Government announces list of 10 best performing police stations in India.
The
Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) released a list of the top 10 police stations in
India for the year 2020.
The
Government of India selects best performing Police Stations across the country
every year, to incentivize more effective functioning of police stations and
bring healthy competition among them.
The
list was in accordance with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s directions while
addressing the 2015 Directors General of Police (DGP) Conference in Kutch,
Gujarat.
India’s top 10 police stations for
the year 2020:
1.
Nongpok Sekmai (Thoubal, Manipur)
2.
AWPS-Suramangalam (Salem, Tamil Nadu)
3.
Kharsang (Changlang, Arunachal Pradesh)
4.
Jhilmili (Surajpur, Chhattisgarh)
5.
Sanguem (South Goa, Goa)
6.
Kalighat (North and Middle Andaman, Andaman and Nicobar Islands)
7.
Pakyong (East district, Sikkim)
8.
Kanth (Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh)
9.
Khanvel (Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Dadra and Nagar Haveli)
10.
Jammikunta Town (Karimnagar, Telangana)
Nisarg Gram campus.
Invoking
recollections of Mahatma Gandhi’s famous Nature Cure campaign of 1946 at the
“Nisarg Upchar” Ashram in Uruli Kanchan village near Pune, the upcoming new
campus of National Institute of Naturopathy (NIN), Pune will be called “Nisarg
Gram”.
Located
at a distance of 15 Km from NIN’s present premises at Bapu Bhavan, the new
Institution will be future-ready, with many novelties and innovations incorporated
in the project per se and the curriculum of the Naturopathy courses.
NIN,
Pune, an Autonomous Body under the Ministry of AYUSH is the inheritor of a
unique Gandhian heritage.
It
has been developed out of a Nature Cure institution of which the Mahatma was
one of the founders.
The
institution was called All India Nature Cure Foundation and was set up under
Gandhi Ji’s leadership in 1945 at the same premises where the NIN presently
functions.
It
was subsequently taken over by the Central Government and structured into the
present National Institute of Naturopathy.
As
NIN is in the process of setting up an additional and larger campus at Nisarg
Gram, the Ministry of AYUSH is taking all possible efforts to ensure that this
campus is empowered to carry forward NIN’s unique legacy into the future.
To
start with, the new institute’s curricula will be prepared in the light of
National Education Policy, 2020.
The
curricula will be rationalized to bring about qualitative, pedagogical
understanding of Naturopathy and allied disciplines at the UG and PG level.
Intellectual Property cooperation.
Memorandum
of Understanding signed between India and US on Intellectual Property
cooperation.
Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade, Ministry of Commerce and Industry signed the MoU with US Patent and Trademark Office, Department of Commerce of the US.
Earlier
the cabinet gave the approval for signing the MoU with USPTO in the field of IP
Cooperation.
The
MoU aims at increasing IP co-operation between the two countries.
It
will facilitate exchange and dissemination of best practices, experiences and
knowledge on IP among the public, and between and among the industry,
universities, research and development organizations, and Small and
Medium-sized Enterprises.
Green Charcoal.
Recently,
Green Charcoal Hackathon was launched, by Ministry of power, with the objective
to clean the air bye laminating farm fire, producing renewable energy out of
the agro residue etc.
•
Green Charcoal is a type of bio-fuel that can be made locally and
inexpensively.
•
To make this, agricultural waste materials appropriate to the season and the
region are carbonized (conversion of an organic substance into carbon or a
carbon-containing residue) in a kiln.
•
It burns cleanly, reducing exposure to the smoke that causes respiratory
infections.
5).
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
NMR
spectroscopy is an analytical chemistry technique used in quality control by
determining purity of a sample.
It
allows the molecular structure of a material to be analysed by observing and
measuring the interaction of nuclear spins when placed in a powerful magnetic
field.
The
advantages of NMR are that sample measurements are non-destructive and there is
less sample preparation required. Fields of application include bio, foods, and
chemistry, as well as new fields such as battery films.
Gender Advancement through Transforming Institutions
(GATI) Initiative
One
of the focuses of the new Science, Technology and Innovation Policy, currently
being drafted by the Department of Science and Technology (DST) is to increase
the participation of Women in Science.
GATI:
•
The DST is incorporating a system of grading institutes depending on the
enrolment of women and the advancement of the careers of women faculty and
scientists.
•
It will be called GATI (Gender Advancement through Transforming Institutions).
•
The concept borrows from a programme started by the UK in 2005 called the
Athena SWAN (Scientific Women’s Academic Network), which is now being adopted
by many countries.
•
The DST will soon launch a pilot, which the British Council has helped it
develop.
Why Need such Initiative?
•
India is ranked 108 out of 149 countries in the 2018 Global Gender Gap report.
•
According to DST figures, in 2015-16, the share of women involved in scientific
research and development was 14.71% — after it had actually increased from 13%
in 2000-2001 to 29% in 2014-15.
•
The DST has also found that women are either not promoted, or very often drop
out mid- career to attend to their Families.
What is Athena SWAN?
•
The Athena SWAN Charter is an evaluation and accreditation programme in the UK
enhancing gender equity in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and
medicine
(STEMM).
•
Signatories commit to addressing various issues such as –
✓ Unequal gender
representation;
✓ Tackling the gender
pay gap;
✓ Removing the obstacles
faced by women in career development and progression;
✓ Discriminatory
treatment often experienced by trans people;
✓ Gender balance of
committees and zero tolerance for bullying and sexual harassment.
