Assam Current Affairs – October 22 – 28, 2019

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Current Affairs Assam – October 22 - 28, 2019

( Covers all important Assam Current Affairs & GK topics for the week of October 22 – 28, 2019 )

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October 22, 2019

  Down Town Hospital successfully performed the first liver transplant in NE
  • Doctors from Down Town Hospital Guwahati teamed up with Yashoda Hospitals of Hyderabad for successfully performing the first ever liver transplant in the north-eastern region.
  • The transplant team was led by Dr P Balachandran Menon, chief liver transplant surgeon of Yashoda Hospitals, along with Dr Pranjal Deka, liver transplant surgeon of Down Town Hospital.
 Indian Army carries out integrated fire power exercise
  • The Indian Army carried out a fire power exercise in the desert sector showcasing its capabilities, proficiency and operational preparedness.
  • The tactical exercise involved integrated employment and firing of all arms including artillery guns, rockets, tanks, helicopters and air resources.
  • The Army aptly demonstrated the ability to hit hard and swiftly with precision, with the accuracy of multiple rocket launch systems and K-9 Vajra 155 mm howitzer.
  • The effectiveness of combined arms and cohesion was of an exceptional order and all aims and objectives set for the exercise were fully achieved.
  • Southern Command chief, Lt Gen S.K. Saini, witnessed the exercise and complimented the troops for their high professional standards.
 Marconi Society Annual Awards for Apps developed by Indian students
  • Two digital applications (apps) developed by Indian under-graduate students for women’s safety and to check air pollution in Delhi on smartphones won Marconi Society annual awards for the good of humanity.
  • The Android application named ”Rakshak” detects speech patterns through an audio microphone of any user’s smartphone.
  • When the app receives audio clip with speech commands seeking help or saying stop in distressed tones, it triggers an SOS alert, user location and sends an emergency contact.
  • The app generates the alert after analyzing emotion and distress speech patterns.
  • The winning team of Piyush Agrawal, Subham Banga, Aniket Sharma and Ujjwal Upadhyay tackled the issue of women’s safety in India, especially in cities and towns across the country, where incidents of women under attack have become common.
  • The Society’s Celestini programme is a flagship effort to inspire and connect individuals building new technologies in service of a digitally inclusive world.
  • The winners are awarded under the programme, run for the young scholars the world over.
  • Named after Nobel laureate (Physics) Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937), who invented the radio in 1908, the Society was set up in 1975 by his daughter Gioia Marconi Baraga through an endowment, which annually gives awards for outstanding contribution in science and the principle of creativity in the service of humanity.
 Union Minister for Culture & Tourism launches CCRT’s e-portal
  • Union Minister for Culture & Tourism Prahlad Singh Patel launched the e-portal of Centre for Cultural Resources and Training (CCRT) ”Digital Bharat Digital Sanskriti” and CCRT YouTube Channel.
  • The e-portal aims to explore and understand the unknown aspects of India”s lesser-known places and their rural and semi-urban culture.
  • The CCRT has also started to publish books from a series ”Untold Tales of India”s Cities.
  • The CCRT has tied up with Routes 2 Roots, an NGO, for connecting all the CCRT Regional Centres — Guwahati, Udaipur and Hyderabad.
  • Patel and CCRT chairperson Dr. Hemlata also interacted with the participants of the ongoing training programmes at CCRT Regional Centres and some of the children studying in schools across the country.

FACTFILE – The Centre for Cultural Resources and Training (CCRT)

  • The Centre for Cultural Resources and Training (CCRT) is autonomous organisation under Ministry of Culture of Government of India.
  • Established in May 1979, to support cultural education, with its inception it took over the Scheme-Propagation of Culture among College and School students, which was being implemented by Delhi University since 1970, where a Research and Production Cell was functioning for this purpose.
  • The CCRT also organises activities such as school tours to museums, monuments and craft centres
  • It publishes materials to promote understanding of Indian art and culture
  • It also has a “Cultural Talent Search Scholarship Scheme” for children aged 10–14, to help them develop their abilities in cultural fields especially rarer forms of art.

