10 PM Current Affairs Quiz : March 25, 2019

Border Area Development Programme (BADP) aims to meet the special development needs of the people living in remote and inaccessible areas situated near the international border and provide essential infrastructure in the border areas.

It is implemented by the Department of Border Management, Ministry of Home Affairs, through the State Governments.

The BADP was started in the year 1986-87 for balanced development of border areas of States bordering Pakistan. Later it was extended to all the land borders.

The states covered under BADP are a) Arunachal Pradesh, b) Assam, c) Bihar, d) Gujarat, e) Himachal Pradesh, f) Jammu & Kashmir, g) Manipur, h) Meghalaya, i) Mizoram, j) Nagaland, k) Punjab, l) Rajasthan, m) Sikkim, n) Tripura, 0) Uttar Pradesh, p) Uttarakhand and q) West Bengal

The council of Programme for Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC),a Geneva-based non-profit organisation has decided to endorse the Certification Standard for Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) developed by Network for Certification and Conservation of Forests (NCCF).

The NCCF was set up in 2015 by representatives of forest-based industries, non-profits, forest auditors and government forest departments with an aim to set standards for certifying India’s forests, their products and their sustainable management.

Forest certification is a global movement initiated in 1990s after Rio Earth Summit.It is a market-based non-regulatory conservation tool designed to promote sustainable management of forests and trees outside forests by an independent third party.

Indian Psychiatric Society (IPS) is the largest association of Indian Psychiatrists. It was founded in 1929 under the banner of Royal Medico Psychological Association.

The objectives of the Indian Psychiatric Society are

(a) to promote and advance the subject of Psychiatry and allied sciences in all their different branches

(b) to improve people’s mental health and related education and

(c) to prevent, control, treat all psychiatric disabilities.

In 2018, the government also launched Nikshay Poshan Yojana. It is a direct benefit transfer (DBT) scheme for nutritional support to TB patients. Under the scheme, financial incentive of Rs.500 per month is provided to each notified TB patient for duration for which the patient is on anti-TB treatment

live Ridley turtles are legally protected in India under Schedule I of the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972. It is also listed in Appendix I of the CITES Convention.

It is listed as Vulnerable in the IUCN Red List. The Olive Ridley turtles are the smallest and most abundant of all sea turtles in the world. They inhabit in the warm waters of the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans

It is a network-based scientific programme and seeks to promote domestic research on impacts of climate change. Indian Network for Climate Change Assessment (INCCA) was launched in 2009 by Ministry of Environment, Forests and climate change.

The functions of INCCA are

a) assessing the drivers and implications of climate change through scientific research,

b) prepare climate change assessments once every two years,

c) developing decision support systems and

d) building capacity towards management of climate-change related risks and opportunities.