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Eight files, eight desks, one ordinary Wednesday — a metro reaching for its runway, jammers ordered for the seas, a wallet absorbing the electricity bill, two credit lines holding up small enterprise, water reform written into MoUs, a skilling ministry at twelve, and a loom slowly turning toward man-made fibre. The arithmetic of a working state.

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🚜 From pipes laid to water that actually flows

Jal Jeevan Mission is quietly rewriting its own grammar — from assets built to service delivered.

• Reform-linked MoUs signed on 10 June 2026 with Manipur and Bihar under Jal Jeevan Mission 2.0
• Marks the shift from JJM 1.0 (infrastructure creation) to JJM 2.0 (service delivery + structural reforms), with central fund release tied to reform compliance
• JJM 2.0, approved by Cabinet on 10 March 2026, extends the Mission to December 2028 with outlay enhanced to ₹8.69 lakh crore

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📊 The slow rewriting of India's textile basket

Cotton has long held the loom; a scheme is patiently shifting the weight toward man-made fibre.

• Ministry of Textiles approved 22 new applicants under Round-III of the PLI Scheme for Textiles on 10 June 2026
• Cumulative Round-III tally now 96 companies with ₹12,822.67 crore of committed investment
• The 22 new entrants alone bring ₹2,339.14 crore of investment, ₹15,561.34 crore projected turnover, and 36,217 jobs

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💰 The microfinance back-door, widened

The smaller cousin of ECLGS got a longer runway and a higher ceiling.

• CGSMFI-2.0 validity extended to 31 August 2026 (or ₹20,000 crore in guarantees, whichever earlier)
• Per-borrower loan cap for Large NBFC-MFIs raised from ₹300 crore to ₹1,000 crore, within an overall 20% of AUM ceiling
• ₹770 crore already sanctioned; scheme run via NCGTC under the Ministry of Finance

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PIB Digest - 10 June 2026

🇮🇳 Eight separate desks in Delhi closed their files on the same Wednesday — a metro spur, a jammer contract, a microfinance lifeline, a skilling anniversary. Unrelated paperwork, one calendar date. India on 10 June 2026, told as eight small stories.

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💰 A credit line that crossed its first lakh

Born of the West Asia shock, the scheme has now found its scale.

• ECLGS 5.0, approved by Cabinet on 5 May 2026, crossed 1,06,549 guarantees worth ₹48,484.26 crore as on 9 June 2026
• MSMEs account for 96% by number and 86% by value of the guarantees issued
• Public Sector Banks alone account for 96% of guarantees; routed through NCGTC to Member Lending Institutions

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🏛️ The wallet that quietly swallowed the electricity bill

A decade after launch, DigiLocker is becoming the place where utilities live.

• 68 Electricity Distribution Companies and Power Departments onboarded onto DigiLocker
• Coverage now spans 35 States and Union Territories — state utilities, municipal departments, private discoms
• Anchored in the Digital India programme under MeitY; documents inside DigiLocker stand at par with originals under the IT Act, 2000

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🛡️ The quieter front of electronic warfare

Before ships sail, someone has to deny the adversary his satellites.

• MoD signed a ₹449 crore contract on 10 June 2026 with Accord Software and Systems Pvt Ltd, Bengaluru
• 20 Enhanced Capability GNSS Jammers for the Indian Navy
• Procured under Buy (Indian-IDDM) with minimum 75% indigenous content, extending a run of Navy-IDDM contracts into the GNSS denial segment

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🚆 A short spur, a long-awaited airport line

Ahmedabad's metro map grew by six kilometres, and finally bent toward its runway.

• Union Cabinet on 10 June 2026 approved Phase 2A: Koteshwar Road to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport
• 6.032 km corridor, 5 stations (4 elevated + 1 underground), ₹2,169.04 crore including IDC
• On commissioning, the Ahmedabad–Gandhinagar metro network rises to 77.63 km

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🏛️ A toll plaza without a barrier is a small change in engineering and a much larger one in governance — it asks the State to trust its databases, its cameras, and its citizens, and to recover dues without ever blocking the road. That is the reform underneath the ribbon-cutting.

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MLFF tolling — NHAI under MoRTH, ANPR + FASTag (not GNSS yet), launched at Chorayasi on NH-48, enabled by the Central Motor Vehicles (Second Amendment) Rules, 2026. GS-III infrastructure, GS-II e-governance.

🚆 On 2 May 2026, roughly 41,500 vehicles drove through a toll point in Gujarat without stopping. No barrier rose. No cash changed hands. India had quietly entered a new era of tolling.

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💰 the quieter story underneath the launch

The Minister, Nitin Gadkari, formally launched the system at Chorayasi. But the more interesting numbers sit in the operational accounts.

• Day-1 traffic at Chorayasi: ~41,500 vehicles
• Operational cost falls from ~15% of toll revenue to ~3–4%
• Estimated system-wide savings: ₹5,000–6,000 crore a year
• Rollout plan: ~25 NH fee plazas to receive MLFF in the current financial year
• Reduced idling at plazas also trims vehicular emissions and fuel burn