Assam Current Affairs – May 2018
( Covers all important Assam Current Affairs & GK topics for the month of May 2018 )
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May 19
Supreme Court of India grants draft Cauvery management scheme
The Supreme Court of India approved the Centre’s draft Cauvery Management Scheme for smooth distribution of water among four southern riparian states/UT viz. Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puducherry.
A bench, comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud, took on record the draft scheme submitted by the Union Water Resource secretary.
FACTFILE – Cauveri Management Scheme
- The Cauveri Management scheme deals with release of water from Karnataka to Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puducherry.
- The scheme would deal with the issue of water share of the four states in different circumstances like normal and deficient water years in the Cauvery river basin.
- The Supreme court had modified the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal (CWDT) award of 2007 and made it clear that it will not be extending time for this on any ground. It had raised the 270 tmcft share of Cauvery water for Karnataka by 14.75tmcft saying the issue of drinking water has to be placed on a higher pedestal and reduced Tamil Nadu’s share, while compensating it by allowing extraction of 10tmcft groundwater from the river basin.
Uttam Pacharne appointed as Chairman of Lalit Kala Academy
Uttam Pacharne was appointed as the Chairman of the Lalit Kala Akademi. He will hold office for a three years term from the date of assuming the charge of the office.He appointment was approved by the President Ram Nath Kovind.
Pacharne succeeds ML Srivastava, Joint Secretary (Akademies), Union Ministry of Culture, who was appointed as Protem Chairman of the Lalit Kala Akademi in March 2018.
Pacharne is a renowned artist and sculptor. Currently, He is a Member of Advisory Committee of Kala Academy, Goa and a Member of the Advisory Committee at P.L. Deshpande State Lalit Kala Academy. He is also working as the Director of Janseva Sahakari Bank Borivali.
He received the National Lalit Kala Award in 1985, Maharashtra Gaurav Puraska in 1985, Junior National Award in 1986 and Jeevan Gaurav Puraskar in 2017 from Prafulla Dahanukar Foundation.
FACTFILE – Lalit Kala Academy
(i) It was established in New Delhi in 1954. This academy receives the funds from the Union Ministry of Culture.
(ii) It is also called as National Academy of Arts. It is India’s national academy to promote and propagate understanding of Indian art.
(iii) The Akademi has its regional centres as Rashtriya Lalit Kala Kendra at Lucknow, Calcutta, Chennai and Bhubaneswar, and a small office in Mumbai.
India’s freshwater stocks in danger: NASA
Researchers have found India is among the world’s major hotspots which has seen a serious decline in the availability of freshwater.
The study, published in the journal Nature, found that wet land areas are turning wetter and dry areas are turning drier due to different reasons, including human water management, climate change and natural cycles.
Areas in northern and eastern India, the Middle East, Australia and the US state of California are among the major areas where overuse of water resources has led to a serious decline in the availability of freshwater.
Freshwater levels decrease was also seen in Saudi Arabia, that indicating the agricultural compressions.
While, the water loss in some regions like the melting ice-sheets and alpine glaciers is evidently driven by global warming, however, it may take extra time and information to determine the driving forces behind other patterns of fresh-water alterations.
May 20
Prime Minister launches Asia’s longest tunnel in Jammu and Kashmir
PM Narendra Modi inaugurated Zojila Tunnel in Jammu and Kashmir’s Leh district. The 14-kilometer long Zojila tunnel will be India’s longest and Asia’s longest and strategic two-directional tunnel, which will deliver all-weather connections among J&K’s Srinagar, Kargil and Leh districts.
Key Facts
The project has been built at a cost of Rs. Rs 6,800 crore, which will provide all-weather connectivity to the whole Ladakh region and Kargil in particular which remains cut off from rest of the world for more than 5 months of the winter.
The project, aim at building 14.15 kilometres long bi-lane two-directional single tube tunnel with a parallel 14.2 kilometres long tunnel without tactics between Baltal and Minamarg in the state.
The construction of the tunnel is expected to bring about all round economic and socio-cultural integration of these regions. It will decrease the time of travelling among Srinagar and Leh to fifteen minutes from the present 3.5 hours.
Shivangi Pathak becomes the youngest Indian woman to scale Mount Everest
Shivangi Pathak, a 16-year-old girl from Haryana has become youngest women of the country to scale Mt Everest from Nepal side.
According to the Managing Director of Seven Summit Treks, Mingma Sherpa, Shivangi successfully stood atop world’s highest mountain.
She was inspired by Arunima Sinha, the first Indian amputee to climb Mt Everest. In 2014, 13 year old Malavath Poorna from India had climbed Mt Everest from Tibet side and became youngest girl in the world to summit at Everest.
IIT Kanpur has set up India’s first advisory centre for energy
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Kanpur has set up India’s first Centre for Energy Regulation (CER) with the help of Government of United Kingdom. It aims at providing independent advisory on policy and regulatory matters in the power and energy sector.
FACTFILE – Centre for Energy Regulation
(i) This is an initiative of Department of Industrial and Management Engineering of Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur to improve regulatory research and networking in Indian power segment.
(ii) Its core research segments consist of regulatory and policy alterations in power and energy segment, energy finance, energy sector modelling and operative planning in energy markets and many more.
(iii) Centre for Energy Regulation (CER) and identified activities under it are funded by Department for International Development, Government of UK.
(iv) Centre for Energy Regulation(CER) focuses on requirement for India specific forward seeking research in teamwork of regulatory institutions and relevant shareholders to deliver solutions to matters including growth of Indian economy, rising energy needs, energy efficiency, security and electricity access. It encourages interaction between regulatory and academic institutions.
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