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Current Affairs Assam – February 15 - 21, 2019

( Covers all important Assam Current Affairs & GK topics for the week of February 15 – 21, 2019 )

February 21, 2019

On February 20, Arunachal Pradesh and Mizoram celebrated the 32nd and 47th Statehood Day respectively.

Formation of Mizoram

The Statehood to Mizoram was the culmination of the struggle led by Mizo National Front (MNF), a political organisation born in 1961. MNF took to armed insurrection and raised uprising against the Government, attacking the government installations at Aizawl, Lunglei, Chawngte, Chhimluang and other places demanding sovereign independence of Greater Mizoram.
The Memorandum of Settlement was signed between the Mizo National Front and the Indian Government on June 30, 1986, where the Mizo National Front surrendered arms and immediate arrangements were made to solidify Mizoram as a full-fledged state in India.
Consequently, the Indian Constitution was amended through the Mizoram State Act, 1986 and the Mizoram state came into existence.

Formation of Arunachal Pradesh

Initially, Arunachal Pradesh was directly under the Governor of the Provincial Government of Assam.
The North East Frontier Agency (NEFA) was re-named as Arunachal Pradesh and subsequently, in 1972 Arunachal Pradesh became the Union Territory of the Republic of India.
In the year 1975 Arunachal Pradesh Council was converted into a Provisional Legislative Assembly and a council of ministers was appointed for Arunachal Pradesh.
Arunachal Pradesh attained full statehood on 20 February 1987 after the passing of the Constitution 55th Amendment Act.

The Government of Odisha has launched the KALIA Chhatra Bruti scholarship for the children of farmers. The scholarship is under the KALIA, Krushak Assistance for Livelihood and Income Augmentation, a scheme for financing farmers in Odisha.

FACTFILE – eatures of Krushak Assistance for Livelihood and Income Augmentation (KALIA):

The scheme is aimed to target rural activities as a whole by supporting farming on a small scale, sharecropping, fishing and animal herding.
Odisha would spend Rs 10,180 crore over three years until 2020-21 in providing financial assistance to cultivators and landless agricultural labourers benefitting 92% of the cultivators in the state and including every category from big farmers to landless cultivators.
The Government would provide Rs 10,000 per family as assistance for cultivation, Rs 5,000 each in the Kharif and Rabi seasons, for five cropping seasons between 2018-19 and 2021-22.
The scheme also targets landless households, specifically SC and ST families; they will be supported with a unit cost of Rs 12,500 for activities like goat rearing, mushroom cultivation, beekeeping, poultry farming and fishery.
The Scheme also provides a life insurance cover of Rs 2 lakh and additional personal accident coverage of the same amount for 57 lakh households.
The Scheme also proposes interest-free crop loans up to Rs 50,000.

Union cabinet has given its nod to 10 per cent quota for poor among the general categories in Jammu and Kashmir and also approved the provision for SC/ST reservation in promotion in government jobs in the state.
The government had introduced the provision of reservation in promotion for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. It will enable Jammu and Kashmir to be beneficiaries of the same public welfare measures for the benefit of the weaker sections.

India’s Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas has received the final operational clearance (FOC) from military aviation regulator Cemilac for induction into the Indian Air Force (IAF) as a weaponised fighter jet.
The Chief Executive of Centre for Military Airworthiness and Certification (Cemilac), P Jayapal, handed over the FOC certificate and release-to-service documents to Chief of Air Staff Air Marshal B S Dhanoa .
The FOC involves addition of capabilities to the initial operational clearance (IOC) aircraft which are beyond visual range missile capabilities.
The regulator’s document provides capabilities, features and technologies that FOC standard aircraft will have on induction into the IAF.
The FOC standard aircraft drawings have been handed over to HAL to start production after incorporating changes over the IOC.
The regulator gave IOC to the combat aircraft in 2013 and inducted it into the IAF 45 Squadron in July 2016.

FACTFILE – Tejas

The HAL Tejas is an Indian single-engine, delta wing, multirole light fighter designed by the Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA) and Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) for the Indian Air Force and Indian Navy.
It came from the Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) programme, which began in the 1980s to replace India’s ageing MiG-21 fighters. In 2003, the LCA was officially named “Tejas”.
Tejas has a tail-less compound delta-wing configuration with a single dorsal fin. This provides better high-alpha performance characteristics than conventional wing designs.
It is the smallest and lightest in its class of contemporary supersonic combat aircraft.
The Tejas is the second supersonic fighter developed by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) after the HAL HF-24 Marut.

Kerala has signed an agreement with the leading hyper scale data platform RackBank Datacenters Private Limited (RBDC) to set up a Rs 1,000-crore Data Park at the Infopark in Cherthala.
The memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed between Hrishikesh Nair, CEO, Infopark Kochi, and Anil Reddy, Chairman, RBDC Pvt Ltd, in the presence of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan in his chamber.
State’s High Power IT Committee Chairman and Infosys co-founder, S.D. Shibulal, is instrumental in bringing RBDC to the state with such a mega project, as part of the Global Connect organised in the US.

FACTFILE – Kerala

Kerala is the twenty-second largest Indian state by area and thirteenth largest Indian state by population.
It is the 12^th largest state economy in India with GSDP of US$110 billion and a per capita GDP of ₹163,000 (US$2,300).
Kerala has the lowest positive population growth rate in India, 3.44%; the highest Human Development Index (HDI), 0.712 in 2015; the highest literacy rate, 93.91% in the 2011 census; the highest life expectancy, 77 years; and the highest sex ratio, 1,084 women per 1,000 men.
Pinarayi Vijayan is the Chief Minister of Kera and Palanisamy Sathasivam is the current Governor of Kerala.

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