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NATIONAL AFFAIRS - December 2016

Dec 2016

Dec 25, 2018

Tenth Naval Hospital

The Indian Navy commissioned a hospital ship INHS Sandhani at Naval Station Karanja in Uran in Maharashtra's Raigad district. INHS Sandhani is the tenth Naval Hospital of the Navy.
The hospital had modest beginnings as a small primary health centre in 1955. With the steady expansion of the naval station over the last few decades, a need was felt for a multispecialty hospital.
The sanction for the same was given by the Ministry of Defence in September 2016.

Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot's Cabinet

The Ashok Gehlot-led Congress government in Rajasthan will have 23 ministers, including 17 new faces. It will have 13 cabinet ministers and ten ministers of state.
The strength of the council of ministers in Rajasthan cannot exceed 30 or 15% of the total number of seats in the 200-member state assembly.
The MLAs who are going to be a part of the state cabinet are: Bulaki Das Kalla (Bikaner west), Parsadi Lal Meena (Lalsot), Shanti Dhariwal (Kota North), Lalchand Kataria (Jhotwara), Raghu Sharma (Kekri), Vishvendra Singh (Deeg-Kumher), Harish Choudhary (Baytoo), Ramesh Meena (Sapotra), Master Bhanwarlal Meghwal (Sujangarh), Pratap Singh Khachariyawas (Civil Lines), Udai Lal Anjana (Nimbahera), Saleh Mohammad (Pokaran), Govind Singh Dotasara (Lachhmangarh), Mamta Bhupesh (Sikrai), Arjun Bamania (Banswara), Bhanwar Singh Bhati (Kolayat), Sukhram Bishnoi (Sanchore), Ashok Chandna (Hindoli), Tikaram Jully (Alwar Rural), Bhajan Lal Jatav (Weir), Rajendra Singh Yadav (Kotputli) and Subhash Garg from Bharatpur (Rashtriya Lok Dal).

Chhattisgarh to Return Tribal Land

The newly-elected Congress government in Chhattisgarh has said it will return the land acquired from tribal farmers in Bastar in 2005 by the state government for the proposed Tata Steel project, which did not take off.
Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel has issued directions to the concerned department and the process of returning the land of the tribals will start soon.
The Congress had promised in its manifesto that since the land is lying idle for more than five years it would be returned to the tribals as per Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition Act, 2013, if they come to power.

Dec 22, 2018

Agencies Allowed to Monitor Computers

The government and the Opposition sparred over a notification allowing 10 central agencies and Delhi police rights to snoop into anyone's computer, with Congress president Rahul Gandhi raising the spectre of a "police state" and finance minister Arun Jaitley and IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad clarifying that this was merely a repetition of rules passed during the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) regime in 2009.

Three States top Development Index

According to a first-of-its-kind index released by NITI Aayog, Himachal Pradesh, Kerala and Tamil Nadu have been ranked highest in terms of being on track to achieve the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).
The index comprises a composite score for each State and Union Territory based on their aggregate performance across 13 of the 17 SDGs.
The score, ranging between 0 and 100, denotes the average performance of the State/UT towards achieving the 13 SDGs and their respective targets.
The average Indian score was 57.

Dec 21, 2018

Live Streaming Counselling

In a first for a government hospital in the country, Jipmer is all set to introduce live streaming of the counselling process of post-graduate entrance examination in a bid to enhance transparency.
As per Jipmer director Dr. R. P. Swaminathan, with this move, the counselling process would become more transparent and avoid legal issues.
This facility is being done using National Knowledge Network (NKN) internet connectivity provided by National Informatics Centre (NIC) Puducherry.

UPA Sealed Bihar Alliance

The Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) received a shot in the arm with the Rashtriya Lok Samta Party (RLSP) of Upendra Kushwaha, a former constituent of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA), joining its grouping in the electorally crucial state of Bihar which sends 40 representatives to the Lok Sabha.
Kushwaha told that his party will contest the 2019 Lok Sabha elections as part of the Mahagathbandhan (Grand Alliance) in Bihar.
Apart from the Congress and the RLSP, the other major parties in the grand alliance are the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and the Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM).

Dec 20, 2018

President's Rule in J&K

President's Rule will come into force in Jammu and Kashmir from 20th December, after the expiry of six months of Governor's Rule.
President Ram Nath Kovind signed the proclamation paving the way for imposition of Central rule in the State which was placed under Governor's Rule on June 20 after the BJP withdrew support to the PDP government.
Since the State has a separate Constitution, in such cases, six months of Governor's Rule is compulsory under Article 92 of the Jammu and Kashmir Constitution, with all legislature powers vested with the Governor.

Captive Elephants in Kerala Got Genetic IDs

For the first time in the country, captive jumbos in Kerala have now got their own genetic IDs.
The forest department, with the technical support of Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology (RGCB) in Thiruvananthapuram, has prepared the DNA database of all the registered captive jumbos across the state.
Kerala has become the first in the country to have prepared the DNA-based genetic ID of its entire captive elephant population.

Haryana Municipal Corporation Elections

The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party scored a resounding win in Haryana Municipal Corporation (MC) elections by bagging all the five mayoral seats with massive margins and secured majority in three of five MCs.
For the first time, the voters elected the mayors directly, in a departure from earlier practice of councillors electing the mayor from among themselves.

Dec 19, 2018

Rural Electricity Bills and Farm Loans Waived

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) governments in Gujarat and Assam decided to waive rural electricity bills and farm loans respectively, to the tune of Rs. 650 crore and Rs. 600 crore.
The announcements came a day after the newly-formed Congress governments in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh waived farm loans.
The new Congress government in Rajasthan is also expected to do the same shortly.

National Women's Party

The National Women's Party, which claims to be the country's first national level women's party, and which aims to ensure 50% reservation for women in Parliament, was launched in Delhi.
The party is headed by Swetha Shetty who heads a non-governmental organisation (NGO), Telangana Mahila Samiti, which boasts of 1.45 lakh members in Telangana.
As per Shetty, we need higher participation in the Parliament to amend laws for the welfare and progress of women.

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