DAILY GK 17 NOV 2020
1. LONAR LAKE AND SUR SAROVAR ADDED
TO RAMSAR SITES
• Prakash Javadekar, Union Minister for
Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) announced that Sur Sarovar also
known as Keetham Lake in Agra, Uttar Pradesh and Lonar Lake in
Maharashtra, the only Crater Lake of
Country has been added to the ‘Ramsar Sites’.
• These 2 wetlands have been included in the
‘List of Wetlands of International Importance’ established by Article 2.1 of
the Convention.
• With the inclusion of these 2 wetlands,
the total number of Ramsar Sites in India is 41, the highest in South Asia.
2. SAANS CAMPAIGN TO REDUCE
CHILDHOOD PNEUMONIA DEATHS
• The Union Ministry of Health & Family
Welfare (MoHFW) launched a 3 month accelerated SAANS (Social Action and
Awareness to Neutralise Pneumonia Successfully) campaign to reduce childhood Pneumonia
Deaths.
• Target of the Initiative– To reduce less
than 5 Pneumonia deaths, per a 1000 live births, to less than 3 deaths by 2025
through the accelerated SAANS (Social Action and Awareness to Neutralise
Pneumonia Successfully) initiative.
3. WORLD’S BIGGEST FREE TRADE PACT
‘RCEP’
• 15 Asia-Pacific Countries including 10
members of the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) and their 5 Free Trade Agreement (FTA) partners China,
Japan, South Korea, New Zealand and Australia signed the World’s largest Regional
Free-Trade Agreement “Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership – RCEP” on
the sidelines of the 37th ASEAN Virtual Summit 2020 hosted by Vietnam. India
had pulled out of RCEP in 2019 over concerns on Imports.
• Members who have signed the RCEP pact account for 2.2 Billion People with a
combined Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of USD 26.2 Trillion.
