#GovtScheme #Governance #Geography
✅National Aquifer Mapping and Management Programme
🅾️The National Aquifer Mapping and Management program (NAQUIM) is being implemented by the Central Ground Water Board (CGWB).
⚜️CGWB is a subordinate office of the Ministry of Water Resources and is the National Apex Agency entrusted with the responsibilities of providing scientific inputs for groundwater resources.
⚜️In 1970 the Exploratory Tubewells Organization under the Ministry of Agriculture was renamed and launched as CGWB-> later the Groundwater Wing of the Geological Survey of India during 1972 was also merged with this.
🅾️Purpose : to facilitate sustainable management of groundwater .
🅾️Ground Water Management and Regulation Scheme is a Central Sector Scheme of the Department of Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation.
⚜️NAQUIM was initiated as a part of this scheme
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✅National Aquifer Mapping and Management Programme
🅾️The National Aquifer Mapping and Management program (NAQUIM) is being implemented by the Central Ground Water Board (CGWB).
⚜️CGWB is a subordinate office of the Ministry of Water Resources and is the National Apex Agency entrusted with the responsibilities of providing scientific inputs for groundwater resources.
⚜️In 1970 the Exploratory Tubewells Organization under the Ministry of Agriculture was renamed and launched as CGWB-> later the Groundwater Wing of the Geological Survey of India during 1972 was also merged with this.
🅾️Purpose : to facilitate sustainable management of groundwater .
🅾️Ground Water Management and Regulation Scheme is a Central Sector Scheme of the Department of Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation.
⚜️NAQUIM was initiated as a part of this scheme
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#IR #Geography
✅Salami Slicing strategy
🅾️What?- salami slicing is described as a strategy that involves divide and conquer process of threats and alliances to overcome opposition and acquire new territories.
🅾️It is series of many small actions, often performed by clandestine means, that as an accumulated whole produces a much larger action or result that would be unlawful to perform all at once.
🅾️Denotes its strategy of territorial expansion in the South China Sea and the Himalayan regions.
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✅Salami Slicing strategy
🅾️What?- salami slicing is described as a strategy that involves divide and conquer process of threats and alliances to overcome opposition and acquire new territories.
🅾️It is series of many small actions, often performed by clandestine means, that as an accumulated whole produces a much larger action or result that would be unlawful to perform all at once.
🅾️Denotes its strategy of territorial expansion in the South China Sea and the Himalayan regions.
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✅Necklace of Diamonds Strategy
🅾️This strategy by India aims at garlanding China -To counter encirclement strategy-Why? China is expanding its footprint in the Indian Ocean -'Debt Trap Diplomacy' and 'String of Pearls Strategy
🔰India's Strategic Bases🔰
🅾️1.Changi Naval Base, Singapore
🅾️2. Sabang Port, Indonesia
🅾️3.Duqm Port, Oman
🅾️4.Assumption Island, Seychelles
🅾️5. Chabahar Port, Iran
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✅Necklace of Diamonds Strategy
🅾️This strategy by India aims at garlanding China -To counter encirclement strategy-Why? China is expanding its footprint in the Indian Ocean -'Debt Trap Diplomacy' and 'String of Pearls Strategy
🔰India's Strategic Bases🔰
🅾️1.Changi Naval Base, Singapore
🅾️2. Sabang Port, Indonesia
🅾️3.Duqm Port, Oman
🅾️4.Assumption Island, Seychelles
🅾️5. Chabahar Port, Iran
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✅Nord Stream 2 Pipeline (NS2P) project
🅾️US had previously imposed sanctions on this project - It tried to prevent the completion of this gas pipeline between Russia and Germany.
🅾️Reason : It significantly increases Europe’s energy dependence on Russia.
🅾️It runs through through the Baltic Sea.
🅾️It will bypass Ukraine which will lose a significant transit fee of around $ 3 billion per year.
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✅Nord Stream 2 Pipeline (NS2P) project
🅾️US had previously imposed sanctions on this project - It tried to prevent the completion of this gas pipeline between Russia and Germany.
🅾️Reason : It significantly increases Europe’s energy dependence on Russia.
🅾️It runs through through the Baltic Sea.
🅾️It will bypass Ukraine which will lose a significant transit fee of around $ 3 billion per year.
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🛑Probably one of the most important problem of Indian economy- how is periodic labour force survey important for this problem?
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✅Phosphatic rocks
🅾️India is set to explore indigenous deposits of Phosphatic rocks- It is a step towards becoming Aatma Nirbhar in fertilizer production.
🅾️Phosphate rocks can be sedimentary or igneous
🅾️Found in : Brazil, Canada, Finland, Russia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe.
🅾️Easiest way to obtain phosphorus is by way of mining and concentrating phosphate rock from the phosphate deposits- Worldwide, more than 85% of the phosphate rock mined is used to manufacture phosphate fertilizers.
