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Table of Contents
Electors Verification Programme..................................................................................................................3
Association of World Election Bodies (A-WEB).............................................................................................3
Delhi Air Traffic Service Complex (DATS- Complex)......................................................................................5
59th foundation day of NCERT......................................................................................................................5
Terracotta Grinder..................................................................................................................................6
Steering Committee on Fintech Final Report ...............................................................................................6
AH-64E Apache .............................................................................................................................................7
Tigers at High altitude...................................................................................................................................8
Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967...................................................................................................8
National Award Scheme to Teachers...........................................................................................................9
Poshan Maah ..............................................................................................................................................10
Mobile Science Exhibition (SCIENCE EXPLORER) ........................................................................................10
Eat Right India Movement ..........................................................................................................................11
Institutions of Eminence (IoE) Scheme......................................................................................................13
Credit linked Capital Subsidy Scheme (CLCS) Re-Launched......................................................................16
1st National Conference on Cybercrime Investigation and Forensics......................................................16
Kaushalacharya Samadar 2019...................................................................................................................17
BBBP (Beti Bachao Beti Padhao) Scheme..................................................................................................18
Smart Cities Mission Technology Showcased............................................................................................18
Swachhata Awards.....................................................................................................................................19
Strategic Economic Dialogue (SED)............................................................................................................19
Mobile App “CHC Farm Machinery”..........................................................................................................20
India Post Payments Bank (IPPB)...............................................................................................................20
ANGAN (Augmenting Nature by Green Affordable New-habitat)............................................................21
Digital initiatives by Ministry of Civil Aviation ............................................................................................22
Helpdesk at DGTR.......................................................................................................................................22
Criminal Activities and Radicalization in Jails: Vulnerability of Inmates and Jail Staff and their Protection
....................................................................................................................................................................23
Swachhata Hi Seva (SHS) 2019...................................................................................................................23
Indian Institute of Skills...............................................................................................................................25
LEADS Index................................................................................................................................................25
Bureau of India Standard (BIS)...................................................................................................................26

Shanghai Co-operation Organisation (SCO) on Military Medicine conference........................................26
Global Antimicrobial Resistance Research and Development Hub..........................................................27
Launches Maritime Communication Services in India..............................................................................27
Launched a web portal for reporting of stolen mobiles ...........................................................................28
Electronics sector in India ..........................................................................................................................28
Memorandum of Understanding with Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) for facilitation of green
initiatives ....................................................................................................................................................29
The 15th Finance Commission meets with the Ministry of Women and Child Development ................29
Hindi Divas..................................................................................................................................................30
JALDOOT .....................................................................................................................................................31
OTHER IMPORTANT NEWS...........................................................................................................31

Electors Verification Programme
The nationwide mega million launch of Electors Verification Programme,
The main aim of the programme is to improve the health of Electoral rolls and to
provide better electoral services to citizens and increase the level of
Communication between voters and the Commission.
The voters can log on to NVSP portal (nvsp.in) or Voter Helpline App or
Common Service Centres or any nearby voter facilitation centre to avail the
following facilities.
 Verification and corrections of the existing details
 Authentication of entry by furnishing scanned/DigiLocker copy of one of
the following documents:(i) Indian Passport (ii) Driving License (iii)
Aadhaar Card (iv) Ration Card (v) identity card for Government/Semi
Government Officials (vi) Bank Passbooks (vii) Farmer's Identity Card (viii)
PAN Card (ix) Smart Card issued by RGI (x) Latest bill for
water/electricity/telephone/gas connection.
 Furnishing details of family members and verifying their entries too
 Updating details of family members already enrolled as voters but
permanently shifted or expired
 Furnishing details of eligible un-enrolled family members (born on or
before 01.01.2001) and prospective electors born between (02.01.2002 till
01.01.2003) who are residing with the elector.
 Furnishing GIS Coordinates of House (through Mobile App) to avail better
electoral Services
 Feedback regarding existing Polling Stations and suggestions on lternate
PS.
Association of World Election Bodies (A-WEB)
The Election Commission of India is scheduled to host the 4th General
Assembly of Association of World Election Bodies (A-WEB) at Bengaluru on 3rd
September 2019. India (founding member) will take over as A-WEB’s Chair
for the 2019-21 term. Over 50 countries across the globe will join the meeting
at Bengaluru from 02nd to 04th September, 2019. An International Conference
on “Initiatives and Challenges of Social Media and Information Technology in
Elections” will also be held on 04th September, 2019.
A-WEB:

The Association of World Election Bodies (A-WEB) is the largest association
of Election Management Bodies (EMBs) worldwide. A-WEB was established on
October 14, 2013 in Song-do, South Korea. The permanent secretariat of A-WEB
is located at Seoul.
Aim: strengthening the processes of election management in member countries.
A-WEB’s vision is to foster efficiency and effectiveness in conducting free,
fair, transparent and participative elections worldwide. Its activities are guided
by its mission to identify latest trends, challenges and developments in
democratic electoral management and electoral processes and to facilitate
appropriate exchange of experience and expertise among members with the
objective of strengthening electoral democracy worldwide.
Election Commission of India has been very closely associated with the
process of formation of A-WEB since 2011-12. ECI has been its Executive Board
Member since AWEB's inception in October 2013 for two consecutive terms
(2013-15 and 2015-17). At the last A-WEB General Assembly held in Bucharest
on 31st August, 2017, Romania took over as Chair and ECI was unanimously
elected as Vice-Chair of A-WEB 2017-19. India is all set to take over as Chair
now for the 2019-21 term.
The current Executive Board of AWEB 2017-19 has 21 ( at present, 115
EMBs as Members) members wherein Dominican Republic as the Immediate
Past Chair; 5 (at present 37) members from Africa namely Burkina
Faso/Guinea/Kenya/Malawi/Tunisia; 4 (at present 31) members from Americas
-Argentina/Colombia/El Salvador/Paraguay; 4 (at present 24) members from
Asia - Bangladesh/Palestine/Taiwan/Uzbekistan; 3 (at present 17) members
from Europe - Albania/Belarus/Croatia and Fiji as the member from Oceania
are included.
Initiatives and Challenges of Social Media and Information Technology in
Elections:
11 countries namely Benin, Bhutan, Bosnia - Herzegovina, Cameroon, Malawi,
Mauritius, Palestine, Romania, Russia, Sierra Leone and Togo would make their
presentations on the subject.
Election Commission of India:
Election Commission of India (ECI) has successfully conducted 17
national elections and 388 state elections, thus strengthening the nation’s
faith in electoral democracy.

Delhi Air Traffic Service Complex (DATS- Complex)
India’s and world tallest Air Traffic Control tower at the Indira Gandhi
International Airport here today.
The significant aspects of the DATS- Complex:
 Tallest aerodrome control tower in India at 102 meters and one of the
tallest in the world
 Provisions for 33 towers and ground controllers position at level 26 and
25 of control tower.
 Internet protocol based voice communication system for enhanced VHF
coverage in the area of responsibility of a controller.
 Advanced radar and ADS enabled automation system
 Electronic flight stripes in ATC units in places of paper strips
 IP based automatic message switching system with online flight plan
filling facility.
 Its built at a cost of about Rs 350 crorewhich includes the state of the art
equipment cost
59th foundation day of NCERT
Themes: research, development, training and extension.
NCERT is one of the unique educational and research institutes in the
world. It develops curriculum, syllabus and teaching-learning materials for
school students and teachers in the country. He said that Indian Education
System includes 26 crore students, 90 lakh teachers and 15 lakh schools which
makes it very huge and NCERT has been addressing the needs of this huge
system with its innovative curricular material and teacher education courses.
Appreciating the Council’s efforts:
NISHTHA Programmes: for the 42 lakh teachers endeavour.
Mazedar hai Ganit: for making mathematics interesting and fun for
children
Teaching-Learning of Economics: very useful for the divyang students.

