02/10/17 CURRENT AFFAIRS

02/10/17

TODAY 

• Gandhiji birthday 
• Lal Bhagadhur shasthri birthday 
• International day of Older Persons
  

1-President at Mangrol, Gujarat 

• Gujarat Chief Minister, Shri Vijay Rupani 
• President Shri.Ramnath govind visited gujarat on the occasion of Gandhiji birthday 
• The projects include for the develpoment of Jetty & other facilities at Jafarabad Fishing Harbour; upgradation of Veraval and Porbandar Fishing Harbour and Navibandar, Miyani & Salaya Fish Landing Centres, and the Mangrol Rural Water Supply Augmentation Scheme for 45 villages 
• coastal Gujarat has contributed to the economic development of the country since ancient times. 
• Around 48% of the cargo entering or exiting the ports of the country is from the ports of Gujarat. 
• The State is the largest contributor in the marine fisheries business in India and its share is around 20% of the total trade

2-Rural ODF status, Gujarat 

• Shri Ram Nath Kovind, visited Kirti Mandir, Porbandar, the birth place of Mahatma Gandhi 
• Achieving the goals of the Swachh Bharat Mission by October 2, 2019 on gandhiji 150th birth anniversary. 
• Gujarat achieve the goal of Rural ODF-Open Defecation Free status

3-PM to visit Himachal Pradesh 

• Modi, visit to Bilaspur in Himachal Pradesh, 
• He will lay the foundation stone for the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), at Bilaspur.  
• This 750 bed hospital will be built at a cost of approximately Rs. 1350 crore. 
• In addition to healthcare, it will also provide medical education at the under-graduate and post-graduate level, besides nursing.  
• The Prime Minister will lay the foundation stone for the Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), at Una.  
• And also inaugurate a Steel Processing Unit of Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL), at Kandrori, Kangra.

4-PM laudes personalities who supports “Swachhta Hi Seva” 

• Prime Minister appreciated Sh Anupam Kher, Sh Mohanlal, Smt Chanda Kochhar, India Today Group, India TV News, Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev, Indian Cricket Team, Sh Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Dettol India, NDTV, Reliance Foundation, Tata Trusts, Sh Akshay Kumar and Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, for their support and efforts towards the Swachh Bharat Mission.

5-Global Wildlife Programme

• India’s National Wildlife Action Plan (NWAP) for the period 2017-2031 and Secure Himalaya were released 
• NWAP has been made landscape-based, rather than sanctuary, or national park-based 
• The Plan focuses on preservation of genetic diversity and sustainable development. 
• The NWAP has five components, 17 themes, 103 conservation actions and 250 projects. 
• The five components 
•  strengthening and promoting the integrated management of wildlife and their habitats
• adaptation to climate change and promoting integrated sustainable management of aquatic biodiversity in India
• promoting eco-tourism, nature education and participatory management
• strengthening wildlife research and monitoring of development of human resources in wildlife conservation and enabling policies and resources for conservation of wildlife in India
• The Plan will help to mainstream wildlife conservation in development planning processes.
• The Minister also launched the India Wildlife Mobile App 

• Third National Wildlife Action Plan. These issues include climate change and wildlife, wildlife health, inland, coastal and marine conservation and wildlife conflict mitigation.

6-Finance minister visit to Bangladesh 

• Will deliver the Inaugural Address at the Business Meeting between Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FBCCI) and Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI) 
• hold a Bilateral Level Meeting with the Finance Minister of Bangladesh  
• A Dollar Credit Line Agreement between the Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh and Export-Import Bank of India (EXIM Bank) is likely to be signed for 3rd Line of Credit. 
• Joint Interpretative Notes on the Agreement between India and Bangladesh for the Promotion and Protection of Investments” are also likely to be signed  
• will launch the Cashless Visa Services.

7-Open Defecation Free status 

• Hardeep Singh-Minister Housing and Urban Affairs 
• Five more states declared as ODF Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Chattisgarh, Jharkhand and Haryana have reached the milestone of making all cities and towns ‘Open Defecation Free’ as the Swacch Bharat Mission completed three years today 
• Target of building about 66 lakh individual household toilets in urban areas, 38 lakh toilets have already been built and construction of another 14 lakh toilets is in progress. 
• Over two lakh community and public toilet seats have been built as against the mission target of five lakh toilet seats.  
• Solid Waste Management 
• To generate over 500 MW of electricity and over 50 lakh tons of compost from municipal solid waste to enable processing of the entire solid waste being generated in urban areas.  
• participation of over 80 lakh people spread over 3.50 lakh activities in urban areas.

8-Rajghat gets Mahatma Statue, for the first time

•  Rajghat-death place of mahatma 
• Get a new statue of mahatma gandhiji,it was sculpted by the renowned Shri Ram Sutar 
• “Be the Change You Wish to See” is inscribed on the front side of the pedestal

 

8-National Waterways – 4 

• Development of Muktyala to Vijaywada stretch of Krishna River 
• ice president inaugurate approximately 415 km of National Highways projects 
• NW-4 in Andhra Pradesh is proposed to be developed in three phases  
• Phase-I: -Muktyala to Vijayawada (Krishna River) (82 Km)  
• Phase-II: -Vijayawada to Kakinada (Eluru canal & Kakinada canal) and Rajahmundry to Polavaram stretch of Godavari (233 Km)  
• Phase-III: -Commamur Canal, Buckingham canal and balance stretches of Krishna & Godavari Rivers (573km) 
• 82 km from Muktiyala to Vijayawada stretch has already commenced.
• Dredging began in the shallow areas in May this year, and the work is expected to be complete by June, 2019. 
• The project will provide an efficient logistics solution to boost the economic growth of the region and facilitate the development of the capital city Amravati during its early development stage as substantial construction material is expected to be transported on this stretch of NW-4.
•  National Waterway No.4 was declared in November, 2008 for a total length of 1078 km. 
• This length was extended to 2890 km by NW Act-2016

9-Commission to Examine Sub Categorization of other Backward Classes under Article 340 of the Constitution 

• President Appoints Commission to Examine Sub Categorization of other Backward Classes under Article 340 of the Constitution 
• Decision will ensure more Backwards amomg OBC Communities to Avail benefits of Reservation  
• It Reinforces Government’s effort to Achieve Greater Social Justice And Inclusion for all through Sub Categorization of the OBCS 
• Sub categorization of the OBCs will ensure that the more backward among the OBC communities can also access the benefits of reservation for educational institutions and government jobs.
  

The composition of the Commission

• Chairperson -Justice (Retd.) G. Rohini,
• Member -Dr. J.K. Bajaj
• Member(Ex-officio)-Director, Anthropological Survey of India,
• Member (Ex-officio)-Registrar General and Census Commissioner, India
• Secretary of the Commission-Joint Secretary, Department of SJ&E, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment 

The terms of reference

• To examine the extent of inequitable distribution of benefits of reservation among the castes or communities included in the broad category of Other Backward Classes with reference to such classes included in the Central List;
• To work out the mechanism, criteria, norms and parameters in a scientific approach for sub-categorisation within such Other Backward Classes; and
• To take up the exercise of identifying the respective castes or communities or sub-castes or synonyms in the Central List of Other Backward Classes and classifying them into their respective sub-categories 
• The commission has to submit its report within a 12 weeks

10-WALKATHON” for Older Persons at India Gate

• Theme-“Stepping into the Future: Tapping the Talents, Contributions and Participation of Older Persons in Society