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DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS 12 February 2022 Pandit Deendayal Remembered On His Punya Tithi Deendayal Upadhyaya (25 September 1916 – 11 February 1968) was an Indian politician, a proponent of Hindutva...

Zaheer Hussain
February 13, 2022
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DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS 12 February 2022

Pandit Deendayal Remembered On His Punya Tithi

Deendayal Upadhyaya (25 September 1916 – 11 February 1968) was an Indian politician, a proponent of Hindutva ideology espoused by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), and leader of the political party Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS), the forerunner of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Upadhyaya started the monthly publication Rashtra Dharma, broadly meaning ‘National Duty’, in the 1940s to spread the ideology of Hindutva nationalism.
Upadhyaya is known for drafting Jan Sangh’s official political doctrine, Integral humanism, by including some cultural-nationalism values and selectively appropriating a few Gandhian socialist principles such as Sarvodaya (progress of all) and swadeshi (self-sufficiency).

One Ocean Summit

The One Ocean Summit will take place in Brest in Brittany in the northwest of France on 9-11 February 2022, aiming to mobilize the international community to take tangible action towards preserving and supporting a healthy and sustainable ocean. The first major event of a “super year” for the ocean, the Summit is an opportunity to kick-off the second year of the Ocean Decade with the first big international commitment to protect the ocean and reverse its declining health.
The “One Ocean Summit” will be held in the context of the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union, with the support of the United Nations.
The goal of the One Ocean Summit is to raise the collective level of ambition of the international community on marine issues and to translate our shared responsibility to the ocean into tangible commitments.

Democracy Index 2021

The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) released its report on the state of democracy in 2021 across 165 independent countries and two territories.
The report is based on five findings – electoral process and pluralism, functioning of the government, political participation, political culture, and civil liberties. The report has been further bifurcated into a full democracy, flawed democracy, hybrid regime, and authoritarian.
Norway topped the Democracy Index 2021 with an overall score of 9.75 while Afghanistan displaced North Korea as the least democratic country with an overall score of 0.32.
Norway, New Zealand, Finland, Sweden, and Iceland are the top five nations while the Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, North Korea, Myanmar, and Afghanistan are the bottom five nations in the Democracy Index 2021.
India ranked 46 on the global index in the flawed democracy category with an overall score of 6.91. It has the lowest score of 5 on political culture and the highest score of 8.67 on electoral process and pluralism. The country scores 6.18 on civil liberties, 7.22 on political participation, and 7.50 on the functioning of government.
How Other Nations Scored: China (148), Myanmar (166), and Afghanistan (167) are placed in the Authoritarian category, Bangladesh (75), Bhutan (81), Nepal (101), Pakistan (104) in Hybrid Regime, while Sri Lanka (67) is placed in the Flawed Democracy category.

‘SMILE’ Scheme To Be Launched

The Department of Social Justice & Empowerment is launching the Central Sector Scheme “SMILE: Support for Marginalized Individuals for Livelihood and Enterprise”
This umbrella scheme is designed to provide welfare measures to the Transgender community and the people engaged in the act of begging. Under this includes two sub-schemes – ‘Central Sector Scheme for Comprehensive Rehabilitation for Welfare of Transgender Persons’ and ‘Central Sector Scheme for Comprehensive Rehabilitation of persons engaged in the act of Begging’. The scheme strengthens and expands the reach of the Rights that give the targeted group the necessary legal protection and a promise to a secured life. It keeps in mind the social security that is needed through multiple dimensions of identity, medical care, education, occupational opportunities, and shelter. The Ministry has allocated Rs. 365 Crore for the scheme from 2021-22 to 2025-26.

International Day Of Women & Girls In Science

The International Day of Women and Girls in Science is the 11th day of February, by resolution of the United Nations General Assembly on 22 December 2015. The day recognizes the critical role women and girls play in science and technology.
The International Day of Women and Girls in Science is implemented by UNESCO and UN Women, in collaboration with intergovernmental agencies and institutions, as well as civil society partners, that aim to promote women and girls in science. The day’s purpose is to promote full and equal access to participation in science for women and girls.
Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), NITI Aayog in collaboration with UNDP, India today launched the Community Innovator Fellowship (CIF) marking the “International Day of Women & Girls in Science”.
The fellowship is developed as a pre-incubation model which will provide youth with an opportunity to establish their social enterprise focusing on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) based solutions for solving community issues.
This is going to be a one-year-long intensive fellowship program that has been designed for aspiring community innovators irrespective of their socio-economic background. During this fellowship, each fellow will be hosted at one of the AIM’s Atal Community Innovation Centres (ASICs) and shall acquire SDG awareness, entrepreneurial skills, and life skills while they are working on their idea. The ASICs would nurture youth-led innovations by providing suitable resources in terms of operating facilities, co-working space, maker labs, and a dynamic business network to the innovator.

