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Here is the Summary of all current happenings from around the world for the Third week of August.
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North Delhi may get land to set up new WTE plant | • The Delhi government is considering a proposal to give the North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) land for a new waste-to-energy (WTE) plant at Tikri Khampur in north-west Delhi. • Waste-to-energy uses trash as a fuel for generating power, just as other power plants use coal, oil, or natural gas. The burning fuel heats water into steam that drives a turbine to create electricity. |
Telecom sector: Panel for providing relief | • The Inter-Ministerial Group (IMG), formed to look into the financial woes of the telecom sector, on 31st August, 2017 submitted its report after over three months of deliberations. • It is learnt that the IMG had made some suggestions for providing relief to the sector. • IMG is to extend the timeline for deferred spectrum payment by telecom companies to 16 years instead of the 10 at present. |
Rajasthan malnutrition scheme to be based on micro-planning | • The second phase of the Community-based Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) programme will be implemented in Rajasthan on micro-planning basis at the district level. • Launched in December 2015, the first phase of the programme provided treatment to 9,117 children, aged below five years, by giving them vitamin-enriched and ready-to-use therapeutic food. • UNICEF, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, and Action Against Hunger were the project partners |
Haryana targets 2 lakh jobs for youth under ‘Saksham Yojana’ | • The Haryana State government has set a target to provide employment to two lakh youth in the State under the ’Saksham Yojana’. • The purpose is to recruit youth under the Yojana for various departments where there was shortage of employees. • The step is being taken so that no educated youth is unemployed. |
Private schools granted time to fulfil ‘vahan policy’ | • ‘Surakshit School Vahan Policy’ of the state government is launched with the purpose for safer transportation of schoolchildren or face action. • As per the policy, all private schools need to install at least two good quality closed-circuit television cameras in all buses, in the front and the rear, with a recording capacity of minimum 15 days. Besides, the schools must keep a six month backup of the recording. |
Rajasthan education initiatives hailed | • Rajasthan government decides to introduce the public-private partnership (PPP) model in school education. • The decision is predicted to risk the future of students and defeat the spirit of the Right to Education Act. |
Social revolution in a JAM | • The PMJDY and the JAM revolution can link all Indians into one common financial, economic, and digital space. • JAM, deriving from Jan Dhan, Aadhaar and Mobile, combines bank accounts for the poor, direct transfer of benefitts into these accounts and the facility of making financial payments through mobile phones. |
Modi-Xi meet flags ‘forward looking’ ties, border peace | • Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Xi Jinping, during their one-on one meeting, agreed to establish new ways to prevent the recurrence of incidents like standoff in the Sikkim. • They suggested that regular contacts at the frontiers are necessary to ensure that situation which happened recently should not recur. |
Jharsuguda airport to be operational soon | • Regional air connectivity in Odisha is set to get a boost with the Jharsuguda airport likely to be made operational by October, 2017. • Odisha is the first among five airports in the State to be selected under the UDAN scheme. • UDAN (Ude Desh ka Aam Naagrik) is a regional airport development and "Regional Connectivity Scheme (RCS)" of the Government of India, with the objective of making air travel affordable and widespread, enabling inclusive job growth and infrastructure development of all regions and states of India. |
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