1. “NDA government in action” is a social media campaign. It could well have been done through the PIB as well.

2. The commerce department is working on a five-year plan towards regional integration — a typical PIB-like story the department missed.

3. The prime minister on Saturday directed the Health Ministry to increase the size of the pictorial warning on tobacco packs to 65 per cent and not to take into account the views of people with conflict of interest.

4. The government had announced construction of two crore houses annually to meet the target, but Modi, who is monitoring the scheme, has instructed the Urban Development and the Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation Ministries to verify if more houses should be built. This happened in February, but the interaction never surfaced on the PIB site; it appeared in The Hindu in March-end.

5. The Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas on Saturday urged liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) consumers to give up their LPG subsidy and join the ‘Give It UP’ movement. The ambitious programme announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has seen 290,000 consumers give up their subsidy till now.

6. The BJP-led NDA government’s pet project Global Initiative of Academic Networks (GIAN) will be launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Canada’s capital Ottawa on April 16. The programme seeks to invite distinguished academicians, entrepreneurs, scientists, experts from premier institutions from across the world, to teach in the higher educational institutions in India.

7. Having opened over 12 crore Jan Dhan bank accounts under its flagship financial inclusion programme, the government is now mulling over ways to step up the utilisation of these accounts, including through POS transactions and the Business Correspondents. A meeting has been called by the Finance Ministry on Tuesday, 7 April, of representatives from public sector banks and the business correspondents (BCs) of the banks, who can help in last-mile implementation of the inclusion efforts.

8. Dr Mahesh Sharma, Minister of State with Independent Charge for Culture and Tourism and Minister of State for Civil Aviation, Government of India, said that the nation is keen to take forward its relationship with China and it is in this background that they are keenly exploring the possibility of extending the facility of Tourist Visa on Arrival (TVoA) to China.

9. A workshop was organised in Kolkata by the I&B ministry, in collaboration with OneWorld Foundation India, to address various issues related to community radio stations. Jaitley announced in New Delhi last month that the application process for opening a CR station would now go online, a move aimed at simplifying the entire process. The PIB never played it up even as the floodgates of community radio stations opened up.

10. Most glaringly, the splendid rescue operations of Indians held up in Yemen, supervised by External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and her deputy Gen VK Singh, is not screaming through the headlines of the government’s information outlet.