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Apr 16, 2021
1 Digital India and Its Different Pillars (Kurukshetra December 2020) [ Science/Technology, Economy, Govt. Schemes/Projects, Kurukshetra ]
Digital India and Its Different Pillars
- To provide seamlessly integrated services across departments or jurisdictions.
- Adopting a single window framework.
- Promotion of Open Source and Open API.
- Ensuring interoperability of all e-governance applications.
- Provides access to
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2 Rural E-Governance (Kurukshetra December 2020) [ Science/Technology, Govt. Schemes/Projects, Kurukshetra ]
Rural E-Governance
Digital India and E-Governance
- Providing and managing government services electronically.
- Citizen empowerment through easy access to information.
- Expected to help in ensuring a SMART (Simple, Moral, Accountable, Responsible and Transparent) government.
- Wor
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3 E-Learning (Kurukshetra December 2020) [ Agriculture/Agro Industries, Govt. Schemes/Projects, Kurukshetra ]
E-Learning
Terminologies of Digital Education in Rural India
Online Learning
- Provision of electronics contents available on a computer or mobile device.
- Use of internet and use of online facilities.
- Use of programmes or apps.
Web-Based Learni
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Apr 13, 2021
1 Project Lion Could Displace Maldharis [ Environment/Ecology, Govt. Schemes/Projects, Down-to-Earth ]
Project Lion Could Displace Maldharis
- According to a report, Maldharis, a traditional pastoral people found in and around the Gir National Park and Wildlife Sanctuary, might end up being uprooted from their homes, if the Project Lion proposal takes shape.
- Project Lion was launc
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2 Malaria, Plastic Waste, and Sarna Adivasi Dharam (DTE 16-31 December 2020) [ Health, Govt. Schemes/Projects, Down-to-Earth ]
Malaria
- Malkangiri is one of the most backward districts in the country. According to the 2011 Census, it has a population of over 0.61 million, of which 57.8 % people belong to tribal communities. Over 61 % of the population lives below the poverty line. T
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3 Cleaner Cities -Swachh Survekshan, and Continuous Assessment (Yojana December 2020) [ Agriculture/Agro Industries, Govt. Schemes/Projects, Yojana ]
Cleaner Cities -Swachh Survekshan
- Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA).
- 1.87 crore citizen feedback received.
- 17 crore citizens registered on Swachhata App.
- Over 5.5 lakh sanitary workers linked to social welfare schemes.
- Over 84,000 informal waste pickers integrate
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4 Food for All (Yojana December 2020) [ Health, Agriculture/Agro Industries, Govt. Schemes/Projects, Yojana ]
Food for All
- Central role of providing food security, reducing poverty, and generating employment.
- GDP has increased 4.5 times and per capita consumption has increased 3 times.
FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization) of the United Nations
- Estimates in The State of Food Secur
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5 Challenges of Linguistic Heterogeneity (Yojana December 2020) [ Education, Economy, Govt. Schemes/Projects, Yojana ]
Challenges of Linguistic Heterogeneity
- In terms of mother tongues spoken.
- Maharashtra is India＂s second most populous state.
  - 76 % of the population reported their mother tongue to be Marathi in 1971.
  - In 2011, only 69 % of the population reported their mother tongue to be Mara
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6 Enabling Policies (Yojana December 2020) [ Education, Govt. Schemes/Projects, Yojana ]
Enabling Policies
- Disability is understood as an individual bodily deviance and individuals with disabilities are people with deformities, ‘abnormal. ‘
- It had been this approach to disability that had been prevalent in policy frameworks as well as civil society engagements with
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7 Substance Use: Challenges and Way Forward, Tele-Law: Mainstreaming Legal Aid (Yojana December 2020) [ Science/Technology, International Relations/Organizations, Govt. Schemes/Projects, Yojana ]
Substance Use: Challenges and Way Forward
- Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Government of India, and National Drug Dependence Treatment Centre, AIIMS, New Delhi was undertaken to understand the pattern and extent of substance use in India.
