Ayushman Vay Vandana Card
✅It enables all senior citizens aged 70 and above to access free healthcare benefits under the Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB PM-JAY).
✅Eligible beneficiaries covered under Private health insurance policies or Employees’ State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) scheme will also be eligible to avail benefits under PMJAY.
✅Those already availing benefits of Central Government Health Scheme (CGHS) and Ex-Servicemen Contributory Health Scheme (ECHS) may have to either choose their existing scheme or opt for PMJAY.
✅It enables all senior citizens aged 70 and above to access free healthcare benefits under the Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB PM-JAY).
✅Eligible beneficiaries covered under Private health insurance policies or Employees’ State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) scheme will also be eligible to avail benefits under PMJAY.
✅Those already availing benefits of Central Government Health Scheme (CGHS) and Ex-Servicemen Contributory Health Scheme (ECHS) may have to either choose their existing scheme or opt for PMJAY.
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🔆The “Bhu-Neer” Portal:
✅Ministry: Ministry of Jal Shakti, developed by Central Ground Water Authority (CGWA) in collaboration with NIC.
✅Aim: To regulate, manage, and monitor groundwater resources transparently and efficiently, promoting sustainability.
Key Features:
✅PAN-Based Single ID System
✅NOC with QR Code
✅Streamlined Processes
✅Centralized Database: Offers access to legal frameworks, groundwater policies, and sustainable practices at state and national levels.
✅Ease of Doing Businesses.
✅Ministry: Ministry of Jal Shakti, developed by Central Ground Water Authority (CGWA) in collaboration with NIC.
✅Aim: To regulate, manage, and monitor groundwater resources transparently and efficiently, promoting sustainability.
Key Features:
✅PAN-Based Single ID System
✅NOC with QR Code
✅Streamlined Processes
✅Centralized Database: Offers access to legal frameworks, groundwater policies, and sustainable practices at state and national levels.
✅Ease of Doing Businesses.
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🔆Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve:
✅Location: the junction of the Eastern and the Western Ghats in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, in the Erode District of Tamil Nadu.
✅Its area is contiguous with the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve, Bandipur Tiger Reserve (Karnataka), and BR Tiger Reserve and Wildlife Sanctuary (Karnataka).
✅Together, these reserves-forming the Nilgiris biosphere landscape, have the biggest tiger population in the world, at over 280 tigers.
✅Vegetation: It consists of southern tropical dry thorn forests, mixed deciduous forests, semi-evergreen forests, and Riparian forests.
✅Climate: subtropical and dry.
✅Rivers: Bhavani, Moyar, and Noyyal
✅Tribal Communities: Irula and Kurumba
✅Flora: Albizia amara, Chloroxylon swietenia, Gyrocarpus jacquini, Neem, Tamarind, Sandalwood, Randi dumetorum, Zizyphus, and associates.
✅Fauna: The major species are Elephant, Tiger, Panther, Sloth bear, Gaur, Black Buck, Spotted deer, Wild boar, Black naped hare, Common langur Nilgiri langur, Striped neck mongoose, and Bonnet macaque.
✅Location: the junction of the Eastern and the Western Ghats in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, in the Erode District of Tamil Nadu.
✅Its area is contiguous with the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve, Bandipur Tiger Reserve (Karnataka), and BR Tiger Reserve and Wildlife Sanctuary (Karnataka).
✅Together, these reserves-forming the Nilgiris biosphere landscape, have the biggest tiger population in the world, at over 280 tigers.
✅Vegetation: It consists of southern tropical dry thorn forests, mixed deciduous forests, semi-evergreen forests, and Riparian forests.
✅Climate: subtropical and dry.
✅Rivers: Bhavani, Moyar, and Noyyal
✅Tribal Communities: Irula and Kurumba
✅Flora: Albizia amara, Chloroxylon swietenia, Gyrocarpus jacquini, Neem, Tamarind, Sandalwood, Randi dumetorum, Zizyphus, and associates.
✅Fauna: The major species are Elephant, Tiger, Panther, Sloth bear, Gaur, Black Buck, Spotted deer, Wild boar, Black naped hare, Common langur Nilgiri langur, Striped neck mongoose, and Bonnet macaque.
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🔆 Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) :
✅ Origin - Shanghai Five (1996) : China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan.
✅ 2001 : Adding Uzbekistan as a sixth member , The Shanghai Five was renamed the SCO.
✅ 2015 : The SCO decided to admit India and Pakistan as full members.
✅ 2016 : India and Pakistan signed the memorandum of obligations in Tashkent (Uzbekistan), thereby starting the formal process of joining the SCO as full members.
✅ 2017: India and Pakistan officially joined SCO as full members
✅ 2021: It was announced that Iran would become a full member of the SCO.
✅ Headquarter - Beijing, China
🔸 Members - China, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Iran, and Uzbekistan
🔸Observers - Afghanistan, Belarus, and Mongolia
🔸Dialogue Partners - Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Turkey, Egypt, Nepal, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia
✅ Structure :
🔸 The Council of Heads of State
🔸 The Council of Heads of Government
🔸 The Council of Foreign Ministers
🔸 The Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure
✅ Significance - Addresses security issues in Asia with primarily Asian members.
✅ 23rd Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit : Hosted By India
✅ SCO Summit 2024(24th) - Astana, Kazakhstan
🔸Belarus has become the 10th member state of the SCO
✅ Origin - Shanghai Five (1996) : China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan.
