Excellence by Saikat Sir: Daily Current Affairs May 01 & 02 2022

Daily Current Affairs May 01 & 02 2022

CURRENT AFFAIRS: IMPORTANT DAYS

International Jazz Day -30 April:

International Jazz Day is celebrated annually on April 30.
The day aims to raise awareness about the virtues of jazz as an educational tool, and a force for empathy, dialogue, and enhanced cooperation among people.
The theme for International Jazz Day 2022 is ‘A Call for Global Peace and Unity’
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) proclaimed 30 April as International Jazz Day in November 2011.
The day was designated to bring together communities, schools, artists, historians, academics, and jazz enthusiasts from across the world to celebrate and learn about the art of jazz and its impact.

World Veterinary Day 2022: 30th April

World Veterinary Day is observed on the last Saturday of April to celebrate the work of veterinarians globally.
This year it falls on 30th April 2022.
The day highlights the work and duties veterinarians have towards society and the responsibilities they shoulder at a local, national and international level.
The theme of 30 April 2022, World Veterinary Day is “Strengthening Veterinary Resilience”.
The first-ever International Veterinary Congress meeting was held in 1863 in Hamburg, Germany and was called by Professor John Gamgee.
The agenda of the meeting included epizootic diseases and a discussion on standard rules for cattle trade in Europe.
It later came to be known as World Veterinary Congress.
A permanent committee was created in the eighth Congress, in
Further, in 1959, the World Veterinary Association (WVA) was founded in Madrid, Spain.
World Veterinary Day was declared in 2001.

International Dance Day 2022- 29 April:

International Dance Day 2022 will be observed on 29^th April
International Dance Day 2022 is observed to celebrate the different dance forms.
The day also marks the birth anniversary of Jean-Georges Noverre, the creator of modern ballet.
International Dance Day came into existence when the Dance Committee of the International Theatre Institute started to recognise it.
It is the main partner for the performing arts of
In 1982 the Dance Committee of ITI founded International Dance Day to be celebrated every year on the 29th of April, the birthday of Jean-Georges Noverre (1727-1810), creator of modern ballet.

CURRENT AFFAIRS: NATIONAL NEWS

Asia’s biggest International Food and Hospitality fair – AAHAR-2022:

Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) in association with the India Trade Promotion Organization (ITPO) is organizing Asia’s biggest international food and hospitality fair AAHAR-2022 at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi.
The first day of the fair was April 26th, 2022.
This fair will run till April 30th, 2022.
The fair is now in its 36th year.
This event will provide visitors and participants with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to develop new business leads.
More than 80 exporters from different agricultural products, including geographical indication products, processed food, organic, and frozen food products, will participate in the fair.
APEDA has created dedicated stalls for exporters from the North East Region and Himalayan states like Jammu & Kashmir, Ladakh, Uttarakhand, and Himachal Pradesh, women entrepreneurs, Farmer Producers Organizations, Start-Ups, and exporters of millets.

Union Minister Giriraj Singh launches 90-day inter-ministerial campaign Azadi se Antyodaya Tak:

Rural Development Minister Giriraj Singh has launched ‘Azadi se Antyodaya Tak,’ a 90-day inter-ministerial campaign under Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav.
Celebrating the spirit of the year-long Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav, the identified districts are aligned with the birthplace of one hundred Freedom Fighters, who made the ultimate sacrifice for the nation during its struggle for independence.
The campaign will be implemented involving all rural stakeholders like families of selected freedom fighters, Panchayati Raj Institutions, women networks, youth groups and students highlighting the achievements of the schemes.
The campaign has been launched with a mission to saturate 75 Districts across 28 States and Union Territories with beneficiary schemes of nine central ministries.
17 select schemes with direct assistance to beneficiaries in saturation mode, reaching out to the person at the bottom of the pyramid in rural areas by each of the participating ministries and departments.