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✅Phosphatic rocks
🅾️India is set to explore indigenous deposits of Phosphatic rocks- It is a step towards becoming Aatma Nirbhar in fertilizer production.
🅾️Phosphate rocks can be sedimentary or igneous
🅾️Found in : Brazil, Canada, Finland, Russia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe.
🅾️Easiest way to obtain phosphorus is by way of mining and concentrating phosphate rock from the phosphate deposits- Worldwide, more than 85% of the phosphate rock mined is used to manufacture phosphate fertilizers.
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#Environment #Geography
✅Gs-1 : Geography
🅾️Cloud Burst:
⚜️A cloudburst is when 10 cm or more rainfall is recorded at one station in one hour according to IMD.
📍5 cm of rainfall in half an hour would also be classified as a cloudburst. That’s an anomaly for Indian conditions
⚜️There has been a rise in short span high intensity rain occurrences (mini cloud bursts) along the west coast of India and along the foothills of Western Himalayas between 1969 and 2015 according to “Assessment of Climate Change over the Indian Region,” a report by the union ministry of earth sciences published last year
⚜️Cloudbursts do happen in plains as well, but there is a greater probability of them occurring in mountainous zones( It is not essential that cloudbursts occur only when a cloud clashes with a solid body like a mountain. )
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✅Gs-1 : Geography
🅾️Cloud Burst:
⚜️A cloudburst is when 10 cm or more rainfall is recorded at one station in one hour according to IMD.
📍5 cm of rainfall in half an hour would also be classified as a cloudburst. That’s an anomaly for Indian conditions
⚜️There has been a rise in short span high intensity rain occurrences (mini cloud bursts) along the west coast of India and along the foothills of Western Himalayas between 1969 and 2015 according to “Assessment of Climate Change over the Indian Region,” a report by the union ministry of earth sciences published last year
⚜️Cloudbursts do happen in plains as well, but there is a greater probability of them occurring in mountainous zones( It is not essential that cloudbursts occur only when a cloud clashes with a solid body like a mountain. )
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✅Kuthiran tunnel in kerala
🅾️First road tunnel in the state and will drastically improve connectivity to Tamil Nadu and Karnataka.
🅾️The 1.6 km long tunnel is designed through Peechi- Vazahani wildlife sanctuary.
🅾️The road will improve connectivity to important ports and towns in North – South Corridor without endangering wildlife.
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✅Kuthiran tunnel in kerala
🅾️First road tunnel in the state and will drastically improve connectivity to Tamil Nadu and Karnataka.
🅾️The 1.6 km long tunnel is designed through Peechi- Vazahani wildlife sanctuary.
🅾️The road will improve connectivity to important ports and towns in North – South Corridor without endangering wildlife.
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#Geography
✅Railway links between India and Bangladesh
🅾️Petrapole (India) – Benapole (Bangladesh)
🅾️Gede (India) – Darshana (Bangladesh)
🅾️Singhabad (India) – Rohanpur (Bangladesh)
🅾️Radhikapur (India) – Birol (Bangladesh)
🅾️Haldibari (India) – Chilahati (Bangladesh)
⚜️The link was reopened in 2020 for the movement of passenger and goods traffic.
⚜️The Haldibari – Chilahati rail link between India and then East Pakistan was operational till 1965.However, the war of 1965 effectively cut off all the railway links between India and then East Pakistan.
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✅Railway links between India and Bangladesh
🅾️Petrapole (India) – Benapole (Bangladesh)
🅾️Gede (India) – Darshana (Bangladesh)
🅾️Singhabad (India) – Rohanpur (Bangladesh)
🅾️Radhikapur (India) – Birol (Bangladesh)
🅾️Haldibari (India) – Chilahati (Bangladesh)
⚜️The link was reopened in 2020 for the movement of passenger and goods traffic.
⚜️The Haldibari – Chilahati rail link between India and then East Pakistan was operational till 1965.However, the war of 1965 effectively cut off all the railway links between India and then East Pakistan.
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#Geography #placesinnews
✅Chagos island
🅾️Context : Mauritius has denied a report that it has allowed India to build a military base on the remote island of Agalega.
🅾️United Kingdom evicted the locals here between 1967 and 1973 and allowed the United States to build a military base on Diego Garcia, the largest of the Chagos Islands. Only the atoll of Diego Garcia is inhabited, and that too only by military and civilian contracted personnel.
🅾️Natives have been prevented from returning to the islands. The sovereignty of the Chagos Archipelago is disputed between the United Kingdom and Mauritius.
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✅Chagos island
🅾️Context : Mauritius has denied a report that it has allowed India to build a military base on the remote island of Agalega.
🅾️United Kingdom evicted the locals here between 1967 and 1973 and allowed the United States to build a military base on Diego Garcia, the largest of the Chagos Islands. Only the atoll of Diego Garcia is inhabited, and that too only by military and civilian contracted personnel.
