Assam & NE Current Affairs & GK – September 25-27, 2022
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Rhino Memorial in Kaziranga National Park
The Kaziranga National Park in Assam has got a memorial made out of the ash of burnt rhino horns. The memorial was unveiled by Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma.
Key Points
- The memorial having three rhino sculptures was named “Abode of the Unicorns”, it has three rhino sculptures – an adult male, an adult female and a calf.
- It also has three statutes of forest guards, created using different materials.
- The rhino statues were created using ashes collected from around 2,500 rhino horns that were burnt to flames by the Assam Government.
- The rhino memorials in Kaziranga National Park are crafted by the sculptor Biju Das and the statues of the forest guards were sculpted by Biren Singha.
- It takes around four months to finish the whole job and the estimated cost of this project is Rs.10 to 12 lakh.
India has won United Nations Award for National Health Mission
India has won the United Nations (UN) award for its ‘India Hypertension Control Initiative (IHCI)’. The initiative is a large-scale hypertension intervention under the National Health Mission (NHM).
The IHCI won the ‘2022 UN Interagency Task Force and WHO Special Programme on Primary Health Care Award’ at the UN General Assembly side event held at New York in USA
Key Points
- The IHCI has been recognized for its unique and extraordinary work within India’s existing primary healthcare system.
- The award recognizes the outstanding commitment and action of India to prevent and control Non-Communicable Diseases and deliver integrated people-centric primary care.
- The initiative to control hypertension in the primary care system will contribute to reducing deaths due to heart attacks, kidney failures, and stroke.
- IHCI has improved the linkage between population-based screening initiatives with health care.
- It has also been able to support and strengthen the existing healthcare delivery system and hypertension control interventions under the National Health Mission.
About India Hypertension Control Initiative
The IHCI was introduced in 2017 and regulated in a phased manner to cover more than 130 districts across 23 states.
Under the initiative, more than 34 lakh people with hypertension are taking treatment in government health facilities, including Ayushman Bharat Health Wellness Centres.
India’s first plant-based meat shipped to the US
Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Authority (APEDA) has announced that Greenest has shipped India’s first consignment of plant-based meat products under the vegan food category from Nadiad in Gujarat to California, US.
The plant-based consignment is 5000 kg and consists of mini samosas, hot and spicy strips, momos, spring rolls, nuggets, grilled patty, and other vegan products.
Greenest is India’s pioneer in plant-based protein products. It’s investors include names like Better Bite Ventures, a New Zealand-based dedicated Alt Protein VC fund, Magnetic and Sachid Madan, former chief executive of ITCs’s frozen snacks business.
Greenest has collaborated with Wholesome Foods to export its plant-based products to the US.
Uttar Pradesh Legislature reserves a women-only day
The Uttar Pradesh Legislature made history after both the Houses decided to reserve the day for women legislators to speak. The move was met with praise from both the ruling and opposition parties.
The whole day was reserved for women members to raise women-centric issues, which happened for the first time in the history of UP assembly.
The chief minister Yogi Adityanath initiated the day-long session during which only women members spoke in the House. He assured the women members of the house that whatever issues and problems they will raise, government will sympathetically work to solve them.
Many women members thanked the government for this initiative and said that it is the power of democracy that a whole day was reserved for women.
Indian Author Meena Kandasamy wins the German PEN award
Indian author and poet Meena Kandasamy has been announced winner of the Hermann Kesten Prize by the PEN Centre in Germany’s Darmstadt.
Her novels have been shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, the International Dylan Thomas Prize, the Jhalak Prize and the Hindu Lit Prize.
Kandasamy is a feminist and anti-caste activist whose work revolves around the issue of gender, caste, sexuality, patriarchy, and oppression by the Brahmanical system. She previously held an editorial role at the English-language magazine ‘The Dalit’.
The Hermann Kesten Prize is given to the personalities who stand up for the rights of persecuted authors and journalists.
The winner will receive an amount of €20,000 ($19,996) as prize money. This year, the PEN Center is also honouring the website “Weiter Schreiben” (German for “Keep writing”) with a special award for encouragement, for giving authors in exile and writers from conflict zones a platform to express their thoughts.
