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8.15 Crore Rural Households Provided Tap Water Connections In 3.5 Years Under Jal Jeevan Mission

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To enable every rural household in the country to have assured potable water through tap water connection by 2024, Government of India in PARTNERSHIP with States is implementing Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) – Har Ghar Jal since Aug., 2019.Water being a State subject, the responsibility to plan, approve, implement & operate & maintain water supply

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schemes lies with the States.At the time of announcement of Jal Jeevan Mission in August 2019, 3.23 Crore (17%) rural households were reported to have tap water connections. So far, as reported by States/ UTs as on 09.03.2023, additional 8.15 Crore rural households have been provided with tap water connections in last three and half years under JJM. Thus, as on 09.03.2023, out of 19.42 Crore rural households in the country, more than 11.38 Crore (58%) households are reported to have tap water supply in their homes.

Margdarshika for Gram Panchayats & VWSCs to provide Safe drinking water in rural households and Guidelines on a special campaign to provide piped water supply in anganwadi centres, ashramshalas and schools have been shared with States/ UTs to facilitate planning and implementation of Jal Jeevan Mission. For online monitoring, JJMIntegrated Management Information System (IMIS) and JJMDashboard has been put in place. Provision has also been made for transparent online financial management through Public Financial Management System (PFMS). Sufficient funds are also being provided to states for timely completion of works.

Womens access to creditdoubles to 14% in 5 years

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Credit access to Women has doubled in the last five years. The loan penetration among women borrowers has shot up to 14% in 2022 from 7% in 2017. Credit access is the ratio of women borrowers to the total adult Population.
According to a report by TransUnion (TU) Cibil, women borrowers in India have increased at a compound annual Growth rate (CAGR) of 15% over the last five years compared to 11% for male borrowers. The share of women borrowers has increased to 28% in 2022 from 25% in 2017.

There are many reasons for the higher growth rate for women. Many lenders have been offering better rates for women borrowers. Second, women borrowers

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have a better credit profile compared to men. In 2022, the report said that 57% of women borrowers had prime credit scores (731-770) compared to 51% of male borrowers.

Insights also indicate that the number of women seeking business loans has more than tripled in the last five years (2017 to 2022), which reflects the growth of women-led startups in India. During this period, the share of women in the overall business loan portfolio has increased by 12 Percentage points (32% in 2022 versus 20% in 2017). An increase in the share of women borrowers is also observed in the Home loan segment, growing

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by 6 percentage points in the last five years.

Among the top 12 states by total credit active borrowers,West Bengal(22%),Rajasthan(21%) and Bihar (21%) have seen the highest growth in women borrowers between 2017 and 2022.

Japan, U.S., South Korea, Taiwan launch Chip 4 talks for supply chain

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Japan, the United States, South Korea and Taiwan have held the first meeting of senior officials under a new U.S.-led framework to help ensure a stable supply of semiconductors, Japans ministry said. Officials from industry organizations in the four economies took part in the virtual conference of the Chip 4 alliance on Feb. 16 to discuss ways to maintain supply chain resilience in times of natural disasters and other contingencies.

In a bid to outcompete China technologically, the Biden administration launched a new dialogue forum with Japan and South Korea on friend-shoring semiconductors as

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it invites companies to compete for a share of the $50 billion already approved to revitalize the U.S. chip industry.

Scientist develop energy- efficient hydrogen production by urea electrolysis

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Indian Scientists have designed an electrocatalyst system for energy-efficient hydrogen production with the help of electrolysis of urea. The urea electrolysis is helpful towards urea-based waste treatment with low-cost hydrogen production. This can be utilized for energy production towards our country’s benefits.

The energy requirement for production of hydrogen through water electrolysis can be reduced by 70 % through urea electrolysis. The energy-intensive

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counterpart of water splitting, Oxygen evolution, can be replaced with urea oxidation in urea electrolysis. The low-cost, earth-abundant Ni-based catalysts are widely
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applied for this process. The main challenge associated with urea oxidation is retaining the prolonged activity of the Catalyst as the strong adsorption of the reactive intermediate (COx) on the active site, referred to as catalyst poisoning, causes activity loss.

