Around
India [April – June 2015]
India elected to 4 UN
agencies
·
India
was elected to four important United Nations (UN) agencies.
i.
United
Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
ii.
World
Food Program (WFP)
iii.
Commission
on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (CCPCJ) and
iv.
Governing
Council of UN-Habitat
Andhra Police kills
20 Tamil People
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Area: Seshachalam
Forest (near Tirupathi)
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Reason:
for alleged cutting the red sand wood trees
·
Loopholes
in police encounter
·
Andhra
High court slams the Police
·
NHRC
investigate the incident
·
TN
political parties demand probe; urges Centre to take action
·
Centre
citing it is a state issue and not interfered
Rules for receiving
gifts for civil service officers
·
Civil
servants can now accept gifts up to Rs. 25,000 from relatives and personal
friends on occasions such as weddings etc, without reporting the same to the
government.
·
Gifts
from other contacts may be received without government sanction as long as
their value does not exceed Rs. 5,000
·
As
per the new rules, “a member of the service may accept gifts from his near
relatives or from his personal friends having no official dealings with them,
on weddings, anniversaries, funerals and religious functions when the making of
gifts is in conformity with the prevailing religious and social practice, but
they have to make a report to the government if the value of such a gift
exceeds Rs. 25,000”.
·
All
these are in the amended provisions of the All India Service (Conduct) Rules,
1968, relating to gifts.
Air Quality Index
·
Minister
Narendra Modi launched a National Air Quality Index (NAQI) to tackle the menace
of air pollution.
·
This
National Air Quality Index will provide information on the quality of air in 10
major cities in the country on a real-time basis.
·
The
ten cities where the quality of air can be monitored are Delhi, Agra, Kanpur,
Lucknow, Varanasi, Faridabad, Ahmedabad, Chennai, Bangalore and Ahmedabad.
·
Later
the index will be extended to 22 State capitals and 44 other cities with a
population exceeding one million
Operation Olivia
·
With
a view to preventing further mortalities of Olive Ridley turtles, the Coast
Guard has launched ‘Operation Olivia’ to enforce the provisions of the Marine
Fishing Regulatory Act.
·
The
operation area covers the coastal area from Porto Novo (Parangipettai) in
Cuddalore district in Tamil Nadu to Nizampatnam in Guntur district of Andhra
Pradesh.
Classify industries
on 3-coloured basis
·
The
Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change proposed a
colour-coded system to re-classify industries based on pollution potential.
·
As
per the proposal, the industries will be re-classified under three-coloured
scheme, viz., Red, Orange and Green
·
Red
Category: Industrial sectors with a score of 60 and more
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Orange
Category: Industrial sectors with a score between 30 to 59
·
Green
Category: Industrial sectors with a score between 15 to 29
·
Industrial
sectors scoring below 15 will be considered as white as they are environment
friendly.
48th Tiger Reserve of
India
·
The
National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) accorded final approval to Rajaji
National Park, Uttarakhand as India's 48th Tiger Reserve.
·
With
this notification, Uttarakhand got its second tiger reserve after the Corbett
Tiger Reserve.
·
Uttarakhand
is a state that has the second highest tiger population in the country after
Karnataka.
Indians on Time Magazine’s Most Influential People
·
Prime
Minister Narendra Modi and three others of Indian origin figure in the Time
magazine's list of 100 most influential people in the world.
·
Besides
Modi, others are Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, ICICI CEO Chanda Kochhar and
India's foremost mental health expert professor Vikram Patel.
Operation Maitri
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India’s
help to Nepal to assist in the earthquake
National Tourism
Policy
·
It
enshrines the vision of developing and positioning India as a MUST EXPERIENCE
and MUST RE-VISIT destination encompassing the aspects of Swachhta
(cleanliness), Suraksha (safety) and Swagat (welcome).
·
It
seeks to evolve a framework for tourism development, which is Government-led,
private sector driven and community welfare oriented.
·
Its
objective is to increase India’s share in world tourist arrivals from the
present 0.68% to 1% by 2020 and increase to 2% by 2025
DD Kisan Channel
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Exclusive
television channel for farmers
·
Launched
by Modi (May 26, 2015)
·
100
crores have been allotted by the government for this new DD Kisan channel and
would focus on 140 million farm households in India
Karnataka: voting
made compulsory
·
For
the first time, voting will be compulsory in the elections to 5844 gram
panchayats in Karnataka that will go to polls in two phases on May 29 and June 02.
Anna Baghya Scheme
·
By
Karnataka
·
Free
rice to the poor
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Karnataka-highest
number of poor in southern region
Tripura – AFSPA
withdrawn
·
The
Tripura government has revoked the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA) as
insurgency is on the wane in the State.
·
Chief
Minister Manik Sarkar announced the decision after a meeting with his Council
of Ministers.
·
The
repeal of the Act, which has been in force in the State since February 1997,
came less than a month after the election to the Tripura Tribal Areas
Autonomous District Council.
·
The
CPI(M)-led Left Front won the election, though it lost a nine per cent vote
share to a tribal party.
NITI Aayog
Position
|
NITI Aayog
|
Chairman
|
Prime
Minister
|
Vice
Chairman
|
Arvind
Panagriya
|
CEO
|
Sindhushree
Khullar
|
Ex-Officio
Members
|
Rajnath
Singh, Minister of Home Affairs
|
Arun Jaitley, Minister of Finance; Minister
of Corporate Affairs; and Minister of Information and Broadcasting
|
|
Suresh
Prabhu, Minister of Railways
|
|
Radha
Mohan Singh, Minister of Agriculture
|
|
Full
time Members
|
Bibek
Debroy
|
V
K Saraswat
|
|
Part
time Members
|
Alok
Kumar
|
Jitendra
Kumar
|
|
Special
Invitees
|
Nitin
Gadkari, Minister of Road Transport and Highways; and Minister of Shipping
|
Thawar
Chand Gehlot,Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment
|
|
Smriti
Zubin Irani, Minister of Human Resource Development
|
|
Governing
Council
|
Chairman:
PM
Chief
Ministers of all States
Lieutenant
Governors of all UTs
|
Ad-hoc
regional councils
|
Will
have CMs of states that fall in the region. They’ll be dealing with specific
issue concerning a group of states for example irrigation, naxal-problem,
infrastructure etc.
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