Published on: January 20, 2022
SNIPPETS – 20 JANUARY 2022
SNIPPETS – 20 JANUARY 2022
- Institute for Social and Economic Change celebrates mark its golden jubilee. It is a Social science research institute situated in Bengaluru, Helping in formulating policies in various social and economic sectors, which contributed to the upliftment of weaker sections in Karnataka
- The Union government is planning to acquire for itself overriding powers to transfer IAS and IPS officers through Central deputation, doing away with the requirement of taking the approval of the State governments. It is as per INDIAN ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICE (CADRE) RULES 1954
- Union Labour and Employment Minister said special camps would be organised to register brick kiln, plantation, forestry and other unorganised sector workers on the Centre’s e-Shram portal. It is a National Database of Unorganized Workers (NDUW) by Ministry of Labour and Employment
- Cabinet approves extension of tenure of the National Commission for Safai Karamcharis for three years. It was established in1993.
- Large chunks of forests and the Aravalis in Gurugram and Faridabad could lose protection from construction under the National Conservation Zone as defined in the Regional Plan-2021, if the provisions in the Draft Regional Plan-2041 are implemented, fear environmentalists
- The population of the vulnerable eastern swamp deer, extinct elsewhere in South Asia, has dipped in the Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve.
- Denison barb (Miss Kerala), a native freshwater fish species commonly found in parts of Karnataka and Kerala, has been included in Schedule I of the Wild Life (Protection) Amendment Bill, 2021.
- PM greets NDRF team on their Raising Day. It is specialized response team to natural and man-made disasters set up in 2005
- Sixty Ninth Meeting of Governing Body of National Water Development Agency (NWDA) was held recently. It is a Agency of the Union Ministry of Water Resources, set up in July, 1982 established to carry out the water balance and other studies on a scientific and realistic basis for optimum utilisation of Water Resources of the Peninsular rivers system.
- In a bid to revive the Saraswati river, the governments of Haryana and Himachal Pradesh will enter into an agreement that entails the building of a dam to supply round-the-year water flow to the river channel
- Indonesia passed a bill replacing its capital Jakarta with East Kalimantan, situated to the east of Borneo island. The new capital city of the country will be called Nusantara.
- PM condoles demise of noted cartoonist Shri Narayan Debnath Ji