- Finding Released in Feb 2019
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8 Swachh Bharat Mission Phase 2 (Kurukshetra January 2021) [ Science/Technology, Health, Govt. Schemes/Projects, Kurukshetra ]
Swachh Bharat Mission Phase 2
- In February 2020, Phase 2 of the Swachh Bharat Mission-Grameen (SBM-G) was launched.
- Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation is implementing it in mission mode from 2020 - 21 to 2024 - 25.
- Total outlay of Rs. 1,40,881 crore.
- Achieving Sampoor
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Apr 13, 2021
1 Recent Farm Bills and Benefits to Farmers (Kurukshetra January 2021) [ Agriculture/Agro Industries, Govt. Schemes/Projects, Bills, Yojana ]
Recent Farm Bills and Benefits to Farmers
- Agricultural marketing.
- Contract farming.
- Essential commodity.
- APMCs remain functional as a platform for marketing of agricultural produce.
- APMCs will be strengthened and become more transparent.
- Govt. is committed to make investmen
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2 Panchayati Raj System Towards Changing Rural India (Kurukshetra January 2021) [ Economy, International Relations/Organizations, Govt. Schemes/Projects, Kurukshetra ]
Panchayati Raj System Towards Changing Rural India
- PRIs got constitutional status in 1992.
- Institutions of local self-governance.
- Bihar was the first state to adopt Panchayati Raj System in 1947 like the system of local self-governance started by Lord Ripon in British era.
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Apr 4, 2021
1 Corrective Measures, Camel, and Twenty 20 (DTE 1-15 December 2020) [ Economy, Govt. Schemes/Projects, Down-to-Earth ]
Corrective Measures
- Stop import of syrups and honey from China and do not allow this to come through other countries (syrup laundering) - If required, new HS codes could be developed
- Strengthen enforcement in India through tightened standards, testing, but al
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2 Kataki Village, Andhra Pradesh, Water Trading in Futures Commodity, Mortality Rates Declines, Malnutrition Rises, and Tettilobus Trishula (DTE 1-15 January 2021) [ Agriculture/Agro Industries, Govt. Schemes/Projects, Down-to-Earth ]
Kataki Village, Andhra Pradesh
Kataki Waterfall Development Committee
- Charge Rs. 40 from cars and Rs. 10 from motorcycles.
- Money collected is used to pay educational and medical bills.
- 3 villages – Rs. 100 to each person from 3 villages and person changed every 10 days.
Wate
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3 Mastitis 70% Deaths in Animals, and Bugs (DTE 1-15 January 2021) [ International Relations/Organizations, Health, Govt. Schemes/Projects, Down-to-Earth ]
Mastitis – 70 % Deaths in Animals
- Bacterial infection, triggered by injuries caused due to rough milking or because of unhygienic farm conditions, causes inflammation of the udder tissue and blockage of milk ducts. This causes excruciating pain
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4 Vaccination Plan (DTE 1-15 January 2021) [ Health, Govt. Schemes/Projects, Down-to-Earth ]
Vaccination Plan
Overview
- In the first round of vaccines, mohfw plans to cover a third of India＂s 900 million adult population; children will not be covered as pediatric vaccine is yet to be developed. Some 1 million of the targeted population will be healthcare
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Apr 2, 2021
1 Svamitva Scheme [ Science/Technology, Health, Environment/Ecology, Govt. Schemes/Projects ]
Svamitva Scheme
- SVAMITVA (Survey of villages and mapping with improvised technology in village areas) scheme is a new initiative of the Ministry of Panchayati Raj.
- It aims to provide rural people with the right to document their residential properties so that they can use their
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2 L & DO Integrating GIS Data with E-DHARTI Portal [ Science/Technology, Agriculture/Agro Industries, Govt. Schemes/Projects ]
L & DO Integrating GIS Data with E-DHARTI Portal
- Minister of State for Housing & Urban Affairs has urged that all our organizations should undertake efforts to identify more activities to be automated and free of human interface.
