Question: Recently Jharkhand government has signed MoUs with how many countries under ‘Momentum Jharkhand’?
(a) 5
(b) 6
(c) 7
(d) 8
Ans: (d)
Related facts:
- On 20 September 2016 Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das has signed an Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with eight different companies in the western metropolis in campaign branded as ‘Momentum Jharkhand’.
- Six new policies aimed at diversifying state’s industrial landscape were launched.
- Several MoUs catering to sectors such as multispecialty healthcare and medical education, skills development and technical education, textiles, tourism, and e-governance signed.
- The state has signed an Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Orient Craft Limited in the textile sector worth Rs 1,500 crore for construction of two parks across a 140-acre land.
- In the education sector, the state signed an MoU worth Rs 350 crore with MNR Education Trust Integrated Medical and Para-medical Education Campus and it would be set up in the next five years on an 80-acre land.
- According to the MoU with Tata Steel Limited, training would be imparted to youth in soft skill system, in mining and meteorological sector under the CSR .
- MoU with Desun Hospital & Heart Research Institution is for a 500-bed multi-specialty hospital and for setting up a 300-seat nursing institution and a paramedical institution.
- The MoU with Fuel would in skill development for the next ten years and another MoU was signed with a company in the e-governance sector.
- Bokaro Seva Trust and Rama University in Kanpur signed a MoU for a super specialty hospital and medical research worth Rs 100 crore.
- MoU with Vakarangee Limited in e-Governance to set up more than 1,600 (of which 1,100 will be in rural areas) Vakarangee kendras (centres) across Jharkhand over the next 5 years to serve e-services (B2B & B2C) to public facilities.
Reference:
http://momentumjharkhand.com/jharkhands-investment-promotion-campaign-poised-to-go-global/
https://twitter.com/dasraghubar/status/778107308807258113
https://twitter.com/dasraghubar/status/778228586549501952
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/jharkhand-signs-8-mous-for-development-in-various-sectors/articleshow/54433228.cms
http://www.jharkhandstatenews.com/cm-launches-investment-promotion-campaign-momentum-jharkhand/#.V-nE7Pl97IU
http://smestreet.in/jharkhand-attracts-investment-through-momentum-jharkhand-program/