 October 23, 2019

 Assam Cabinet decides no Govt jobs for persons having more than 2 children
  • The Assam Cabinet decided that no government jobs will be given to persons having more than two children after 1 January, 2021.
  • The important decision was taken at a Cabinet meeting that also adopted a New Land Policy, which will give three bighas of agricultural land to landless indigenous people and half a bigha for constructing a house.
  • Those having more than two children will not be considered for government jobs with effect from 1 January, 2021 as per the small family norm.
  • In September 2017, the Assam Assembly had passed the ‘Population and Women Empowerment Policy of Assam’ that specified that job candidates with two children only would be eligible for government employment and the existing government staff were to strictly follow the two children family norm.
 NE Region’s contribution to India’s economy meager, says ADB
  • Despite being rich in natural resources, the contribution of Northeast towards India’s economy is minuscule, says country director of Asian Development Bank Kenichi Yokoyama.
  • The region has only 0.2 per cent share in India’s total exports and majority of the products exported from the region are low-value products and natural resources based like primary produces from agriculture.
  • Though India and Bangladesh are major trading partners, but the contribution of Northeast is marginal. India accounts for 16.4% of Bangladesh’s imports, but NER’s share is only 1.2%.
  • Given Bangladesh’s import basket, Northeast can be a major trading partner, with the 28% ($ 15 billion) of Bangladesh’s import demand being for products which can be manufactured using local resources of the region.
  • Potential export goods from NE could be industrial goods, like plastic and polymers, paper and paper goods, agro and food processing products, and rubber, and in the service sector in the fields of higher education, tourism and medical tourism.
 Indian Air Force test fires Brahmos missiles
  • Two Brahmos Surface to Surface missiles were test fired by Indian Air Force at Trak Island in the Andaman Nicobar group of islands.
  • The twin firings were carried out as a part of the routine operational training.
  • The missile engaged the designated mock targets close to 300km away.
  • A direct hit on the target was achieved in both the cases.
  • Firing of the missile has enhanced the IAFs capability to engage the ground targets with pin point accuracy from a mobile platform.
 Pankaj Kumar appointed as UIDAI CEO
  • The government appointed Pankaj Kumar as the new CEO of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI). Kumar is currently additional secretary in the Ministry Of Electronics And IT.
  • The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) said that Pankaj Kumar, IAS, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, has been appointed as CEO, Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), in the rank and pay of Secretary by temporarily upgrading the post.
  • The UIDAI is a statutory authority established under the provisions of the Aadhaar on July 12, 2016 by the government under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.
  • The UIDAI has the mandate to issue Unique Identification numbers (UID), called Aadhaar, to all residents of India to eliminate duplicate and fake identities.

