PM-SETU Scheme: Key Facts

📍 Full Form: Pradhan Mantri Skilling and Employability Transformation through Upgraded ITIs
✅ Objective: Modernizes government ITIs to align skilling with market demands.
✅ Finance: Rs. 60,000 crore investment, co-financed by the World Bank and Asian Development Bank.

📍 Key Features
✅ 1,000 ITIs to be modernized with a hub-and-spoke model:
• 200 Hub ITIs: Host innovation centres, trainer training, and placement services.
• 800 Spoke ITIs: Improve access to quality training in remote areas.
✅ Anchor Industry Partners: Manage the scheme, ensuring training meets industry requirements and improves employability.

📍 Significance
✅ It will transform the ITI ecosystem, ensuring hands-on training and better employment outcomes aligned with Aatmanirbhar Bharat.

UIDAI has launched the Scheme for Innovation and Technology Association with Aadhaar (SITAA) to
counter deepfakes and enhance Aadhaar authentication security.

Landlocked Countries

Continent with highest landlocked countries - Africa (16)

Largest Landlocked Country - Kazakhstan

Double Landlocked Country - Only 2 - Liechtenstein and Uzbekistan

Prussian Blue is a dark blue pigment compound that also serves as an effective pharmaceutical agent in treating internal contamination by radioactive cesium and thallium.

Consider the following statements:
1. Project Himank of the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) has constructed the world’s highest motorable road at Mig La Pass.
2. Mig La Pass is located in Arunachal Pradesh.

Correct Answer: (A) Mig La Pass, India
The world’s highest motorable road at 19,400 feet in Ladakh’s Mig La Pass was built by the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) under Project Himank. This achievement surpasses the previous record set at Umling La Pass and highlights BRO’s expertise in high-altitude construction. The road serves both strategic military purposes, enhancing troop mobility near the Line of Actual Control, and civilian benefits, improving connectivity and tourism potential.

Did you know 25% of plant and animal species are threatened with extinction, driven in part by illegal trade and over-exploitation❓

Biodiversity is key to human societies. It gives us the food in our fridges, the water in our taps and the clothes on our backs. It underpins the future of all life on the planet.

This week, countries are meeting to make decisions on CITES, the Convention that helps protect more than 40,900 species of wild animals and plants and regulates their trade.

CITES CoP20= Samarkand, Uzbekistan

#CA2025

The Ministry of Tribal Affairs launched the beta version of its Adi Vaani Adivasi language translation
application.

—> Adi Vaani is India’s first AI-powered translator for tribal languages.

—> It is designed to bridge communication gaps between tribal and non-tribal communities and also safeguard endangered tribal languages using advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Educate Girls Foundation Recognition
Award: 2025 Ramon Magsaysay Award


—> Foundation to Educate Girls Globally (popularly known as Educate Girls) became the first Indian
organisation to win the Ramon Magsaysay Award, Asia’s most prestigious public service honour.
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—> 2025 Awardees:
ƒ- Shaahina Ali (Maldives): Grassroots environmentalist fighting plastic pollution.
- Flaviano Antonio L. Villanueva (Philippines): Priest supporting families of extrajudicial killing victims.

—> Past Indian Recipients (Individuals): Vinoba Bhave, Arvind Kejriwal, Ravish Kumar, Bezwada Wilson, Sonam Wangchuk, among others.

—> Acharya Vinoba Bhave was the first Indian recipient of the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 1958.

—> Ramon Magsaysay Award was established by Trustees of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (US) and the Philippine Government in 1957.

—> It is considered Asia’s Nobel Prize, recognising leadership, public service, and community impact.