Swayam and SwayamPrabha: forward the digitisation of education
through.
Terracotta Grinder
Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) launched a first ever
‘Terracotta Grinder’ at Sewapuri in Varanasi. This machine will grind the wasted
and broken pottery items for re-using in pottery-making.
Earlier the wasted pottery items were grinded in normal khal-
musal (mortar and pestle) and its fine powder was mixed with the normal clay.
Mixing this powder in stipulated ratio to normal clay makes the resulting
pottery items stronger. This Terracotta grinder will make grinding of wasted
pottery items
Silent Feature:
 Faster than the traditional mortar and pestle.
 Lessen the cost of production, and will also help
 Solving the problem of shortage of clays.
 Save the cost (He said the cost of one tractor trolley of clay is Rs 2,600 in
the Varanasi area. By mixing 20 percent of this wasted terracotta powder,
the potter will make a saving of at least Rs 520.)
 Create more job opportunities in the villages.
KVIC, as part of its commitment to Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan, had also started
manufacturing of plastic-mixed handmade paper at Kumarappa National
Handmade Paper Institute (KNHPI), a KVIC unit in Jaipur under its project
REPLAN (REducing PLAstic in Nature). In this project, the waste plastic is
collected, cleaned, chopped, beaten and treated for softness. After that, it is
mixed with the paper raw material i.e. cotton rags pulp in a ratio of 80 % (pulp)
and 20% (plastic waste). The institute has sold over six lakh handmade plastic
mixed carry bags since September 2018.
Steering Committee on Fintech Final Report
Committee recommended:
 The RBI may consider development of a cash-flow based financing for
MSMEs, development of an open-API MSME stack based on TReDS data
validated by GSTN and a standardised and trusted e-invoice infrastructure
designed around TREDS-GSTN integration.

 Insurance companies and lending agencies to be encouraged to use drone
and remote sensing technology for crop area, damage and location
assessments to support risk reduction in insurance/lending business.
 Department of Financial Services(DFS) to work with PSU banks to bring
in more efficiency to their work and reduce fraud and security risks.
Significant opportunities can be explored to increase the levels of
automation using Artificial Intelligence (AI), cognitive analytics & machine
learning in their back-end processes.
 NABARD to take immediate steps to create a credit registry for farmers
with special thrust for use of fintech along with core banking solutions
(CBS) by agri-financial institutions, included Cooperative societies.
 special drive for modernisation and standardisation of land records by
setting up a dedicated National Digital Land Records Missionbased on a
common National Land Records Standards with involvement of State Land
and Registration departments, with a view to making available land
ownership data on an online basis to Financial Institutions.
 Comprehensive legal framework for consumer protection be put in place
early keeping in mind the rise of fintech and digital services.
 Adoption of Regulation technology (or RegTech) by all financial sector
regulators to develop standards and facilitate adoption by financial sector
service providers to adopt use-cases making compliance with regulations
easier, quicker and effective. Similarly, it has also recommended that
financial sector regulators develop an institutional framework for specific
use-cases of Supervisory technology (or SupTech), testing, deployment,
monitoring and evaluation.
Further, an Inter-Ministerial Steering Committee will be set up on fintech
Applications in Department of Economic Affairs (DEA), Ministry of Finance, to
continue to carry on the tasks of implementing this report, including exploring
and suggesting the potential applications in government financial processes and
applications, particularly accounting and asset management, welfare services,
taxation, and handling citizen grievances. While the Inter-Regulatory Technical
Group (IRTG) set up under the FSDC will be the forum of inter-regulatory
coordination on Fintech.
AH-64E Apache

Apache has capability to shoot fire and forget anti tank guided missiles,
air to air missiles, rockets and other ammunitions, it also has modern EW
capabilities to provide versatility to helicopter in a network centric aerial warfare.
Apaches have been an integral part of numerous historic campaigns worldwide.
These aircraft have been modified specifically to suit the exacting standards
demanded by IAF.
The helicopter is capable of delivering variety of weapons which include air
to ground Hellfire missiles, 70 mm Hydra rockets and air to air Stinger missiles.
Apache also carries one 30 mm chain gun with 1200 rounds as part of area
weapon sub system. To add to the lethality of the helicopter, it carries fire control
radar, which has a 360° coverage and nose mounted sensor suite for target
acquisition and night vision systems.
Tigers at High altitude
It is an exciting study as it reveals that 11 (even) ecology at high altitude
is compatible for the tiger growth and we will take inputs from this study to
have a high altitude tiger master plan.
The habitat of tiger of varied, encompassing several biomes and ecological
conditions. However, most of the high-altitude habitats, within the range have
not been surveyed for an appraisal of tiger presence, prey and habitat status.
Hence, it become important to embark on a said appraisal, involving mapping of
the habitat and carrying out a situation analysis for a future roadmap. Tiger
habitats in high altitude require protection through sustainable land use, as they
are a high value ecosystem with several hydrological and ecological processes
providing ecosystem services and adaptation to mitigate the ill effects of climate
change. Several high-altitude habitats in South Asia have the spatial presence
of tiger, active in-situ efforts are called for ensuring their conservation
Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967
Government has decided to declare the following individuals as terrorists
and add their names to Schedule 4 of the Act:
1. Maulana Masood Azhar : chief, founder and key leader of Jaish-e-
Mohammad
2. Hafiz Muhammad: chief, founder and key leader of Lashkar-e-
Taiba/Jamat-ud-Dawa
3. Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi: chief operation commander of Lashkar-e-Taiba
and one of its founder members

4. Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar: runs an international underworld crime
syndicate and is involved in perpetrating acts of terror
National Award Scheme to Teachers
National Awards to Teachers is to celebrate the unique contribution of
some of the finest teachers in the country and to honor those teachers who
through their commitment and industry have not only improved the quality
of school education but also enriched the lives of their students.
The Independent National Jury recommended name of 46 teachers. The
criterion adopted was to select those teachers who had shown innovation in
their work and had added value to the school and to their students. These
nominated teachers gave a presentation before an independent Jury comprising
a senior educationist. This ensured that all of them were given an opportunity to
place before the jury their contribution and the work done by them.
The basic premise now is that the new scheme should be transparent, fair,
and reward demonstrated excellence and performance and has been inspired by
recent innovations in major national awards. The award carries a Silver Medal,
Certificate and Rs. 50,000/- as award money.
The features of the new scheme are as under:
 Online self-nominations from teachers were invited on mhrd.gov.in. The
Webportal was developed by the Administrative Staff College of India
(ASCI) and the entire software ran smoothly.
 Applications were received online from teachers from all over the country.
 All regular teachers were eligible and no minimum years of service was
required. This enabled meritorious young teachers to apply.
 The number of awards was rationalized to maximum of 47, thereby
restoring the prestige of the awards.
 No State, UT or Organization had a quota in the final selection. This
encouraged them to compete for the awards.
 An independent Jury at the National level made the final selection. The
Jury reviewed the list of candidates forwarded by all States, UTs and
Organisations. Each nominee made a presentation before the Jury, which
made a final assessment and recommended 46 names for the Teachers
Awards this year.