- The power of technology is immense and there is
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3 Developments (DTE 1-15 December 2020) [ Health, Govt. Schemes/Projects, Down-to-Earth ]
Developments
- 2010: FSSAI issued an advisory to clarify that pesticide and antibiotic residues were not allowed in honey.
- 2014: Honey standard was amended to include tolerance limits for antibiotics (how much or how little residue must be in honey) to pass quality standard
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4 Testing Methods (DTE 1-15 December 2020) [ Science/Technology, Govt. Schemes/Projects, Down-to-Earth ]
Testing Methods
- Isotope Testing (3 delta)
- EA
- LC
- SMR/TMR
- ISOTOPE TESTING (all three delta tests—max, p-h, fru-glu) is done to calculate C₄ and C₃ sugars. The method used is isotope ratio mass spectrometry (IRMS) to determine the sugar
- For C₄ sugar analysis, laboratories do eleme
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Mar 28, 2021
1 Inauguration of Mega Food Park in Kerala [ Agriculture/Agro Industries, Govt. Schemes/Projects, Down-to-Earth ]
Inauguration of Mega Food Park in Kerala
- A mega food park in Palakkad district of Kerala was virtually inaugurated recently.
- It is Kerala＂s first and nation＂s twentieth mega food.
- This project will give impetus to the development of food processing sector.
- Mega Food Park will
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2 India-Russia Webinar on Use of Natural Gas as a Motor Fuel [ International Relations/Organizations, Agriculture/Agro Industries, Govt. Schemes/Projects ]
India-Russia Webinar on Use of Natural Gas as a Motor Fuel
- The first ever India-Russia webinar on the use of natural gas as motor fuel was organized under the aegis of Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Government of India, and the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federatio
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3 Successful Flight Test of SMART [ Science/Technology, Defense, Govt. Schemes/Projects ]
Successful Flight Test of SMART
- India conducted a successful flight test of the Supersonic Missile Assisted Release of Torpedo (SMART) from Wheeler Island off the coast of Odisha recently.
- All mission objectives were met perfectly in the flight test.
Objectives
The objectives
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Mar 24, 2021
1 Agriculture: Savior of Economy (Yojana November 2020) [ Economy, Agriculture/Agro Industries, Govt. Schemes/Projects, Yojana ]
Agriculture: Savior of Economy
- To have a robust infrastructure in place to support farm and farm processing-based activities.
- Govt. launched and implemented farmer-friendly schemes, reforms, and financial incentives.
- To bring the advantages of the reforms to the doorstep of f
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2 Handloom Households and Rural Economy (Yojana November 2020) [ Economy, Agriculture/Agro Industries, Govt. Schemes/Projects, Yojana ]
Handloom Households and Rural Economy
- In the rural areas, people are engaged in agriculture, handloom, tailoring, and rural artisan works etc.
- In Himachal Pradesh, majority of population is living in rural areas having agriculture as their livelihood.
- The annual income of mode
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3 Greener Highways (Yojana November 2020) [ Economy, Agriculture/Agro Industries, Govt. Schemes/Projects, Yojana ]
Greener Highways
- Environmental impact of highway construction projects, green highway concept, and definition.
- India features an entire 46.99 lakh km of road length and out of which over 96214 kms are National Highways, accounting 2 % of total road length.
- The highways carry a
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4 Achieving SDGs and NDCs (Yojana November 2020) [ Agriculture/Agro Industries, Govt. Schemes/Projects, Yojana ]
Achieving SDGs and NDCs
- Achieving sustainable development in post Covid times.
- The Covid-19 has further delayed the process of finalizing the much-awaited rulebook of Paris Climate Agreement, as the COP26 to be held in Glasgow in November 2020 stands postponed to November 2021.
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5 SVAMITVA (Yojana November 2020) [ Economy, Agriculture/Agro Industries, Govt. Schemes/Projects, Yojana ]
SVAMITVA
- Survey of villages and mapping with Improvised technology in village areas.
- It is a central sector scheme launched on National Panchayat Day i. e April 24,2020.
- The Ministry of Panchayati Raj (MoPR) is the nodal ministry for implementation of the scheme.
