Daily Current Affairs 15 June 2020 With Video Lecture

Quality Council of India Ministry of Commerce & Industries has asked QCI about the best practices to overcome the challenges post the COVID19 era. It is an autonomous society that...

Chetan Apurav
June 15, 2020
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Quality Council of India

Ministry of Commerce & Industries has asked QCI about the best practices to overcome the challenges post the COVID19 era.
It is an autonomous society that works under Department of Promotion of Industries and Internal Trade.
It is mandated to establish an accreditation structure in country & to spread quality movement in India by undertaking a National Quality Campaign.
It was jointly setup by GOI & three premier industry associations i.e. ASSOCHAM, CII & FICCI.

Lonar Lake

World’s largest basaltic impact crater formed 56,000 years ago.
It was formed by a meteor strike.
It is a saline lake.
A notified geo-heritage monument.
Located in Buldhana district, Maharashtra.
The water has recently turned pink which made this crater lake to be in News again.
The water has turned pink earlier also and this is not the first time.

Public & Expert Consultation ‘Town Hall Meet’ For STIP 2020 Launched

STIP 2020 Town Hall Meet, the Track-I public & expert consultation process for the formulation of Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy (STIP) 2020 was launched.
“India is one of the few postcolonial countries that have invested in the development of Science and Technology”: Professor K Vijay Raghavan.
The Track I consultation process involves an extensive public and expert consultations through Science Policy Forum, a dedicated platform for soliciting inputs from larger public and expert pool, to make the formulation of STIP 2020 decentralized, bottom-up, and inclusive.
The Head of STIP 2020 Secretariat & Adviser DST Dr. Akhilesh Gupta presented the Track I consultation process of STIP2020 to make the policy evidence driven; wisdom based; thematic; inclusive & bottom-up, at the launch of the consultation.
The STIP 2020 formulation process is organised into 4 highly interlinked tracks:
- Track I: Extensive public and expert consultation process through Science Policy Forum.
- Track II: Comprises experts-driven thematic consultations to feed evidence-informed recommendations into the policy drafting process.
- Track III: Consultations with Ministries and States.
- Track IV: Constitutes apex level multi-stakeholder consultation.

Aarogyapath, A Web-based Solution For The Healthcare Supply Chain

A CSIR National Healthcare Supply Chain Portal that aims to provide real-time availability of critical healthcare supplies https://www.aarogyapath.in has been launched.
Aarogyapath would serve manufacturers, suppliers, and customers.
This platform twill provide single-point availability can be helpful to customers.
These issues include dependence on limited suppliers, time-consuming processes to identify good quality products, limited access to suppliers who can supply standardized products at reasonable prices within desired timelines, lack of awareness about the latest product launches, etc.
It also helps manufacturers and suppliers:
- A wide network of customers efficiently
- Overcoming gaps in connectivity between them and potential demand centers like nearby pathological laboratories, Medical stores, hospitals, etc.
It will also create opportunities:
- For business expansion due to an expanded slate of buyers and visibility of new requirements for products.
- Over time, analytics is expected to generate early signals to manufacturers on over capacity.
- This would help to reduce wastage of resources.
- Generate awareness about the demand for new technologies.