Poshan Maah
Aims: making people aware of the importance of nutrition and giving individual
access to government services to support supplement nutrition for their children
and pregnant women/lactating mothers.
A month-long (Assam, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and
Rajasthan) activities focussing on antenatal care, anaemia, growth monitoring,
girls’ education, diet, right age of marriage, hygiene and sanitation, eat healthy
as themes are being showcased in form of food melas, rallies, school level
campaigns, anaemia test camps, recipe demonstration, radio & TV talk shows
and seminars all across country.
This year Poshan Maah focuses on five (Paanch Sutras) critical components –
1. First 1000 days of the Child,
2. Anaemia,
3. Diarrhoea,
4. Hand Wash & Sanitation and
5. Poshtik Aahar (wholesome meal with diet diversity).
Mobile Science Exhibition (SCIENCE EXPLORER)
For the entire Ladakh Region in Leh today.
By: National Council of Science Museums (NCSM), an autonomous
organization under the Ministry of Culture.
What is a Mobile Science Exhibition (MSE) Programme?
The first MSE on the theme ‘Our Familiar Electricity’ was inaugurated at
Ramakrishna Mission Boys’ School, Narendrapur, near Kolkata on 17th
November 1965. The first MSE Bus was flagged off in 1966 from Birla Industrial
and Technological Museum, Kolkata.
The topics chosen for these exhibitions are:
1. Measurement
2. Machines in everyday life
3. Food & Health

4. Chemistry & Life with focus on Water
5. Energy
6. Hygiene & Sanitation
7. Space Science for Human Welfare
Bus travels from school to school in rural areas and organize exhibitions
there throughout the year. Along with the exhibition, some other programmes
like Sky Observation Programme through telescope, science films show,
Science Demonstration Lectures etc. are also organised.
Why MSE Programme in Leh,Ladakh Region:
The Science Explorer MSE programme in the Leh, Ladakh region will be
the first of its kind in the region with a broad objective to:
 Popularize science and technology among the students and general
public.
 Creating a scientific awareness in the society.
 Inculcating a spirit of enquiry among the young people.
 Inspiring youngsters to pursue a career in science, technology,
engineering and mathematics.
 Supplementing formal education imparted in schools and colleges with
non-formal science education.
 Promoting a culture of science in the society.
Govt. of India is primarily engaged in ‘Communicating Science to Empower
People’ through its network of twenty-five Science Centres/Museums spread
across India. With the help of its unique interactive science exhibits through
which students can explore the basics of science and technology, travelling and
short-term exhibitions, Mobile Science Exhibitions (MSE) units and a wide range
of science based educational programmes and activities for public and students
in particular, NCSM has now become a trend setter in the field of science
communication both at national and international level. NCSM is the world’s
largest network of science centres and museums that functions under a single
administrative umbrella.
Eat Right India Movement
By: FSSAI

Healthy eating approach which places citizens at the centre of a Health
Revolution through food and fitness.
The campaign ‘Eat Right India’ (Along with food with less salt, less sugar
and less saturated and industrially-produced trans-fats) with its new logo and
tagline ‘Sahi Bhojan. Behtar Jeevan’ were released by the Health Minister, at
an event here today on the side-lines of the 5-day ‘72nd Session of the WHO
Regional Committee for South-East Asia'.
This can become a country wide movement only with the active support
and partnership of all sections of the society, including the media, the food
producers, consumers and other stakeholders.
Objective:
 Sensitize the public towards healthy eating,
 Address the twin issues of malnutrition/undernutrition and problem of
obesity in some sections of the population
 Intensifying the campaign towards a ‘Malnutrition-Free India’
 Trigger for the much needed social and behavioural change.
 Fight lifestyle diseases like hypertension, obesity and diabetes effectively
 Reach the target of Trans-fat (reduce to less than 2% in all oils, fats and
food products) Free India by 2022
 Creating awareness around mindful eating
Measures taken:
 Limit for Total Polar Compounds (TPC) at 25% in cooking oil to avoid the
harmful effects of reused cooking oil.
 Standards for five fortified staples -wheat flour, rice, oil, milk and salt to
reduce large-scale deficiencies of vitamins and minerals have been
notified, in addition to standards for health supplements, nutraceuticals,
prebiotics and probiotics products.
 To facilitate informed consumer choices Regulations on Advertising and
Claims and mandatory menu labeling has been notified.
 Labeling provisions have been made for appropriate use of sweeteners for
children and pregnant women
 Pilots/prototypes for clusterisation schemes such as Clean Street food
Hubs, Clean and Fresh Fruit and Vegetable markets and Eat Right
Campus for schools, colleges, workplaces and other campuses being
successfully tested on a pan-India basis.
 Food businesses have participated in large-scale training and capacity
building programs on ensuring food safety through the FoSTaC initiative,

under which over 1.7 lakh food safety supervisors have been trained and
certified.
 Robust material in the form of a Pink Book, Yellow Book, DART Book,
informative videos etc., are in place, and can be accessed through a video
library on FSSAI’s website,
 recently inaugurated the first ever state-of-the-art National Food
Laboratory of Delhi, NCR
 food testing laboratories is being established in the country.
The menu had a gamut of dishes made from locally available ingredients, and
local produce and combined salads, sprouts, cereals, vegetables etc., that were
cooked in minimal mustard and olive oil.
Dr Harsh Vardhan also launched the new Eat Right India logo that
represents a healthy plate, a TVC by the popular cricket icon Shri Virat Kohli on
eating right, an online Eat Right Quiz, the Eat Right Online Course for frontline
health workers, and an Eat Right India Store featuring merchandize to nudge
right eating habits.
WHO SEARO stated that The Eat Right campaign is a true example of multi-
sectoral collaborative approach that WHO has been advocating for to address
non-communicable diseases such as heart diseases, high blood pressure,
diabetes, obesity, malnutrition, etc. The campaign brings together people,
celebrities and other influencers, food industry, public health professionals, civil
society and consumer organizations. It seems to address both the demand and
the supply side – by making people aware of the what it means by eating right,
and the benefits of it for them to make right choices. On the supply side, it
promotes food businesses to reformulate their products, provide better
nutritional information to consumers and make investments in healthy food as
responsible food businesses. What India does and achieves will make a
significant impact in arresting the NCD tsunami in the region as well as globally,
she stated.
This movement is aligned with the Government’s flagship public health
programmes such as POSHAN Abhiyaan, Ayushman Bharat Yojana and Swachh
Bharat Mission to lead us to the New India, which our Prime Minister wishes to
deliver to all citizens by 2022.
Institutions of Eminence (IoE) Scheme
Ministry of Human Resource Development, on the advice of UGC and the
Empowered Expert Committee issued Universities conveying their declaration
as Institutions of Eminence (IoE).

5 public and private Universities sending their preparedness for
being declared as Institutions of Eminence are
Public Category Private Category
IIT Madras Amrita Viswavidyapeetham, Tamil
Nadu
Banaras Hindu University Vellore Institute of Technology,
Tamil Nadu,
IIT Kharagpur Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi
University of Delhi Kalinga Institute of Industrial
Technology, Odisha
University of Hyderabad Bharti Institute, Satya Bharti
Foundation, Mohali.
Further, in respect of 2 more Universities, Shiv Nadar University, UP and O.P
Jindal University, Haryana letters were issued to the State Government to pass
legislation in the State Assembly to cease the status of these Universities as
Private Universities under the State and so as to enable them to be considered
as IoE Deemed Universities.
In regard to2 State Universities, Jadavpur University, West Bengal and Anna
University, Tamil Nadu were also selected by the Empowered Committee and
the State Governments have been asked to indicate their commitment towards
their contribution under the IoE scheme.
Earlier, in the first round under the IoE scheme, 6 institutions were selected as
IoEs:
Public Category Private Category
Indian Institute of Sciencee (IISc),
Bangalore
Manipal Academy of Higher
Education (MAHE), Manipal

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT),
Delhi
Birla Institute of Technology&
Sciences (BITS), Pilani
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT),
Bombay
Jio Institute under the Greenfield
category.
Benefits of Institutions of Eminence
 Government Institutions to get additional funding upto 1000 Cr.
 The selected Institutions under IoE shall have complete academic and
administrative autonomy.
 The Institutions of Eminence will have complete financial autonomy to
spend the resources raised and allocated, subject to general conditions &
restrictions of the Statutes and GFR.
 Academic collaborations with foreign higher educational
institutions (in top 500) would be exempt from government approvals.
 Freedom to hire personnel from industry, etc, as faculty who are experts
in their areasbut may not have the requisite higher academic
qualifications.
 Freedom to recruit faculty from outside India (limit of 25% of its faculty
strength for public institution).
 Freedom to enter into academic collaborations with other Institutions
within the country.
 Freedom to have own transparent merit based system for admission of
students.
 Freedom to admit additionally foreign students on merit subject to a
maximum of 30% of the strength of admitted domestic students.
 Freedom to fix and charge fees from foreign students without
restriction.
 Freedom to determine the domestic student fees, subject to the condition
that no student who gets selected admission is turned away for lack of
finance. Every Institute to encourage scholarships and extension of loans
facility.
 Freedom to offer courses within a program as well as to offer degrees
in newer areas, including inter-disciplinary ones, after approval of its
Governing Council and conforming to the minimum prevailing standards.
 Freedom to have the flexibility of course structure in terms of number
of credit hours and years to take a degree, after approval of their Governing
Council and conforming to the minimum prevailing standards.

