Assam & NE Current Affairs & GK – July 01-03 2022
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July 01-03, 2022
NITI Aayog and World Food Program Releases Report
NITI Aayog and World Food Program have released a report titled ‘Take Home Ration-Good Practices across the State/Union Territories’.
The report presents a set of good and innovative practices adopted in the implementation of the Take Home Ration value chain by the States and UTs.
Key Points
- In this report, various good practices at the State/UTs level have been identified and are documented which would serve as a guidebook to policymakers and administrators in strengthening their Take-Home Ration system.
- Take-Home ration is provided by Government of India, under Supplementary Nutrition component of Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS).
- It is provided to fill the gap in nutrition among children as well as Pregnant and Lactating Women (PLW).
- To generate a document on good practices under the programme, aspects related to production, distribution, formulation, packaging, labelling, quality assurance, monitoring, and social & behavioural change have been reviewed.
- This document will help in adopting good practices in Take-Home Ration programmes across states and UTs.
Recommendations made by the report:
- In order to realize the full potential of the THR, all components of this value chain need to function at optimum.
- Building a robust system for procurement, supply chain management and monitoring that ensures complete transparency, standardized process, sustainability, full coverage, leverages local ties, fosters a culture of collaboration and builds trust within a community.
About World Food Program
- The World Food Program was founded in 1961 by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) headquartered in Rome, Italy.
- It is the food-assistance branch of the United Nations.
- It is the world’s largest humanitarian organization in the world, saving lives in times of need and utilising food aid to help people recover from war, natural disasters, and the effects of climate change create a road to peace, stability, and prosperity.
- The WFP was given the Nobel Peace Prize in 2020 for its efforts to provide food assistance in areas of conflict, and to prevent the use of food as a weapon of war and conflict.
- It is is an executive member of the United Nations Sustainable Development Group.
India’s Largest Floating Solar Power Project Commissioned
Recently, the National Thermal Power Corporation(NTPC) has commissioned India’s largest floating solar power project at Ramagundam, Telangana.
Key Points
- It is a 100-megawatt(MW) floating solar power photovoltaic project commissioned by the National Thermal Power Corporation(NTPC).
- It is endowed with advanced technology as well as environment friendly features.
- The floating platform comprises a transformer, inverter and a HT breaker.
- The project spreads over 500 acres of its reservoir divided into 49 blocks and each block has a capacity of 2.5MW and each block comprises one floating platform and a matrix of 11,200 solar modules.
- The solar modules are kept on floaters which are manufactured with HDPE (High Density Polyethylene) material.
Benefits of this project
- Minimum land requirement mostly for associated evacuation arrangements.
- With the presence of floating solar panels, the evaporation rate from water bodies is reduced, thus helping in water conservation.
- The water body underneath the solar modules helps in maintaining their ambient temperature, thereby improving their efficiency and generation.
World Cities Report 2022
Recently, United Nations-Habitat(UN-Habitat) has released the World Cities Report 2022.
Key Points
- The UN-Habitat World Cities Report 2022 highlights that, rapid urbanization in India was delayed temporarily due to the covid-19 pandemic.
- According to the report, the urban population in India is estimated to reach 675 million in 2035. It will be the second-highest figure, behind China’s one billion.
- In lower income countries, existing urban populations continuing to increase naturally with increasing birth rates. Urban population is expected to grow from 56 percent of the world’s total in 2021 to 68 per cent by 2050.
- In last two decades, India and China experienced rapid urbanisation and economic growth which led to massive reduction in the number of people living in poverty.
- India’s urban population is likely to reach 675,456,000 in 2035, as compared to 483,099,000 in 2020.
- The percentage of the population in urban areas of India will be 43.2 percent, by 2035.
About UN-Habitat
- The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) was established in 1978 headquartered at the United Nations Office at Nairobi, Kenya.
- It is a member of the United Nations Development Group.
- It is the United Nations programme for human settlements and sustainable urban development.
- It is mandated by the United Nations General Assembly to promote socially and environmentally sustainable towns and cities with the goal of providing adequate shelter for all.
IIE, Guwahati signs MoU with IIM, Shillong to boost entrepreneurship ecosystem in North Eastern Region
The Indian Institute of Entrepreneurship (IIE), Guwahati, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Incubation and Enterprise Support Centre of Indian Institute of Management Shillong (IIMS) to boost the entrepreneurial ecosystem in the North Eastern Region (NER).
Objectives
- To encourage entrepreneurship, incubation, and startups in the North Eastern Region.
- To support professional development in the areas of management, entrepreneurship, and skill development.
