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NATIONAL AFFAIRS - November 2019

Nov 2019

Dec 30, 2019

MyGov Reaches 1 crore Registered Users

Central government's citizen engagement platform - MyGov has reached one crore registered users. Five years ago, @mygovindia began its journey with a vision to offer a platform for the voice and views of the people of India.
In a tweet, Prime Minister's Office said, MyGov has emerged as a vibrant centre for ideas and insights. Congrats on this milestone.
Earlier in the day, MyGov tweeted about the number of registered users. It said, as we welcome a new year & new decade - we resolve to make this platform bigger, bolder, better.
It also thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for inspiring and guiding it.

NITI Aayog to Launch second Edition of Sustainable Development Goals India Index

NITI Aayog will launch the second edition of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) India Index in New Delhi. The Index documents the progress made by India's States and Union Territories towards implementing the 2030 SDG targets.
NITI Aayog will also launch the Dashboard 2019-20. The SDG India Index and Dashboard track the progress of States and rank all States and Union Territories on 100 indicators drawn from Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation's National Indicator Framework, comprising 306 indicators.
It indicates where the country and its States and UTs currently are on SDG implementation. It also charts the distance to be travelled to reach the SDG targets.
The Index covers 16 out of 17 SDGs and a qualitative assessment on Goal 17.
This marks an improvement over the 2018 SDG Index, which covered only 13 goals.

Dec 29, 2019

Ten Rupees Food to Farmers in Haryana

Chief Minister of Haryana Manohar Lal Khattar will soon introduce the scheme of providing ten rupees food to farmers in grain market. The same system will also be introduced in sugar mills where farmers will get food for ten rupees. Khattar made this declaration while he was attending meeting party volunteers.

Holiday Changes in J&K's Calendar

Two holidays have been dropped and a new one added to the annual calendar of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) in a government move the National Conference (NC) slammed as an assault on the psyche of the people.
July 13 and December 5 will cease to be official holidays, according to a government order that designated October 26 -- the day the region had acceded to the Union of India in 1947--as a holiday in the Union Territory.
July 13 was observed as Martyr's Day in the erstwhile state of J&K in memory of 21 Kashmiris who were killed by the army of autocratic ruler Maharaja Hari Singh during an uprising in 1931 when the region was a princely state. Kashmir has observed a shutdown every year on the day until this year. December 5 is the birthday of NC founder, the late Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah.

Dec 28, 2019

Cabinet Defers Decision on Capital, Panel to Take a Call

The Andhra Pradesh government tread cautiously on the proposed 'three capitals' by resolving in the Cabinet meeting to constitute a high-power committee to examine both the recommendations of a team of experts led by retired IAS officer G.N. Rao and the findings of Boston Consulting Group (BCG), which is expected to submit its report in the first week of January 2020, and pick the best of them. The members of the high-power committee have not been announced yet.
The government did not make the much-anticipated declaration of Amaravati, Visakhapatnam and Kurnool as Legislative, Executive and Judicial capital cities.
The move was vehemently opposed by farmers who had parted with about 33,000 acres under the pooling scheme, and the Opposition parties, mainly the Telugu Desam Party and the Bharatiya Janata Party, which insisted that decentralisation of development (not administration) was the need of the hour.

Chandrababu Naidu and TDP Leaders Involved in Insider Trading

The Cabinet sub-committee, which probed the alleged irregularities and insider trading in the capital Amaravati, submitted its report to the State government, which will take legal opinion before referring it to the law enforcing agencies.
According to the report, persons privy to the likely location of capital allegedly purchased lands in the capital city/capital region area just prior to the formal official declaration.
The committee pointed out that irregularities took place with regard to the boundary of the capital area to benefit certain connected people, holding lands on the fringes.

Kerala to Give Nambi Narayanan Rs. 1.3crore

The state government of Kerala has in principle decided to give Rs. 1.3 crore as compensation to former ISRO scientist Nambi Narayanan, who was falsely implicated in the 1994 espionage case. The amount is for settling the case filed by Naryananan against the government in a sub-court, seeking enhanced damages for his illegal arrest.

