{"id":30474,"date":"2018-10-26T16:23:14","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T10:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=30474"},"modified":"2018-10-26T16:23:14","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T10:53:14","slug":"new-telecom-policy-almost-ready-sinha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/new-telecom-policy-almost-ready-sinha\/","title":{"rendered":"New telecom policy almost ready: Sinha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-business\/new-telecom-policy-almost-ready-sinha\/article23306780.ece\"><strong>New telecom policy almost ready: Sinha<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Union Minister Manoj Sinha said on Tuesday that the new telecom policy (NTP) was almost ready and would be brought in the next session of Parliament after Cabinet nod<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Information relevant for prelims<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Deen Dayal SPARSH Yojana<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Under the scheme of\u00a0<strong>SPARSH<\/strong>\u00a0(<strong>S<\/strong>cholarship for\u00a0<strong>P<\/strong>romotion of\u00a0<strong>A<\/strong>ptitude &amp;\u00a0<strong>R<\/strong>esearch in\u00a0<strong>S<\/strong>tamps as a\u00a0<strong>H<\/strong>obby), it is proposed to award annual scholarships to children of Standard VI to IX having good academic record and also pursuing Philately as a hobby through a competitive selection process in all postal circles<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>To avail this scholarship<\/strong>, a child must be a student of a recognized school within India and the concerned school should have a Philately Club and the candidate should be a member of the Club<\/li>\n<li>In case the school Philately Club hasn\u2019t been established a student having his own Philately Deposit Account will also be considered.Every prospective school, which participates in the competition, would be assigned a <strong>Philately mentor<\/strong> to be chosen from amongst the renowned Philatelists<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0Philately mentor\u00a0would help in formation of the School level Philately Club, providing guidance to young and aspiring Philatelists on how to pursue the hobby and also helping the aspiring Philatelists on their Philately Projects etc<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What is philately?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Philately\u00a0is the hobby of collection and study of Postage\u00a0stamps. It also entails the collection, appreciation and research activities on stamps and other related philatelic products.\u00a0The hobby of collecting Stamps includes seeking, locating, acquiring, organizing, cataloguing, displaying, storing, and maintaining the stamps or related products on thematic areas<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Philately is called the king of hobbies because Stamp collection as a hobby has lot of educational benefits &#8211; it teaches a lot about the socio economic political reality of the period in which the stamp is issued or the theme on which it is issued<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New telecom policy almost ready: Sinha Context Union Minister Manoj Sinha said on Tuesday that the new telecom policy (NTP) was almost ready and would be brought in the next session of Parliament after Cabinet nod Information relevant for prelims Deen Dayal SPARSH Yojana Under the scheme of\u00a0SPARSH\u00a0(Scholarship for\u00a0Promotion of\u00a0Aptitude &amp;\u00a0Research in\u00a0Stamps as a\u00a0Hobby), it&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/new-telecom-policy-almost-ready-sinha\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New telecom policy almost ready: Sinha<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704902577},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}