Uniform Civil Code

Uniform Civil Code

·         Uniform Civil Code generally refers to that part of law which deals with family affairs of an individual and denotes uniform law for all citizens, irrespective of his/her religion, caste or tribe.

·         A Uniform Civil Code administers the same set of secular civil laws to govern different people belonging to different religions and regions. This supersedes the right of citizens to be governed under different personal laws based on their religion or ethnicity.

Allied and healthcare professionals database portal

Allied and healthcare professionals database portal

The Union Health ministry has launched a web portal which will act as a robust data repository of allied and healthcare workers, help in bringing transparency and track the number of such professionals.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), “Allied health personnel are personnel who have specific connections with the art and science of health care and are recognized as members of health team in the national health system. They are educated, with different levels of professional qualifications, in a recognized or accredited health or health related or academic Institution".

Zonal Cultural Centres

Zonal Cultural Centres

Zonal Cultural Centres have been conceptualised with the aim of projecting cultural kinship which transcend territorial boundaries. The idea is to arouse awareness of the local cultures and to show how these merge into zonal identities and eventually into the rich diversity of India's composite culture.

The Seven ZCCs with Headquarters and States, they cover are as follows :

Groundwater Contamination

Groundwater Contamination

Introduction: 

·         Any addition of undesirable substances to groundwater caused by human activities is considered to be contamination.

·         Groundwater contamination also called Groundwater pollution occurs when pollutants are released to the ground and make their way down into groundwater.

·         It can also occur naturally due to the presence of a minor and unwanted constituent, contaminant or impurity in the groundwater.

·         Different mechanisms have influence on the transport of pollutants, e.g. diffusion, adsorption, precipitation, decay, in the groundwater.

The interaction of groundwater contamination with surface waters is analyzed by use of hydrology transport models

Tebhaga Peasant Movement

Tebhaga Peasant Movement

The Tebhaga movement was a militant campaign initiated in Bengal by the Kisan Sabha (peasants front of Communist Party of India) in 1946. At that time share-cropping peasants (essentially, tenants) had to give half of their harvest to the owners of the land. The demand of the Tebhaga (sharing by thirds) movement was to reduce the share given to landlords to one third. In many areas the agitations turned violent, and landlords fled villages leaving parts of the countryside in the hands of Kisan Sabha. As a response to the agitations, the then Muslim League ministry in the province launched the Bargadari Act, which provided that the share of the harvest given to the landlords would be limited to one third of the total. But the law was not fully implemented.

Zonal Council

Zonal Council

Zonal Councils are advisory councils and are made up of the states of India that have been grouped into five zones to foster cooperation among them. Five Zonal Councils were set up vide Part-III of the States Reorganisation Act, 1956. The North Eastern States' special problems are addressed by another statutory body - The North-Eastern Council, created by the North Eastern Council Act, 1971.

The present composition of each of these Zonal Councils is:

Economic Affairs ;Environment and Ecology,Science Affairs- Nov-2017

Economic Affairs

The Code on Wages Bill, 2017:

The Union Government has taken a drive to rationalise 38 Labour Acts by framing 4 labour codes viz. Code on Wages, Code on Social Security, Code on Industrial Relations and Code on Occupational Safety, health and working conditions. The codification of labour laws will remove multiplicity of definitions and authorities leading to ease of compliance without compromising wage security and social security to workers.

Domestic Systematically Important Banks

The RBI has added HDFC Bank, the 2nd largest private sector lender bank of the country, to the list of DSIBs or Domestic Systematically Important Banks. DSIBs are perceived certain banks in the country on whom the economy of the country depends. These are perceived as TBTF - Too Big To Fail. There are two types of SIBs - Global SIBs, identified by BASEL Committee and Domestic SIBs identified by central bank of country.

Domestic Systematically Important Banks in India == > SBI, HDFC& ICIC

Mission 2018-19

FAME India Scheme

The Government has extended the FAME India Scheme by 6 more months. FAME stands for Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Hybrid and Electric Vehicles. The scheme was launched in 2015 under the National Electric Mobility Mission Plan (NEMMP) with an aim to promote eco-friendly vehicles in the country. Its objective is to provide fiscal and monetary incentives for adoption and market creation of both hybrid and electric technologies vehicles in the country. It also aims to support hybrid or electric vehicles market development and its manufacturing eco-system in the country in order to achieve self-sustenance in stipulated period. The scheme is being administered by Heavy Industries Ministry.

Mission 2018-2019

NISAR

• NISAR stands for NASA ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar Mission
• Aims to study the hazards and global environmental changes
• Slated to launched in 2020-21
• NISAR is a dual frequency (L & S Band) Radar Imaging Satellite. It will be the first radar imaging satellite to use dual frequency.
• Will be launched in a Sun Synchronous Low -Earth
• It is designed to observe and take measurements of some of the planet’s most complex processes, including ecosystem disturbances, ice-sheet collapse, and natural hazards such as earth quakes, tsunamis, volcanoes and landslides.
• The satellite is likely to be launched from India aboard an Indian launch vehicle.
• Applications:
• NISAR would provide info about a place more frequently. For Ex. If the present satellite takes 23 to 25 days to revisit a particular spot and give the next round of info about it, NISAR would provide the repeat info in two to five days.
• Objectives:
• Estimation of soil moisture
• Agriculture and forest biomass
• Estimation of glacier
• Snow and possibility of landslide