23.11.21

Rajasthan cabinet expansion: Full list of portfolios

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Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot allotted portfolios, a day after expanding the council of ministers on Sunday when as many as 15 Congress MLAs took the oath of office. While 11 assumed the post of cabinet ministers, four were sworn in as ministers of state.

Cabinet minister with portfolios:

1) Ashok Gehlot – Finance, , Home and Justice, IT & Communication

2) Dr BD Kalla – Education, Arts, Literature, Culture & ASI

3) Shanti Dhariwal – Local self-development, Urban development and housing, legal consultancy office, parliamentary affairs

4) Parsadilal Meena- Medical and Health, medical health and Services (ESI), excise

5) Lal Chand Kataria – Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture, animal husbandry, Fisheries

6) Pramod Bhaya – Mines and petroleum, gaupalan

7) Uday Lal Anjana – Co-operative

8) Pratap Singh Khachariawas – Food and civil supplies, consumer affairs

9) Saleh Mohammad – Minority affairs, waqf

10) Hemaram Chaudhary – Forest, Environment and Climate-change”>Climate Change

11) Mahendrajeet Singh Malviya – Winter Resources, IGNP, water resource planning department

12) Mahesh Joshi – PHED, groundwater

13) Ramlal Jat – Revenue

14) Ramesh Meena – Panchayati Raj and rural development

15) Vidhvendra Singh – Tourism, civil aviation

16) Mamta Bhupesh Bairwa – Women and child welfare, child Empowerment, planning

17) Bhajan Lal Jatav – PWD

18) Tika Ram Jully – Social justice and empowerment and jail

19) Govind Ram Meghwal – Disaster Management and relief, statistics, policy planning

20) Shakuntala Rawat – Industry, state enterprises

Ministers of state with portfolios:

1) Arjun Singh Bamania – Tribal area development, groundwater

2) Ashok Chandna- Sports and youth affairs, policy planning

3) Bhanwar Singh Bhatti – Power (IC), Water Resources, IGNP

4) Rajendra Singh Yadav – Higher education, Planning (manpower), home and justice

5) Dr Subhash Garg – Technical education, Ayurveda and Indian medicines, minority affairs

6) Sukhram Bishnoi- Labour, revenue

7) Brijendra Ola – Transport and road safety

8) Muralilal Meena – Agriculture Marketing, tourism, civil aviation

9) Rajendra Singh Gudha – Home guard and civil DEFENCE

10) Zahinda Khan – Science and Technology, education

World Children’s Day Is Celebrated On 20 November

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The 20th of November is World Children’s Day around the world to promote international unity, awareness among children.

Highlights:

Every year on November 20th, the Universal/World Children’s Day is observed to promote international unity, awareness among children worldwide, and improvements in children’s welfare.

The UN General Assembly enacted the Declaration of the Rights of the Child on November 20, 1959, which is a significant occasion.

The Convention on the Rights of the Child will celebrate its 32nd anniversary in 2021.

Theme for Universal/World Children’s Day 2021: A Brighter Future for All Children

World Children’s Day, also known as Universal Children’s Day, was first observed on November 20th, 1954.

Virtual Science Lab was launched under CSIR Jigyasa Programme.

This programme will connect students with scientists across India.

This Lab will provide a virtual tour of CSIR laboratories as well as expose students to research .

Virtual Science Lab was inaugurated with the aim of providing quality research exposure and innovative pedagogy to the school students on the basis of an online interactive medium. It will immensely benefit students from government schools, Kendriya Vidyalayas and Navodaya Vidyalayas.

JIGYASA is a major national level initiative of CSIR, launched to widen and deepen its Scientific Social Responsibility (SSR). Programme also explain the culture of curiousness and scientific nature on other. This is a student-scientist connect programme, launched in collaboration with Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathans (KVS). Its primary objective is to extend classroom Learning and focus on well-planned research laboratory-based learning.

INDIAN NAVY formally commissioned INS Visakhapatnam at the Naval Dockyard in Mumbai.

On the occasion, Prime Minister Narendra Modi noted that Indias efforts towards DEFENCE modernisation is on full swing and it is a proud day to become Atma Nirbhar in defence sector.

According to Defence Ministry, INS Visakhapatnam is 163m in length and 17m in breadth. It has a displacement of 7,400 tonnes. The ship can be regarded as one of the significant potent warships to have been constructed in India. It is propelled by four powerful Gas Turbines, in a Combined Gas and Gas (COGAG) configuration. The warship is capable of achieving speeds of 30 knots. It has been named after the historic coast called Visakhapatnam, in Andhra Pradesh.

INS Visakhapatnam has enhanced stealth features which results into a reduced Radar Cross Section (RCS). It is achieved through efficient shaping of hull, plated masts, use of radar transparent materials on exposed decks and full beam superstructure design.