Way Ahead:
•
To get as many institutions as possible to sign up, the DST will need to
manoeuvre around government red tape as most universities, barring the IITs and
NITs, are run and funded by the government as well.
•
This means that these institutions don’t have direct control over institutional
policies, recruitment and promotions.
•
The DST has tied up with the National Assessment and Accreditation Council
(NAAC), under the UGC, aiming to push gender equity through them.
Honey Farmer Producer Organisation (FPO) Programme.
The
Minister of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare has recently inaugurated the Honey
Farmer Producer Organisation (FPO) Programme of the National Agricultural
Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Limited (NAFED).
Highlights:
• The Producer Organisation (PO) is a legal entity formed by primary producers, viz. farmers, milk producers, fishermen, weavers, rural artisans, craftsmen, etc. FPO is one type of PO where the members are farmers.
•
Apiculture or beekeeping is the care and management of honey bees for the
production of honey and wax. In this method, bees are bred commercially in
apiaries, an area where a lot of beehives can be placed.
•
It has been launched under the Formation and Promotion of FPOs. It is a new
Central Sector Scheme for the promotion of 10,000 new FPOs.
•
The National Level Project Management Advisory and Fund Sanctioning Committee
(N-
PMAFSC)
had allocated FPO clusters for 2020-21 to all implementing agencies.
•
The FPOs will be developed by specialist Cluster Based Business Organizations
(CBBOs) engaged by Implementing Agencies.
•
NAFED and the Indian Society of Agribusiness Professionals (ISAP) has initiated
the formation and promotion of FPOs of beekeepers and honey collectors in 5
states of India.
•
These 5 locations are East Champaran (Bihar), Morena (Madhya Pradesh),
Bharatpur
(Rajasthan),
Mathura (Uttar Pradesh) and Sunderbans (West Bengal).
•
The first Honey FPO has been registered in the state of Madhya Pradesh under
the National Beekeeping and Honey Mission (NBHM).
Advantages:
•
The Skill Upgradation in scientific beekeeping.
•
The Quality upgradation by quality control laboratories.
•
The Better supply chain management by improving collection, storage, bottling
and marketing centres.
•
The State of art infrastructural facilities for processing honey and allied
beekeeping products like bee’s wax, propolis, royal jelly, bee venom, etc.
•
About National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Ltd.
•
It is an apex organization of marketing cooperatives for agricultural produce
in India.
•
It was founded on 2nd October 1958 and is registered under the Multi-State
Co-operative Societies Act, 2002.
•
NAFED is now one of the largest procurement as well as marketing agencies for
agricultural products in India.
•
Its objectives to organize, promote and develop marketing, processing and
storage of agricultural, horticultural and forest produce.
•
To distribute agricultural machinery, implements and other inputs, undertake
inter-state, import and export trade, wholesale or retail as the case may be.
•
To act and assist for technical advice in agricultural production for the
promotion and the working of its members, partners, associates and cooperative
marketing, processing and supply societies in India.
•
National Bee Board
•
The SFAC registered the NBB as a society under the Societies Registration Act,
1860 in 2000 and it was reconstituted (with the secretary as chairman) in June
2006.
•
Its aim to overall develop beekeeping by promoting scientific beekeeping in
India to increase the productivity of crops through pollination and increase
the honey production for increasing the income of the beekeepers/farmers.
• Presently NBB is implementing National Horticulture Mission (NHM) and Horticulture Mission for North East and Himalayan State (HMNEM).
India Climate Change Knowledge Portal.
The
Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has recently launched the
‘India
Climate
Change Knowledge Portal’.
Highlights:
•
Its objective is to help in disseminating knowledge among citizens about all
the major steps the Government is taking at both national and international
levels to address climate change issues.
•
It will be a single point Information resource which provides information on
the different climate initiatives taken by various Line Ministries enabling
users to access updated status on these initiatives.
•
The major components included in the knowledge portal are:
✓ India’s Climate
Profile
✓ National Policy
Framework
✓ India’s nationally
determined contributions (NDC) Goals Adaptation Actions
✓ Mitigation Actions
✓ Bilateral and
Multilateral Cooperation.
✓ International Climate
Negotiations
✓ Reports &
Publications
Some Other Initiatives to Fight
Climate Change:
• National Clean Air Programme (NCAP) is a five-year action plan with a tentative target of 20-30% reduction in concentrations of PM10 and PM2.5 by 2024, with 2017 as the base year.
•
India has also shifted from Bharat Stage-IV (BS-IV) to Bharat Stage-VI (BS-VI)
emission norms from 1st April 2020 which was earlier to be adopted by 2024.
•
It has distributed more than 360 million LED bulbs under the UJALA scheme,
which has led to energy saving of about 47 billion units of electricity per
year and reduction of 38 million tonnes of CO2 per year.
•
International Solar Alliance is an Indian initiative conceived as a coalition
of solar-resource-rich countries (which lie either completely or partly between
the tropic of Cancer and the tropic of Capricorn) to address their special
energy needs.
•
The National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC) was launched in 2008 which
aims at creating awareness among the representatives of the public, different
agencies of the government, scientists, industry and the communities on the
threat posed by climate change and the steps to counter it.
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