# GST

• Gross GST revenue receipts in December totalled totalled nearly ₹1.5 lakh crore, up 15% year on year, signalling that demand remains robust and efforts to boost compliance have had an impact.
• Data released by the finance ministry on Sunday showed gross GST revenues were ₹1.49 lakh crore in December.
• It is the 10th consecutive month when revenue crossed ₹1.4 lakh crore.
• In November, 7.9 crore e way bills were generated, which was significantly higher than 7.6 crore e way bills generated in October 2022.

# PLI

• After the success of iphone production in India, the government is set to sweeten the deal to kick start the coveted manufacturing of Mac books and ipads in the country.
• Central government is looking to broad base the production linked incentive scheme for IT hardware to nearly ₹20000 crore against the existing outlay of ₹7350 crore which failed to receive much response from the industry.
• This PLI scheme had been approved by the Union cabinet in February 2021, and had promised incentive support of 1-4% over a four year period, the new scheme wants to boost this to an average of 5%.

# Delhi

• The annual average PM2.5 concentration of Delhi in 2022 fell below 100 micrograms per cubic metre for only the second time 2017.
• This made the year gone by the second cleanest in the last six years.
• At 99.7 micrograms per cubic metre, Delhi’s PM 2.5 level in 2022 was higher than only the average level recorded during the lockdown year of 2020.

# Army

• The almost 12 lakh strong army is actively working on several proposals to improve its tooth to tail ratio by further reducing its support manpower.
• This comes after the recruitment process was suspended for two years before the Agnipath scheme was launched last year.