Labour Ministry launches Donate-a-Pension initiative

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Union Labour and EMPLOYMENT Minister Bhupender Yadav launched the Donate-a-Pension programme under Pradhan Mantri Shram Yogi Maan-Dhan (PM-SYM) for people to contribute to the pension fund of their support staff.

It is an initiative under (PM-SYM) pension scheme

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where citizens can donate the premium contribution of their immediate support staff such as domestic workers, drivers, helpers etc,

The Donate-a-Pension programme which was launched today is part of many initiatives by the Labour Ministry to be launched in the Iconic Week being celebrated by the Ministry from March 7 to 13.

The objective of National Festival is to hear the voice of youth between 18 and less

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than 25 years of age, who will join various careers in coming years, including public Services.National Youth Parliament Festival (NYPF) is based on the idea given by Prime Minister in his Mann Ki Baat Address on 31st December 2017.

Taking inspiration from the idea of Prime Minister, the first NYPF 2019 was organised from 12 January to 27 February 2019 at District, State & National level with the theme Be the Voice of New India and Find solutions and Contribute to Policy.

National Youth Festival is celebrated every year from 12th to 16th January. 12th January being the birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda, is observed as National Youth Day. This year, NYPF is also being organized along with the National Youth Festival.

Karewas

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Vudris the local name for Karewas in Kashmiri language.

In the Kashmiri dialect,the term Karewa means elevated table land.

Firstly, this term wasused by Godwin Austin in 1859 and later on by Lydekker in 1878forunconsolidated to semi-consolidated sand clay conglomerate sequence.

Karewas are

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thethick deposits of glacial clay and other materials embedded with moraines.These are unconsolidatedlacustrine deposits.Lacustrine means associated with lakes

Param Ganga: Made-in-India Petascale Supercomputer Installed at IIT Roorkee

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A Made in India Petascale Supercomputer “PARAM Ganga” has been installed at IIT Roorkee on Monday by B.V.R. Mohan Reddy, Chairman, Board of Governors, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee. The establishment of

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1.66 PFLOPS (Peta Floating-Point Operations Per Second) supercomputing at IIT Roorkee by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC) has been built under the approach of the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM).

The new high-performance computational (HPC) facility would aid researchers to

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solve complex problems of national importance and global significance. The new HPC will serve as an essential compute Environment for the modern-day research along with their theoretical and experimental work.”

All Indians head back from Ukrainian cities

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By March 8, almost all Indians were evacuated from Ukraine, under a special effort codenamed Operation Ganga, starting from February 24, when the invasion began. The last of the stranded Indians, from Sumy University, have

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also been evacuated to safety in neighbouring Poland, Romania etc.

This was possible with support from the Russian and Ukraine governments under the `Green Corridor’ facility they have jointly arranged.

ESA Vigil

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Its the first of its kind mission, with the aim of monitoring the unpredictable and active Sun and help protect the Earth from its outbursts.

ESA Vigil will be the first of its kind. By keeping an eagle eye on the ‘side’ of the Sun, the spacecraft will stream a constant feed of near real-time data on potentially hazardous solar activity, before it rolls into view from Earth.

The mission will give us advance warning of oncoming solar storms and therefore more time to protect spacecraft in orbit, on the ground and explorers now and in the future, unshielded by

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Earth’s Magnetic Field and vulnerable to our star’s violent outbursts.

Lithium reserves found in Jammu and Kashmir

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The government on Thursday, February 9, 2023, saidlithium reserveshave been found for the first time in the country in Jammu and Kashmir.

Lithium is

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a non-ferrous Metal and is one of thekey components in EV batteries.

Upon exploration by the Geological Survey of India (GSI), lithium reserves have been found in Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir.

Currently, India is import-dependent for many Minerals like lithium, nickel and cobalt.