Assam Current Affairs – February 08 - 14, 2019

Current Affairs Assam – February 08 - 14, 2019

( Covers all important Assam Current Affairs & GK topics for the week of February 08 – 14, 2019 )

February 08, 2019

The Delhi government approved the framework of Entrepreneurship Curriculum, which will be launched in about 20 schools in April as a pilot while the full-fledged launch will take place in all Delhi government schools.
The State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT) in its governing council meeting chaired by the Education Minister Manish Sisodia approved the framework.
The framework, formed by a 16-member committee comprising experts and teachers, will be released formally by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.
The curriculum will be activity-based and there would be no evaluation, examination and books for the curriculum.
The thought of the Education Minister behind the launch of the entrepreneurship curriculum is to make the students of Delhi government job creators rather than being job seekers.

Andhra Pradesh passes Bill for 5% quota to Kapus

The Andhra Pradesh Assembly passed a Bill to provide five per cent reservation to the Kapu community. The Bill to provide five per cent quota in education and employment to Kapus, Ontari, Balija and Telaga sub-castes was passed unanimously by the House.
The Bill was subsequently forwarded to the Centre seeking a Constitutional amendment to include Kapus in the backward classes list under Schedule IX as the five per cent quota proposed is over and above the stipulated 50 per cent reservations for all categories.
Last month, the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) government had announced it will give five per cent reservation to Kapus and its sub-castes out of 10 per cent quota announced by the Centre for the economically weaker sections (EWS).

February 09, 2019

To protect and conserve the worlds last ranging free population of Asiatic Lions, the Ministry of Environment launched a three-year Asiatic Lion Conservation Project in collaboration with the state of Gujarat.
The project, at an estimated cost of Rs 98 crore, for which the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEFCC) has allocated Rs 59 crore to Gujarat’s Gir sanctuary, will span over three financial years — 2018-2019, 2019-2020 and 2020-2021.
It will focus on the scientific management of the lion habitat with the involvement of communities, disease control and veterinary care for the overall conservation of Asiatic Lions.
The project, will use modern information and communication technology (ICT) for conservation, protection and development efforts of the Greater Gir region, including GPS based tracking, surveillance, animal and vehicle tracking, magnetic and movement sensors, infra-red heat sensors, night vision capability enhancement, GIS-based real-time monitoring, analysis and report generation.

FACTFILE – The Asiatic Lion in Gir

It is one of the 21 critically endangered species identified by the Ministry for taking up recovery programmes.
It is being listed in Schedule-I of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972, to be accorded the highest degree of protection.

India will train 1,800 Bangladeshi civil servants in in e-governance and service delivery, public policy and implementation, information technology, decentralisation, urban development and planning, ethics in administration and challenges in implementation of Sustainable Development Goals.
The MoU was signed between the National Centre for Good Governance (NCGG) and the Ministry of Public Administration of Bangladesh.
The Bangladeshi civil servants will be trained at NCGG, an institute under the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DAR&PG) of the Ministry of Personnel.
This is the second time that NCGG would enter into an MoU for a training programme for Bangladesh civil servants. Under the first MOU signed five years ago, 1,500 Bangladesh civil servants have already been trained in NCGG.

The Centre announced that the Great Indian Bustard (GIB) will be its mascot for the 13th Conference of Parties (COP) of the UN Convention on the conservation of migratory species (CMS) to be held in Gujarat.
Hosting the 13th COP would give India an opportunity to showcase its conservation initiatives for wildlife species.
It will provide a global platform for deliberations on the conservation and sustainable use of migratory wild animals and their habitat
The Indian sub-continent is also part of the major bird flyway network, i.e, the Central Asian Flyway (CAF), which covers areas between the Arctic Ocean and the Indian Ocean, and covers at least 279 populations of 182 migratory waterbird species, including 29 globally threatened species.
India is temporary home to several migratory birds and animals like Amur falcons, Bar-headed geese, Black-necked cranes, Marine turtles, Dugongs, Humpbacked whales etc.

FACTFILE – The Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals

Also known as the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS) or the Bonn Convention and CMS COP, is an international treaty under the aegis of the United Nations Environment Programme, aimed at conserve terrestrial, marine and avian migratory species throughout their range.
The CMS is the only global and UN-based intergovernmental organization established exclusively for the conservation and management of terrestrial, aquatic and avian migratory species throughout their range.
The Convention was signed in 1979 in Bad Godesberg, a suburb of Bonn, and entered into force in 1983.
The depositary is the government of the Federal Republic of Germany.

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