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Slender Loris

Tamil Nadu notifies India's first 'Slender loris' Sanctuary covering 11,806 hc in Karur & Dindigul Districts. Great news for conservation of these shy & enigmatic mammals

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A good example of Innovation & Dedication

✅ IAS Nazuk Kumar Turned a Mizoram District, Serchhip, from Water Deficient to Water Sufficient.

✅ Rain water was the main source of water in Serchhip but most of water was lost due to surface run-off and leaching.

✅ During the dry months, people in Serchhip faced acute water shortage. They were forced to travel miles to fetch water from natural spring.

✅ Ms. Nazuk was instrumental in construction of Rain Water Harvesting system like check dam and contour trenching through schemes like MGNREGA.

✅ She made rain water harvesting a mass movement. As a result, now some villages in Serchhip, all households have proper roof-top rain water harvesting system.

✅ Recently, Serchhip district in Mizoram has won two National Water Awards for water conservation and water management.🔥🔥

What other values can we learn this incident? 🤔🤔

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PM dedicated 75 Digital Banking Units (DBU) across 75 districts to the nation

Important for Prelims and Mains (GS 3).

✅ DBUs will be brick-and-mortar outlets that will provide a variety of digital banking facilities to people such as opening savings accounts, balance-check, print passbooks, transfer of funds, investment in FD, loan applications, pay bills etc.

✅ DBUs will be set up by commercial banks (other than RRB, payment banks) with past digital banking experience are permitted to open DBUs in tier 1 to tier 6 centers, without having the need to take permission from the RBI in each case.

✅ In DBU, the products and services will be offered to customers in 2 modes:
-Self Service Mode
-Digital Assistance Mode

✅ Significance
-Provide banking services 24 x 7.
-Services shall be digital
-Paperless mode banking transactions
-Bank staff will be available to help users with banking transactions in assisted mode
-Help in digital financial literacy & Financial Inclusion

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Maharatna CPSEs:
1. Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited
2. Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited
3. Coal India Limited
4. GAIL India Limited
5. Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited
6. Indian Oil Corporation Limited
7. NTPC Limited
8. Oil & Natural Gas Corporation Limited,
9. Power Finance Corporation
10. Power Grid Corporation of India Limited
11. Steel Authority of India Limited
12. Rural Electrification Corporation ltd (new)


Criteria for Maharatna Status:
-- recorded more than Rs. 5,000 crore of net profit for three consecutive years,
-- an average annual turnover of Rs. 25,000 crore for three years or
-- an average annual net worth of Rs. 15,000 crore for three years.
-- It should also have global operations or footprints.
-- A CPSE should also have a Navratna status, be listed on an Indian stock exchange.

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