1)NOTA option to stay in Rajya Sabha polls :=
The Supreme Court has refused to stay an Election Commission circular issued in January 2014 that introduced NOTA in the Rajya Sabha elections.
The Election Commission, in October 2013, issued directions for providing the NOTA option in elections. But then, doubts were raised about its applicability in the Rajya Sabha polls.
Arguments by the Supreme Court:-
The Supreme Court had justified the inclusion of NOTA by saying that it would force political parties to project clean candidates in an election.
The court said that since all citizens have the “right to vote”, one must also have the right to reject all candidates as part of their fundamental right to speech and expression in the Constitution.
2)MAA programme:=
To intensify the efforts further for promotion of breastfeeding, the Health Ministry has initiated a nationwide programme called “MAA-Mother’s Absolute Affection’’ to bring undiluted focus on promotion of breastfeeding and provision of services towards supporting breastfeeding, along with ongoing efforts of routine health systems.
The key components of the MAA programme are awareness generation, promotion of breastfeeding & inter personal counselling at community level, skilled support for breastfeeding at delivery points and monitoring and Award/ recognition of health facility.
Under this programme, ASHA has been incentivized for reaching out to pregnant and lactating mothers and provide information on benefits and techniques of successful breastfeeding during interpersonal communication.
3)Nabard:=
It is an apex development and specialized bank established on 12 July 1982 by an act by the parliament of India.
Its main focus is to uplift rural India by increasing the credit flow for elevation of agriculture & rural non farm sector.
It was established based on the recommendations of the Committee set up by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) under the chairmanship of Shri B. shivaraman.
4)In an attempt to promote innovation and entrepreneurship in agriculture, the government is launching a new AGRI-UDAAN programme that will mentor startups and help them connect with potential investors.
Some Important facts:-
5)Joint Project between NASA and ISRO:=
ISRO and NASA are working towards realisation of NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission by 2021.
Background of NISAR:=
The Nasa-Isro Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission is a joint project between NASA and ISRO to co-develop and launch a dual frequency synthetic aperture radar satellite.
The satellite will be the first radar imaging satellite to use dual frequency and it is planned to be used for remote sensing to observe and understand natural processes of the Earth.
NISAR would provide information about a place more frequently than older satellites orbiting the Earth at present.
Among the objectives of NISAR are estimation of soil moisture, agriculture and forest biomass.
6)Maharashtra Government launches two online portals MahaDBT, MahaVASTU.
MahaDBT portal: It is an Aadhaar-authenticated electronic mechanism that will enable direct transfer of benefits for over 40 schemes currently implemented by state’s various departments.
MahaVASTU portal: It is an online building permission management system, through which construction approvals will be sanctioned with full transparency.
The Supreme Court has refused to stay an Election Commission circular issued in January 2014 that introduced NOTA in the Rajya Sabha elections.
The Election Commission, in October 2013, issued directions for providing the NOTA option in elections. But then, doubts were raised about its applicability in the Rajya Sabha polls.
Arguments by the Supreme Court:-
The Supreme Court had justified the inclusion of NOTA by saying that it would force political parties to project clean candidates in an election.
The court said that since all citizens have the “right to vote”, one must also have the right to reject all candidates as part of their fundamental right to speech and expression in the Constitution.
2)MAA programme:=
To intensify the efforts further for promotion of breastfeeding, the Health Ministry has initiated a nationwide programme called “MAA-Mother’s Absolute Affection’’ to bring undiluted focus on promotion of breastfeeding and provision of services towards supporting breastfeeding, along with ongoing efforts of routine health systems.
The key components of the MAA programme are awareness generation, promotion of breastfeeding & inter personal counselling at community level, skilled support for breastfeeding at delivery points and monitoring and Award/ recognition of health facility.
Under this programme, ASHA has been incentivized for reaching out to pregnant and lactating mothers and provide information on benefits and techniques of successful breastfeeding during interpersonal communication.
3)Nabard:=
It is an apex development and specialized bank established on 12 July 1982 by an act by the parliament of India.
Its main focus is to uplift rural India by increasing the credit flow for elevation of agriculture & rural non farm sector.
It was established based on the recommendations of the Committee set up by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) under the chairmanship of Shri B. shivaraman.
4)In an attempt to promote innovation and entrepreneurship in agriculture, the government is launching a new AGRI-UDAAN programme that will mentor startups and help them connect with potential investors.
Some Important facts:-
- The programme will help convert innovative ideas from India’s rural youth into viable businesses. The idea is to attract the youth from rural India and elsewhere, and train them so they can add value to the farmers’ produce.
- It will be managed by ICAR-NAARM’s technology incubator, a-IDEA along with IIM Ahmedabad’s Centre for Innovation.
- Under the programme, start-ups will get incubation space to run their businesses and have access to research laboratories and libraries.
- AGRI UDAAN will also help the selected start-ups with regulatory services like company registration and environmental compliances.
5)Joint Project between NASA and ISRO:=
ISRO and NASA are working towards realisation of NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission by 2021.
Background of NISAR:=
The Nasa-Isro Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission is a joint project between NASA and ISRO to co-develop and launch a dual frequency synthetic aperture radar satellite.
The satellite will be the first radar imaging satellite to use dual frequency and it is planned to be used for remote sensing to observe and understand natural processes of the Earth.
NISAR would provide information about a place more frequently than older satellites orbiting the Earth at present.
Among the objectives of NISAR are estimation of soil moisture, agriculture and forest biomass.
6)Maharashtra Government launches two online portals MahaDBT, MahaVASTU.
MahaDBT portal: It is an Aadhaar-authenticated electronic mechanism that will enable direct transfer of benefits for over 40 schemes currently implemented by state’s various departments.
MahaVASTU portal: It is an online building permission management system, through which construction approvals will be sanctioned with full transparency.
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