PM Modi lays the foundation stones for various healthcare, education projects:

PM Narendra Modi laid the foundation stones for projects relating to healthcare and education including a Veterinary College in Diphu, Degree College in West Karbi Anglong and Agricultural College in Kolonga.
These projects, worth more than ₹500 crores, are expected to bring new opportunities for skilling and employment in the region.
During the programme, Prime Minister Narendra Modi also laid the foundation stone for more than 2950 Amrit Sarovar projects.
The state will develop these Amrit Sarovar at a cumulative cost of around ₹1150 crore.

CURRENT AFFAIRS : STATE NEWS

Maharashtra became India’s 1st state to develop Migration Tracking System app

The Maharashtra government has developed a website-based migration tracking system (MTS) application to map the movement of vulnerable seasonal migrant workers through individual unique identity numbers.

About MTS project :

The MTS project is envisaged to maintain the continuity of the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) like nutrition supply, immunisation and health check-up to migrant beneficiaries including children aged up to 18 years, lactating mothers and pregnant women registered with the anganwadi centres.
The migration workers will be tracked for ensuring the portability of the ICDS for their families in their destination districts within or outside the state until their return to their native places.
Anganwadi workers have to first register the migrating beneficiaries from their areas on the MTS website app on their laptops or mobile phones by using the workers’ identity cards like Aadhar, PAN card, or ration cards etc. “
The anganwadi workers have to mention the age, weight, height of the migrant children, who will be placed in nutritional categories like severe, moderate or acute.
Depending on this data, the nutrition benefits will be allocated to the children in their new locations.
On the MTS app, the anganwadi workers would also collect details about various informal sectors such as brick kilns, agriculture labour, stone crushing, construction work, sugarcane cutting or sugar factory where the migrant workers are headed along with their children.

Additional Info :

In November 2021, The state government’s women and child development (WCD) department launched it as a pilot project in six districts with high tribal population including Gadchiroli, Chandrapur, Amravati, Jalna, Palghar and Nandurbar.

About ICDS :

Launched : 2 October 1975
ICDS is a centrally sponsored scheme implemented by the Ministry of Women and Child Development.
It is a government program in India which provides nutritional meals, preschool education, primary healthcare, immunization, health check-up and referral services to children under 6 years of age and their mothers.

India’s first gene bank to preserve biodiversity – Maharashtra Gene Bank

The Maharashtra Cabinet approved the ‘Maharashtra Gene Bank’, a first-of-its-kind project in India.

Aim :

To document native natural resources and conserve them with local communities to ensure biodiversity conservation and the inclusion of traditional knowledge.
A budget of ₹39 crore for five years has been approved.
The project was initially run as a pilot by the Maharashtra government’s Rajiv Gandhi Science & Technology Commission across 27 districts.
Now it would be run by the State Biodiversity Board to sustain and continue the work.
The project will be carried out by a three-tier panel with the Chief Secretary as head of the State-level committee.
Each of the seven major points identified in the project will be worked upon by organisations, research institutes or NGOs working in that area.
An executive committee under Principal Secretary (Forest) will monitor the sector-wise functioning while a panel under district collector will look after the functioning at district level.

The seven main themes identified for the Gene Bank include:

Marine biodiversity
Local crop/seed varieties
Indigenous cattle breeds
Freshwater biodiversity
Grassland, scrubland and animal grazing land biodiversity
Conservation and management plans for areas under forest right
Rejuvenation of forest areas

Under the project biodiversity, traditional knowledge and local community wisdom about conservation will be documented.
The successful conservation and methods will be standardised by collection and analysis and will also be popularised on different educational and social levels.
It will promote permanent biodiversity conservation and suggest measures on effects on food security due to climate change.
Ecologist and former Secretary in the government of India, Madhav Gadgil, had conceptualised the project that aims to bring the members of the grass-roots community and the scientific community together.

