Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
It runs 95 medical outlets in the state, which offers an average 15% discount on all medicines, with over a 25% additional discount for Below Poverty Line families. Supplyco procures paddy directly from farmers at the Minimum Support Price declared by the Government of Kerala.
National Common Mobility Card (NCMC) is an open-loop, inter-operable transport card conceived by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ‘One Nation, One Card' vision. [1] It was launched on 4 March 2019. The transport card enables the user to pay for travel, toll tax, retail shopping and withdraw money.
The government issued new cards to families living below the poverty line and restricted access to the fair price shops to the beneficiaries of the TDPS only. While the BPL counted 25% of Kerala's families as eligible for the PDS, the Kerala government identified 42% of the population as poor households and beneficiaries of the BPL.
In May 2014 Tesco made a deal with the state-run China Resources Enterprise (CRE) to create a joint venture, combining Tesco's 131 stores in the country with CRE's nearly 3,000 outlets. With Tesco owning 20% of the business and CRE 80% this became the largest food retailer in China. [ 129 ]
The University of Kerala has its research and higher-education centres at Kariavattom. [64] Thiruvananthapuram Medical College is the premier health institute of the state and one of the finest in the country. It is being upgraded to the status of an All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS).
The economy of Kerala is the 11th largest in India, with an annual gross state product (GSP) of ₹13.11 lakh crore (US$157.45 billion) in 2024–2025. [6] Per-capita GSP of Kerala during the same period is ₹ 372,783 (US$4,300), the sixth largest in India. [ 2 ]
Kerala is home to 2.76% of India's population, and at 859 persons per km 2; [12] its land is three times as densely settled as the rest of India. Kerala's western coastal regions are the most densely settled with population of 2,022 persons per km 2, 2.5 times the overall population density of the state, 859 persons per km 2, leaving the eastern hills and mountains comparatively sparsely ...
Malabar District merged with the erstwhile state of Travancore-Cochin (1950–1956) to form Kerala according to the States Reorganisation Act, 1956. [6] On the same day, the present Kasaragod district of South Canara District was also attached to Malabar, and the Laccadive and Minicoy Islands of Malabar were reorganised to form a new Union ...