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NATIONAL AFFAIRS - October 2018

Oct 2018

Dec 05, 2022

Power Ministry Waives Inter-state Transmission Charges for New Hydro Projects

The Power Ministry announced a waiver of inter-state transmission charges on wheeling electricity for 18 years for new hydropower projects.
The waiver is already available to solar and wind power projects. The government has set an ambitious plan to have 500 GW of generation capacity from non-fossil energy-based sources by 2030.
Hydropower projects, being clean, green and sustainable will be of paramount importance in our clean energy transition journey. They are also essential for the integration of solar and wind power, which are intermittent in nature, the ministry said.

Institute of Cost Accountants of India Elects Vijender Sharma as the President

The Institute of Cost Accountants of India said that Vijender Sharma was elected as the new president and Rakesh Bhalla as vice-president for 2022-23. The institute, which is a statutory body set up under an Act of Parliament, comes under the administrative control of Union Ministry of Corporate Affairs. Mr. Vijender Sharma was vice-president and CMA Rakesh Bhalla was Central Council member and Chairman of Direct Tax Committee of the Institute in previous term 2021-22.
Sharma is a fellow member of ICAI and a law graduate. He is a leading practicing cost accountant since 1998 and insolvency professional since January 2017. He has an experience of over 22 years in diversified areas of financial, cost and management accounting, internal audit, management consultancy, forensic audit, insolvency and liquidation, etc.

Rajeeva Laxman Karandikar Named as Chairperson of the National Statistical Commission

Government of India appointed Rajeeva Laxman Karandikar, Professor Emeritus at Chennai Mathematical Institute (CMI), as the part-time chairperson of the National Statistical Commission (NSC) of India for a period of three years. He will take up this role as an additional responsibility while continuing as Professor Emeritus at CMI. He joined CMI as a visiting professor in 2010, and officiated as the Director of CMI from January 2011 to April 2021.
Karandikar is widely known for his three decades of work on probability theory as well as applications of mathematics and statistics to real world questions.
He has designed, supervised and analysed nationwide opinion polls for the Indian parliamentary elections as well State assemblies since 1998. He is known for developing a new model and methodology for seat prediction, which has been quite successful for over the last 20 years.
Mr. Karandikar was a member of the committee constituted by the Election Commission (EC) of India to advice the EC on the sampling scheme for EVM-VVPAT verification.
NSC is an autonomous body formed in June 2005 under the recommendation of the Dr. C Rangarajan Commission. The objective of its constitution was to reduce the problems faced by statistical agencies in the country with respect to the collection of data, and strengthen public trust in the numbers released by the Government of India. The chairperson of the Commission enjoys the status of a Minister of State, Government of India.

Dec 04, 2022

Jaiveer Shergill Made BJP Spokesperson, Amarinder Singh too Gets New Role

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) appointed former Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh and Sunil Jakhar as well as its former Uttar Pradesh president Swatantra Dev Singh as members of its national executive.
It also appointed former Congress spokesperson Jaiveer Shergill its national spokesperson.
Madan Kaushik, Vishnu Deo Sai, its former presidents of Uttarakhand and Chhattisgarh respectively, Rana Gurmit Singh Sodhi, Manoranjan Kalia and Amanjot Kaur Ramoowalia, all three from Punjab, wwere made special invitees to the national executive.

Dec 03, 2022

MP Govt. to Form New Committee for Implementation of Uniform Civil Code

The BJP government in Madhya Pradesh announced that a committee will be formed for the implementation of the Uniform Civil Code in the state.
Some other BJP-ruled states including Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh have made similar announcements.
The announcement was made by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan at a function, where he asked why there were two personal laws in one country, and also alleged that some men marry women from tribal communities with the motive of usurping their land.

Dec 02, 2022

Gujarat Assembly Polls Phase-1 End: 59.2% Voter Turnout Recorded Till 5 pm

An average 59.24 per cent voter turn-out was recorded as of 5 pm across 89 Assembly seats in the first phase of Gujarat elections. While voting began at 8 in the morning and ended at 5 pm, the final turn-out would be higher as the process continued at the polling stations where voters had arrived before 5 pm and were standing in queues.
The fate of 788 candidates will be decided in the first phase. Barring a few incidents, polling was largely peaceful across all 89 seats in south Gujarat and Saurashtra-Kutch regions which went to polls in the first phase.

Dec 01, 2022

Meghalaya Cabinet Approves Mental Health and Social Care Policy

The Meghalaya cabinet approved a policy aimed at addressing the issues of mental health and social care through collaborative engagement with communities, Chief Minister Conrad K. Sangma said. Meghalaya is the first north-eastern the third state in the country to have a comprehensive policy on mental health and social care, paying attention to these issues, especially among children, adolescents and youth.
Kerala and Karnataka are the other two states in the country to have such policies.
In 2014, the Centre launched the first-ever National Mental Health Policy in an attempt to provide universal psychiatry care.

India Achieves National Health Policy Target for MMR

India achieved a significant milestone by achieving the National Health Policy (NHP) target for Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR).
The Maternal Mortality Ratio declined from 130 per lakh live births in 2014-16 to 97 per lakh live births in 2018-20, according to a special bulletin released by the office of the Registrar General of India. Assam has the highest Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) of 195 while Kerala has the lowest of 19 per lakh live births, as per the data.
The MMR of India has improved further by 6 points and now stands at 97/ lakh live births. The Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) is defined as the number of maternal deaths during a given time period per 100,000 live births.
Upon achieving this, India has accomplished the National Health Policy (NHP) target for MMR of less than 100/lakh live births and is on the right track to achieve the SDG target of MMR less than 70/ lakh live births by 2030, the Ministry of Health stated.

Nagaland Celebrates 60th Statehood Day

Nagaland celebrated its 60th statehood day with Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio's call to take forward the path of development and peace and work towards bringing a solution to the Naga political issue.
The northeastern state of Nagaland bordering Myanmar became a separate state in 1963.
In the last six decades, Nagaland has seen giant strides being taken for the creation of educational and technical institutions for the development of human resources.
Starting from 593 schools and two colleges in the early years of statehood, Nagaland now has 2,718 schools, and 69 colleges.

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