DAILY CURRENT
AFFAIRS: 19TH APR 2017
1. CENTRE
LAUNCHES TRAINING PROGRAM FOR WOMEN PANCHAYAT LEADERS
i. The Centre launched a training
programme for Women Panchayat leaders to skill and administers them so that
they can give special emphasis on efficient usage of funds for achieving their
overall development.
ii. The National Commission for Women
with the help of Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, has developed
training modules for empowering these elected women.
iii. They will get training under
experts from the National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj in
Hyderabad.
2. PM
NARENDRA MODI’S TWO DAY VISIT TO GUJARAT
i. PM Narendra Modi was on a 2-day
visit to Gujarat. During this visit, he inaugurated many projects across the
state.
ii. PM Modi inaugurated the Kiran
Multispeciality Hospital and Research Center in Surat.
iii. At Bajipura village in Tapi
district of Gujarat, PM Modi inaugurated fully automated cattle feed plant of
SUMUL Dairy. He also inaugurated an ice-cream plant and laid the foundation
stone for dairy products plant at Nava Pardi.
iii. In Botad district of Gujarat, PM
Modi inaugurated Phase-I of Link 2 pipeline canal of the ambitious
Saurashtra-Narmada Avtaran Irrigation Yojana by formally releasing the Narmada
water in Krushna Sagar Lake.