 Flexibility in fixing of curriculum and syllabus, with no UGC mandated
curriculum structure.
 Freedom to offer online courses as part of their programmes with a
restriction that not more than 20% of the programme should be in
online mode. Certificate courses can entirely be through online mode.
 Students enrolment capacity to be 10,000 in 15 years. (Lower figure
permitted with justification)
 Faculty Student Ratio should be 1:20 at the time of Notification and should
increase to 1:10 in five years.
 UGC Inspection shall not apply to Institutions of Eminence.
Credit linked Capital Subsidy Scheme (CLCS) Re-Launched
AIM: resolve the problem of delayed payments to MSMEs
CLCS is a scheme that provides 15% subsidy for additional investment up
to ₹ 1 cr. for technology upgradation by MSEs. In the relaunched scheme there
is an additional 10 percent subsidy to SC-ST entrepreneurs. MoUs were also
signed by the office of DC, MSME with 11 Nodal Banks.
Other Scheme:
 Samadhan Portal so that sufficient data could be gathered about wilful
defaulters
 Ministry will soon launch a marketing portal ‘Bharat Craft’ for the
marketing of their products.
 Ministry has already notified that all companies registered with the
Companies Act, 2013 with a turnover of more than Rs. 500 crore and all
Central Public Sector Enterprises shall be required to get themselves
onboarded on the TReDS (Trade Receivables Discounting System)
platform, set up as per the notification of the Reserve Bank of India.
 The Ministry has also notified that all companies who get supplies of goods
or services from Micro and Small Enterprises and whose payments to
suppliers exceeds 45 days from the date of acceptance of the goods or
services, shall submit a half yearly return of the Ministry of Corporate
Affairs stating the amount of payments due and reason of the delay.
1st National Conference on Cybercrime Investigation and Forensics
Organised by: CBI

The nature of crime also evolves with the evolution of society, which makes
it essential on the part of investigative agencies to evolve their techniques. The
entire crime scenario has changed over the years, He emphasized that the study
of cyber crime is important for India, keeping in mind the fact that India has a
huge population and that India has the second largest internet users in the
world.
The cyber manipulators are posing risk to the nation by circulating fake
videos on the social media, which needs to be addressed by given thrust to the
optimum use of technology. The computer technology has entered a large
number of household of India. The second thrust of the Government has been
on our clarity in fight against terrorism and decisive actions have been taken in
this regard.
Benefits of Conference:
 State Police and Enforcement agencies to share their best practices and
to replicate them.
 It will help in getting real time information for the benefit of interrogators
 The role of NGOs and activists to join this crusade to counter cybercrime
by changing the mindset of masses.
Kaushalacharya Samadar 2019
AIM: To felicitate trainers from different sectors for exceptional contribution
towards creating a future-ready and skilled workforce.
A total of 53 trainers from diverse backgrounds including experts of
WorldSkills Competition winners, trainers from National Skill Training Institutes
(NSTIs), Industrial Training Centres (ITI), Jan Sikshan Sansthans (JSS) and
trainers from reputed Corporate houses were honored at a gathering of
government and industrial experts held on the occasion of Teachers’ Day by Skill
India. Renewing the pledge to improve the skilling ecosystem of the country these
Trainers included 19 Experts of winners from Team India who competed at
WorldSkills 2019 in Kazan, Russia; 15 Skill Trainers from the NSTI/ITI
ecosystem; 9 corporate trainers awarded from companies namely Adobe, IBM,
Microsoft, Maruti, ONGC, Bosch, Bhel and Aegis; and 10 Trainers from JSS.

BBBP (Beti Bachao Beti Padhao) Scheme
Objective: The programme is to felicitate states and districts which are
performing well in improving Sex Ratio at Birth (SRB) as per Health Management
Information System (HMIS) of Ministry of Health and Family Welfare data and
excellent performance in awareness generation and outreach.
The BBBP scheme was launched on 22nd January, 2015. Now it is being
implemented in 640 districts and all these districts are covered through advocacy
and media campaign. Out of these districts, 405 are covered under Multi-
Sectoral Intervention in which 100% Centrally Sponsored Scheme grant is
provided directly to DM/DC for BBBP.
The latest reports on State/UT-wise SRB data for the period 2014-15 and
2018-19, reveal increase in SRB from 918 to 931 (+13) showing improving trends
at the national level.
Ten districts selected for improvement in SRB were also felicitated during
the programme. The ten districts are: East Kameng which has registered a sharp
improvement in SRB from 807 in 2014-15 to 1039 in 2018-19. (Arunachal
Pradesh), Mahendragarh and Bhiwani (Haryana), Udham Singh Nagar
(Uttarakhand), Namakkal (Tamil Nadu), Jalgaon (Maharashtra) Etawah (Uttar
Pradesh), Raigarh (Chhattisgarh), Rewa (Madhya Pradesh) and Jodhpur
(Rajasthan).
Ten districts selected for good work in awareness generation and
outreach activities under BBBP were also felicitated by the Minister. These
districts are: Tiruvallur (Tamil Nadu), Ahmedabad (Gujarat), Mandi, Shimla,
Sirmaur (Himachal Pradesh) Kishtwar (J&K), Gadag (Karnataka), Wokha
(Nagaland), Farrukhabad (Uttar Pradesh), and Nagaur (Rajasthan).
Smart Cities Mission Technology Showcased
Best technologies in four focus areas:
 Traffic management, transport and mobility, pollution management
 Water, sanitation and solid waste management
 Safety, surveillance and security
 Social (health, education, and citizen engagement)
The solutions in the above focus sectors will help solve some of the
pressing issues faced by Indian smart cities today. The showcase was a first step

towards bringing the innovation ecosystem and smart cities closer to
contributing towards the development of smart cities.
The knowledge partners present at the event gave their inputs for the
solutions presented to help them customize their innovation for smart cities.
Swachhata Awards
 Indian Railways as the best ministry for implementation of Swachhata
action plan for 2018-19.
Background:
All Railway officials to make cleanliness an organisational culture.
Recently the Minister directed all Railway officials to observe a special 10 days
cleanliness drive for trains and stations starting 2nd September, 2019. These
perpetual drives are also monitored by uploading of selected photographs on E-
Drishti and the Minister’s dashboard. Such feedback from commuters’ is
further used to promote cleanliness campaign of railways, which together is the
biggest service provisioning public place in the country.
 Best Swachh iconic Place award to the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj
Terminus (CST) Mumbai
 Best stations as per Cleanliness Ranking Survey for 2018 i.e. Jodhpur,
Jaipur & Tirupati were also awarded.
Strategic Economic Dialogue (SED)
The 6th India-China Strategic Economic Dialogue (SED) will be held in New
Delhi from 7-9 September 2019.
The Dialogue will comprise of round table meetings of Joint Working
Groups (JWG) on Infrastructure, Energy, High-Tech, Resource Conservation,
Pharmaceuticals and Policy coordination followed by technical site visits and
closed door G2G meetings. Under the aegis of the SED, senior representatives
from both sides come together to constructively deliberate on and share
individual best practices and successfully identify sector-specific challenges and
opportunities for enabling ease of doing business and facilitating bilateral trade
and investment flows.

