Clean Plant program

✅With the demand for foreign planting materials of fruits like apples, avocados and blueberries rising over the years, the Central government plans to set up 10 ‘Clean Plant Centres’ 

✅Objective: To boost domestic production of the selected fruit crops

✅Services offered: disease diagnostic, therapeutics, multiplying of plants and generation of mother plants

✅Need for ‘Clean plant program’: Currently, it is difficult to get disease-free and genuine planting materials for horticultural crops in India.

✅Also, the process of importing plants is very cumbersome, as the imported plants must be kept in quarantine for two years.

✅Nodal Ministry: Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare

✅Implementing agency: National Horticulture Board (NHB)

✅Funding: 100% be Central government

✅It will be set up under the ‘Atmanirbhar Clean Plant Program’ (announced in Budget 2023-24)

Asia's Longest Zozila Tunnel Project

• The work on the strategic 14.5 km long Zojila tunnel, an all-weather connection between the Kashmir valley and the Ladakh region - is going on at a rapid pace and over 40 per cent of the drilling has been completed,

• It will pass under the Zojila Pass in the Himalayas between Ganderbal in Kashmir and Drass town in Kargil district of Ladakh.

• Z-Morh Tunnel is a part of the Zojila tunnel project.

• Z-Morh tunnel, which connects Gagangir with Sonamarg and provides all-weather connectivity to the resort in the Ganderbal district of central Kashmir, will be inaugurated in October this year.

42nd Amendment Act of 1976 added four new Directive Principles to the original list. Those DPSPs are:

1⃣ Article 39 - To secure opportunities for healthy development of children.

2⃣ Article 39A - To promote equal justice and to provide free legal aid to the poor.

3⃣ Article 43A - To take steps to secure the participation of workers in the management of industries

4⃣ Article 48A - To protect and improve the environment and to safeguard forests and wild life.

There are 4 types of genetic diseases

1⃣ Single Gene - Disorders caused by abnormality or mutation in the sequence of one gene.

2⃣ Multifactorial - Caused by a combination of environmental factors as well as mutations in multiple genes.

3⃣ Chromosomal - Abnormalities in chromosome structure such has missing or extra copies

4⃣ Mitochondrial - Caused by a mutation in non-chromosomal DNA of mitochondria

UPSC CAPF(AC) 2023

Total no. of seats 322
Last date to apply: 16th may

📣 UPSC Assistant Commandant 2023 Notification

📣 EPFO EO/AO & APFC
Exam on 02nd July, 2023

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