✅ 2001 : Adding Uzbekistan as a sixth member , The Shanghai Five was renamed the SCO.
✅ 2015 : The SCO decided to admit India and Pakistan as full members.
✅ 2016 : India and Pakistan signed the memorandum of obligations in Tashkent (Uzbekistan), thereby starting the formal process of joining the SCO as full members.
✅ 2017: India and Pakistan officially joined SCO as full members
✅ 2021: It was announced that Iran would become a full member of the SCO.
✅ Headquarter - Beijing, China
🔸 Members - China, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Iran, and Uzbekistan
🔸Observers - Afghanistan, Belarus, and Mongolia
🔸Dialogue Partners - Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Turkey, Egypt, Nepal, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia
✅ Structure :
🔸 The Council of Heads of State
🔸 The Council of Heads of Government
🔸 The Council of Foreign Ministers
🔸 The Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure
✅ Significance - Addresses security issues in Asia with primarily Asian members.
✅ 23rd Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit : Hosted By India
✅ SCO Summit 2024(24th) - Astana, Kazakhstan
🔸Belarus has become the 10th member state of the SCO
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Project Veer Gatha
✅The Government had launched Project ‘Veer Gatha’ as part of ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’ to celebrate 75th year of Independence.
✅It was launched under the Gallantry Awards Portal (GAP) in 2021, aims to share the courageous acts and life stories of Gallantry Awardees with students to foster patriotism and civic values.
✅Through this initiative, students have created projects in various formats, including poems, essays, paintings, and videos, to honor these gallantry award winners.
✅Aligned with the Republic Day celebrations each year, Project Veer Gatha has seen great success with its first three editions.
✅Under Project Veer Gatha 4.0, 100 winners will be selected and their felicitation will be done jointly by the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Defence during the upcoming Republic Day. Each winner will be awarded a cash prize of Rs. 10,000.
✅The Government had launched Project ‘Veer Gatha’ as part of ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’ to celebrate 75th year of Independence.
✅It was launched under the Gallantry Awards Portal (GAP) in 2021, aims to share the courageous acts and life stories of Gallantry Awardees with students to foster patriotism and civic values.
✅Through this initiative, students have created projects in various formats, including poems, essays, paintings, and videos, to honor these gallantry award winners.
✅Aligned with the Republic Day celebrations each year, Project Veer Gatha has seen great success with its first three editions.
✅Under Project Veer Gatha 4.0, 100 winners will be selected and their felicitation will be done jointly by the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Defence during the upcoming Republic Day. Each winner will be awarded a cash prize of Rs. 10,000.
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🔆Raja Raja Chola I
✅Birth: Born as Arulmozhi Varman in 947 CE, he rose to become one of history’s most illustrious and visionary rulers.
✅Rajaraja is regarded as Ulakalanda Perumel (the great one who measured the earth like Trivikrama) and as Shiva who established control over the land of Bhargava Rama.
✅Reign: Raja Raja’s reign, from 985 to 1014 CE, encompassed the whole of southern India, part of Ceylon and the Maldive and Laccadive archipelagos.
✅The Cholas undertook military expeditions to Sri Lanka (during the time of Rajaraja I) and SriVijaya (during the time of Rajendra I).
✅Titles: He decorated himself with high-sounding titles of Jayangonda, Pandya-kulasani, Singalantaka, Colamartanda, and Telingakulakala.
✅Stone records: He started prefacing stone records (official prasasti) with a set description of the major events of his reign.
📍Brihadeeswarar Temple (Rajarajeswaram)
✅Location: Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, part of the UNESCO “Great Living Chola Temples.”
✅Era: Built in 1009 CE by Raja Raja Chola I, it is the largest and tallest Indian temple.
📍Design:
✅Features a massive 70-meter pyramidal vimana with an octagonal dome-shaped stupika.
✅Two large gopuras adorned with intricate sculptures.
✅Sanctum houses a two-storey lingam of Lord Shiva.
✅Birth: Born as Arulmozhi Varman in 947 CE, he rose to become one of history’s most illustrious and visionary rulers.
✅Rajaraja is regarded as Ulakalanda Perumel (the great one who measured the earth like Trivikrama) and as Shiva who established control over the land of Bhargava Rama.
✅Reign: Raja Raja’s reign, from 985 to 1014 CE, encompassed the whole of southern India, part of Ceylon and the Maldive and Laccadive archipelagos.
✅The Cholas undertook military expeditions to Sri Lanka (during the time of Rajaraja I) and SriVijaya (during the time of Rajendra I).
✅Titles: He decorated himself with high-sounding titles of Jayangonda, Pandya-kulasani, Singalantaka, Colamartanda, and Telingakulakala.
✅Stone records: He started prefacing stone records (official prasasti) with a set description of the major events of his reign.
📍Brihadeeswarar Temple (Rajarajeswaram)
✅Location: Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, part of the UNESCO “Great Living Chola Temples.”
✅Era: Built in 1009 CE by Raja Raja Chola I, it is the largest and tallest Indian temple.
📍Design:
✅Features a massive 70-meter pyramidal vimana with an octagonal dome-shaped stupika.
✅Two large gopuras adorned with intricate sculptures.
✅Sanctum houses a two-storey lingam of Lord Shiva.
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