TNPSC Current Affairs April 07, 2018

www.tnpsc.academy – TNPSC Current Affairs April 07, 2018 (07/04/2018)

 

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Topic: Role of women and women’s organization, Govt Oriented Schemes and their Utilities

Swadhar Greh Scheme

Recently released government data shows that there are 559 Swadhar Greh presently functional in the country with 17231 beneficiaries. Swadhar Greh is a DBT compliant scheme.

About Swadhar Greh Scheme:

The Swadhar scheme was launched by the Union Ministry of Women and Child Development in 2002 for rehabilitation of women in difficult circumstances.

The scheme provides shelter, food, clothing and care to the marginalized women/girls who are in need.

Key facts:

It should ordinarily have been engaged in the field of women’s welfare/social welfare for a minimum period of two years.

It should have facilities, resources, experience and personnel to undertake the management of such project.

It should have facilities like computers, internet connection etc at Swadhar Greh.

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Topic: Role of women and women’s organization, Govt Oriented Schemes and their Utilities

Mahila Shakti Kendra Scheme

Government of India is implementing Mahila Shakti Kendra scheme to empower rural women through community participation.

The scheme is envisaged to work at various levels, and at the National level (domain based knowledge support) and State level (State Resource Centre for Women) technical support to the respective governments on issues related to women is provided.

About Mahila Shakti Kendra:

It is envisioned as a one-stop convergence support service for empowering rural women with opportunities for skill development, employment, digital literacy, health and nutrition.

What it does?

It will aim to improve declining child sex ratio, ensure survival and protection of the girl child, ensuring her education and empowering her to fulfil her potential.

It will provide an interface for rural women to approach the government for getting their entitlements and for empowering them through training and capacity building.

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Topic : Latest Diary of Events

Gaganshakti-2018

An all-encompassing coordinated and composite exercise named Gaganshakti is being conducted by the IAF.

The aim of this exercise is real time coordination, deployment and employment of Air Power in a short & intense battle scenario.

During Gaganshakti IAF will exercise the entire machinery to validate its concept of operations and war waging capability.

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Topic : Indian Navy and Marietime Activities

Chakravat

Kochi along with Indian Navy is hosting multi-agency rescue exercise- Chakravat. It is for the first time that the yearly exercise is being conducted in Kochi.

It is a multi-agency humanitarian assistance and disaster relief (HADR) exercise to review the response mechanism in the event of a cyclonic storm.

Chakravat’ meaning ‘cyclone’ will see participation by the three Services, the Coast Guard, State administration, State Disaster Management Authority, National Disaster Response Force, Fisheries Department, Coastal Police, and members of the fishing community.

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Topic: Role of women and women’s organization, Govt Oriented Schemes and their Utilities

Poshan Abhiyaan (National Nutrition Mission)

The goals of NNM are to achieve improvement in nutritional status of Children from 0-6 years, Adolescent Girls, Pregnant Women and Lactating Mothers in a time bound manner during the next three years beginning 2017-18.

The National Nutrition Mission (NNM) has been set up with a three year budget of Rs.9046.17 crore commencing from 2017-18.

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Topic : Latest Diary of Events

World Health Day 2018

The World Health Day is a global health awareness day celebrated every year on 7 April, under the sponsorship of the World Health Organization (WHO), as well as other related organisations.

Key facts:

In 1948, the WHO held the First World Health Assembly. The Assembly decided to celebrate 7 April of each year, with effect from 1950, as the World Health Day.

The World Health Day is held to mark WHO’s founding, and is seen as an opportunity by the organization to draw worldwide attention to a subject of major importance to global health each year.

So in this 70th anniversary year, WHO is calling on world leaders to live up to the pledges they made when they agreed the Sustainable Development Goals in 2015, and commit to concrete steps to advance the health of all people.

This means ensuring that everyone, everywhere can access essential quality health services without facing financial hardship.

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Topic : Latest Diary of Events, Economic Policies in India

Bitcoin banned in India

In India anymore as the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has banned Bitcoins with immediate effect.

RBI, while announcing its first bi-monthly monetary policy for the FY 2018-19, has announced that any entity regulated by them such as banks, wallets etc. shall not deal with or provide services to any individual or business entities for buying or selling of cryptocurrency such as bitcoins.

If banks, e-wallets and any other entities regulated by RBI are not allowed to facilitate sale or purchase of cryptocurrencies, obviously individuals will not be able to transfer money from their bank accounts to their crypto-trading wallets.