07th- 08th June 2018 The Hindu and PIB News Analysis
1)All About Defence Acquisition Council (DAC):- To counter corruption and speed up decision- making in military procurement, the government of India in 2001 decided to set up an integrated DAC. It is headed by the Defence Minister.
Objective: The objective of the DAC is to ensure expeditious procurement of the approved requirements of the Armed Forces, in terms of capabilities sought, and time frame prescribed, by optimally utilizing the allocated budgetary resources.
Functions: The DAC is responsible to give policy guidelines to acquisitions, based on long-term procurement plans. It also clears all acquisitions, which includes both imported and those produced indigenously or under a foreign license.
2)India’s Current Maternal Mortality Ratio is 130: Key Facts:- The registrar general of India has released new data showing significant decline in maternal mortality ratio of the country.
According to WHO, Maternal Mortality is death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, irrespective of the duration and place of pregnancy.
Maternal Mortality Rate is death of such women per 100,000 live births.
3)Andhra Pradesh: First state to use auto-disable syringes for all clinical purposes.
The state will enforce this decision from will from the World Hepatitis Day, observed every year on July 28.
4)Queen Pineapple declared as State Fruit of Tripura.
5)The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction (1980):
The Hague Convention is a multilateral treaty whereby the contracting states will have to cooperate with each other in expeditiously sending back the runaway parent and the child to the country of the child’s ‘habitual residence’.
It seeks to return children abducted or retained overseas by a parent to their country of habitual residence for the courts of that country to decide on matters of residence and contact.
The convention shall apply to any child, up to the age of 16 years who is a habitual resident of any of the contacting states.
6)DHARMA:
It is a software programme – Dam Health and Rehabilitation Monitoring Application (DHARMA). DHARMA is a web tool to digitize all dam related data effectively.
It will help to document authentic asset and health information pertaining to the large dams in the country, enabling appropriate actions to ensure need based rehabilitation.
It is a new stride in asset management aspect by India.
1)All About Defence Acquisition Council (DAC):- To counter corruption and speed up decision- making in military procurement, the government of India in 2001 decided to set up an integrated DAC. It is headed by the Defence Minister.
Objective: The objective of the DAC is to ensure expeditious procurement of the approved requirements of the Armed Forces, in terms of capabilities sought, and time frame prescribed, by optimally utilizing the allocated budgetary resources.
Functions: The DAC is responsible to give policy guidelines to acquisitions, based on long-term procurement plans. It also clears all acquisitions, which includes both imported and those produced indigenously or under a foreign license.
2)India’s Current Maternal Mortality Ratio is 130: Key Facts:- The registrar general of India has released new data showing significant decline in maternal mortality ratio of the country.
According to WHO, Maternal Mortality is death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, irrespective of the duration and place of pregnancy.
Maternal Mortality Rate is death of such women per 100,000 live births.
3)Andhra Pradesh: First state to use auto-disable syringes for all clinical purposes.
The state will enforce this decision from will from the World Hepatitis Day, observed every year on July 28.
4)Queen Pineapple declared as State Fruit of Tripura.
5)The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction (1980):
The Hague Convention is a multilateral treaty whereby the contracting states will have to cooperate with each other in expeditiously sending back the runaway parent and the child to the country of the child’s ‘habitual residence’.
It seeks to return children abducted or retained overseas by a parent to their country of habitual residence for the courts of that country to decide on matters of residence and contact.
The convention shall apply to any child, up to the age of 16 years who is a habitual resident of any of the contacting states.
6)DHARMA:
It is a software programme – Dam Health and Rehabilitation Monitoring Application (DHARMA). DHARMA is a web tool to digitize all dam related data effectively.
It will help to document authentic asset and health information pertaining to the large dams in the country, enabling appropriate actions to ensure need based rehabilitation.
It is a new stride in asset management aspect by India.
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