Kushinagar Airport as a Customs Notified Airport – CBIC

The organization of CBIC (Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs) has declared Kushinagar Airport as a Customs notified airport. This would also facilitate global passenger actions which include that of Buddhist pilgrims.

Highlights:

The Kushinagar airport is a global airport unfolding throughout a location of 600 acres. It was granted the licence to operate global flights by using DGCA remaining February. In the month of August, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) prolonged the validity of the licence to function worldwide flights till February 21, 2023. The licence was once due to expire on August 21, 2021.

The Building Urban Planning Capacity in India report comprises of a set of recommendations on several aspects of urban planning like:

Interventions for planning healthy cities

Optimum utilization of urban land

Ramping up human-resource capacities

Strengthening urban Governance

Building local Leadership

Enhancing the role of private sector and

Advancing the urban planning Education system.

As per report, India needs a Central sector scheme to build 500 healthy cities over the next five years as well as a thorough revamp of town-planning acts in states in order to meet future challenges of Urbanisation.

As per the NITIAayog, the Central sector scheme for building 500 healthy cities will have to be initiated by Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs in association with the states & Union Territories.

Reforms Report by NITI Aayog

launches the Report on Reforms in Urban Planning Capacity in India. The report is titled Reforms in Urban Planning Capacity in India.

Highlights:

The report was developed by NITI Aayog, in session with worried ministries and eminent experts in the domain of city and regional planning.

It provides a condensed effect of the significant deliberations and consultations conducted over a period of 9 months.

India is Home to about 11% of the total world urban Population. By 2027, India will surpass China as the most populous united states in the world. Unplanned Urbanization, however, exerts exceptional Stress on our cities.

Shoonya Campaign by NITI Aayog

, RMI, and RMI India Launch Shoonya Campaign. It is an initiative to promote zero-pollution shipping vehicles by working with customers and Industry.

Highlights:

The Marketing campaign aims to speed up the adoption of electric powered automobiles (EVs) in the urban deliveries segment and create customer attention about the advantages of zero-pollution delivery.

Industry stakeholders such as E-Commerce companies, fleet aggregators, unique gear manufacturers (OEMs) and Logistics corporations have been scaling up their efforts towards final-mile shipping electrification.

As part of the campaign, a corporate branding and certification programme is being launched to realise and promote industrys efforts toward transitioning to EVs for final-mile deliveries.

Crime Record of India by NCRB

The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) record on Crime in India was launched.

Highlights:

The Coronavirus pandemic and subsequent lockdown resulted in a drop in regular crimes like theft, robbery, and assault on ladies and children in 2020.

There was a 28% increase in the registration of cases in 2020 in the country in contrast to 2019, especially owing to the violation of COVID-19 norms.

An nearly 21-fold bounce was recorded in instances of disobedience to the order duly promulgated by means of public servants.

Crimes against Scheduled Castes showed an increase of 9.4%. offences towards the Scheduled Tribe communities showed an increase of 9.3% over 2019.

Sixth Edition of SCO Peaceful Mission

Indian Military Contingent participates in the sixth Edition of Exercise SCO Peaceful Mission 2021 at Orenburg, Russia.

Highlights:

Joint Counter Terrorism Exercise PEACEFUL MISSION is a Multilateral Exercise, which is performed biennially as section of navy diplomacy between Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) member states.

The 6th version of Exercise PEACEFUL MISSION is being hosted by Russia in the Orenburg Region of South West Russia in September 2021.

The focus of the exercise is to foster shut family members between SCO member states and to enhance abilities of the army leaders to command multinational military contingents.

The exercise will enable sharing of quality practices between the Armed Forces of SCO nations.

Self Help Groups – Atmanirbhar Narishakti se Samvad

PM interacted with girls in Atmanirbhar Narishakti se Samvad.

In the Samvad, the PM interacted with ladies Self Help Group (SHG) members/community useful resource people promoted underneath the Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana-National Rural Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NRLM).

He also launched capitalization support funds to the tune of Rupees 1625 Crore to over 4 lakh SHGs.

In addition, Rs. 25 crore was released as seed Money for 7500 SHG participants under the PMFME (PM Formalisation of Micro Food Processing Enterprises) Scheme.

During the occasion, the PM also launched Rs. 4.13 crore as funds to seventy-five FPOs (Farmer Producer Organizations) being promoted under the DAY-NRLM.

According to the PM, the Women SHG motion has intensified in the final 6 7 years.

A Milestone in Installed Renewable Energy Capacity

India achieves 100 GW Milestone of Installed Capacity.

The whole established renewable strength potential in India, except for massive hydro, has crossed the milestone of a hundred GW.

India stands at 4th function in the world in phrases of installed RE capacity, 5th in solar and 4th in wind in phrases of mounted capacity.

If giant hydro is included the installed RE capability will increase to 146 GW.
The fulfilment of an established RE capacity of 100 GW is a necessary milestone in Indias ride in the direction of its target of 450 GW by 2030.

Rashtriya Vayoshri Yojana – Department of Social Justice and Empowerment

A Central Sector Scheme called Rashtriya Vayoshri Yojana (RVY) is being applied via the Department of Social and Empowerment with a goal to supply senior citizens, belonging to the BPL category and those who from suffering from age-related disabilities/infirmities, with such bodily aids and assisted residing devices which can restoration close to normalcy in their bodily functions.

About the Rashtriya Vayoshri Yojana:

It is a scheme for presenting bodily aids & assisted-living devices for senior citizens belonging to the Below POVERTY-line”>Poverty Line category.

Items like such as walking sticks, elbow crutches, walkers, tripods, quadpods, hearing aids, wheelchairs, artificial dentures, spectacles, etc. are provided.

It is absolutely funded via the Central Government.

The scheme is carried out through the Artificial Limbs Manufacturing Corporation (ALIMCO), which is the sole implementing agency.

Export of 5 Varieties of Apple – APEDA

APEDA in collaboration with HPMC (Himachal Pradesh Horticultural Produce Marketing and Processing Corporation Ltd) exported the first consignment of 5 special varieties of apples in order to promote agricultural and processed meals merchandise exports to more recent destinations.

Five varieties of apples consisting of Dark Baron Gala, Royal Delicious, Scarlet Spur, Red Velox and Golden Delicious were exported to Bahrain. These apples were sourced from farmers of Himachal Pradesh.

The first consignment used to be exported with the aid of APEDA registered DM Enterprises.

Apples to be showcased at the apple promotion programme equipped by the main retailer known as the Al Jajira group.

Common Survey to Count Tigers and Elephants

India will adopt a system that will count elephants and tigers from December as a common survey.

Highlights:

The announcement was made on August 12 on the occasion of World Elephant Day.

The tiger survey will be held in four years, and elephants are surveyed once in five years.

Since 2006, the Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, which is affiliated with the Environment Ministry, has had a standardised protocol used by States to estimate tiger numbers.

Tigers are counted based on sightings in camera traps and indirect estimation methods. Elephant numbers largely depend on States directly counting the elephants.

In recent years, techniques such as analysing dung samples have been deployed to estimate elephant birth rates and Population trends.

There were 2,997 tigers by the 2018-19 survey and 29,964 elephants by the 2017 survey in India.

Given that 90% of the area occupied by elephants and tigers is common, and after standardisation of estimation methods, having a common survey can significantly save costs.