🅾️Natives have been prevented from returning to the islands. The sovereignty of the Chagos Archipelago is disputed between the United Kingdom and Mauritius.
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✅Gs-3 : Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC)
📍AMOC is one deep-ocean current driven by differences in the water’s density, which is controlled by temperature (thermo) and salinity (haline). It is sometimes called the ocean conveyor belt
🔰Impact of AMOC weakening :
🅾️1)Decrease in marine productivity in the North Atlantic
🅾️2) Cold north europe and storms
🅾️3)Reduced number of tropical cyclones in the Atlantic
🅾️4)Increase in regional sea level along the northeast coast of North America.
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✅Gs-3 : Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC)
📍AMOC is one deep-ocean current driven by differences in the water’s density, which is controlled by temperature (thermo) and salinity (haline). It is sometimes called the ocean conveyor belt
🔰Impact of AMOC weakening :
🅾️1)Decrease in marine productivity in the North Atlantic
🅾️2) Cold north europe and storms
🅾️3)Reduced number of tropical cyclones in the Atlantic
🅾️4)Increase in regional sea level along the northeast coast of North America.
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✅National water ways
🅾️India has about 14,500 km of navigable waterways which comprise of rivers, canals, backwaters, creeks, etc.
As per the National Waterways Act 2016, 111 waterways have been declared as National Waterways (NWs).
🅾️The Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI) is implementing the Jal Marg Vikas Project (JMVP) for capacity augmentation of navigation on the Haldia-Varanasi stretch of Ganga (part of NW-1) with the technical and financial assistance of the World Bank.
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✅National water ways
🅾️India has about 14,500 km of navigable waterways which comprise of rivers, canals, backwaters, creeks, etc.
As per the National Waterways Act 2016, 111 waterways have been declared as National Waterways (NWs).
🅾️The Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI) is implementing the Jal Marg Vikas Project (JMVP) for capacity augmentation of navigation on the Haldia-Varanasi stretch of Ganga (part of NW-1) with the technical and financial assistance of the World Bank.
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✅Pripyat River
🅾️CONTEXT : Recently World Wide Fund (WWF) for Nature has warned that dredging of Pripyat River could wreak havoc on an estimated 28 million people in Ukraine.
⚠️LOCATION : Pripyat River flows near the site of the infamous nuclear accident at Chernobyl.
🅾️UKRAINE CAPITAL - KIEV is on the banks of this river
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✅Pripyat River
🅾️CONTEXT : Recently World Wide Fund (WWF) for Nature has warned that dredging of Pripyat River could wreak havoc on an estimated 28 million people in Ukraine.
⚠️LOCATION : Pripyat River flows near the site of the infamous nuclear accident at Chernobyl.
🅾️UKRAINE CAPITAL - KIEV is on the banks of this river
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✅Gs-3 : Infrastructure- How to reduce logistic costs?- Inland waterways
🅾️As per RITES Report of 2014 on Integrated National Waterways Transportation Grid, the cost of nland Water Transport (IWT) mode is lowest
🅾️Integrated National Waterways Transportation Grid plans to link many of the national waterways to each other and also to roads, railways and major ports.
🔰Recently, the Union Cabinet approved the Inland Vessels Bill, 2021, which will replace the Inland Vessels Act, 1917 after passing in Parliament. It creates unified law for the entire country, central database for recording the details of vessel.
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🅾️As per RITES Report of 2014 on Integrated National Waterways Transportation Grid, the cost of nland Water Transport (IWT) mode is lowest
🅾️Integrated National Waterways Transportation Grid plans to link many of the national waterways to each other and also to roads, railways and major ports.
🔰Recently, the Union Cabinet approved the Inland Vessels Bill, 2021, which will replace the Inland Vessels Act, 1917 after passing in Parliament. It creates unified law for the entire country, central database for recording the details of vessel.
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✅Tried to sum up the issue of government debt from the following sources
🅾️1) Status of Government Debt- Finance ministry
🅾️2) Various Newspaper articles from 2019 till date for prelims exam
🅾️3) Fiscal deficit vs Debt
🅾️4) Economic trends of Fiscal deficit- FRBM vs NK singh committee recommendations
🅾️5) What Economic survey says, Budget trends on taxation etc
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⚠️Consider this a filtered version of various Major magazines for prelims 2021
✅Tried to sum up the issue of government debt from the following sources
🅾️1) Status of Government Debt- Finance ministry
🅾️2) Various Newspaper articles from 2019 till date for prelims exam
🅾️3) Fiscal deficit vs Debt
🅾️4) Economic trends of Fiscal deficit- FRBM vs NK singh committee recommendations
🅾️5) What Economic survey says, Budget trends on taxation etc
PDF Notes : CLICK HERE
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