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Jun 03, 2020

Cabinet Approves Renaming of Kolkata Port Trust as Syama Prasad Mookerjee Port Trust

The Union Cabinet approved the renaming of Kolkata Port Trust as Syama Prasad Mukherjee Port Trust.
The Prime Minister had announced the renaming of Kolkata Port Trust after Syama Prasad Mukherjee at a function to mark the 150th-anniversary celebrations of the port trust.
Syama Prasad Mukherjee was an Indian politician, barrister and academician, who served as the Minister for Industry and Supply in Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's cabinet.

SWADES Initiative

The Indian Government will conduct a skill mapping exercise under SWADES initiative to map the skills of the Indian workers returning from overseas. SWADES stands for Skilled Workers Arrival Database for Employment Support.
The SWADES initiative, which began under the Vande Bharat Mission, aims to create a database of qualified Indian citizens based on their experience and skillsets. The database can then be refered to fulfil the demand of Indian and foreign companies.
The maximum number of Indian returnees have been from the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar and Kuwait. They were primarily employed in sectors including oil and gas, automotive, aviation, tourism, hospitality, IT and ITeS and construction.

Jun 02, 2020

Three More States Included in One Nation One Ration Card Scheme

Three more states have been included in One Nation, One Ration Card scheme. These are Odisha, Sikkim and Mizoram. Consumer Affairs Minister Ram Vilas Paswan announced the inclusion of these states in the scheme on Integrated Management of Public Distribution System.
Under this system, nation-wide portability of the benefits under National Food Security Act through One Nation, One Ration Card plan is implemented to enable the NFSA ration card holders to lift their entitled quota of subsidized food grains from any e-PoS enabled Fair Price Shop of their choice anywhere in the country, by using the existing and same ration card after Aadhaar authentication.
The facility is enabled in 17 States and UTs so far.

India Launches National AI Portal for all to Promote AI Development in the Count

The Indian government announced the National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Portal, developed jointly by the National e-Governance Division of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and the National Association of Software and Service Companies (Nasscom).
The portal is meant to work as a "one stop digital platform" for all AI related developments in India.
The minister also announced the Responsible AI for Youth Programme, which is aimed at imparting education and skills in AI to students in government schools.

Jun 01, 2020

Govt launched India's National Artificial Intelligence Portal

Ravi Shankar Prasad, the Union Minister of IT, electronics; communications, and law and justice launched a dedicated portal for Artificial Intelligence (AI) on May 30, 2020. The day marked the first anniversary of the second tenure of the central government.
The portal aims to aid the development of solutions based on Artificial Intelligence (AI). It will act as a one-stop digital platform for AI-related developments in India, investment funds in AI, sharing resource details of startups, companies, and educational institutions related to AI in India.
The Ministry of Electronics and IT and IT Industry body NASSCOM has jointly developed India's national Artificial Intelligence Portal called www.ai.gov.in.

May 31, 2020

India Observatory Launches GIS-Enabled Dashboard, CoAST India

India Observatory, an open-source database, launched a GIS-enabled dashboard, CoAST India (Collaboration/Covid Action Support Group) in collaboration with Anand-based Forest Ecological Security (FES) as its main nodal point, to help administrators, civil society organisations & volunteers to plan urgent steps to get the stranded migrant population to safety & care.
The dashboard provides a repository of migrants data & requirements linked to the relevant service providers.
It also visualises facilities like schools & hospitals, road networks, relief camps, quarantine centers & healthcare workers.

Goa Celebrates Statehood Day

Goa celebrates its statehood day on 30th May. It was on this day in 1987 Goa became the 25th state of the Indian Union.
It was a Union Territory along with Daman and Diu from December 1961 onwards when Goa was liberated from the colonial rule.
Once Goa was liberated there was a controversy regarding merging Goa with the neighbouring state of Maharashtra or Mysore.
However, an opinion poll of 1967 suggested that Goa, Daman, and Diu be Union Territory.

May 29, 2020

Karnataka to Launch 'State Health Register' of all Citizens

Karnataka government on May 27, 2020 announced that it will be launching a new project to maintain a 'State Health Register' comprising the database of all its citizens.
The health register, first-of-its-kind, will be a robust and standardized health repository of all the citizens of the state.
Elaborating on the same, Karnataka's Medical Education Minister K Sudhakar stated that the COVID-19 experience has demonstrated the need to maintain a robust, real-time repository of health data of each and every citizen.
The project will be first launched in Chikkaballapur district of Karnataka on an experimental basis.

Uttar Pradesh Govt to Develop 800 km Roads as Herbal Roads

Deputy Chief Minister and PWD minister of the state Keshav Prasad Maurya told that these herbal roads will have trees like like Peepal, Neem, Sehjan along with other herb varieties like Brahmi, Ashvagandha and Jatrofa.
Uttar Pradesh government will develop 800 km roads as Herbal roads in the state. These herbal roads will have medicinal and herbal trees along with the land on their both sides.
He said that these plants will provide raw material for the medicines and will also help in curbing the erosion of land. He stressed that this scheme will help both development and beautification and bring medicinal benefits along with promoting bio diversity.

Kargil's First Solar Lift Irrigation Plant Inaugurated

In Ladakh, Director of Animal, Sheep Husbandry and Fisheries Dr Mohammad Raza inaugurated the first Solar Lift Irrigation Plant of Kargil with five KW Solar Plant and three HP Submersible Pump at Yak Breeding Farm, Bodh Kharboo keeping in view the protocols of social distancing and Standard Operating Prcedures.
Chief Animal Husbandry Officer, Kargil Dr Fida Hussain said that Yak Breeding Farm, Bodh Kharboo has an allotment under special package of 1.20 crore rupees by the Government of India under Rashtriya Gokul Mission (RGM) and this Solar Irrigation Pump will help in proper utilization of this fund in the Farm.

State Amends FRA to Clear More Claims on Forest Land

The notification issued on May, 2020, stated that the Governor of Maharashtra Bhagat Singh Koshyari has made certain modifications in Section 6 of the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006, (also called as Forest Rights Act-FRA) in its application to the Scheduled Areas of the State of Maharashtra, by exercising the powers conferred upon him by Schedule V of the Constitution.
Purpose of modifications- Modification is to provide justice to the tribals whose Individual Forest rights or Community Forest rights have been rejected by the District Level Committee(DLC) constituted under FRA.
As per the modification a provision has been incorporated to enable rightful claimants of the forest rights to appeal against the Order of the DLC.

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