10 PM Current Affairs Quiz : September 27

Statement 1 is incorrect. The vision of the program is to initiate transformation in the education and Health sectors.

Statement 2 is incorrect. The program aims to identify and build three future ‘role model’ states for Health systems.

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Furthering the agenda for cooperative federalism, NITI Aayog has launched SATH, a program providing ‘Sustainable Action for Transforming Human capital’ with the State Governments. The vision of the program is to initiate transformation in the education and health sectors. The program addresses the need expressed by many states for technical support from NITI .

SATH aims to identify and build three future ‘role model’ states for health systems. NITI will work in close collaboration with their state machinery to design a robust roadmap of intervention, develop a program governance structure, set up monitoring and tracking mechanisms, hand-hold state institutions through the execution stage and provide support on a range of institutional measures to achieve the end objectives. The program will be implemented by NITI along with McKinsey & Company and IPE Global consortium, who were selected through a competitive bidding process.

EPF is the savings scheme for private sector employees, the GPF is meant for government employees and PPF can be subscribed to by all workers.

None of the above statements are correct.

Statement 1 is incorrect.

• The plant load factor (PLF) of coal and lignite-based plants, an indicator of capacity utilization of power generation units, has dropped consistently over the decade from 77% in 2009-10 to 60% in 2016-17.
• This is due to demand for electricity from State distribution companies dropping in tandem with their deteriorating financial status.

Statement 2 is incorrect.

Under Saubhagya scheme, a village is declared to be electrified if 10% of the households are given electricity along with public places such as schools, panchayat office, health centres, dispensaries and community centres.

Vote of Credit is granted for meeting an unexpected demand upon the resources of India, when on account of the magnitude or the indefinite character of the service, the demand cannot be stated with the details ordinarily given in a budget. Hence, it is like a blank cheque given to the Executive by the Lok Sabha.

The Consolidated Fund of India consists of (a) All revenues received by the Government of India; (b) All loans raised by the Government of India by issue of treasury bills; (c) Loan or ways and means of advances and all money received by the Government of India.

Benefits of compost and city compost

• City compost from biodegradable waste provides an alternative to farmyard manure (like cowdung)
• its rich microbial content that helps plants to take up soil nutrients.
• It provides an opportunity to simultaneously clean up our cities and help improve agricultural productivity and quality of the soil.
• The water holding capacity of the soil which uses compost helps with drought-proofing, and the requirement of less water per crop.
• Because of good water retention, farmers do not need second or third sowing if rains fail.
• By making soil porous, use of compost also makes roots stronger and resistant to pests and decay.
• Farmers using compost therefore need less quantity of  pesticides.
• City compost had advantage of being weed-free unlike farmyard manure
• City compost is also rich in organic carbon, and our soils are short in this.
• City compost can also be blended with rock phosphate to produce phosphate-rich organic manure

Nirbhaya Fund is an Indian rupee 10 billion corpus announced by Government of India in its 2013 Union Budget. According to the then Finance Minister P. Chidambaram, this fund is expected to support initiatives by the government and NGOs working towards protecting the dignity and ensuring safety of women in India. The Ministry of Women and Child Development, along with several other concerned ministries, will work out details of the structure, scope and the application of this fund.