National Rail Plan 2030

Indian Railways have prepared a National Rail Plan (NRP) for India – 2030. The Plan is to create a ‘future ready’ Railway system by 2030.
The NRP is aimed to formulate strategies based on both operational capacities and commercial policy initiatives to increase modal share of the Railways in freight to 45%.
The objective of the Plan is to create capacity ahead of demand, which in turn would also cater to future growth in demand right up to 2050 and also increase the modal share of Railways to 45% in freight traffic and to continue to sustain it.
To achieve this objective all possible financial models including Public Private Partnership (PPP) are being considered.
The main features of the National Rail Plan are:-
Formulate strategies based on both operational capacities and commercial policy initiatives to increase modal share of the Railways in freight to 45%.
Reduce transit time of freight substantially by increasing average speed of freight trains to 50Kmph.
As part of the National Rail Plan, Vision 2024 has been launched for accelerated implementation of certain critical projects by 2024 such as 100% electrification, multi-tracking of congested routes, upgradation of speed to 160 kmph on Delhi-Howrah and Delhi-Mumbai routes, upgradation of speed to 130kmph on all other Golden Quadrilateral-Golden Diagonal (GQ/GD) routes and elimination of all Level Crossings on all GQ/GD route.
Identify new Dedicated Freight Corridors.
Identify new High Speed Rail Corridors.
Assess rolling stock requirement for passenger traffic as well as wagon requirement for freight.
Assess Locomotive requirement to meet twin objectives of 100% electrification (Green Energy) and increasing freight modal share.
Assess the total investment in capital that would be required along with a periodical break up.
Sustained involvement of the Private Sector in areas like operations and ownership of rolling stock, development of freight and passenger terminals, development/operations of track infrastructure etc.

REVIEW QUESTIONS

First Train Started In India?
1851
1852
1853
1854

ANSWER: C

Separate Railway Budget Was Introduced In
1920
1924
1925
1930

ANSWER: B

Separate Railway budget was introduced on the recommendations of
Hunter committee
Acworth committee
Simon committee
Woods Dispatch

ANSWER: B

Railway Budget Merged With General Budget In
2016
2017
2018
2019

ANSWER: B

Last Railway Budget Was Presented By
Arun Jaitley
Nirmala Seetharaman
Suresh Prabhu
Piyush Goyal

ANSWER: C

Railway Budget Merged With General Budget On The Recommendations Of
Bibek Debroy Committee
Amit Paswan Committee
Jaya Jaitley Committee
Rajamannar Committee

ANSWER: A

How Much Distance Was Travelled By First Train Of India?
33 km
36 km
34 km
46 km

ANSWER: C

Governor-General Responsible For Railway In India
Lord William Bentick
Lord Cornwallis
Lord Kenning
Lord Dalhousie

ANSWER: D

What Is The Width Of Broad-gauge Railway Line In India?
5 feet 3 inches
5 feet 6 inches
4 feet 11 inches
5 feet 4 inches

ANSWER: B

Shatabdi Express Train Was Started In
1984
1988
1990
1985

ANSWER: B

The First Shatabdi Express Train Was Introduced By
Madhavrao Scindia
Ashok Gehlot
Kamal Nath
Lalu Prasad Yadav

ANSWER: A

Which Is The Shortest Station Name In Indian Railways?
Pune
Isvi
Goa
Ib

ANSWER: D

Diesel Locomotives Are Built In?
Bangalore
Varanasi
Perambur
Hubli

ANSWER: B

First Railway Minister
John Mathai
N. Gopalaswami Ayyangar
Lal Bahadur Shastri
Swaran Singh

ANSWER: A

Current Railway Minister
Ashwini Vaishnav
Nirmala Seetharaman
Suresh Prabhu
Piyush Goyal

ANSWER: A

The Longest Serving Railway Minister Of India
Lalu Prasad Yadav
N. Gopalaswami Ayyangar
Babu Jagjivan Ram
Swaran Singh

ANSWER: C

Largest Marshalling Yard In India (Also The Longest In Asia)?
Mughalsarai
Mathura
Itarsi
Guntakal

ANSWER: A

The Largest Railway Junction In India?
Delhi
Bhatinda
Mathura
Allahabad

ANSWER: C

Which Is The Fastest Train In India?
Rajdhani Express
Shatabdi Express
Duronto Express
Tejas Express

ANSWER: D

State With Longest Route (KMs) Of Railway Line In India?
Maharashtra
Andhra Pradesh
Rajasthan
Uttar Pradesh

ANSWER: D

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