NATIONAL AFFAIRS Flashcards
112th Annual Day of National Centre for Disease Control NCDC presided by Mansukh Laxmanbhai Mandaviya, Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW)
# Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) & Biosafety level (BSL) 3 Laboratory along with a PG hostel & Guest House # National Health Adaptation Plan on Air Pollution and National Health Adaptation Plan on Heat along with infographics # 1st newsletter under the ‘National Programme on Climate Change and Human Health’ # IEC materials on 7 priority zoonotic diseases in India created by ‘National One health Programme for prevention and Control of Zoonoses’
Haryana Police secures 1st Position in India under Crime and Criminal Tracking Network System CCTNS through e-Governance
# Approved in 2009 & allocated INR 2000 crores # 2nd Gujarat Police, 3rd Himachal Pradesh Police # under the National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) and implemented by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) Director – Ramphal Pawar Headquarters – New Delhi
44th Session of the World Heritage Committee (WHC) held in Fuzhou, China, chaired by Tian Xuejun, organized by UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) Director-General – Audrey Azoulay Headquarters – Paris, France in cooperation with China
# 34 properties (29 Cultural & 5 Natural sites) were inscribed & 3 properties were extended, total number of sites is 1154 # From India, 2 sites added 1st Kakatiya Rudreshwara (Ramappa) Temple, Telangana (Cultural Site) – 39th World Heritage Site.& 2nd Dholavira: a Harappan City, Gujarat (Cultural Site) – 40th World Heritage Site # located on Khadir bet island in the Kachchh Desert Wildlife Sanctuary in the Great Rann of Kachchh, 4th UNESCO World Heritage Site in Gujarat other 3 are Historic City of Ahmedabad; Rani ki Vav, Patan; Champaner & Pavagadh Archaeological Park # Maharashtra has the most UNESCO World Heritage Sites (5) # delisted Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City (UK) & Salonga National Park (Congo) # added Rosia Montana Mining Landscape (Romania) & fort cities of Gwalior and Orchha in Madhya Pradesh (MP) # 45th session of the WHC in Kazan, Russia from June 19-30, 2022, Chaired by Alexander Kuznetsov
Union Minister of Commerce & Industry, Piyush Goyal addressed the ‘2nd Indo-US Services Summit’, organised by Indo American Chamber of Commerce (IACC)
# 12-fold increase in Services Exports from India to the world ($205 billion) # India’s progress to become one of the world’s largest digital markets. # India’s transition from a ‘low-cost service provider’ to a ‘high value add partner’ and the evolution of back offices in India into brain offices # areas of cooperate include Hospitality, Fintech, Agritech, Law, Cybersecurity, Healthcare, tourism, etc. # combination of the US’s innovation, technology, research & quality education with India’s skilled and intelligent manpower at a competitive cost
NITI Aayog’s (National Institute for Transforming India) Vice chairman Dr. Rajiv Kumar released a Report on the Power Distribution Sector titled ‘Turning around the Power Distribution Sector- Learnings and Best Practices from Reforms’
India has set a Target of building 450 GW of Renewable Energy capacity by 2030
# The report is co-authored by NITI Aayog, RMI (Rocky Mountain Institute), and RMI India
# About NITI Aayog
Establishment - January 1, 2015
Chairperson – Prime Minister of India (Narendra Modi) Vice-Chairman– Dr. Rajiv Kumar
Headquarters-New Delhi
# About RMI (Rocky Mountain Institute) (NGO) Establishment - 1982
CEO – Jules Kortenhorst
Headquarters – Colorado, USA
# Schemes such as Ujjwal DISCOM Assurance Yojana (UDAY), DeenDayalUpadhyaya Gram JyotiYojana (DDUGJY), and Integrated Power Development Scheme (IPDS)
PM Narendra Modi Launched prepaid electronic Voucher Digital Payment Solution e-RUPI to strengthen the Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) and the financial inclusion of unbanked citizens
developed by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) on its UPI (Unified Payments Interface) platform
# 11 banks (both private and public) as an issuing entity
# About NPCI
Establishment – 2008
Headquarters – Mumbai, Maharashtra
MD & CEO -DilipAsbe
Union Minister for MSME (Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises), Narayan TatuRane stated that funds of INR 120 Crore were released in FY 21 under the National Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe (SC/ST) Hub (NSSH), to provide financial support to SC/ST Entrepreneurs
set up 15 National SC/ST Hub Offices (NSSHOs) across India
# About NSSH
set up - October, 2016
Chairperson of High Powered Monitoring Committee – Union Minister for MSME (Narayan TatuRane) Headquarters – New Delhi
DefExpo-2022 (12th Edition), the land and naval systems show of the Ministry of Defence has been scheduled to be held at Gandhinagar, Gujarat from March 11-13, 2022
# biennial event # Defence Expo 2020 was held in Lucknow, UP # organizes military exhibitions each year in the form of Defence Expo and the Aero India.
The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment (MoSJE) has formulated a scheme ‘Information-Monitoring, Evaluation and Social Audit (I-MESA)’
# Social Audits will be conducted for all the schemes of the MoSJE starting FY 2021-22 # through Social Audit Units (SAU) of the States and National Institute for Rural Development and Panchayati Raj (NIRDPR)