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 October 24, 2019

 India-Bangladesh Stakeholders’ Meet at Guwahati
  • The first India-Bangladesh Stakeholders’ Meet was held in Guwahati, Assam. The meet focused to improve its connectivity with the neighboring country to get the best of the rest under Act East Policy for Assam.
  • Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal has called for restoration of the Brahmaputra-Barak-Padma-Meghna riverine waterways to take forward the outcome of the India-Bangladesh Stakeholders” Meet.
  • The Chief Minister conveyed this to a delegation led by Bangladesh Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi, which met him at his office in Dispur.
  • Leaders from both Assam and Bangladesh have vowed to explore relations in areas like garment industry, health tourism, IT and education sector, for the mutual benefit.
  • Sonowal stressed restoration of trade links between Assam and Bangladesh.
  • He reiterated modalities to decide the standard operating procedures (SOP) to ensure speedy implementation of agreements, which would ensure access to Chattogram and Mongla Ports of Bangladesh for the northeast, and execution of the BBIN motor vehicle agreement.
 Assam Govt expands Atal Amrit Abhiyan health insurance scheme
  • Assam State Cabinet decided to expand the ambit of the Atal Amrit Abhiyan scheme by bringing six additional critical care disease groups under it.
  • More than 57,000 persons have availed cashless treatment under the state govt’s Atal Amrit Abhiyan healthcare scheme in the last year and half and the number of beneficiaries is expected to increase further in the coming days.
  • Minister for Health & Family Welfare Himanta Biswa Sarma said most of the beneficiaries of the scheme so far have availed its facility for treatment of cancer, kidney diseases and cardiology and cardiovascular surgeries during past 18 months.
  • Around 1.61 crore people have enrolled for the scheme and the government has borne an expenditure of Rs 136.99 crore so far under it.
  • The scheme covered six specialities – cardiology and cardiovascular surgeries, neurological conditions, burns, cancer, kidney and neo-natal diseases.
  • During the Budget of 2019-20, the State government announced the expansion of the AAA to cover specialities like ICU packages, trauma, critical care paediatrics and paediatric surgery, and bone marrow transplantation.
  • The State government provided all treatment facilities for Japanese Encephalitis (JE) and Acute Encephalitis Syndrom and aimed at bringing these ailments under AAA. Now the State Cabinet has approved the implementation of the Vistarita Atal Amrit Abhiyan (VAAA) with addition of six expensive critical care disease groups. These are ICU packages, trauma, critical care paediatrics and paediatric surgery, bone marrow transplantation, JE and Acute Encephalitis Syndrome.
  • The maximum amount of coverage per year would remain unchanged at Rs two lakh per member per year and the existing empanelled hospitals under AAA, including private, public and trust operated, both within and outside the State would automatically be eligible for treating the patients under the VAAA.
  • A total of 76 hospitals have been empanelled under the scheme. Out of these, 35 hospitals are empanelled outside the State and 41 hospitals are within Assam.
 New Department of Registration in J&K
  • The Jammu and Kashmir State Administrative Council (SAC) approved creation of a new Department of Registration to provide hassle free and speedy service to people for registration of documents pertaining to property, mortgage etc.
  • The SAC also approved the creation of 464 new posts under various categories in order to make the department of registration functional.
  • The new Department of Registration is being created under the Registration Act, 1908.
  • The Department of Registration shall function under the overall administrative control of the Revenue Department.
  • SAC also approved appointment of Additional Deputy Commissioners and Sub-Divisional Magistrates/Assistant Commissioners Revenue to exercise the powers of Registrars and Sub-Registrars, respectively, within such jurisdiction to be notified by the Revenue Department for purposes of the Registration Act, 1908.
 India jumps 14 positions in the World Bank’s ‘Doing Business’ list
  • India jumped 14 ranks to 63rd position in the World Bank’s ‘Doing Business’ list and was also among the top-10 progress-making countries according to the multilateral agency in terms of ease of doing business.
  • In Doing Business 2020, the 10 top improvers are Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Togo, Bahrain, Tajikistan, Pakistan, Kuwait, China, India, and Nigeria.
  • These economies implemented a total of 59 regulatory reforms in 2018-19 – accounting for one-fifth of all the reforms recorded worldwide.
  • Their efforts focused primarily on the areas of starting a business, dealing with construction permits, and trading across borders.
  • It noted that starting a business in India has been made easier by abolishing filing fees for the Simplified Proforma for Incorporating a Company Electronically (SPICE), electronic memorandum of association, and articles of association.
  • India made trading across borders easier by enabling post-clearance audits, integrating trade stakeholders in a single electronic platform, upgrading port infrastructure, and enhancing the electronic submission of documents.
  • India made resolving insolvency easier by promoting reorganization proceedings in practice. India also made resolving insolvency more difficult by not allowing dissenting creditors to receive as much under reorganization as they would receive in liquidation.

FACTFILE – Doing Business 2020

  • Doing Business 2020 measures regulations across 190 economies in 12 business regulatory areas to assess the business environment in each economy. Ten of these indicators were used to estimate an ease of doing business score this year, over the 12 months ending April 30, 2019.
  • This is the 17th edition of a study that has motivated governments worldwide to undertake business reforms with the goal of bolstering sustainable economic growth.
  • The study looks at rules affecting a business from inception through operation to wind-down: starting a business, dealing with construction permits, getting electricity, registering property, getting credit, protecting minority investors, paying taxes, trading across borders, enforcing contracts, and resolving insolvency.
 Union Cabinet Approvals revival of BSNL and MTNL
  • The Cabinet approves the proposal for revival of BSNL and MTNL by administrative allotment of spectrum for 4G services, debt restructuring by raising of bonds with sovereign guarantee, reducing employee costs, monetisation of assets and in-principle approval of merger of BSNL and MTNL.
  • The Cabinet approved a Rs 70,000 crore relief package for the company and for Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL). While approving the package for the two financially stressed entities, the Cabinet also drew up a timeline to merge them.
  • The two firms would be allotted 4G spectrum worth Rs 20,140 crore, Rs 29,937 crore for VRS covering 50 per cent of their employees and Rs 3,674 crore for goods and services tax (GST) that will be levied on allocation of radiowaves.

