Social Issues Flashcards
SAMPANN Project
System for Accounting and Management of Pension Projects
seamless online pension processing and payment system for pensioners of Deptt of Telecommunications
by Ministry of Communications
SMILE
Support for Marginalized Individuals for Livelihood and Enterprise
by ministry of Social justice and empowerment
includes a sub-scheme: Compresensive Rehabilitation of Persons engaged in the act of begging
Bhasha Sangam Initiative
It is an initiative of the Ministry of Education under Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat, to teach basic sentences of everyday usage in 22 Indian languages (Eighth Schedule languages).
• It is developed by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT)
STARS (Strengthening Teaching-Learning and Results for States Program)
World Bank aided project
Implemented as a new Centrally Sponsored Scheme under the Department of School Education and Literacy, Ministry of Education.
• Aim ➔ It is a project to improve the quality and governance of school education in six Indian states.
• Six states are ➔ Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, and Rajasthan.
HomoSep
HomoSEP stands for “homogenizer of septic tanks”.
• It is a portable robot that has a shaft attached to blades that can open like an inverted umbrella when introduced into a septic tank. This is helpful as the openings of the septic tanks are small, and the tank interiors are bigger.
• Moreover, the sludge inside a septic tank contains faecal matter that has thickened like hard clay and settled at the bottom.
• Hence, this needs to be shredded and homogenized so that it can be sucked out and the septic tank cleaned. The whirring blades of the robot achieve precisely this.