NATIONAL AFFAIRS Flashcards

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112th Annual Day of National Centre for Disease Control NCDC presided by Mansukh Laxmanbhai Mandaviya, Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW)

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# 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’
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Haryana Police secures 1st Position in India under Crime and Criminal Tracking Network System CCTNS through e-Governance

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# 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
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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

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# 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
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Union Minister of Commerce & Industry, Piyush Goyal addressed the ‘2nd Indo-US Services Summit’, organised by Indo American Chamber of Commerce (IACC)

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# 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
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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’

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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)

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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# 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.
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The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment (MoSJE) has formulated a scheme ‘Information-Monitoring, Evaluation and Social Audit (I-MESA)’

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# 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)
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