October 25, 2019

 IIT Guwahati bagged 10th position in the QS India University Rankings 2020
  • Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati, has bagged the 10th position in the QS India University Rankings 2020. This is the second time in a row that IIT Guwahati has secured the 10th position in the rankings.
  • The list is the second edition of the standalone rankings for India’s higher education institutions. The announcement was made at the 2nd QS India Summit in Goa on October 21, which was attended by Union Minister for Human Resources Development Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’.
  • The QS India University Rankings are based on a number of parameters including academic reputation, citations per paper, international faculty, staff with PhD, employer reputation, etc.
  • The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore and IIT Delhi secured the top three positions in the QS India University Rankings 2020.
  • IIT Madras and IIT Kharagpur finished fourth and fifth, respectively.
  • University of Delhi (DU) and University of Hyderabad placed seventh and eighth on the list. Calcutta University (CU) finished eleventh and was followed by Jadavpur University (JU) at number 12.
 Chennai Corporation starts health awareness drive through students
  • In a novel initiative, about 20,000 students of Chennai Corporation-run schools have turned health ambassadors and appealed to the people to maintain cleanliness in their houses and streets.
  • The campaign is for preventing the spread of monsoon related diseases.
  • The Chennai Corporation has also released a video film featuring student ambassadors as part of its awareness campaign “Clean Chennai, Healthy Chennai.”
  • The student health ambassadors were selected from various educational institutions across the city.
  • Tamil Nadu Minister for Municipal Administration S.P.Velumani, had met the student ambassadors, congratulated them and gave them their identity cards.
  • He requested the student ambassadors to create awareness about cleanliness, sanitation and about dengue and other contagious diseases in their neighbourhood.
  • The Chennai Corporation also plans to run awareness campaigns via auto-rickshaws in fifteen zones during weekends on diseases that occur during the monsoon and the preventive steps that need to be taken.
  • Rallies are also planned in all the 15 zones, with the participation of 20,000 city school students, to spread awareness about prevention of mosquito-borne diseases during monsoon, stopping open defecation, stopping usage of plastic, preventing stagnation of sewage or clean water and rainwater harvesting.
 Himachal Pradesh Cabinet approved a policy to provide cost effective Ayush services
  • The Himachal Pradesh Cabinet approved a policy to provide cost effective Ayush services by upgrading Ayush hospitals and dispensaries.
  • The government has come up with Himachal Pradesh State Ayush Policy that envisages attractive incentives to prospective investors in Ayush and wellness sector.
  • The Cabinet, presided over by Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur, also gave its nod to make the state a most favoured investment destination for information technology (IT), and IT enabled service companies.
  • It also gave its nod to the Affordable Housing Policy, 2019 and to revised guidelines for the tourism department for issuance of essentiality certificates under the Himachal Pradesh Tenancy and Land Reforms Rules in cases where a non-agriculturist wishes to purchase land for setting up tourism units.
  • The Cabinet gave its consent to establish Real Estate Regulatory Authority (RERA) to regulate and promote real estate sector in the state.
  • It also gave its consent to create 46 posts of different categories, including its chairman and members.

