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Month: April 2016

Blue Revolution: 3000 crore scheme for fisheries sector
- An umbrella scheme for integrated development and management of fisheries
- Approved by Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA)
- It is Central Sector Scheme on Blue Revolution
- Will be implemented at an outlay of Rs. 3000 crore for a period of five years in all the states including North East States and Union Territories
Key facts:
- The scheme will cover will cover multi-dimensional activities for development and management of inland fisheries, aquaculture and marine fisheries
- All activities under ambit of it would be undertaken by the National Fisheries Development Board (NFDB) towards realizing Blue Revolution
- The scheme aims at development and management of fisheries and aquaculture sector to ensure a sustained annual growth rate of 6-8%
- It focuses mainly on increasing productivity and production from aquaculture and fisheries resources both inland and marine keeping in view the overall sustainability, bio-security and environmental concerns
Components of Scheme:
1. National Fisheries Development Board (NFDB) and its activities
2. Development of Inland Fisheries and Aquaculture
3. Development of Marine Fisheries, Post-Harvest Operations and Infrastructure
4. Strengthening of database and Geographical Information System (GIS) of the Sector
5. Institutional Arrangement for Sector
6. Monitoring, Control and Surveillance (MCS) and other need-based Interventions
Convergence:
- It provides for suitable convergence and linkages with the Sagarmala Project of the Ministry of Shipping, Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (RKVY), MGNREGA, National Rural Livelihoods Mission (NRLM) etc.
- It also encourages increasing entrepreneurship development, private investment, Public Private Partnership (PPP) and better leveraging of institutional finance for Fisheries Sector
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April 10, 2016
FAME India – Hybrid and Electric vehicles scheme
- Union Government on 1 April 2015 launched Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Hybrid and Electric vehicles (FAME) – India Scheme
- The scheme was launched as part of the National Mission for Electric Mobility to boost eco-friendly vehicles sales in the country
Key facts:
- Objective: To support the hybrid or electric vehicles market development and its manufacturing eco-system in the country in order to achieve self-sustenance in stipulated period
- The overall scheme is proposed to be implemented over a period next 6 years i.e. till 2020
- It envisages providing Rs 795 crore support till 2020 for the manufacturing and sale of electric and hybrid vehicles
- It also seeks to provide demand incentives to electric and hybrid vehicles from two-wheeler to buses
- Implementation: It will be implemented in phases
- The Phase-1 will be implemented over a two year period in FY15-16 and FY16-17
- Based on the outcome and experience from the Phase-1, it will be reviewed for implementation after 31 March 2017
- Then appropriate fund will be allocated for future.
- Four focus areas: Technology development, Pilot Projects, Demand Creation and Charging Infrastructure.
  In the first two years Rs 260 crore and Rs 535 crore will be spent on the focus areas
- The Department of Heavy Industries under the aegis of Union Ministry of Heavy Industries will be will be nodal department for the scheme
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April 10, 2016
Global Initiative of Academic Networks (GIAN)
- Launched by: Union Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD)
- Aim: To boost the quality of higher education in India
Key facts:
- Aims at improving the quality of higher education in the country through international collaboration
- Facilitate participation of high quality international academicians for delivering short-term courses and programs in Indian institutions
- Initially 500 international faculties will be engaged in conducting courses and later in subsequent years 1000 faculties would be engaged under GIAN throughout India
- Under this scheme, academicians will cover 13 disciplines and 352 courses to be taught in 68 national institutions
- These courses will vary in duration from one to three weeks depending on the subject and will be free for students of the host institution and available for nominal fees for others
- These courses will be webcasted live for students across the country through web portal designed by IIT Kharagpur
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April 10, 2016
Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems (CCTNS)
Key facts:
- It is an innovative project of Ministry of Home Affairs but yet to take off
- Aim: To connect all police station in country to a centralised database of crimes, criminals
- Goal: To facilitate collection, storage, retrieval, analysis, transfer and sharing of data between police stations and state HQs and central police organisations
- Will make interstate investigations easy and speedy for officials
- Aims at creating a comprehensive and integrated system for enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of policing at the Police Station level
- This will be done through adoption of principles of e-Governance, and creation of a nationwide networked infrastructure for evolution of IT-enabled state-of-the-art tracking system around “investigation of crime and detection of criminals
- CCTNS is a Mission Mode Project (MMP) under the National e-Governance Plan of Govt of India
- It will not only automate Police functions at Police station and higher levels but will also create facilities and mechanism to provide public services like registration of online complaints, ascertaining the status of case registered at the police station, verification of persons etc.
- The Project will interconnect about 15000 Police Stations and additional 5000 offices of supervisory police officers across the country and digitize data related to FIR registration, investigation and charge sheets in all Police Stations
- This would lead to development of a national database of crimes and criminals
- The Full implementation of the Project with all the new components would lead to a Central citizen portal having linkages with State level citizen portals that will provide a number of citizen friendly services like Police Verification for various purposes including passport verification, reporting a crime including cyber-crime and online tracking of the case progress etc.
- The project will enable National level crime analytics to be published at increased frequency, which will help the policy makers as well as lawmakers in taking appropriate and timely action
- It will also enable Pan-India criminal/accused name search in the regional language for improved inter-state tracking of criminal movement
Extension of CCTNS:
- The CCEA has given its approval to the proposal of the Ministry of Home Affairs for a major revamp of the CCTNS Project
- It has decided to implement Integrated Criminal Justice System (ICJS) by integrating CCTNS with E-Courts
- This will ensure quick data transfer among different pillars of criminal justice system, which will not only enhance transparency but also reduce processing time
- Police-Citizen interface will undergo a major shift with the implementation of this project, as a number of services will be enabled through citizen portal
Target:

The Government has decided to fast track the implementation and complete the implementation of the CCTNS project by March 2017 including implementation of ICJS
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April 10, 2016
School Nursery Yojana
Key facts:
- Aim: To bring school students closer to nature by involving them in raising of saplings in school nurseries
- Objective: To create an everlasting bond between the young school students and plants, trees
- It also seeks to provide an opportunity to the students to learn about nature
- It will develop an organic linkage and positive emotions for the environment among the school students and in turn keep the schools and the neighbourhood green
Activities:
- Schools will distribute saplings to students to plant in their homes and surroundings through School Nursery
- The school nursery will be in small space of a minimum of 100 sq meters in premises of school which will provide essential facilities for raising saplings
- In this nursery students will prepare beds for raising saplings and use it for other nursery-related activities such as preparing mixture of soil, good earth and manure and storage of seeds
- Other activities: The schools also take up other activities like composting, rain water harvesting and water recycling
- Thus, the scheme will seek to inculcate best environmental awareness practices in young minds
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April 10, 2016
Pradhan Mantri Khanij Kshetra Kalyan Yojana (PMKKKY)
- The scheme is meant to provide for the welfare of people and areas affected by mining related operations
- The funds collected by District Mineral Foundations (DMFs) will be utilised for this purpose
Key facts:
- Aim: Mitigate the adverse impacts due to mining operation on the health and environment. It also seeks to ensure long-term sustainable livelihoods for the affected people in mining areas
- Objective: To implement various welfare and developmental projects in mining affected areas by complementing the existing ongoing schemes of State and Central Government
- To mitigate and minimize the adverse impacts during and after mining on the health, environment and socio-economics of people in mining districts
- To ensure long-term sustainable livelihoods to people in areas affected by mining
- DMF spending: 60% of the DMF funds will be spent on high priority areas including health care, education, drinking water supply, sanitation and skill development of the affected people
- Rest of the funds will be spent on infrastructure developmental projects such as making roads, railways, bridges, waterways projects, irrigation and alternative energy sources
About District Mineral Foundations (DMFs):
- The Mines and Minerals (Development & Regulation) Amendment Act, 2015 has mandated setting up of DMFs in all districts in the country affected by mining related operations
- Union government also has notified the rates of contribution payable by miners to the DMFs along with launching PMKKKY
- In case of mining leases granted before 12th January 2015 (on this date Amendment Act came into force) miners have to contribute 30% of the royalty payable by them to DMFs
- While, in case of mining leases executed after 12th January 2015, miners have to contribute 10% of the royalty
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April 9, 2016
Quick catch up on the Namami Gange Program
- Union Cabinet approved the flagship Namami Gange Program
- The program integrates the efforts to clean and protect the River Ganga in a comprehensive manner by involving differed States and grassroots level institutions
Key facts:
- It has a budgetary outlay of 20000 crore rupees for 2015-20
- It will be implemented National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) with the help of State Program Management Groups (SPMGs)
Implementation mechanism:

In order to improve implementation of the program, a three-tier mechanism has been proposed for project monitoring
1. National level: High level task force chaired by Cabinet Secretary and assisted by NMCG
2. State level: State level committee chaired by Chief Secretary and assisted by SPMG
3. District level: District level committee chaired by the District Magistrate
Focus areas:
- Pollution abatement interventions by interception, diversion and treatment of wastewater flowing through the open drains through bio-remediation
- Use of innovative technologies for sewage treatment plants (STPs) and effluent treatment plant (ETPs)
- Rehabilitation and augmentation of existing STPs and immediate short term measures for arresting pollution at exit points on river front to prevent inflow of sewage etc.
Funding:
- Union government will provide 100% funding for various projects under this program
- For this Union Government will adopt Public Private Partnership (PPP) and Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) approach for pollution hotspots
Enforcement:

In an attempt to bolster enforcement of this program and to check pollution and protect the river, Union government will establish a Territorial Army unit named 4-battalion Ganga Eco-Task Force

For latest updates, follow this story: Mission Clean Ganga
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April 9, 2016
The online version of CivilsDigest Ed#4 released – May 2016

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April 9, 2016
हिंदी संपादकीय और विचार: 9 अप्रैल

संपादकीय और विचार में आज के लिंक-

1. भारतीय दंड संहिता की धारा 497

लिंक- http://www.deshbandhu.co.in/newsdetail/13050/9/200#.VwiN85x97IU

(मानहानि का क्षेत्र अत्यंत व्यापक है, साल 2000 तक मानहानि के मामले कम दर्ज होते थे और जो होते थे वे मौखिक या लिखित आलोचना के होते थे लेकिन जैसे ही कंप्यूटर का चलन बढ़ा तो उससे भी मानहानि होने लगी। क्या है मानहानि? इस बारे में आप उपरोक्त लिंक पर क्लिक कर जान सकते हैं)

2. विश्व बांस सम्मेलन- 2016

लिंक- http://pib.nic.in/newsite/hindirelease.aspx

(8 अप्रैल को पीआइबी पर कृषि मंत्रालय द्वारा जारी दो विज्ञप्तियों को आप पढ़ सकते हैं. आप जान सकेंगे कि भारत में बांस उत्पादन कितना है, कितनी कमी आई है, सरकार मांग-पूर्ती की खाई पाटने के लिए क्या कर रही है और बांस क्षेत्र के समग्र विकास के लिए सरकार की क्या योजनाएँ हैं.)

3. रिन्युएबल एनर्जी से ही संभव है देश की असली तरक्की

लिंक- http://money.bhaskar.com/news-cppst/MON-EXPR-ECON-renewable-energy-is-the-source-of-real-economic-growth-5293417-NOR.html

(आज आर्थिक संवृद्धि और प्रगति के लिए ऊर्जा क्षेत्र सबसे महत्वपूर्ण है. ऐसे में इस क्षेत्र से जुड़े मुद्दों को समझना बेहद अहम हो जाता है. अक्षय/नवीकरणीय ऊर्जा का कैसे योगदान दे सकती है, इसे आप इस लिंक द्वारा जान सकते हैं)

April 9, 2016
हिंदी संपादकीय और विचार: 8 अप्रैल

संपादकीय और विचार में आज के लिंक-

1. सरकार ने किसानों के लिए स्मार्ट पम्प और लोगों को ऊर्जा सक्षम पंखे देने का राष्ट्रीय कार्यक्रम लॉन्च किया

लिंक- http://pib.nic.in/newsite/hindirelease.aspx

(पीआइबी पर 7 अप्रैल को प्रकाशित विद्युत् मंत्रालय की इस विज्ञप्ति में आप राष्ट्रीय ऊर्जा सक्षम कृषि पम्प और राष्ट्रीय ऊर्जा सक्षम पंखा कार्यक्रम की विशेषताओं के विषय में जान सकते हैं)

2. लॉजिस्टिक्स क्षेत्र को मिले उद्योग का दर्जा?

लिंक- http://hindi.business-standard.com/storypage.php?autono=117441

(कारोबारी जगत और अर्थशास्त्र में लॉजिस्टिक्स शब्द का प्रयोग एकदम नया है. क्या हैं इसके मायने? क्या लॉजिस्टिक्स क्षेत्र को उद्योग का दर्जा दिया जाए? आखिर क्या हैं इस क्षेत्र की समस्याएं? इन सब बातों को आप उपरोक्त लिंक पर क्लिक कर जान सकते हैं)

3. दक्षिण-पूर्व एशिया में उभरती नई उम्मीद

लिंक- http://www.livehindustan.com/news/guestcolumn/article1-southeast-asia-emerging-new-hope-524775.html

(कहा जा रहा है कि दक्षिण-पूर्व एशिया में ‘इंडोनेशिया भविष्य का देश है’। दुनिया भर के निवेशक अब इंडोनेशिया का रुख कर रहे हैं। क्या कारण हैं इसके पीछे? हिंदुस्तान दैनिक में छापे इस आलेख को आप पढ़ सकते हैं)

April 8, 2016