01/10/17 CURRENT AFFAIRS

01/10/17

TODAY

• Shri,Ramnath Govind birthday 1 October 1945 (age 72)

1-President of India to Visit Gujarat 

• The President will commence his engagements with paying his tributes to Mahatma Gandhi at his birth place, Kirti Mandir, Porbandar. 
• Also attented the  function organized by the Government of Gujarat to declare ODF status for Rural Gujarat at Kirti Mandir. 
• Inaugurate/lay foundation stone various schemes/initiatives such as inauguration of Jetty & other facilities at Jafarabad Fishing Harbour; upgradation of Veraval & Porbandar fishing Harbour; upgradation of Navibandar, Miyani & Salaya Fish Landing Centre
• Laying the stone for development of Mangrol Phase-III fishing Harbour
• Announcement for development of Veraval Phase-II, Porbandar Phase-II, Navabandar, Mandhavad & Sutrapada Fishing Harbours and inauguration of Mangrol Rural Water Supply Augmentation Scheme of 45 villages at Mangrol.
  

2-Urban Maharashtra Open Defecation Free

• President Shri.Ramnath Govind was visited maharastra and participatede in various functions/events 
• He congratulated the Government and Chief Minister of Maharashtra on the historic occasion of urban Maharashtra being declared Open Defecation Free. He congratulated all the members of the “Swachh Maharashtra Team”  
• 49 per cent of Maharashtra’s people live in urban areas.
• ‘Smart Cities’, he said, also require ‘Smart Sanitation’ and ‘Smart Waste Management’ 
• The state has been successful in realising the goal of 'ODF', it would also realise the goal of 'Managing 100 per cent Waste'.  
• The President inaugurated the Shirdi International Airport,from Shirdi to Mumbai 
• Inaugurated the centenary year celebrations of the Samadhi of Shri Sai Baba in Shirdi.  
• Sai Baba explained the philosophy of 'Advaita'
  

3-President’s Message on the Eve of Gandhi Jayanti

• Cleanliness is not only the responsibility of sanitation personnel and Government Departments. 

• Today, India is fighting a decisive battle for cleanliness and hygiene through the ‘Swachhta Hi Seva’ campaign. Gandhiji believed that ‘Cleanliness is next to Godliness’ 
• Gandhiji visualized cleanliness as having three dimensions- a clean mind, a clean body and clean surroundings
  
  

4-27th Raising Day Rashtriya Rifles 

• Rashtriya Rifles the premier fighting force of Indian Army was raised on 01 October 1990 by then Chief of Army Staff General VN Sharma. 
• The Force which is engaged in constant counter terrorism operations, celebrated 27 years 
• The forces engaged in Jammu and Kashmir by creating secure environment leading to incident free elections, carried out flood relief operations 
• And involved in continuous operations against terrorists.
•  The personnel in Rashtriya Rifles units come on deputation from all arms and services of Indian Army.
• Gen Bipin Rawat, Chief of Army Staff is Honorary Colonel Commandant of Rashtriya Rifles.
• He also has the experience of serving in Rashtriya Rifles
  

5-Military Nursing Service- 92nd Raising Day

•  New Addl. Director General Military Nursing Service Maj Gen Elizabeth 
• October 1, 1926 MNS was formally established as permanent nursing service in the Indian Army, which has come a long way in serving the three Services round-the-clock. 
• During the 1st World War, dire need of nursing care of Indian soldiers was recognised; the Army nurses served in Flanders, the Mediterranean, the Balkans, West Asia and on board hospital ships 
• MNS officers have played a pivotal role in care of sick and injured soldiers during four wars with Pakistan in the year 1947, 1965, 1971 and with china in 1962 
• They have served with Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka, OP Parakram & other peace keeping missions. 
• 12 National Florence Nightingale Awards conferede ro MNS which is the highest national level award in field of nursing
  
  

