# Air India

• Tax payers will be paying a total of 62000 crore rupees for debt and other liabilities of air India, according to the supplementary demand for grants tabled before parliament on Friday.
• The government has sought parliament’s nod to infuse over 62000 crore rupees to it’s companies that hold air India’s debt, liabilities and some non-core assets.
• This company called air India assets holding limited was set up to clean air India’s balance sheet ahead of its privatisation.

# Pilgrimage scheme

• The first train carrying 1000 devotees to the Ram temple in ayodhya under the Delhi government’s mukhyamantri tirtha yatra yojana departed from the Safdargunj railway station here on Friday evening.
• Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal was there in person to flag off the train and interact with the ayodhya bound devotees.
• Devotees were from all the 70 assembly constituencies of Delhi legislative Assembly.

# MGNREGA

• The centre has sought 25000 crore rupees as additional funding for the mahatma Gandhi national rural employment gurantee scheme as part of supplementary demand for grants.
• MGNREGA has finished spending the 73000 crore rupees initially allocated in the budget.

# Afghanistan aid

• As India stepped up efforts to send humanitarian aid to Afghanistan “without conditionality” , Pakistan announced on Friday that it would allow Indian aid to pass through on Afghan trucks, dropping an earlier demand that Pakistani trucks be used.
• The announcement came even as European Union special envoy on Afghanistan Tomas niklasson was in Delhi.

# Services sector

• India’s services sector activities expanded at the second fastest pace in more than a decade during November, driven by sustained rise in new work and improvement in market conditions.
• For the fourth straight month, the services sector witnessed an expansion in output in purchasing managers’ index.