🔆 GI-Tagged niche agricultural products

✅ Centre emphasises the importance of promoting exports of GI tagged niche agricultural products.

♻️ Delving deeper:

✅ GI-tagged products of India are all set to find new market access in the United Kingdom, South Korea and Bahrain.

✅ The virtual buyer-seller meets emerge as the potential platform to improve market access.

✅ In alignment with the visions of ‘Vocal for Local’ and ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’, the centre in association with APEDA has been facilitating the identification of new markets for GI tagged products like Kala Namak rice, Naga Mircha, Assam Kaji Nemu, Bangalore rose onion, Nagpur oranges, GI varieties of mangoes, Shahi Litchi, Marayoor jaggery, Jalgaon Banana and so on.

✅ The government has put efforts to coordinate with farmer producer organisations (FPOs), food producer companies and exporters along with the international business communities to establish a hub for export in Varanasi, especially for GI-tagged agricultural products.

✅ The Lal Bahadur Shastri International Airport in Varanasi has been identified as the prime location for the promotion of GI-tagged product.

🔆 E-GOPALA PORTAL

✅ This article recognises the need for a digital platform, such as “e-GOAPLA”, to help dairy farmers manage their animals.

♻️ e-GOPALA Portal:

✅ E-GOPALA, the web version developed by the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB), has been launched to aid dairy farmers.

✅ e-GOPALA provides details of bovine animals, enabling farmers and entrepreneurs to view details of live animals, frozen semen, and embryos.

♻️ The application provides various information to the farmers and helps in:

✅ balanced ration for dairy animals
management of nearly 29 common ailments of dairy animals

✅ digital platform for buying/selling of dairy animals

✅ information on source of quality semen doses

❇️महापुरुष व उनके समाधि स्थल❇️

शक्ति स्थल –– ईन्दरा गाँधी

समता स्थल –– जग जीवन राम

वीर भूमि –– राजीव गाँधी

विजय घाट –– लाल बहादुर

राज घाट –– महात्मा गाँधी

शांति वन –– जवाहर लाल नेहरू

अभय घाट –– मोरारजी देसाई

किसान घाट –– चौधरी चरण सिंह

🦚 रासायनिक सूत्र (Chemical Formula) 🦚

✶ साधारण नमक ➠ NaCl
✶ बेकिंग सोडा ➠ NaHCO₃
✶ धोवन सोडा ➠ Na₂CO₃·10H₂O
✶ कास्टिक सोडा ➠ NaOH
✶ फिटकरी➠ K₂SO₄·Al₂(SO₄)₃·24H₂O
✶ लाल दवा ➠ KMnO₄
✶ कास्टिक पोटाश ➠ KOH
✶ चूने का पानी ➠ Ca(OH)₂
✶ जिप्सम ➠ CaSO₄·2H₂O
✶ प्लास्टर ऑफ पेरिस ➠ CaSO₄·½H₂O
✶ चॉक ➠ CaCO₃
✶ चूना-पत्थर ➠ CaCO₃
✶ संगमरमर ➠ CaCO₃
✶ नौसादर ➠ NH₄Cl
✶ लाफिंग गैस ➠ N₂O
✶ लिथार्ज ➠ PbO
✶ गैलेना ➠ PbS
✶ सफेद लेड ➠ 2PbCO₃·Pb(OH)₂
✶ नमक का अम्ल ➠ HCl
✶ अम्लराज ➠ HNO₃ + HCl (1 : 3)
✶ शुष्क बर्फ ➠ CO₂
✶ हॉर्न सिल्वर ➠ AgCl
✶ भारी जल ➠ D₂O
✶ प्रोड्यूशर गैस ➠ CO + N₂
✶ मार्श गैस ➠ CH₄
✶ सिरका ➠ CH₃COOH
✶ ऐल्कोहॉल ➠ C₂H₅OH
✶ चीनी ➠ C₁₂H₂₂O₁₁
✶ यूरिया ➠ NH₂CONH₂
✶ बेंजीन ➠ C₆H₆

Boundary lines

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The country’s labour population ratio (LPR) has dropped to 42%, according to the International Labour Organization.

Value Addition
Trade agreements of India
FTA’s
•India – Bhutan Agreement on Trade, Commerce and Transit
•India – ASEAN Trade in Goods Agreement
•India – Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement
•India – Malaysia Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement
•India – Singapore Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA)
•India – South Korea Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA)
•Revised Indo-Nepal Treaty of Trade
•India- Sri Lanka FTA (ISLFTA) Agreement on South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA) (India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Bhutan Maldives and Afghanistan)
•India – Thailand FTA – Early Harvest Scheme (EHS)

Preferential Trade Agreements

•Asia Pacific Trade Agreement (APTA) (Bangladesh, China, India, Lao PDR, Republic of Korea,
and Sri Lanka)
•India – Chile
•India – MERCOSUR
•SAARC Preferential Trading Arrangement
•India – Afghanistan

🔆 Water Treaty/Agreement

✅ The GoI has signed water treaties with our neighbouring countries in the past for mutual benefits in the field of water resources.


🔰 Pakistan

✅ Indus Waters Treaty was signed in 1960 with Pakistan concerning the use of waters of the Indus system of rivers.

✅ The Treaty extends to the main rivers of Indus basin i.e. Sutlej, Beas, Ravi (Eastern rivers) and Jhelum, Chenab and Indus (Western rivers) including their tributaries and sub tributaries and other water bodies.

✅ All the waters of the Eastern Rivers were allocated to India for her unrestricted use while India is under obligation to let flow all the waters of the Western Rivers, except for the domestic, non-consumptive and other uses permitted in the Treaty.

🔰 Nepal

✅ The Mahakali Treaty was signed with Nepal in the year 1996 concerning Integrated Development of the Mahakali River (known as river ‘Sarda’ in India).

✅ In addition, Kosi Agreement, 1954 (amended in December, 1966) and Gandak Agreement, 1959 (amended in April, 1964) were signed with Nepal for construction of Kosi Project and Gandak Project respectively.

🔰 Bangladesh

✅ Ganga Water Sharing Treaty was signed with Bangladesh in the year 1996 for sharing of Ganga/Ganges waters at Farakka.

✅ As per the Treaty, the Ganga/Ganges waters are being shared at Farakka during lean period, from 1st January to 31st May every year, on 10-day period basis as per the formula provided in the Treaty.