10 PM Current Affairs Quiz : December 31, 2018

The following schemes are being merged into SFURTI:

• The Scheme for Enhancing Productivity and Competitiveness of Khadi Industry and Artisans
• The Scheme for Product Development, Design Intervention and Packaging (PRODIP)
  The Scheme for Rural Industries Service Center (RISC) and
  Other small interventions like Ready Warp Units, Ready to Wear Mission, etc.
• The scheme aims to organize the traditional industries and artisans into clusters to make them competitive and provide support for their long term sustainability and economy of scale

Sustainable Alternative towards Affordable Transportation (SATAT) aims to promote Compressed Bio-Gas (CBG) as an alternative, green transport fuel. Under the scheme, public sector oil marketing companies will seek expression of interest from potential entrepreneurs to set up compressed bio-gas production plants and make it available in the market for use as auto fuel.

The UN Biodiversity Conference was held from 13-29 November 2018 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, under the theme ‘Investing in Biodiversity for People and Planet’

The Cartagena Protocol on Bio-safety (CPB), the first international regulatory framework for safe transfer, handling and use of Living Modified Organisms (LMOs) was negotiated under the aegis of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)

The Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization (ABS) to the Convention on Biological Diversity is a supplementary agreement to the Convention on Biological Diversity.

Blood safety scenario in India:

• The Government of India mandates testing all donated blood for HIV, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, Syphilis and Malaria.
• Blood Banking is governed by the Drugs & Cosmetic Rule in India. According to this rule, only blood tested non-reactive can be transfused to patients.
• HIV testing mandatory for blood banks.

• Hepatitis B surface antigen, Malaria and Syphilis testing made mandatory.
• Hepatitis C virus and test for antibody to Hepatitis C made mandatory

Framework of Indian Blood Transfusion Services:

• The National Blood Policy(NBP) was published by the Government of India in 2002.
• The NBP reiterates government commitment to safe blood and blood components and has well documented strategies, for making available adequate resources, technology and training for improving transfusion services.
• Role of National Aids Control Organization – While the drugs controller is the regulatory authority, NACO/NBTC has been the main technical body to frame guidelines for the practice of transfusion medicine.

Shri Thaawarchand Gehlot award is governed by Union Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment  Awards Certificates to Interns of Internship Programme on Community Service.

An interesting feature of outcome based budgeting is that the outcomes of programmes are measured not just in terms of Rupees but also in terms of physical units like Kilowatt of energy produced or tonnes of steel produced. Also outcomes are expressed in terms of qualitative targets and achievements to make the technique more comprehensive.

Outcome budgeting makes government programmes more result oriented, instead of outlay oriented. Under outcome budgeting, the document shows physical dimensions of the financial budget indicating the actual physical performance in the previous year, current year and targeted performance during the projected (next) year.

From 2007-08 onwards, the previous Performance Budget was merged with Outcome Budget. There was only one document i.e. the Outcome Budget. All Ministries have to prepare outcome budgets to make the budgeting target oriented.