About Maharashtra :

Governor: Bhagat Singh Koshyari
Capital: Mumbai
Chief minister: Uddhav Thackeray

CURRENT AFFAIRS : BANKING & FINANCE

RBI imposes Rs 1.12 crore penalty on Bank of Maharashtra

The Reserve Bank of India has imposed a monetary penalty of Rs 1.12 crore on the state-run Bank of Maharashtra for non-compliance.
The non-compliance pertains to certain directions issued under the Know Your Customer (KYC) Directions, of 2016.
This penalty has been imposed in the exercise of powers vested in RBI under the provisions of section 47 A (1) (c) read with sections 46 (4) (i) and 51 (1) of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949 (the Act).
Meanwhile, the RBI has also imposed a monetary penalty of Rs 25 lakh on Haryana State Co-operative Apex Bank Limited for non-compliance with its directions on Housing Finance.
It has also imposed a monetary penalty of Rs 12 lakh on Rajkot Nagarik Sahakari Bank Limited for non-compliance on ‘Interest Rate on Deposits.

About RBI :

Founded: 1 April 1935
Headquarters: Mumbai, Maharashtra,India
Governor: Shaktikanta Das
Deputy Governors : Mahesh Kumar Jain, M. Rajeshwar Rao,Michael Patra and T. Rabi Shankar.

About Bank of Maharashtra :

Founded : 16 September 1935
Headquarters : Pune, Maharashtra
MD & CEO : A. S. Rajeev

ICICI Bank launches digital ecosystem for MSMEs

ICICI Bank has launched India’s first comprehensive digital ecosystem for all Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in the country, offering a complete range of enhanced banking and value-added services at one place.
The ecosystem has three pillars:

enhanced banking services for existing customers
a bouquet of banking services to MSMEs, who are customers of other banks
a whole range of value-added services for all.

How to avail services?

Anyone can avail of the benefits of ICICI Bank’s digital solutions by simply downloading the new version of the InstaBIZ app from Google Play Store or Apple App Store, or at the Bank’s Corporate Internet Banking (CIB) platform.

What services are offered?

MSMEs, who are customers of other banks, can avail of services from ICICI Bank’s digital ecosystem by logging in as a ‘Guest’ in the new version of InstaBIZ.
The most important in the list of these services is sanction of instant and paperless overdraft facility up to Rs 25 lakh.
Named ‘InstaOD Plus’, the industry-first proposition enables customers of any bank to avail of an overdraft instantly through a few clicks either on the new version of InstaBIZ or CIB (Corporate Internet Banking).

About ICICI Bank :

Founded : 5 January 1994
Headquarters : Mumbai, Maharashtra
Chairperson : Girish Chandra Chaturvedi
MD & CEO : Sandeep Bakhshi

SEBI cuts listing time for REITs, InvITs from 12 days to 6 days

The Securities and Exchange Board of India the time taken for allotment and listing of REITs (real estate investment trusts) and InvITs (infrastructure investment trusts) after the closure of issue would be reduced to six working days, against the current requirement of 12 working days.
The new rules will be applicable to the public issues of REITs and InvITs which open on or after June 1, 2022.

Aim :

To make the existing process of issuance of such emerging investment vehicles simpler and cost-effective.
Both REITs and InvITs are investment vehicles similar to mutual funds, wherein sponsors/managers pool money from investors, which is further invested in real estate and infrastructure projects.
InvITs comprise a portfolio of infrastructure assets, such as highways and power transmission assets.
As of March 2021, a total of 15 InvITs and four REITs were registered.
Of these, six InvITs and three REITs were listed on the stock exchanges.

About SEBI :

Headquarters: Mumbai, Maharashtra
Chairperson : Madhabi Puri Buch
It was established on 12 April 1988 and given Statutory Powers on 30 January 1992 through the SEBI Act, 1992.

CURRENT AFFAIRS : APPOINTMENTS & RESIGNATIONS

Shivalik Small Finance Bank appoints former RBL bank retail chief Anshul Swami as MD-CEO

Shivalik Small Finance Bank has appointed Anshul Swami as the bank’s managing director and chief executive officer.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has already approved the appointment of Anshul Swami.
Swami replaces Suveer Kumar Gupta who co-founded the bank and led its transition from an urban co-operative bank to a small finance one.
Now Gupta will act as an adviser to the Board of Directors.