- To meet the larger demand for capacity building and entrepreneurship promotion in the North Eastern Region.
By collaborating on this initiative, both institutes will benefit from each other’s strengths in promoting skill development in the NER and the country at large.
The institutes will together conduct certified courses on entrepreneurship development and also train startups and incubates under the Incubation and Enterprise Support Centre, IIM Shillong. They will also promote educational lectures, workshops, exhibitions, and other knowledge dissemination programmes in the region.
ISRO launches PSLV-C53 satellites
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully launched the PSLV-C53 with three Singapore Satellites onboard.
Key Points
- PSLV-C53 is the second dedicated commercial mission of New Space India Limited (NSIL), the commercial arm of ISRO. This was ISRO’s 55th mission of PSLV.
- The rocket placed the three customer satellites in the precise orbit of 570 km with a 10 degree inclination.
- The four-stage, 44.4-metre-tall rocket had a lift-off mass of 228.433 tonnes.
- The launch vehicle has carried three satellites – DS-EO, a 365 kg and NeuSAR, a 155 kg satellite and 2.8 kg Scoob-1 satellite.
- DS-EO carries an Electro-Optic, multi-spectral payload which will provide full colour images for land classification, and for serving humanitarian assistance and disaster relief needs.
- NeuSAR satellite will provide images in day and night and under all weather conditions and the Scoob-I satellite is the first satellite in the Student Satellite Series (S3-I), which is a hands-on student training programme.
Forest (Conservation) Rules, 2022
Recently, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) has issued the Forest (Conservation) Rules, 2022, under the Forest (conservation) Act, 1980.
Provisions of Forest (conservation) Rules 2022
- It constituted an Advisory Committee, a regional empowered committee and a screening committee at each of the integrated regional offices and a screening committee at State/Union Territory (UT) government-level.
- The Advisory Committee is restricted to advise or recommend with regards to grant of approval under relevant sections in respect of proposals referred to it and any matter connected with the conservation of forests referred to it by the Central government.
- Integrated Regional Office will be set up to examine all the linear projects (Highways and roads) on land up to 40 hectares and those projects using forest land up to 0.7 canopy density. These rules provide for a fixed time for reviewing each project quickly.
- States are given the responsibility of settling forest rights of forest dwellers (Forest Rights Act, 2006) and allowing diversion of forest land. They will also allow diversion of forest land.
- Compensatory afforestation (CA) will now be allowed in other states. If the state already has over two-thirds area under green cover or over one-third area under forest cover, then CA could be taken in other states/UTs where the cover is less than 20%.
The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) has also proposed the removal of imprisonment as a penalty for the “less severe’’ contraventions and replace it with a monetary penalty. However, serious violations of EPA which lead to grievous injury or loss of life shall be covered under the provision of Indian Penal Code.
Sini Shetty crowned Femina Miss India 2022
Karnataka’s Sini Sadanand Shetty won the Femina Miss India 2022. She will now represent India at the 71st Miss World pageant.
Sini Shetty hails from Karnataka. Shetty was born in Mumbai in 2001. The 21-yr-old, who holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting and financing, is currently pursuing a course in Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).
Femina Miss India 2022’s first runner-up is Rubal Shekhawat from Rajasthan, while the second runner-up is Shinata Chauhan, who hails from Uttar Pradesh.
Femina Miss India 2022 was the 58th edition of the Femina Miss India beauty pageant.
Raja Kumar has been appointed as the president of Financial Action Task Force (FATF)
T. Raja Kumar has been recently appointed as the president of Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the anti-money laundering watchdog.
Raja Kumar, who hails from Singapore has replaced Marcus Pleyer. He will discharge his service for next two years.
He has been working against global terror financing for quite a long time. As soon as he took over the charge, he presented his objectives for the coming Plenary period (July 2022 -June 2024) to strengthen the FATF.
During the Singapore Presidency, the FATF will continue its core work of identifying and analysing money laundering and terrorist financing methods and trends, developing and refining the FATF Standards, and evaluating and supporting the assessments of countries within the Global Network.
About Financial Action Task Force
- The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is an intergovernmental organisation. Headquarters at Paris, France.
- It is also known by its French name, Groupe d’action financière (GAFI).
- It was founded in 1989 on the initiative of the G7 to develop policies to combat money laundering.
- The objectives of FATF are to set standards and promote effective implementation of legal, regulatory and operational measures for combating money laundering, terrorist financing and other related threats to the integrity of the international financial system.
- In 2001, its mandate was expanded to include terrorism financing.
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