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Mahanaaryaman Scindia expects MyMandi to turn profitable by Dec 2023

Gwalior's royal family scion Mahanaaryaman Scindia, whose name speaks volumes, has shed his legacy and ventured into building his own empire from scratch through startup MyMandi, which he expects to turn profitable in about one-and-a-half years of its business commencement. By combining his lineage of public service, lessons of creating social impact by grandfather late Madhavrao Scindia and wisdom acquired during work at global firms Boston Consulting Group and Softbank Group, 27-year-old Scindia and his firm's co-founder Suryansh Rana, 25, zeroed in on a common passion of working in agriculture sector, cut down on waste of fresh produce and logistic costs. Founded in 2022, MyMandi began operations from Gwalior where Scindia himself goes into local mandis, with a covered face to conceal his identity, for procuring fresh produce and sell the inventory to the firm's last mile delivery partners -- street vendors and cart pushers community. The formula of their venture has led to a ...

Govt to push producers to use recycled steel as 50% input by 2047: Scindia

Union Steel Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia on Saturday said his ministry will push primary steel producers to use 50 per cent of their input from scrapped/recycled steel by 2047 to help achieve the government target of moving into a circular economy. Currently, the level of recycled steel usage in primary steel production is only around 10 per cent even though recycled steel contributes to 22.5 per cent of the domestic total steel production of 140 million tonnes, the minister said while addressing the last day of the three-day international conference of material recycling here. The 10th conference is being organised by the Material Recycling Association of India and is attended by over 2,000 delegates from 38 countries. Noting that recycling is the key cog in the wheel of manufacturing as economies move into a circular model of development, he said, "Going forward the industry should focus on the 6Rs philosophy of reduce (exploitation of natural resources), recycle, reuse, recover,

India becomes second-largest steel producer in world: Scindia in Parliament

Union minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said on Monday that India had become the second-largest steel producer in the world in the last eight years.

India proposed air bubble to South Korea in July 2021: Scindia

Scheduled international passenger flights have been suspended in India since March 23, 2020 in view of the Covid pandemic.

Scindia directs Delhi airport's operator DIAL to do better crowd management

Amid concerns over the Omicron variant of coronavirus, the Centre had issued a revised guideline for international travellers which came into effect on December 1

PM Modi wanted Asia's biggest airport in Uttar Pradesh: Scindia

Scindia said the airport, located in Jewar in Gautam Buddh Nagar district in western Uttar Pradesh, will bring investments worth Rs 34,000 crore

Govt scouting for location in Kolkata for another aerodrome: Scindia

Emphasising the need for new airports in all the metro cities, Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said the government is scouting for a location in Kolkata for a second aerodrome

Scindia inaugurates Sindhudurg airport in Konkan region of Maharashtra

Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia virtually inaugurated on Saturday the newly constructed Sindhudurg airport in the Konkan region of Maharashtra, according to an official statement. The state's Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray graced the event virtually from the Sindhudurg airport as the guest of honour while Union Minister Narayan Rane was among the other dignitaries, said the statement. Alliance Air, which is the regional arm of Air India, operated the inaugural flight from the Sindhudurg airport for Mumbai under the government's regional connectivity scheme UDAN. The Sindhudurg airport has become the 14th such facility in the state. "The inauguration of the Sindhudurg airport and start of the flight to Mumbai mark a new chapter in the glorious history of the Konkan region. "This development will open new avenues of growth of local trade and tourism. I am sure, with the huge potential of the region, the number of daily flights will increase to 20-25 within the next fiv

HC gives 'first task' to Scindia: Formulating policy for naming airports

Earlier last month, the Maharashtra government and state-run town planning agency CIDCO had announced to name the greenfield airport after Shiv Sena founder late Bal Thackeray.

Sarma, Scindia and now Prasada, Cong continues to lose stalwarts

47-year-old former Union minister Jitin Prasada jumped ship on Wednesday

MP by-polls: BJP sails through, but challenges remain going forward

While Scindia's influence is under threat, Chouhan has the task to accommodate rivals in the Cabinet

Family drama: The Scindias and their privilege, both royal and political

The Scindias have always enjoyed privilege, first royal and then political. Sandeep Kumar tells the story of an intriguing family that just caused another shakeup

Disgruntled Congress leader Jyotiraditya Scindia meets PM with Amit Shah

Seventeen MLAs, including at least six ministers, known to be Scindia loyalists, are currently in Bengaluru

Modi government a non-serious regime, betraying farmers: Scindia

Congress leader says the Centre failed to fulfil its promises to farmers, including increasing MSP of their produce