The Indian side will be led by Vice Chairman, NITI Aayog and the Chinese side
by Chairman, NDRC (National Development and Reforms Commission).
1st SED was held on December, 2010.
2nd SED was held in New Delhi on November, 2012.
5th SED was held in Beijing on April 14 2018.
Mobile App “CHC Farm Machinery”
For the farmers to management of crop residue by using identified
agricultural machinery to avail the custom hiring services of CHCs located in
the radius of 50 Kms. This app connects the farmers with Custom Hiring
Service Centres in their area. This app can be downloaded on any android
phone from Google Play Store.
The straw burning events in 2018 have reduced by 15% and 41% as
compared to that in 2017 and 2016 respectively with goal to ensure zero
burning in all the villages.
India Post Payments Bank (IPPB)
India Post Payments Bank Announces Rollout of Aadhaar Enabled
Payment Services (AePS) at the First Anniversary of its Business Operations
and become the single largest platform in the country for providing
interoperable banking services to the customers
About India Post Payments Bank
IPPB has been established under the Department of Posts, Ministry of
Communication with 100% equity owned by Government of India. IPPB was
launched on September 1, 2018. The bank has been set up with the vision to
build the most accessible, affordable and trusted bank for the common man in
India. The fundamental mandate of India Post Payments Bank is to remove
barriers for the unbanked & underbanked and reach the last mile leveraging the
Postal network comprising 155,000 Post Offices (135,000 in rural areas) and
300,000 Postal employees. There are over 34 crore Jan Dhan accounts out of
which 22 crore account holders are in rural India.

IPPB’s reach and its operating model is built on the key pillars of India
Stack - enabling Paperless, Cashless and Presence-less banking in a simple and
secure manner at the customers' doorstep, through a CBS-integrated
smartphone and biometric device. Leveraging frugal innovation and with a high
focus on ease of banking for the masses, IPPB delivers simple and affordable
banking solutions through intuitive interfaces available in 13 languages.
IPPB is committed to provide a fillip to a less cash economy and contribute
to the vision of Digital India. India will prosper when every citizen will have equal
opportunity to become financially secure and empowered. The motto stands
true - Every customer is important, every transaction is significant and
every deposit is valuable.
ANGAN (Augmenting Nature by Green Affordable New-habitat)
An international conference ANGAN focussed on Energy Efficiency in Building
Sector organised by the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE), Ministry of Power,
Government of India in collaboration with GIZ under the Indo German Technical
Cooperation.
Aims: to provide thrust in this direction so as to address such challenges faced
by the stakeholders.
The International Conference will provide a platform to deliberate on
interdependence between organizations, systemic sustainability and feedback
loops for better resource efficiency. Given the formidable challenge of providing
adequate energy of desired quality to the consumers at reasonable costs,
improving the efficiency in high energy consumption sectors like buildings have
become important component of our integrated energy policy.
About BEE:
The BEE is a statutory body under the Ministry of Power, Government of India.
It assists in developing policies and strategies with the primary objective of
reducing the energy intensity of the Indian economy. BEE coordinates with
designated consumers, designated agencies, and other organizations to identify
and utilize the existing resources and infrastructure, in performing the functions
assigned to it under the Energy Conservation Act.

Digital initiatives by Ministry of Civil Aviation
 eDGCA project conceptualized to completely automate the processes and
functions of DGCA and its constituent directorates as well as to provide a
strong base for IT infrastructure and service delivery framework. The work
on development of various modules including licensing of pilots is under
progress.
 DigiSky– an online portal to regulate the entire gamut of activities relating
to governance and operation of Remotely Piloted Aircraft System
(RPAS)/Unmanned Aircraft Vehicles (UAVs)/drones has been made
operational. While ensuring safety and security in drone operations, it will
also help in promotion of drone technologies.
 Esahaj-100% of security clearances pertaining to the Ministry have been
made online on Esahaj online portal launched by the Ministry of Civil
Aviation. The portal is operational for granting clearances in respect
of 24 categories.
 DigiYatra Trial for rollout of DigiYatra initiative has been started at
Bangalore and Hyderabad airports. The initiative envisages seamless and
hassle free passenger travel using biometric technologies to improve
passenger experience, reduce queue waiting time as passengers can walk
through e-gates by using advanced security solutions. It will remove
redundancies at check points and enhance resource utilization.
Other Infrastrctre Project:
 India’s Tallest Air Traffic Control Tower Inaugurated
 Ahmedabad, Lucknow and Mangaluru Airports Awarded on PPP to
Harness Investments in Public Sector
 Online Jobs Portal Launched for Employers and Job Seekers in Aviation
Sector
 Collection of PSF(SC)/ASF in a Single Pool Account to Cross-Subsidize
Smaller Airports
 34 RCS Routes Operationalised Connecting 4 Unserved and 4 Underserved
Airports in Past 100 Days
Helpdesk at DGTR
Additional Secretary and DG Trade Remedies said that the helpdesk in
Directorate General of Trade Remedies (DGTR) has been upgraded to a

facilitation Centre to create awareness regarding trade remedies and to provide
full support to the industry, particularly nascent domestic producers and
MSMEs. Help line number is 1800 111 808 and Email: helpdesk.dgtr@gov.in
The objectives of the meeting were awareness generation about regulatory
instruments amongst the stake-holders, to provide a platform where issues faced
by the domestic industry may be appropriately addressed and calibrate trade
policy to balance domestic industry interests, including protection against unfair
trade practices with imperatives of consumer interest, efficiency and
competitiveness. The meeting focused on the prudent use of all available Trade
Policy Instruments, viz. Tariff Measures, Non-Tariff Measures as well as Trade
Remedial Measures for the Indian industry.
Criminal Activities and Radicalization in Jails: Vulnerability of Inmates and
Jail Staff and their Protection
The Criminal activities and Radicalization Conference is being organised by the
Bureau of Police research and development (BPR&D). in jails is a burning issue
now-a days and protection of jail staff and vulnerability of inmates is the need of
the hour. The conference will focus on the following issues:
a. To understand various criminal activities at individual and gang level and
considers safety measures for vulnerable inmates and jail staff.
b. To understand various facets of radicalization in prison and suggest
measures for counter radicalization.
c. To analyse and formulate the security and protection standards for prison
staff and
d. To provide an interdisciplinary platform for correctional personnel to
exchange and share their experience on prison reforms.
Swachhata Hi Seva (SHS) 2019
SHS 2019, with special focus on ‘plastic waste awareness and management’ is
being organized from 11th September to October 2nd 2019, as the Swachh
Bharat Mission (SBM) is poised to dedicate an ODF India to Mahatma Gandhi
on his 150th birth anniversary.

Pashudhan Arogya Vigyan Mela, where he saw cows being operated upon to
remove plastic waste from their stomachs.
Following actions are to be initiated across Indian Railways network on plastic
waste management:
 Wide publicity will be given to ban on single use plastic.
 Banners/posters/messages to this effect to be displayed at prominent
places.
 Extensive use of Information Education and Communication measures
would be made to create awareness among stakeholders. Audio
messages/Banners shall also be displayed.
 Zonal Railways to take action on implementation of Board’s instructions
and give feedback about the measures adopted.
 Plastic bottle crushers to be installed at all A1 and A category stations
before 2nd October, 2019
 Visibility of separate waste bins to be increased on all A1 and A category
Railway Stations. These would bear SHS logo.
 Work on development of 150 nurseries on Railway properties across the
country to be completed by 2nd October, 2019
 IRCTC to implement return of plastic drinking bottles as part of
Extended Producer Responsibility
 Plastic Bottle crushing machines to be provided expeditiously at all other
Railway Stations.
 A pledge will be administered on 2nd October to cut use of plastic.
Indian Railways to Undertake one More Drive of “MASSIVE SHRAMDAN” to
Focus on “COLLECTION OF PLASTIC WASTE”:
 Enhanced cleanliness, through collection of plastic waste from all railway
premises. Particular attention to be given to approaches to stations
 Creating awareness for a greater impact against single use plastic.
 Displaying Replacements/ Substitutes for such plastic items.
 For distributing Cloth bags in large numbers as advised by the
Environment and Housekeeping Management Division of Railways
through its letter dated 12.9.2019.
 Educating all in Railways, including vendors to be prepared for ban of
single use plastic with effect from 02.10.2019. Single use plastic means
usage of any plastic below 50 microns, in any manner.
The Minister had been monitoring photos relating to several such drives being
uploaded on E-Drishti and other dashboards.