6-Headquarters Integrated Defence staff celebrates its 17th Raising Day 

• AIM-‘Victory through Jointness’ 
• On this occasion army officers payed homage to the martyrs in ‘Amar Jawan Jyoti’, India Gate in New Delhi. 
• It may be noted that the Government had taken a decision in October 2001 to create the HQ IDS in the aftermath of ‘Operation Vijay’ (Kargil Operations).
• The main objective was to promote synergy among the three Services and to integrate these with the Ministry of Defence
  
  

7-NACIN Founding Day and Passing-out Ceremony of the 67th Batch of IR 

• National Academy of Customs, Indirect Taxes and Narcotics (NACIN) in Faridabad, Haryana 
• It started as a Training School in 1955 on 1st October
•  Finance minister Arun jaitly addressed the function 
• Shri Jaitley also unveiled the NACIN Coffee Table Book and Year Book on the occasion.
• The Coffee Table Book traces the history of the Academy as well as of the Indian Revenue Service.
  

8-Swacchata Awards 

• Fertilizer Cooperative, KRIBHCO will be conferred the Swacchata Award  by the Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs on the occasion of the third anniversary of the launch of Swacch Bharat Mission(Urban) for leading in marketing of compost made from Municipal Solid Waste

self help group category 

• My Delhi Keep It Clean’ gets the award for promoting voluntary efforts to clean public places effectively using Face Book, in the Self-Help Group category.

Innovative Practices category

•  No Food Waste’ initiative of Coimbattore has been selected  for end-to-end cycle to manage and reduce food waste.

RWAs category 

• Richmond Park, Gurugram, located in DLF Phase-IV and completed in 2002 has been chosen for the award for exemplary decentralized waste management initiative through waste segregation at source 
• RWA Federation of Mysuru has shown the way in Zero-waste effluent management system. 
• Roseland Housing Society, Pune also gets the award for waste segregation initiative. 

Schools and Colleges category 

• Kasturba Gandhi Balika Awasiya Vidyalaya, Ambikar gets the award

Self-Help Group category 

• Swacch Ambikapur Sahakari Samiti has been chosen for women empowerment and livelihood generation by converting garbage into wealth.
  

Riligious institutions

• Pemayangste Monastery, Gyalshing, Sikkim will be felicitated in the category of religious institutions for being a Zero-waste institution.

9-NHAI-50 Free Eye Check-up camps 

• The Minister of Road Transport & Highways, Shipping and Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation Shri Nitin Gadkari will launch the countrywide Free Eye Check-up Campaign and distribution of spectacles for truck drivers, cleaners and helpers on 2nd October, 2017 at Panjari Toll Plaza, Nagpur Bypass, Nagpur in Maharashtra. 
• The objective of this initiative is to ensure clearer vision and safe travel for truck drivers who are the most frequent users of national highways.
• This initiative is expected to reduce the number of accidents involving trucks and encourage regional staff and NGOs to set up such camps on regular basis.
  

10-Wardha dry port

• Wardha Dry Port will be constructed over an area of 350 Acres with an investment of Rs.500 Crore 
• The dry port was developed in the region of Wardha-Maharastra 
• The Dry Port is being developed by the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) in a bid to cater effective logistics services to the industries in Vidarbha region and improve cargo throughput at the Port. 
• The project would have the necessary facilities as one-stop shop for the EXIM based industries such as customs clearance facilities, Container Freight Station, Warehousing Space, Cold Storage, Liquid Storage, truck terminals etc.  
• It is logistical proximity to upcoming Nagpur-Mumbai super communication expressway, National Highways and railway connectivity 
• The dry port shall get connected to the Central Railways network through Nagpur-Wardha line, to Nagpur-Mumbai Super Communication expressway and six lane National highways connecting major cities of central, Southern and Northern India
  

11-Women of India Organic Festival 

• Theme-“Good for Women; Good for India; Good for You" 
• The Union Minister of Women and Child Development, Smt. Maneka Sanjay Gandhi inaugurated the 3rd annual ‘Women of India Organic Festival’ at Dilli Haat (INA)