About Anshul Swami :

Anshul is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Management- Lucknow (IIM- Lucknow).
Swami has over 20 years of experience across various customer and geographic segments.
He has worked across various customer segments like retail, MSME, microfinance and
Prior to Shivalik SFB, Swami was associated with RBL Bank as Head – Retail & Inclusion, Products.
He has also held positions with Barclays, Citi Financial, and Britannia.

About Shivalik Small Finance Bank :

Founded : 1997
Headquarters : Noida, Uttar Pradesh
MD & CEO : Mr. Anshul Swami
In 2021, Shivalik Small Finance Bank was the first one to convert from a Universal Cooperative Bank to a Small Finance Bank structure.
As of the 2022 March end , the lender’s total advances stood at Rs 804.9 crore, up 12 percent year-on-year, while total deposits rose 9.2 percent on year to Rs 1,244.5 crore.

CURRENT AFFAIRS : AWARDS & HONORS

BRO’s Atal Tunnel Won IBC Best Infrastructure Project award

On April 28, 2022, The Border Roads Organisation (BRO) Engineering Marvel Atal Tunnel built in Rohtang of Himachal Pradesh received Indian Building Congress (IBC) ‘Best Infrastructure Project’ award in New Delhi.
The 02 km-long Atal Tunnel is the longest highway tunnel globally and connects Manali to Lahaul-Spiti valley throughout the year.
Earlier, the valley was cut off for about six months each year owing to heavy snowfall.
The tunnel, built by using the New Austrian Tunneling Method (NATM) was dedicated to the Nation by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi on October 03, 2020.
More than 30 State-of-the-art infrastructure projects were nominated for the award.
Director General of the BRO, Lt General Rajeev Chaudhry, received the award during the 25th annual convention of the IBC.

Features of BRO’s Atal Tunnel :

It features a semi transverse ventilation system with large fans that circulate air in the tunnel.
A tunnel section has an emergency tunnel that is located beneath the main carriageway.
This tunnel can be used for evacuation in case of emergencies.
The fires inside the tunnel will be controlled within an area of 200 metres and fire hydrants are provided at specific locations throughout the tunnel.

About BRO :

Founded : 7 May 1960
Headquarters : New Delhi, Delhi, India
Director General : Lt. Gen. Rajeev Chaudhary

About Ministry of Defence :

Defence Minister : Rajnath Singh
Minister of State : Ajay Bhatt

Union Minister of State for Chemicals & Fertilizers Bhagwanth Khuba presents India Pharma and India Medical Devices Awards 2022

During the 7th edition of International conference on Pharma and Medical Devices sector 2022, Union Minister of State for Chemicals & Fertilizers (MoC&F), Shri Bhagwanth Khuba along with the Secretary, Department of Pharmaceuticals also conferred India Pharma and India Medical Devices Awards 2022.
In 2022 the Department of Pharmaceuticals has announced six main categories of the India Pharma and India Medical Devices Awards in: –

Leaders Category
Company of the year
MSME of the year
Start-ups of the year
Innovation Category
CSR Category.

India Pharma & India Medical Device 2022 Awards :

Category	Award	Winners
LEADERS CATEGORY AWARDS	INDIA PHARMA LEADER OF THE YEAR	Cipla Limited
LEADERS CATEGORY AWARDS	INDIA MEDICAL DEVICES LEADER OF THE YEAR	Poly Medicure Limited
COMAPNY OF THE YEAR AWARD	INDIA PHARMA (FORMULATION) COMPANY OF THE YEAR	Micro Labs Limited
COMAPNY OF THE YEAR AWARD	INDIA MEDICAL DEVICES COMAPANY OF THE YEAR	Trivitron Healthcare
MSME CATEGORY AWARDS	INDIA MEDICAL DEVICE MSME OF THE YEAR	Nice Neotech Medical Systems Private Limited
START-UP CATEGORY	INDIA MEDICAL DEVICE START-UP OF THE YEAR	Vanguard Diagnostics (P) Limited
INNOVATION CATEGORY	INDIA PHARMA INNOVATION OF THE YEAR	Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Limited
INNOVATION CATEGORY	INDIA MEDICAL DEVICE INNOVATIVE OF THE YEAR	Meril Life Sciences Private Limited
CSR CATEGORY	INDIA PHARMA CSR COMPANY OF THE YEAR	Zydus Lifesciences Limited