Indian Institute of Skills
AIM: To provide skill training 5000 in highly specialized areas to students who
want to pursue technical education after completing Class X and Class XII,
making them employable and industry ready for the New India and the global
market. It is also an important step towards promoting apprenticeship-
embedded courses and offering higher order qualifications leading up to
certificates, diplomas and even degrees in conjunction with universities to meet
the demand of Industry 4.0, powered by technology like automation, Artificial
Intelligence and machine learning, cyber technology, energy conservation etc..
The vision behind setting up IIS was to build world-class skill training
centres in line with reputed educational institutes like Indian Institute of
Technology (IIT) and Indian Institution of Management (IIM), with first-hand
learning facilities from internationally renowned existing skill institutions.
The Union Cabinet had given its nod to set up Indian Institute of Skills (IISs) in
three locations of the country — Mumbai, Ahmedabad and Kanpur, to give wings
to the Skill India Mission. These institutes will be constructed & operated on a
PPP (Public-Private Partnership) model and in not-for-profit basis.
Tata Education Development Trust (TEDT) was selected as the private partner
for setting up IIS at NSTI campus in Mumbai through a competitive bidding
process.
LEADS Index
The LEADS Index is an effort by the Commerce and Industry Ministry to
establish the base line of performance in the logistics sector based on the
perception of users and stakeholders at the State level. It provides the basis for
stakeholder engagement, discussions and evolving action plan by various
agencies. It is not an index of the performance of the State Government but may
be used to assess the status of logistics efficiency in each State.
The State Logistics Performance Index is arrived at using a ranking
methodology based on a series of meetings with stakeholders and online surveys
in the key areas of the logistics like infrastructure, services, timelines,

traceability, competitiveness, security, operating environment and efficiency of
regulation.
Bureau of India Standard (BIS)
“One Nation One Constitution” and “One Nation One Ration Card” there should
be “One Nation One Standard”.
Regulators and officials to review the ‘Process of Making Standards’ (set as
per global benchmarks) and also deliberate on improving the implementation
and enforcement of the set Standards. The time taken to complete the process
of Standards formation has been reduced from 24 months earlier to 18
months now. NITI Aayog informed the media that NITI Aayog is currently
working on a draft Medical Devices Bill which will help to tackle the problem of
non-standard medical devices coming into the market.
India is only the 4th country in the world to have such a standard after USA,
Germany and UK for Bullet Proof Jackets.
Shanghai Co-operation Organisation (SCO) on Military Medicine
conference
Hosted: India
India stand on the threat of nuclear, chemical and biological warfare adds
to the complexity of the existing challenges and Armed Forces Medical Service
(AFMS) plays a vital role in identifying those challenges, defining the limits of
human tolerance and suggesting strategies to mitigate the adverse health effects.
Shri Rajnath Singh also suggested co-operation among countries during
disasters to ensure that timely assistance reaches those in need even across
international borders. He said the scale of magnitude of destruction following
disasters can often overwhelm the resources and relief efforts of a nation and the
medical services of Armed Forces form a vital component of humanitarian aid
and disaster relief operations.
SCO countries cover 22 per cent of the land mass, 40 per cent population and
contribute to 20 per cent of world’s GDP

Global Antimicrobial Resistance Research and Development Hub
India has joined the Global Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Research and
Development (R&D) Hub.
About Global AMR R&D Hub:
The Global AMR R&D Hub was launched in May 2018 in the margins of
the 71st session of the World Health Assembly, following a call from G20 Leaders
in 2017. The Global AMR R&D Hub supports global priority setting and evidence-
based decision-making on the allocation of resources for AMR R&D through the
identification of gaps, overlaps and potential for cross-sectoral collaboration and
leveraging in AMR R&D. The operation of the Global AMR R&D Hub is supported
through a Secretariat, established in Berlin and currently financed through
grants from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
and the Federal Ministry of Health (BMG).
Benefit of AMR:
AMR is the ability of a microbe to resist the effects of medication that
once could successfully treat the microbe. Today, the emergence and spread of
antimicrobial resistance continues unabated around the world. Given the
important and interdependent human, animal, and environmental dimensions
of antimicrobial resistance. Global AMR R&D Hub may allow partners to devote
expertise in order to accelerate global action against antimicrobial
resistance.
India considers it reasonable to explore issues of antimicrobial resistance
through the lens of One Health approach which should be supported by long-
term commitments from all stakeholders.
Launches Maritime Communication Services in India
Nelco, India's leading VSAT solutions provider is the first Indian company that
will now provide quality broadband services to the maritime sector (beyond that
is the Exclusive Economic Zone upto 200 nautical miles). Nelco through global
partnerships, infrastructure including transponder capacity on satellite of ISRO
Indian Space Research Organization) and a comprehensive service portfolio will
help Energy, Cargo and Cruise vessels by enhancing operational efficiency,
improving crew welfare and enabling customer services.

Note: In December 2018, the Government of India announced the licenses for
In-flight and Maritime Communications (IFMC) that allows voice and internet
services while flying over the Indian skies and sailing in Indian waters, both for
international and Indian aircrafts and vessels.
Launched a web portal for reporting of stolen mobiles
International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) is supposed to be an
unique identity of a mobile phone device. Generally, a phone with one/two slots
of SIM card is programmed with one/two IMEI number as the case may be. IMEI
number being programmable, some miscreants do reprogram the IMEI number,
which results in cloning of IMEI causing multiple phone devices with same IMEI
number. As on date, there are many cases of cloned/duplicated IMEI handsets
in the network.
If such IMEI is blocked, a large number of mobile phones will get blocked
being handsets with same IMEI causing inconvenience to many genuine
customers. Thus, there is a need to eliminate duplicate/fake IMEI mobile phones
from the network.
objectives of the project:
 Blocking of lost/stolen mobile phones across mobile networks thus
discouraging theft of mobile phones
 Facilitate in tracing of such reported lost/stolen mobile phones
 Prevention of mobile devices with duplicate and fake IMEIs in the
network
 Curtail the use of counterfeit mobile devices
 Reduced health risks to the users with the control of use of counterfeit
mobile phones
 Improved QoS and reduced call drops with reduction in use of counterfeit
mobile devices
Electronics sector in India
key highlights:
 Over USD 15 billion worth of investment proposals received directly by the
Ministry of Electronics and IT under its flagship investment scheme

 Domestic manufacturing has grown from USD 29 billion (in 2014-15) to
USD 70 billion (in 2018-19)
 India has emerged as the 2nd largest manufacturer of mobile handsets in
the world and one of the world’s largest mobile manufacturing facility is
based in India
 No. of manufacturing units for LCD/ LED TVs has gone up from 25 to 35
units
 No. of LED lights manufacturing units has gone up from 10 to 128 units
 Generated employment for over 20 lakh persons across the country
 Lately exports of electronics goods have started growing rapidly
Significant scope for the growth estimated to reach USD 400 billion by 2025.
National Policy on Electronics 2019 envisions positioning India as a global
electronics hub by encouraging and driving capabilities in the country for
developing core components (including chipsets), and creating an enabling
environment for the industry to compete globally.
Memorandum of Understanding with Confederation of Indian Industries
(CII) for facilitation of green initiatives
The objectives of the MoU:
 Energy efficiency in manufacturing facilities and railway workshops.
 Greening of Railway properties.
 Demonstrative pilots of ‘net-zero energy buildings/ railway stations’.
 Capacity and skill development by continuous sharing of best practices
on energy and environment through training programmes.
 Development of Green procurement policy, waste management policy,
solid waste disposal, carbon neutrality, phytoremediation.
Three Coffee Table Publications –one each on Energy Efficiency, GreenCo Rating
and Green Buildings (including railway stations) were also released.
The 15th Finance Commission meets with the Ministry of Women and
Child Development
Among its major recommendation for the consideration of the Commission:

