Zareen & Meena Kumari Devi became the 1st Indian women boxers to win gold medals at the Strandja Memorial Tournament in Sofia, Bulgaria. Zareen defeated Filipino Irish Magno in 51Kg category & Meena defeated Filipino Aira Villegas in the 54Kg category.
Manju Rani (48kg) defeated Josie Gabuco & settled for a silver.
Rajnath Singh inaugurated a national cyber forensic lab & Delhi Police's cyber-crime unit ‘CyPAD’. The facility would help in solving cyber-crimes & financial frauds. Home Ministry's Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C) consists of seven verticals.
Delhi Police launched NIPUN portal to keep police forces updated
Noted Hindi writer Namvar Singh passed away in New Delhi. He was 92. He was the first chairman of JNU's Centre of Indian Languages. He received Sahitya Academy Award for literary criticism in 1971 for 'Kavita Ke Naye Pratiman'.
His books are Dusri Parampara Ki Khoj, 'Chhayavad' etc.