Bal Gangadhar Tilak’s 100th death anniversary

◆called ‘father of the Indian unrest” by British colonial rulers.
◆Jawaharlal Nehru called him the ‘father of Indian revolution
◆Mahatma Gandhi described Tilak as ‘the maker of modern India
◆His famous declaration “Swaraj is my birthright, and I shall have it
◆joined the INC in 1890
Tilak and his supporters came to be known as the extremist wing of INC.
◆celebrations on ‘Ganesh Chaturthi’ and ‘Shivaji Jayanti 1892
◆newspapers –‘Mahratta’ (English) and ‘Kesari’ (Marathi).
◆founding father of the Deccan Education Society created in 1884.
◆opposed to moderate ways and views
◆He spent 6 years in Mandalay prison from 1908 to 1914 for writing articles defending Prafulla Chaki and Khudiram Bose. 
◆one of the founders of the All India Home Rule League, along with Annie Besant and G S Khaparde.
◆against the blatant westernisation of society.
◆opposed to the age of consent bill initially in which the age of marriage of girls was proposed to be raised from 10 to 12
◆two books byTilak:
Gita Rahasya
Arctic Home of the Vedas
◆Tilak started the Swadeshi movement in India and to promote it, Tilak with Jamshedji Tata established Bombay Swadeshi Stores
◆Opened Swadeshi Wastu Pracharini Sabha during swadeshi movements 1905


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National Transit Pass System (NTPS)

◆It is an online transit pass generation system for timber, bamboo and other forest produce
◆launched recently by the Union Environment Ministry
◆pilot project will be functional in Madhya Pradesh and Telangana for now.

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Bharat Air Fibre Services

The Bharat Air Fibre services are introduced by BSNL as part of digital India initiates by the Government of India and it aims of providing Wireless Connectivity in the range of 20 KMs from the BSNL Locations and thus customers at remote places also will be benefitted as BSNL comes with cheapest services with support of Telecom Infrastructure Partners (TIPs).

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Dhole (Asiatic wild dog)

◆Endangered –IUCN.
◆CITES – Appendix II.
◆Shedule II of wildlife act 1972
◆In India, the first conservation breeding centre for dhole was built at the Indira Gandhi Zoological Park (IGZP) in 2014.

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Places in News- Agatti island

Agatti Island is a 7.6 km long island, situated on a coral atoll called Agatti atoll in the Union Territory of Lakshadweep, India.

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The Great Green Wall of Aravalli

It is a 1,600 km long and 5 km wide green ecological corridor along Aravalli range from Gujarat to Delhi.

It will be connected to Shivalik hill range.

To be implemented on a concept similar to the Great Green Wallof Sahara in Africa, it will act as a buffer against pollution

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◆The Building and Construction Workers Welfare Fund is raised by levying a cess of 1 per cent of the construction cost.

◆It is part of the Building and Other Construction Workers (BOCW) Act, 1996, which regulates employment and working conditions of construction workers and also provides for their safety and welfare measures.

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Leopard

◆Scientific Name- Panthera pardus.
◆Listed in Schedule I of the Indian Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972.
◆Included in Appendix I of CITES.
◆Listed as vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.
◆Nine subspecies of the leopard have been recognized, and they are distributed across Africa and Asia.

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Rakhis tied to trees in Aravalis

Aravali Range:

◆They are aligned in north-east to south-west direction. They run between Delhi and Palanpur in Gujarat.

◆highest peak is  Guru Shikharat 1,722 metres (5,650 ft).
one of the oldest fold mountains of the world and the oldest in India.

◆Pipli Ghat, Dewair and Desuri passes allow movement by roads and railways.

◆Three major rivers and their tributaries flow from the Aravalli, namely  Banas and Sahibi rivers which are tributaries of Yamuna, as well as Luni River which flows into the Rann of Kutch.

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Places in News- Galapagos archipelago

◆The Galapagos Islands, spread over almost 60,000 sq km, are a part of Ecuador, and are located in the Pacific Ocean around 1,000 km away from the South American continent.

◆The giant tortoises found here – ‘Galápagos’ in old Spanish– give the islands its name.

◆Ecuador made a part of the Galapagos a wildlife sanctuary in 1935, and the sanctuary became the Galapagos National Park in 1959. In 1978, the islands became UNESCO’s first World Heritage Site.

◆Charles Darwin described the islands as a “world in itself”.

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Electronic Vaccine Intelligence Network (eVIN)

◆This is being implemented under National Health Mission (NHM) by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. eVIN aims to provide real-time information on vaccine stocks and flows, and storage temperatures across all cold chain points in the country

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Higher Education Financing Agency (HEFA)

◆Joint venture of Ministry of HRD, GOI and Canara Bank
◆HEFA is registered under the Companies Act 2013 as a Union Govt company and as Non–deposit taking NBFC with RBI.
◆Main aim To enable India’s premier educational institutions to excel and reach the top in global rankings by financing building world class infrastructure including R&D Infra.

Function
◆mobilize resources from the market by way of equity from individuals / corporates
◆It provides financial assistance for creation of educational infrastructures
◆Encourages scientific and technological developments by supporting R&D facilities
◆Channelise CSR contributions

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RISE 2022

“Revitalising Infrastructure and Systems in Education (RISE) by 2022”, is a major initiative launched by GOI in the FY 2018-19 budget.

◆HEFA’s scope under RISE has been greatly expanded from initial objective of financing infrastructural needs of select Higher Educational Institutions in India to the extent of Rs. 20,000 crores.

◆It is proposed to accelerate the investment in these institutions to Rs.1,00,000 crores over the next 4 years as under

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Three capitals for Andhra Pradesh

1.Amaravati– legislative capital.
2.Visakhapatnam– executive capital.
3.Kurnool– judicial capital



◆Maharashtra has two capitals– Mumbai and Nagpur (which holds the winter session of the state assembly).
◆Himachal Pradesh has capitals at Shimla and Dharamshala (winter).
◆The former state of Jammu & Kashmir had Srinagar and Jammu (winter) as capitals

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United Nation’s policy brief on the pandemic’s impact on education

Key findings:

1.More than 1.6 billion learners affected
2.Disparities increased:
3.School dropouts
4.Girls and young women are likely to be disproportionately affected
5.Learning losses: 

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Parivar Pehchan Patra (PPP)

◆Launched by Haryana government.

◆PPP will provide a unique identity to complete family and it would have name of the head of the family on top. 

◆PPP will enable the citizens to get the benefits of various central and state government schemes at their door-step in a fair and transparent manner

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