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 October 26, 2019

 International meet on nutraceuticals, chronic diseases held at IIT Guwahati
  • Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati, in collaboration with the Society for Nutraceuticals and Chronic Diseases, the Society for Translational Cancer Research, the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), Guwahati, and the DBT-AIST International Centre for Translational and Environmental Research (DAICENTER), Japan, recently organised the fourth International Conference on Nutraceuticals & Chronic Diseases (INCD).
  • ‘Nutraceutical’ is the combination of the words ‘nutrition’ and ‘pharmaceutical’. A nutraceutical product is a food/fortified food product that not only supplements the diet but also assists in treating or preventing chronic disease and also provides medical benefits.
  • Specific and targeted artificially created drugs have not been found much effective against multi-genic chronic diseases. Also, their extended uses tend to exhibit severe adverse side effects. Whereas, the nutraceuticals have been found to be multi-targeted, highly effective over long-term and exhibit minimal side effects.
 India, Pakistan sign Kartarpur pact
  • India and Pakistan signed an agreement to operationalise the Kartarpur Corridor The signing ceremony took place at the Kartarpur Sahib Corridor Zero Point, International Border, Dera Baba Nanak.
  • The agreement paves the way for the inauguration of the Corridor next month ahead of the 550th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev, the founder of Sikhism, and will enable devotees to visit throughout the year the holy shrine located 4.5 km from the border in Narowal district of Pakistan”s Punjab province.
  • With the signing of this agreement, Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Home Affairs S.C.L. Das said a formal framework has been laid down for operationalisation of the Kartarpur Sahib Corridor.
  • The travel will be visa free and the pilgrims will have a choice to visit individually or in groups, and also to travel on foot.
  • Under the agreement, the Indian government will inform Pakistan authorities about the list of the pilgrims 10 days in advance and pilgrims will be notified through mail four days ahead of the travel.
  • Pilgrims need to carry only a valid passport and Persons of Indian Origin need to carry Overseas Citizenship of India (OCI) card along with the passport of their country.
  • The Corridor will be open from dawn to dusk and the pilgrims travelling in the morning will have to return on the same day. The Corridor will be operational throughout the year, except on notified days, which will be informed in advance.

FACTFILE – The Kartarpur Corridor

  • The Kartarpur Corridor is a visa-free border crossing and secure corridor, connecting the Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Pakistan to the border with India.
  • The crossing allows Sikh devotees from India to visit the gurdwara in Kartarpur, 4.7 kilometres (2.9 miles) from the India–Pakistan border without a visa, creating a link which allows pilgrims holding Indian passports to easily visit both the Kartarpur shrine and Gurdwara Dera Baba Nanak on the Indian side of the border.
  • The Kartarpur Corridor was first proposed in early 1999 by Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Nawaz Sharif, the prime ministers of India and Pakistan respectively, as part of the Delhi–Lahore Bus diplomacy.
  • On 26 November 2018, the foundation stone was laid down on the Indian side; two days later, on 28 November 2018, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan did the same for the Pakistani side.
 IIT Madras team develops simple technique to produce Graphene platelets
  • The researchers have found that when graphite is suspended in an appropriate fluid and subjected to an intense shearing force of machining, the layers of graphite separate into graphene platelets.
  • Graphene is considered as one of the strongest materials known and in addition, it conducts electricity thirteen times better than copper.
  • Dr Sathyan Subbiah, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Madras, who led the research team, said, superior quality graphene is commonly prepared using the peeling off method.
  • Subbiah pointed out that the graphite is a lubricant because it is made of layers of carbon that slide over one another.
 Uttar Pradesh CM launches scheme for girl child
  • Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath launched ”Sumangla Kanya Yojna”, a scheme for the girl child, in the presence of Union Women and Child Development Minister Smriti Irani.
  • The scheme will provide an amount of Rs 15,000 in a phased manner to every family where a gril child is born.
  • The ”Sumangla Kanya” scheme has been designed in a way that parents will have to take care of girl child”s health and education to avail its benefits.
  • Funds will be released in six installments when a girl child completes various stages like vaccination, admission in class 1, 5 and 9 and graduation.
  • At birth Rs 2,000 will be transferred into account and if a girl has completed all her first-year vaccinations, she will be entitled to another Rs 1,000.
  • Similarly, if she has taken admission in class 1, she will get Rs 15,000 minus funds that would have been released at birth and completion of first-year vaccinations.

