{"id":57915,"date":"2025-08-03T15:09:47","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T09:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=57915"},"modified":"2025-08-05T16:33:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T11:03:11","slug":"apna-ghar-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/apna-ghar-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"Apna Ghar Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Apna Ghar Initiative Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas recently launched an ambitious initiative named \u2018Apna Ghar\u2019 aimed at improving truckers\u2019 long-haul journeys across the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Apna Ghar Initiative<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is an initiative of the <\/span><b>Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Government of India.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It aims to provide comfortable and hygienic <\/span><b>resting spaces for truckers across major highways<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the country.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As of July 1, 2025, a total of 368 \u2018Apna Ghar\u2019 units with 4,611 beds have been <\/span><b>set up by Public Sector Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) at retail fuel outlets along national and state highways.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>facilities at \u2018Apna Ghar\u2019 include:<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Dormitories <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(10-30) beds<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Restaurants<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\/Dhabas<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Self-cooking areas<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Clean toilets<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dedicated <\/span><b>bathing areas<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Houdas)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Purified drinking water facilities<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Other Features:\u00a0<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Tech Integration:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2018<\/span><b>Apna Ghar\u2019 mobile application<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> introduced for reservations, reviews, and driver interaction.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Public-Private Execution:<\/b> <b>Developed <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and overseen <\/span><b>by OMCs at retail fuel outlets.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">User-Focused Design:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Tailored to the requirements of truckers, guided by their feedback and insights from <\/span><b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">mobile app data analysis.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2150823\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PIB<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apna Ghar is a Ministry of Petroleum initiative to offer clean, comfortable and hygienic resting spaces for truckers along major highways across India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":58307,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1985,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-57915","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-apna-ghar-initiative","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}