- In the State
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Mar 23, 2021
1 US Elections and Waste Entry through Harbors in Developing Nations (DTE 16 to 30 November 2020) [ Economy, Environment/Ecology, Govt. Schemes/Projects, Down-to-Earth ]
US Elections
- Rejoining of Paris Agreement
- Mask & Lockdowns for Corona
According to Copenhagen accord, US agreed to be 17 % below 2005 levels by the end of 2020, and as per the Paris Agreement, 26 - 28 % below 2005 levels by 2025.
- Biden had said that he had plans for a $1.7 tr
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2 Changes in J&K (DTE 16 to 30 November 2020) [ Science/Technology, Govt. Schemes/Projects, Committees/Govt. Bodies, Down-to-Earth ]
Changes in J&K
DDCs
- District Development Councils (ddcs) —district-level self-governing bodies
- Union government amended the Jammu and Kashmir Panchayati Raj Act, 1989, and the Jammu and Kashmir Panchayati Raj Rules, 1996, to create DDC
- Every district in Jammu and Kashmir will be
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3 Indias Preparation Post Covid World (Yojana November 2020) [ Economy, Agriculture/Agro Industries, Govt. Schemes/Projects, Yojana ]
India’s Preparation Post Covid World
The Barbell Strategy
- The Central Government opted for what is known in financial markets as “barbell” strategy i. e hedge first for the worst possible outcome.
- Progressing step by step with a Bayesian updating of information.
- The initial
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4 Indias Monetary Policy (Yojana November 2020) [ Economy, Agriculture/Agro Industries, Govt. Schemes/Projects, Yojana ]
India’s Monetary Policy
- Monetary policy is all about balancing the desirable and the feasible.
- Ensuring macroeconomic stability as reflected in low and stable prices.
- Main objective is to make sure that the economy grows steadily along a path in which all available resources s
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5 Revival of Economy and Facilitating Self-Reliance (Yojana November 2020) [ Economy, Agriculture/Agro Industries, Govt. Schemes/Projects, Yojana ]
Revival of Economy
- The fiscal and monetary supports announced to overcome the pandemic situation are substantial.
- The impact of the measures depends heavily on how they are implemented.
- A large gap between the actual and promised 14 % increase in the GST proceeds to every stat
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6 Revitalizing MSMEs (Yojana November 2020) [ Economy, Agriculture/Agro Industries, Govt. Schemes/Projects, Yojana ]
Revitalizing MSMEs
- Vital policy measures and funding schemes for the reeling MSME sector.
- MSMEs contribute nearly 30 % of India’s GDP and 31 % of GVA to the $2.7 trillion economy.
- According to the Ministry of MSMEs 2018 - 19, the sector generates 21 % of the total employment-p
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7 Skill Development (Yojana November 2020) [ Economy, Agriculture/Agro Industries, Govt. Schemes/Projects, Yojana ]
Skill Development
SANKALP for Employment
- SANKALP programme is an attempt to create a linkage by encouraging the SSDMs (State Skill Mission) to provide guidance to DSCs to w. r. t preparation of district plans and build the capacities of the DSCs through technical assistance and
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Mar 16, 2021
1 Rural Self-Employment Training Institutes (Kurukshetra November 2020) [ Economy, Agriculture/Agro Industries, Govt. Schemes/Projects ]
Rural Self-Employment Training Institutes
- RSETIs are a cost effective medium for creating employment.
- These are unique skill development organizations operating in districts across the country.
- NIRD (National Institute of Rural Development) Hyderabad is the nodal agency for im
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2 Road to Self-Reliance: Skills for Rural Entrepreneurs and Initiatives for Skilling Rural Youth (Kurukshetra November 2020) [ Economy, Agriculture/Agro Industries, Govt. Schemes/Projects ]
Road to Self-Reliance: Skills for Rural Entrepreneurs
- India is predominantly a rural country with 70 % of the workforce residing in rural areas.
- The rural economy constitutes 46 % of the national income.
- Despite rapid urbanization, more than half of India’s population is proje
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