 The Ministry of WCD has requested the 15th Finance Commission to
include gender Budgeting in its fiscal devolution formula.
 In the Commission’s Vertical Devolution the Ministry has requested for
prioritizing gender concerns within schemes/ programmes – with a
minimum compulsory allocation of 25% to 40%.
 In its horizontal devolution the Commission has been requested to
incorporate gender criteria (Child Sex Ratio and Female Labour Force
Participation) as a criteria for horizontal devolution of funds between
States.
 The Commission has also been asked to provide for basic and performance
grants under which additional activities could be added to current
activities of Local Bodies for promoting gender equality.
The Ministry of WCD has also called for:
 Incentivizing performance: States with better performance in Women
Education/ Health Outcomes/ LFPR/ Nutritional Outcomes may be
considered for incentive grants.
 Fiscal Equalization: Gap funding for States to reach normative levels of
social sector spending.
 Enhanced Funding: up from 1% to 1.5% of the Union Budget for WCD.
 Development of CDI/ GDI based on International Practice.
 Revamped indicator for women participation in workforce.
 Increased allocation for Health and Education.
 Reservation of certain percentage of funds for Women centric development
works by local bodies.
 Increased funding for capacity building of elected women representatives.
 Women & Wataer: Jal Shakti Abhiyan / Augmentation of Water Resources.
 Mechanism for single data source for SDGs with Annual Measurements.
Hindi Divas
On September 14the Constituent Assembly accepted Hindi as a national
language. Nation was home to 122 languages and more than 19500 dialects.

Former Prime Minister Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee as the first Minister of External
Affairs to give a speech in Hindi at the United Nations in 1977.
Launched the E-Saral Hindi Vakya Kosh and E-Maha Shabda Kosh Mobile
App, both initiatives of the Department of Official Language that aim to harness
information technology for the growth of Hindi. He awarded Rajbhasha Gaurav
Puraskar and Rajbhasha Kirti Puraskar to government departments and public
sector units respectively for their contribution to Hindi.
JALDOOT
Background:
 Join hands for campaign on ‘Janshakti se Jalshakti’ abhiyan.
 Tackle the water crisis looming the country
 Activities like competitions, rallies, cultural programmes on the side-lines
of visit of the bus, in order to create awareness on water conservation
efforts.
The JALSHAKTI ABHIYAN focus on five key aspects:
 Water Conservation and Rain Water Harvesting
 Renovation of Traditional and other Water Bodies
 Reuse of Water and Recharging of structures
 Watershed Development
 Intensive Afforestation
OTHER IMPORTANT NEWS
 Dr Harsh Vardhan addresses ‘72nd Session of the WHO Regional
Committee for South-East Asia'
 Joint Naval Annual Quality Conclave (JNAQC) to be held in
Visakhapatnam in this session will focus on ‘Quality Challenges of
Emerging Technologies’
 CBDT consolidates Circulars for Simplification of process of assessment of
Start-ups, Time limit for Completion of pending assessments of Start-ups,
Procedure for addition made u/s 56(2)(viib) in the past assessment,
Income-tax demand, Constitution of Start-up Cell

 Army Prepares to Receive and Train the First Batch of Women Soldiers
 India will contribute 200,000 US dollars towards implementation of the
preparedness stream under the South East Asia Health Emergency
Response Fund (SEARHEF) on 72nd Session of the WHO Regional
Committee for South-East Asia.
 Cabinet approves Infusion of capital worth Rs. 4,557 (Indian Gov.) + Rs.
4,557 (LIC) by Government in IDBI Bank
 India contribution of 22 million US Dollars to the Global Fund (shares a
sustained partnership with the Global Fund since 2002) for AIDS, TB and
Malaria (GFTAM) for the 6th replenishment cycle (2020-22), an increase of
10% over the amount contributed by us in the 5th cycle.
 ESIC Signs an Agreement with SBI for e-Payments To ESIC Beneficiaries
on Real Time Basis
 A total of 43 proposals from 19 agencies have been received for LHP under
GHTC-India (Global Housing technology Challenge-India) at 6 (six)
locations (LHP of Indore received 06 Proposals, Rajkot received 06
Proposals, Chennai received 11 proposals, Ranchi received 06 Proposals,
Tripura received 05 Proposals and Lucknow received 09 Proposals)
 Curtain Raiser: 15th Exercise Yudh Abhyas 2019 between Indo-US at
Joint Base Lewis MC Chord, Washington, USA.
 Indian Army Team Summit MT Leo Pargyil (6773m)
 Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan (NYKS) under Department of Youth Affairs
of MoYAS has taken up an initiative on preparing Disaster Response
Teams (DRTs) at Block level of NYKS Youth Volunteers for Disaster Risk
Reduction (DRR) in collaboration with National Disaster Response Force
(NDRF).
 The foundation stone of North Eastern Regional Agricultural Marketing
Corporation Limited (NERAMAC) marketing complex in Guwahati, Assam
today.(05-09-2019)
 New Tourism Policy for Ladakh. Ladakh region has only 14 monuments
under ASI protection and the Ministry is willing to increase it to double
or triple fold.

 31st meeting of Standing Committee of Voluntary Agencies to Optimize
the use of technology in redressal of pensioners’ grievances
 This year’s Exercise TSENTR [one of it’s four military Commands i.e Vostok
(East), Zapad (West), TSENTR (Centre) and Kavkas (South)] 2019. Apart
from host Russia, military contingents from China, India, Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan (total 9) will also take
part in this mega event. The exercise aims at evolving drills of the
participating armies and practicing them in the fight against the
scourge of international terrorism thereby ensuring military security in
the strategic central Asian region. The exercise TSENTR 2019 will
comprise two modules. The first module will include counter- terror
operations, repelling air strikes, reconnaissance operations and defensive
measures, while the second will focus on offensive operations.
 INS Tarkash at Lagos, Nigeria to celebrate the 60th anniversary of
establishing of diplomatic relations between India and Nigeria.
 Indian Navy ships Sahyadri and Kiltan are making a port call at
Sihanoukville, Cambodia are the latest, indigenously designed and built
multi-role Guided Missile Stealth Frigate and Anti-Submarine Warfare
Corvette respectively. The two ships are equipped with a versatile array of
weapons and sensors, can carry multi-role helicopters and represent the
‘coming of age’ of India’s warship building capabilities.
 ‘Seoul Defence Dialogue 2019’ with the theme, ‘Building Peace Together:
Challenges and Vision’(06-08-2019)
 7th RCEP Ministerial Meeting, 16th ASEAN India Economic Ministers
(AEM) meeting and the 7th East Asia Economic Ministers Summit being
held in Bangkok from 8-10 September 2019.
 Ministry of Defence (MoD) has conducted workshops today on Jal Shakti
Abhiyan, Swachh Bharat Abhiyan and has launched Interactive Voice
Response System for Ex-Servicemen and Central Sainik Rest House.
 On 20th year of Kargil Victory and to live up to the true tradition and motto
of Indian Air Force - “Touch the Sky with Glory”, a unique expedition Kargil
to Kohima, Ultra-Marathon- “Glory Run”

