Daily Current Affairs 05 June 2020 With Video Lecture

Prime Minister Addresses the virtual Global Vaccine Summit 2020 India has today pledged 15 Million US Dollars to Gavi, the international vaccine alliance. Virtual Global Vaccine Summit hosted by UK...

Chetan Apurav
June 5, 2020
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Prime Minister Addresses the virtual Global Vaccine Summit 2020

India has today pledged 15 Million US Dollars to Gavi, the international vaccine alliance.
Virtual Global Vaccine Summit hosted by UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson in which over 50 countries participated.
India recognizes and values the work of GAVI, that is why it became a donor to GAVI while still being eligible for GAVI support.
Shri Modi said, India’s civilization teaches to see the world as one family and that during this pandemic it had tried to live upto this teaching.
He said India did it so by sharing the country’s available stocks of medicines with over 120 countries, by forging a common response strategy in its immediate neighbourhood and by providing specific support to countries that sought it, while also protecting India’s own vast population.
Prime Minister said the COVID19 pandemic, in some ways, has exposed the limitations of global cooperation and that for the first time in recent history, the humankind faces a clear common enemy.
Referring to Gavi, he said it is not just a global alliance but also a symbol of global solidarity and a reminder of that by helping others we can also help ourselves.
Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance is a public–private global health partnership with the goal of increasing access to immunisation in poor countries.
GAVI brings together developing country & donor govts., WHO, UNICEF, World Bank, the vaccine industry, civil societies etc.
GAVI has observer status at the WHA.

World Environment Day 2020 Indian Navy’s Green Footprint to its Blue Water Operations

A responsible multi-dimensional force, the Indian Navy has embarked on reducing its environmental footprint through energy conservation, minimising marine pollution and use of alternative sources of energy – Indian Navy Environment Conservation Roadmap.
With the aim of reducing pollution from engine exhausts, the Indian Navy collaborated with IOCL to revise the fuel specifications.
Indian Navy has voluntarily implemented all six schedules of International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (MARPOL) regulations.
All Naval ships have been fitted with MARPOL compliant pollution control equipment such as Oily Water Separators (OWS) and Sewage Treatment Plants (STP) for treating waste generated onboard.
Further, to ensure upkeep of harbour waters, accelerated bioremediation technology has also been developed through Naval Materials Research Laboratory (NMRL), Mumbai.

TULIP – for providing opportunities to fresh Graduates in all ULBs & Smart Cities launched

TULIP: Providing fresh graduates experiential learning opportunities in the urban sector.
TULIP has been conceived pursuant to the Budget 2020-21 announcement by the FM under the theme ‘Aspirational India’.
Instead of approaching education as ‘doing by learning,’ our societies need to reimagine education as ‘learning by doing.’
TULIP would help enhance the value-to-market of India’s graduates and help create a potential talent pool in diverse fields, thus not only catalyzing creation of prospective city managers but also talented private/ non-government sector professionals.
This launch is also an important steppingstone for fulfillment of MHRD and AICTE’s goal of 1 crore successful internships by the year 2025.
For ease of implementation, Guidelines have also been formulated which spell out the objective, eligibility conditions, duration of internship, terms of engagement, logistics and other operational features of the programs etc.
These Guidelines also provide illustrative roles for interns which can be further refined at the level of ULBs and smart cities at their discretion.
A Handbook for ULBs/ Smart Cities and interns has also been prepared for ease of implementation. MoHUA has also agreed to allow use of administrative expenses under its Missions/ programs for the payment of stipends/ perks under the program.
State Governments/Union Territories are also urged to explore scaling up TULIP to parastatal agencies/ State Financial intermediaries and other organizations/ agencies related to urban development in their respective jurisdictions.
Since the technology platform for TULIP is open, scalable, and federated, such additions would be very easily possible.

“Reiterate pledge to preserve biodiversity”, said PM Modi on World Environment Day

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday pitched for collective efforts to ensure that the planet becomes a better place for future generations.
Modi also shared a brief video of his latest “Mann Ki Baat” programme in which he had referred to World Environment Day.

Current COVID19 Situation in India