main investor in Rail Development Fund

World Bank would be the anchor investor in the new Railway Development Fund, which would be used to fund modernisation of Indian railways,Union Minister Suresh Prabhu.The World Bank would be the anchor investor in the new Railway Development Fund, which would be used to fund the modernisation of Indian Railways. The World Bank (WB) and the Indian Railways would work together to create a Railway Development Fund that will partly finance the $142-billion investment plans for the core infrastructure sector that the Narendra Modi government has announced.

India’s first fully organic state

Sikkim,India’s landlocked state, has become the country’s first fully organic state.It successfully implemented organic farming practices on around 75,000 hectares of agricultural land.The Sikkim Organic Festival 2016 has been organised on the sidelines of the National Conference on Sustainable Agriculture and Farmers Welfare. On this occasion, PM also launched three new orchid species developed in Sikkim which is also known as the Land of Flowers viz. Cymbidium Sardar (named after Sardar Patel), Cymbidium Deen Dayal (named after Deen Dayal Upaddhyay) and Cymbidium Namo (named after Narendra Modi).