Daily Current Affairs 29 May 2020 With Video Lecture

Cabinet Secretary reviews COVID situation in 13 worst affected cities

Cabinet Secretary held a meeting with Municipal Commissioners, District Magistrates of 13 COVID-19 hit cities to take a review of the situation.
The meeting bears significance as these 13 cities are the worst Coronavirus affected locations and constitute about 70 per cent of the positive cases in the country.
The 13 focus cities are Mumbai, Chennai, Delhi / New Delhi, Ahmedabad, Thane, Pune, Hyderabad, Kolkata / Howrah, Indore (MP), Jaipur, Jodhpur, Chengalpattu and Thiruvallur (Tamil Nadu).
Strategy include work on high risk factors, indices such as confirmation rate, fatality rate, doubling rate, tests per million people etc.
Centre has stressed that containment zones are to be geographically defined based on factors like mapping of cases and contacts and their geographical dispersion.
The cities were advised that the area should be appropriately defined by the district administration and local urban body with technical inputs from local level.

Delimitation Commission holds meeting

The Delimitation Commission had a meeting on 28th May 2020, to review the progress of direction given by the Commission in its first meeting held on 29th April,2020.
Nomination of Associate Members as required under Delimitation Act,2002,has been received from Lok Sabha.
Also, Nomination of Associate Members from the Legislative Assembly of Assam and Manipur has been received.
Delimitation Commission:
- The Delimitation commission or Boundary commission of India is a commission established by the Government of India under the provisions of the Delimitation Commission Act.
- The main task of the commission is redrawing the boundaries of the various assembly and Lok Sabha constituencies based on a recent census. The representation from each State is not changed during this exercise.
- The present delimitation of constituencies has been done based on 2001 census under the provisions of Delimitation Act, 2002.

Digital Summit on Exports organized by the Confederation of Indian Industry

Piyush Goyal, Union Minister for Commerce & Industry and Railways, through VC, participated in the Summit.
Identified three important ways to increase India’s exports:
- reviving manufacturing
- diversifying the exports basket
- finding newer and more accepting markets
Congratulated CII on completing 125 years and the launch of the Taskforce on Enhancing Exports through integration into the Global Value Chains.

Ultraviolet Disinfection Facilities Developed AT Western Naval Command

Naval Dockyard (Mumbai) has manufactured a UV sanitisation bay to meet the emerging requirement.
The UV bay will be utilised for decontamination of tools, clothes and other miscellaneous items, to control spread of the coronavirus.
The challenging task required ingenuity to convert a large common room into a UV bay by fabrication of aluminum sheets electrical arrangements for UV-C lighting.
The facility utilises UV-C light source for Germicidal Irradiation towards sterilising items. Studies by reputed research agencies have proven the effect of UV-C on respiratory pathogens like SARS, Influenza etc.
It has been observed that microbial pathogens become significantly less viable when exposed to UV-C of intensity 1 J/cm2 for 1 min or more, indicating effective sterilisation.
A similar facility has also been set up at Naval Station (Karanja), where in addition to UV-C steriliser, an industrial oven has also been placed, which heats smaller sized belongings to 60°C, a temperature known to kill most microbes.

FM launches facility of Instant PAN through Aadhaar based e-KYC

Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman formally launched the facility for instant allotment of PAN.
This facility is now available for those PAN applicants who possess a valid Aadhaar number and have a mobile number registered with Aadhaar.
The allotment process is paperless and an electronic PAN (e-PAN) is issued to the applicants free of cost.

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