SC Judge to Head Oversight Panel

The government's proposed All India Judicial Services (AIJS), aimed at inducting the best talent from National Law School as judges for the subordinate judiciary, will include an oversight committee, headed by a sitting Supreme Court judge, for the overall supervision of recruitment and posting of selected candidates.
The thinking within the ministry is that this should address concerns raised by states and high courts (HC) that have opposed AIJS on the ground that it dilutes their constitutional authority to hire for state judiciary.
The law ministry, in June, wrote to all states seeking their view on AIJS, setting the ball rolling for a central exam for the lower judiciary. The government proposes to create the Indian Administrative Service (IAS)-like judicial service and wants to engage the Union Public Services Commission (UPSC) as the agency to conduct the exam.
However, the oversight committee, which is likely to also comprise central government representatives, will finalise the syllabus, set the paper and fix the weightage of the test and interview.

Dec 27, 2019

Foundation Laid For Country's First Transit-Oriented Development Project

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on December 26 laid the foundation stone for the country's first transit-oriented development (TOD) project under which a state-of-the-art infrastructure zone, including the national capital's tallest tower, will be built in east Delhi. The project -- 'East Delhi Hub' at Karkardooma -- spread over 30 hectares, will come up in the next three-and-a-half years.
The hub will be developed around the existing two Delhi Metro stations at Karkardooma-- on the Blue and Pink Lines, and will include a massive open landscaped green area, besides a 48-storey signature tower that will come up in the first phase of the project.
The vision of development that Modiji has for Delhi is being implemented by the Ministry of Housing an Urban Affairs, and this project will be the country's first TOD project. Delhi will prosper after this.

VP Venkaiah Naidu To Inaugurate Lpg Bottling Plant In Odisha on Dec 27

A new LPG bottling plant set up for Rs 103 crore by Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) in Odisha's Balangir district will be inaugurated by Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on December 27.
The plant with a capacity to produce 42 lakh cylinders per year is scheduled to be dedicated to the nation by the vice president at Barkani in Balangir district, Sanjay Sharma, BPCLs State Head, LPG - Odisha and Jharkhand.
BPCL already has an LPG bottling plant at Khurda and the new plant at Balangir will be the second for the company in Odisha.

Nation Pays Homage To Shaheed Udham Singh On His 120th Birth Anniversary

Nation pays homage to the great revolutionary, Shaheed Udham Singh on his 120th birth anniversary.
He was born on this day in 1899 in Sangrur district of Punjab.
Udham Singh was present in the Jallianwala Bagh, Amritsar on the fateful Baisakhi Day of 13 April 1919. He avenged the massacre by killing General O'Dwyer in March 1940, and was hanged by the British in London.

Dec 26, 2019

Uddhav Assures Full Loan Waiver

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray assured a complete farm loan waiver in the state.
Thackeray's statement came a day after the Shiv Sena- led government formally approved a loan waiver scheme under which short-term crop loan up to Rs. 2 lakh taken by farmers between April 1, 2015 to March 31, 2019, will be written off.
Under the scheme, short-term restructured crop loan arrears up to September 30, 2019, will also be waived.
They waived loans worth Rs. 2 lakh (per farmer) as immediate relief to cultivators. But they will also make sure that their entire (crop) loan is waived.

No-trust Motion against Srinagar Mayor

A group of independent corporators supported by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) moved a no-confidence motion against Srinagar Municipal Corporation mayor Junaid Azim Mattu.
Last week, BJP leaders were weighing options to remove Mattu and his deputy Sheikh Imran. The Congress and the People's Conference, the largest parties in the corporation, had termed the claim "day dreaming". The no-confidence motion against Mattu was moved by independent corporators from Ikrajpora, Ghulam Nabi Bhat, and seconded by three city corporators. The corporators have handed a letter of no-confidence in Mattu to the SMC secretary for initiating the process.

JJP Leader Resigns from Party Post

The Jannayak Janta Party, the alliance partner of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Haryana, the party's national vice-president and Narnaund MLA Ram Kumar Gautam announced his resignation from the post, accusing Dushyant Chautala, the Deputy Chief Minister, of holding eleven portfolios by himself and not thinking about the party MLAs.
Holding a press meet, Mr. Chautala was holding eleven portfolios and enjoying the "feast" all by himself without thinking about his nine other MLAs. He added that Mr. Chautala was made Deputy Chief Minister because of his MLAs, but now they were left grumbling and running around to get their works done.

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