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Daily Current Affairs 3 October 2020 With Video Lecture

What are the key features of Pradhan Mantri Van Dhan Yojana? Launched by: The Ministry of Tribal Affairs and Tribal Cooperative Marketing Development Federation of India (TRIFED) Year: 2018 Aim:...

What are the key features of Pradhan Mantri Van Dhan Yojana?

  • Launched by: The Ministry of Tribal Affairs and Tribal Cooperative Marketing Development Federation of India (TRIFED)
  • Year: 2018
  • Aim: To improve the tribal income through value addition of tribal products.
  • This is a Market Linked Tribal Entrepreneurship Development Program for forming clusters of tribal SHGs
  • Has been launched with participation from all the 27 States from the Country.
  • It provides capacity building training and skill upgradation and value addition facility and setting up of primary processing.
  • The Van Dhan Vikas Kendras will be established.
  • Implementation: Ministry of Tribal Affairs as Nodal Department at the Central Level and TRIFED as Nodal Agency at the National Level + At State level, the State Nodal Agency for MFPs and the District collectors.

Swachh Bharat Awards-2020

  • Union Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat gave the Swachh Bharat Awards-2020 to States, Districts, Blocks and Village Panchayats.
  • The awards were given particularly under the drinking water and cleanliness categories.
  • Under the Swachh Sundar Samudayik Shouchalaya category
  • Gujarat won at state level
  • Tirunelveli of Tamil Nadu won at district level
  • Chinnanur village of Tamil Nadu won at Gram Panchayat level
  • Under the Samudayik Shouchalaya Abhiyan
  • Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh were awarded as the best performing states
  • Prayagraj and Bareilly got it for being the best performing districts.
  • Under the Gandagi Mukth Bharat Mission
  • Haryana and Telangana were awarded the top slot.

India – Myanmar review ties

  • The 19th round of Foreign Office Consultations between India and Myanmar was held.
  • Both sides reviewed the entire gamut of relations, including border cooperation
  • The ongoing restoration work on earthquake damaged pagodas in Bagan.
  • Both sides discussed cooperation in regional and multilateral forums.
  • They also discussed to operationalize the Sittwe port by 2021.
  • Myanmar is India’s gateway to South-East Asia.
  • The border is also vulnerable to the activities of insurgents and drugs and arms traffickers.
  • Myanmar is also important from the security point of view as the influx of sizable numbers of Rohingya from Myanmar’s Rakhine state continues.

100-days campaign to provide potable piped water supply in Schools

  • Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat launched 100-days campaign to provide potable piped water supply in Schools and Anganwadi Centres.
  • These facilities will be operated and maintained by the Gram Panchayat and its sub-committee.
  • Jal Jeevan Mission aims at the universal coverage of provision of tap water connection to every rural home by 2024.
  • Under the mission, special focus is on women and children.

Wages should not be denied to labourers during Pandemic: SC

  • Supreme court said that a worker’s right to life cannot be deemed conditional on the mercy of the employer or the government.
  • The Gujarat government had issued a notification that provided relaxation to the industries by exempting them from certain conditions that were mandated under the section 5 of the Factories Act, 1948.
  • Notification stated that workers in Gujarat can be made to work for 12 hours a day with 30-minute break after every six hours.
  • It had no provision of paying extra wages for overtime work.
  • The SC court cited that “right to life” of workers is not bound by conditions.
  • So, their claims on overtime wages and a decent working conditions must not be denied because of the Covid-19

Current COVID19 Situation in India

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QUIZ TIME

Which state topped Swachh Bharat award 2020 under Swachh Sundar Samudayik Shouchalaya category?

  1. Madhya Pradesh
  2. Uttar Pradesh
  3. Gujarat
  4. Bihar

Answer – C

Which state topped Swachh Bharat award 2020 under Gandagi Mukth Bharat Mission?

  1. Madhya Pradesh
  2. Uttar Pradesh
  3. Haryana
  4. Bihar

Answer – C

Sittwe port is located at:

  1. Iran
  2. Myanmar
  3. India
  4. Thailand

Answer – B

Question of the Day

What is Ayush Grid?

Answer in next session…

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