October 27, 2019

  Tea Board looking for technology to ensure traceability of tea
  • The Tea Board is searching for an end-to-end technology to ensure traceability of the entire value chain of tea trade.
  • It is looking at a combination of latest technology-enabled solution like blockchain technology, for integrating the existing systems which will convert the standalone applications into a ring fenced electronic environment capturing the entire details of supply chain from procurement of raw materials by the manufacturers to the disposal of made teas to the primary buyers through auction.
  • This integration will help the end consumers in traceability of the Indian origin Tea – GI Teas as the starting point – by virtue of digitisation of the Indian tea marketing channel and bringing the Indian tea industry into the mainstream of digital economy.
  • The challenges the industry is facing now in terms of oversupply, quality concerns, low price realization, reducing global demand, non-remunerative prices for the small growers, etc.
 Govt plans to run Ladakh completely on renewable energy
  • The Union government plans to make Ladakh the first Indian union territory (UT) to run completely on renewable energy.
  • The government wants to install solar generation units to meet all its power demand from renewable energy sources.
  • Aanand Kumar, secretary, ministry of new and renewable energy (MNRE), told that UT currently has a demand of around 53 MW.
  • New solar plants is planned to be added by the end of 2020 to make the area completely run on renewable energy.
  • While the daily solar power generation potential in most part of the country is in the range of 3-5 units per square metre, the same in Leh-Ladakh can be 6-8 units, due to high ‘irradiance’ factor.
 P S Sreedharan Pillai appointed as Mizoram governor
  • Kerala State BJP president PS Sreedharan Pillai has been appointed as the new Mizoram Governor. The President of India announced the appointment of Pillai as the Governor of the North Eastern state.
  • After the resignation of former Governor Kummanam Rajasekharan to contest the Lok Sabha polls from Thiruvananthapuram, Assam Governor Jagdish Mukhi has been holding the additional charge as the Mizoram Governor.
  • Pillai is the third person from the South Indian State to be appointed as the Mizoram Governor after Vakkom Purushothaman (2011-2014) and Rajashekharan who held the charge from May 29, 2018 to March 8, 2019.
 India and Ecuador ink protocol to start trade negotiations
  • India and South American nation Ecuador have inked the Protocol for Completion of the Joint Feasibility Study (JFS) between the two countries, in line with the government’s efforts to expand its trade presence in the region.
  • The Protocol was inked in New Delhi by Shyamal Misra, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Commerce and Industry and Héctor Cueva, ambassador of Ecuador in India.
  • This has now opened the doors for both the countries to initiate trade negotiations for a Partial Scope Agreement (Preferential Trade Agreement).
  • The two countries have great possibilities to contribute to the competitiveness of productive sectors in each Member country, and improving bilateral trade and enhancing the conditions for business cooperation.
  • Once the PTA is in place the two trading partners would be in a position to reduce or eliminate customs duties on only a certain number of products traded between them.

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 October 28, 2019

 Poor infrastructure deterring flow of medical tourists, foreign students to Assam, says ADB report
  • Medical tourism and higher education are two potential service sector industries for Assam, but due to various gaps – mostly related to infrastructure and connectivity – the State has not been able to tap it so far.
  • According to an Asian Development Bank report, there is a relative shortage of colleges for professional education and local students travel to other states in pursuit of higher education, while lack of accredited hospitals in the region has lead to outflow of domestic demand and diversion of regional international demand.
  • Of the 47,427 foreign students enrolled in India in 2018-19, 2,077 (4.4 per cent) were from Bangladesh. The Northeast can capture a major share of this market and Assam has a huge opportunity to tap into India’s share of students enrolled from Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal.
  • 18 per cent of the total outflow of students from South Asia enrolled in India in 2016-17. It was 1.3 per cent for Southeast Asia. However, Assam accounts for just 0.4 per cent of total foreign students enrolled India.
  • India is one of the preferred destination for medical value travel, ranking fifth in the World Medical Tourism Index. Bangladesh is the largest foreign user of India’s medical services, accounting for 50.54 per cent of the total medical tourists in 2016 and the Northeast, particularly Assam, has the opportunity of becoming the natural choice for medical tourism from the neighbouring country.
 Uttar Pradesh CM inaugurated projects and laid foundation stones of schemes for forest-dwelling Vantangiya community
  • Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath inaugurated projects and laid foundation stones for schemes worth Rs 1.32 crore for the forest-dwelling Vantangiya community.
  • The Chief Minister celebrated Diwali with the Vantangiya community that has remained marginalised for years.
  • The community comprises people brought from Myanmar during the colonial rule to plant trees for afforestation.
Manohar Lal Khattar takes oath as Haryana CM
  • Manohar Lal Khattar and Jannayak Janta Party (JJP) chief Dushyant Chautala took oath as Chief Minister and Deputy Chief Minister, respectively. 
  • The two leaders were administered the oath of office and secrecy by Haryana Governor Satyadeo Narain Arya at Raj Bhavan in Chandigarh.
  • This is the second term of Khattar as Haryana Chief Minister. 

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