Published on: March 10, 2022
SNIPPETS – 10 MARCH 2022
SNIPPETS – 10 MARCH 2022
- 3rd edition of National Youth Parliament Festival (NYPF) to be completed. It aims is to hear the voice of youth between 18 and less than 25 years of age, who are electors but cannot stand in elections through deliberations in youth Parliament at district level and above.
- Cabinet approves Amendment of the Second Schedule to the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957 for specifying rate of royalty in respect of certain minerals.
- Reserve Bank of India launched a new Unified Payments Interface (UPI) payments solution for feature phone users dubbed ‘UPI123Pay’. It is UPI-based service designed to bring the digital payments platform closer to a significant number of feature phone mobile subscribers in the country
- As per National Family Health Survey (NFHS)-5 , Odisha has the highest coverage of full immunization in the country, with 90.5 percent coverage. Preventive doses against 12 different kinds of diseases are included in full immunization
- Cabinet approves establishment of WHO Global Centre for Traditional Medicine in India at Jamnagar,Gujrath. This will Position AYUSH systems across the globe
- Union Minister of Labor and Employment presented Vishwakarma Rashtriya Puraskar (VRP) and National Safety Awards (NSA). They are presented by the Ministry of Labor & Employment since 1965
- The Union Cabinet approved the setting up of a new government-owned firm for pooling and monetising sovereign and public sector land assets. The National Land Monetisation Corporation (NLMC) is being formed with an initial authorised share capital of ₹5,000 crore and paid-up capital of ₹150 crore.
- Jharokha-Compendium of Indian handicraft/ handloom, art, and culture programme is being organized by the Ministry of Culture and Ministry of Textiles to celebrate the traditional Indian handlooms, handicrafts, and art & culture.
- Chhattisgarh government launched ‘Kaushalya Matritva Yojana’. Under this scheme, on the birth of a second girl child Rs 5000 financial assistance will be given to women.
- The largest reclining statue of Lord Buddha in India is being built in Bodh Gaya, Bihar. India’s Buddhist pilgrimage circuit is being proactively revived and Bodh Gaya is an integral part of it. Hence, the site of Gautam Buddha’s enlightenment will soon be home to his largest reclining statue.
- Smart Event Tracking System (SETS) is a Google Maps-based planning and analysis tool. It is in-house software of the Indian Railways, which is being used to tackle the problem of cattle getting run over by the trains. Kilometer stamps on electrical masts along the railway tracks are mapped and the exact location of ‘cattle run over’ is fed into the system
- India’s first 100 percent women-owned industrial park was opened in Hyderabad, Telangana. The FLO Industrial Park is named after the FICCI Ladies Organization (FLO), which is promoting it in association with the Telangana government.
- Scientists have found the sunken wreck of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance, more than a century after it was lost to the Antarctic ice. The vessel lies 3,000 meters below the surface of the Weddell Sea, about 6.4 kilometers south of the location recorded in 1915 by its captain, Frank Worsley. An expedition set off from South Africa last month to search for the ship, which was crushed by ice and sank in November 1915.