About 7th edition of International conference on Pharma and Medical Devices sector 2022 :

Dr Mansukh Mandaviya, Union Minister for Chemicals & Fertilizers and Health & Family Welfare, inaugurated the 7th edition of the International Conference on Pharma and Medical Devices sector 2022, which is scheduled from 25th to 27th April.
The annual flagship three-day conference is being held at Dr Ambedkar International Centre, New Delhi.
In 2022 the India Pharma is planned around the theme: ‘India Pharma-Vision 2047: Transformative agenda for future’ & for India Medical Device, the theme is ‘Transforming Healthcare through Innovation & Integrated Services’.
The Indian medical device sector is currently standing at $11 billion and is likely to reach $ 50 billion by 2025.
Currently over 80 percent of medical devices are imported in India & with R&D, innovation, India will soon produce 80 percent of medical devices in India.

About Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers :

Union Minister : Mansukh Mandaviya
Minister of State : Bhagwanth Khuba

CURRENT AFFAIRS : MOU & AGREEMENTS

Flipkart signs MoU with Bengal govt to support artisans, weavers, handicraft makers

Flipkart has signed a memorandum of understanding with the West Bengal government to train and support local artisans, weavers and handicraft makers to leverage its e-commerce platform to scale up their businesses nationally.
The agreement was signed with West Bengal’s micro, small and medium enterprises and textiles department.
Under this partnership, it will provide time-bound incubation support and training benefits to underserved communities.

About Flipkart :

Founded : 2007
Headquarters : Bangalore, Karnataka, India
CEO : Kalyan Krishnamurthy

About West Bengal :

Governor: Jagdeep Dhankhar
Capital: Kolkata
Chief minister: Mamata Banerjee

IIMK-AARDO signs international MoU to promote sustainable agriculture

The African Asian Rural Development Organisation (AARDO) and the Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIM-K) have signed an MoU (Memorandum of understanding) to encourage and work collaboratively in research, consulting firms, technical and knowledge assistance in promoting sustainable agriculture and rural development practices in the 33 member-AARDO, which involves 31 nations in the Asian-African region.
The agreement was signed in New Delhi by IIM-K Director Debashis Chatterjee and AARDO Secretary-General Manoj Nardeosingh.

About the MoU :

Under the agreement, IIMK and AARDO will cooperate and collaborate with each other to address the challenges in agriculture and sustainable rural development; through research, publication, consultancy and advisory.
The MoU will also focus on advancing new knowledge and its sharing, innovative solutions, interventions and capacity enhancement to benefit and strengthen rural communities of these 33 members, which include 31 countries.
Both IIMK and AARDO will organize international, regional and On-The-Spot (OTS), in-country training programmes, workshops, seminars to strengthen the institutional capacity of the Member Countries.
It will also conduct research, implement development projects jointly, exchange experts, specialists, create exchange programmes with universities, institutes in member countries and provide technical support in project formulations and consultancy.

About AARDO :

Formed : 1962
Headquarters : New Delhi, India.
Secretary General : Dr Manoj Nardeosingh

About IIM-K :

Established : 1996
Located at : Calicut, Kerala
Chairman : A. Vellayan
Director : Prof. Debashis Chatterjee

Railways and C-DoT to work together for modernization of Telecommunication in Indian Railways for Public Safety and Security Services

The Ministry of Railways signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DoT) to establish a collaborative working partnership.
The partnership entails coordination and resource sharing with respect to provision of telecommunication facilities in the delivery and implementation of C-DoT’s Telecom Solutions and services in Railways.
The MoU was signed in the presence of Rajkumar Upadhyay, Executive Director of C-DOT and Aruna Singh, Additional Member/Telecom/Railway Board.