 69th Inter Service Athletics Championship (start from 1st July, 2001) is
being held at Army Sports Institute, Pune, from 07 to 10 Sept 19.
 28th edition of India-Thailand Coordinated Patrol (Indo-Thai CORPAT)
between the Indian Navy (IN) and the Royal Thai Navy (RTN) is being
conducted from 05 – 15 September 2019 since 2003. The Objectives of the
Indo-Thai CORPAT are to ensure effective implementation of United
Nations Conventions on Laws of the Sea (UNCLOS) which specify
regulations regarding protection and conservation of natural resources,
conservation of marine environment, prevention and suppression of illegal,
unregulated fishing activity/ drug trafficking/ piracy, exchange of
information in prevention of smuggling, illegal immigration and conduct of
Search and Rescue operations.
 The Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Government of India, in
collaboration with Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) is participating at
the 44th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) 2019 at Canada.
 8 croreth Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) connection. The Scheme
aims to provide clean cooking fuel to poor households and replace the
unhealthy conventional cooking fuels such as firewood, cowdung, etc.(07-
08-2019)
 DPIIT to Launch Plastic Waste Management Campaign for Swachhta Hi
Sewa 2019.
 Inaugurated the exhibition PRA-KASHI on the finest trends of
contemporary weaving, in New Delhi.
 DefExpo 2020 huge exhibition that will showcase India’s Defence
manufacturing capabilities as well as world’s top defence manufacturing
companies would be held for the first time in Lucknow from 05 – 08
February, 2020.
 2-day 68th Plenary session of North Eastern Council held in Guwahati.
 India Will Restore 26 Million Hectares of Degraded Land by 2030:
Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi.
 The UN Committee on Convention on Rights of Persons with
Disabilities (CRPD) in its 22nd Session took up India submitted its First

Country Report for consideration during 2nd & 3rd September 2019 at
UNHRC, Geneva.
 INCAA invites India to participate in Argentina’s Mar del Plata Film Festival
and Ventana Sur 2019.
 Constitution of task force for drawing up National Infrastructure
Pipeline from FY 2019-20 to FY 2024-25 under the chairmanship of
Secretary of Department of Economic Affairs (DEA).
 The first conference of Military Medicine for Shanghai Co-operation
Organisation (SCO) , with the aim to share best practices in the field of
military medicine, build capacities and overcome common
challenges.During the conference, the Indian Armed Forces will also
demonstrate the Rapid Action Medical Team and organise a visit for the
delegates to the Army Research and Referral Hospital.
 GeM and Punjab Government sign MoU for Setting up Project Management
Unit to further strengthen and enable Government departments towards
a market based procurement
 E-auction of Gifts on the web portal www.pmmementos.gov.in Presented
to Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi at National Gallery of Modern Art
 Mount Satopanth conquerors of CISF, Mount Satopanth 2nd highest peak
in western Himalayas of Gangotri Region, Garhwal in the state of
Uttarakhand.
 Launched the Curriculum for Life Skills (JeevanKaushal) designed by
University Grants Commission (UGC), in New Delhi today.
 Shri Prakash Javadekar announced the implementation of Accessibility
Standard for TV Programmes for persons with hearing impairment one
time per day.
 NCST 118th Meeting Writes to Union Home Minister & Union Tribal Affairs
Minister Conveying Its recommendation to Include Union Territory of
Ladakh Under 6th Schedule of Constitution Of India. The Scheduled Tribe
population represent 66.8 percent in Leh, 73.35 percent in Nubra, 97.05
percent in Khalsti, 83.49 per cent in Kargil, 89.96 per cent in Sanku and

99.16 per cent in Zanskar areas of the Ladakh region.The official figures,
however, does not include a number of communities including
SunniMuslims in the region, who are claiming for Scheduled Tribe status.
Taking into account this, the total tribal population in Ladakh region is
more than 97 percent
 Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) today
successfully flight tested indigenously developed low weight, fire and forget
Man Portable Antitank Guided Missile (MPATGM) (3rd generation man
portable Tripod launcher) in the ranges of Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh.
 Inauguration of Motihari-Amlekhganj (Nepal) 69-km pipeline by PM and
PM Oli of Nepal, having a capacity of 2 million metric ton per annum, will
provide cleaner petroleum products at affordable cost (lower Rs. 2 per litre)
in Nepal.
 Resurrection Ceremony for 17 Squadron 'GOLDEN ARROWS' at Ambala.
 Inaugurate India’s second Multi Modal Terminal on Ganga at Sahibganj in
Jharkhand and first at Varanasi, UP. play an important role in India-Nepal
transportation, Coal and strone from jharkhand mines and provide
employment.
 Inevitable shift in global energy consumption to Asia is a reality.
Addressing the opening session of the 8th Asian Ministerial Energy
Roundtable in Abu Dhabi.
 Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar (www.nca-wcd.nic.in.) instituted by
WCD Ministry to felicitate meritorious children, individuals and
institutions of the country is given under two categories i.e., Bal Shakti
Puraskar aims to give recognition to children who have made
extraordinary achievements in various fields including innovation,
scholastic, sports, art and culture, social service and bravery and Bal
Kalyan Puraskar to individuals and institutions, who have made an
outstanding contribution towards service for children in the field of child
development, child protection and child welfare.
 Index of Industrial Production is 4.3% and consumer price index is 3.15
in Jul 2019.

 Joint Military Exercise MAITREE-2019 between India and Thailand at
Foreign Training Node, Umroi (Meghalaya). This Exercise is an annual
training event which is being conducted alternatively in Thailand and India
since 2006.
 Unani Medical Centre at New OPD Building, Safdarjung Hospital, New
Delhi
 The Agartala (Tripura, India 5.46 km)-Akhaura Railway Link (Bangladesh
6.57 km.) project was discussed, among other issues. It was discussed
that the project will be completed by the year 2020. Once operational, it
will cut the travel time for passenger and goods movement between
Kolkata and Agartala (38 hours to 15 hours and 1500 Kms to 500 kms).
 The white water Rafting Expedition christened 'RUDRASHILA' being
undertaken by Kalidhar Battalion (on 75th Raising day of the Kalidhar
Battalion) under the aegis of Battle Axe Division was Flagged Off. 'Kalidhar
Batttalion' was raised on 01 November 1943 and has participated in all
major operations of the Indian Army including two overseas assignments
in Korea in 1953 and UN peacekeeping Mission in Congo in 2005-06.
 Minister also launched CBSE's portal 'Vidyadhan' on Diksha App, a
Digital Infrastructure for Knowledge Sharing's (National Forum for
Teachers), released CBSE's annual activity calendar and 10 CBSE
Manuals on various subjects like art integration, experiential learning,
enjoyable teaching and learning of maths, new initiatives, school quality
assessment and assurance, 10 + 2 post-academic courses, artificial
intelligence, hubs of learning and eco-club and water conservation.
 National Pension Scheme for Traders and Self Employed Persons,
www.maandhan.in/vyapari a pension scheme for the Vyaparis
(shopkeepers/retail traders and self-employed persons) with annual
turnover not exceeding Rs 1.5 crore within 18 to 40 years of age group
with a provision for minimum assured pension of Rs 3,000/- monthly on
attaining the age of 60 years. . GSTIN is required only for those with
turnover above Rs. 40 lakhs.
 118 new Community Radio Stations to be set-up act as essential
communication channels for enhancing last mile of outreach of
government.

 A major achievement for indigenous capability – LCA (Navy) makes
successful arrested landing demonstration on board the Indian Naval
Aircraft Carrier, Vikramaditya. Displays the professional prowess of our
scientific community Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA) embedded
with design and build capability of HAL (ARDC), DRDO and CSIR Labs
involved in executing this land mark event.
 Land pooling policy based on public private partnership in land assembly
in urban development represents a paradigmatic shift, wherein land is
being pooled and is to be developed by 60:40 ratio with 60% of the land to
be developed by Land owners/consortium for residential, commercial,
partly Public Semi Public (PSP) land uses and 40% of the land to be used
for various city level infrastructure requirements including roads, greens,
PSP facilities, development of utilities i.e.. He further informed that the
owners/group of owners can pool land parcels of any size for development
as per prescribed norms and guidelines based on sectors as delineated in
ZDPs.
 Insured Persons of ESIC of Newly Implemented Area to get Treatment
Under Ayushman Bharat
 Air Force Record Office (AFRO) celebrated 80th anniversary of it's
formation with ceremonial fervour at Subroto Park, New Delhi.
 On 52nd Engineers’ (Clebrated on M. Visvesvaraya birth anniversary on
15th September.) Dr. Mahendra Nath Pandey awarded with Eminent
Engineers Award.
 Newly restored Jayakar Bungalow, an iconic heritage structure of Pune

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