International Literacy Day is located globally on 8th September each and every year. The day spread awareness about the importance of literacy for individuals, communities, and societies and the want for intensified efforts closer to extra literate societies.
The fifty-fifth International Literacy Day theme is Literacy for a human-centred recovery: Narrowing the digital divide. The 8th of September was proclaimed International Literacy Day by UNESCO in 1966 to remind the global neighbourhood of the importance of literacy for individuals, communities and societies, and the need for intensified efforts towards extra literate societies. It was celebrated for the 1st time in 1967.
Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, launched Vidyanjali Portal and several other initiatives in the https://exam.pscnotes.com/Education-sector”>Education sector.
These initiatives were launched while asserting that they will play a significant role in shaping Indias future.
Initiatives were launched while inaugurating the conclave of Shikshak Parv.
Vidyanjali portal was launched with the objective of facilitating education volunteers, donors or CSR contributors for school development.
Vidyanjali portal was launched to enable community or volunteers to contribute by connecting with the government and government-aided schools of their choice directly.
PRANA Portal will be used to track the progress of the National Clean Air Programme (NCAP) in order to comply with Indias commitment to ensure clean air and blue skies to everybody.
This portal was launched on the occasion of International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies in non-attainment cities (NAC).
Non-attainment cities are those cities that failed to meet the National air quality standards in a five-year period.
With Indias efforts, 86 cities showed a better air quality in 2019 and it increased to 104 cities in 2020.
PRANA portal will help in tracking physical and financial status of city air action plan implementation. It will also disseminate information on air quality to the public.
Smog tower was launched at Anand Vihar in Delhi.
Now, ministry would keep a close eye on the results to determine if India need more of such projects in the future.
A smog tower is a structure that are designed as a large or medium scale air purifier. It helps in reducing Air Pollution by forcing the air through filters.
Filtration system used in the smog tower has been designed by University of Minnesota. It has an expected efficiency of 90 per cent.