Question: Recently Union Minister of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Radha Mohan Singh launched e-NAM Mobile App in New Delhi, this scheme was started on-
(a) 25 September 2015
(b) 28 February 2016
(c) 14 April 2016
(d) 15 August 2016
Ans (c)
Related facts:
- On 6 October 2016 Union Minister of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Shri Radha Mohan Singh launched e-NAM Mobile App in New Delhi.
- He also announced successful completion of e-NAM first phase.
- E-National Agriculture Market (e-NAM) is a pan-India electronic trading portal which networks the existing APMC mandis to create a unified national market for agricultural commodities.
- E-Nam was launched on 14 April 2016; in the initial stage 21 mandis in 8 states have been linked to e-NAM.
- In which Government has the targeted for connecting 200 markets (mandis) by 30 September 2016.
- Now e-NAM platform is connected to 250 markets across 10 States as of now (Andhra Pradesh (12), Chhattisgarh (05), Gujarat (40), Haryana (36), Himachal Pradesh (07), Jharkhand (08), Madhya Pradesh (20), Rajasthan (11), Telangana (44), and Uttar Pradesh (67).
- A total number of 585 markets are targeted to be integrated in first phase with e-NAM by March 2018, out of which 400 markets will be integrated by March 2017.
- e-NAM will significantly contribute towards enhancing the farmer’s income by providing the provision of online payment of the sale proceeds to the farmers.
Reference:
http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=151502
http://www.enam.gov.in/NAM/home/about_nam.html