10 PM Current Affairs Quiz: March 18, 2020

National Career Service is a Five Year Mission Mode Project launched by the Hon’ble Prime Minister on 20th July, 2015. The project is being implemented by the Directorate General of Employment, Ministry of Labour & Employment. National Career Service (NCS) is a one-stop solution that provides a wide array of employment and career related services to the citizens of India. It works towards bridging the gap between jobseekers and employers, candidates seeking training and career guidance, agencies providing training and career counselling. The NCS project reaches out to the people of this country through its three essential pillars i.e. a well designed ICT based portal which is NCS portal, Country wide set up of Model Career Centers and Inter-linkage with all the states through employment exchanges. The digital centralized portal provides a wide range of career related services including job search, job matching, rich career content, career counselling, information on Job Fairs, services of local service providers like drivers, plumbers, etc. for households and various other services. This portal facilitates registration of Job Seekers, Employers, Skill Providers, Career Counsellors, Local Service Providers (LSP’s), Career Centers, Placement Organisations, Households (for availing the services of the LSP’s) and Government Departments.

Ethiopia is building one of the largest dams in the world named Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) which was formerly known as the Millennium Dam is located in Ethiopia, on the Blue Nile River about 40km east of Sudan. The dam will be the largest hydroelectric power plant in Africa when completed as well as the seventh largest in the world.

The Krishna Raja Sagar Dam was built across river Cauvery in 1932. It is named for the then ruler of the Mysore Kingdom, Krishnaraja Wodeyar IV. The dam is the main source of drinking water for the Mysore city and almost the whole of Bangalore. Further, the water is also used as an important source of water in the state of Tamil Nadu. Recently the water level in the Krishna Raja Sagar (KRS) Dam in Karnataka is coming down due to increase in the evaporation rate and the decrease in the inflows as a result of summer.

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An ‘Uttar Pradesh Recovery of Damages to Public and Private Property Ordinance, 2020’ has been passed by the Uttar Pradesh governor on Sunday even as a recovery exercise to collect damages to public property during anti-CAA riots is underway in the state. The ordinance will aim at dealing with violent acts at public places, controlling its persistence and escalation and providing for recovery of damage to public or private property during hartal, bandhs, riots, public commotion, and protests. It will also seek to create “claims tribunals” to investigate the damages, according to an official document shared by the government.