DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS: 15 DEC 2015
(Daily News India)
1. WORLD BANK RELEASED SHOCK WAVES: MANAGING THE IMPACTS OF
CLIMATE CHANGE ON POVERTY REPORT
i. World Bank
released a report titled Shock Waves: Managing the Impacts of Climate Change on
Poverty.
ii. The
report explains the two-way relation between climate change and poverty and
concludes that climate change is one of the primary reasons for poverty across
the world.
iii. The report
also provides guidance to create a situation so that climate change policies can contribute to reduce poverty and poverty-reduction policies
contributing to climate change mitigation and resilience building.
iv. There are
three major ways through which climate-sensitive events effects the ability of
poor people to escape poverty-agricultural production,natural disasters
ecosystems,food security and health.
2. INDIA RANKS 130TH IN 2015 HUMAN
DEVELOPMENT INDEX
i. India has been
placed at 130th position in the 2015 Human Development Index among the 188
countries.
ii. In 2014 report india was
placed at rank 135.
iii. Improvement in India’s rank from
previous year has been attributed to rise in life expectancy and per capita
income.
iv. India’s Life expectancy at
birth has increased to 68 years in 2015 from 67.6 in the previous year
iv. Top Three Countries in the
list are Norway, Australia and Switzerland
3. RAJASTHAN BECOMES THE FIRST STATE TO SUBMIT SMART CITY PLAN
i. Rajasthan has become the first
state in the country to submit smart city plans for three selected cities to
Union Government.
ii. Rajasthan
state government has submitted smart city Proposals of Udaipur, Kota and Ajmer
to Union Ministry of Urban Development.
iii. Smart
Cities Mission is flagship scheme of
Union Government under which 100 smart cities would be built across the country
in different states.
iv. The Aim
of the Mission is to efficiently utilise available resources, assets and
infrastructure in order to enhance quality of urban life and provide a clean
and sustainable environment.
4. WEST BENGAL GOVERNMENT HONOURED BAPPI LAHIRI AND KUMAR SANU
WITH LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS
i. The West Bengal Government
honoured music composer Bappi Lahiri and singer Kumar Sanu with Lifetime
Achievement Awards.
ii. State
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee given awards at the inauguration of the annual
Bangla Sangeet Mela in which artists from various fields relating to sangeet
has participated.
5. OPERATION SMILE-II TO START FROM 1 JANUARY 2016
i. Union Government requested the states and
Union Territories to start Operation Smile-II from 1 January 2016.
ii. Operation
Smile-II is a campaigning to rescue or rehabilitate the missing children.
iii. Earlier
operation smile-1 has helped in rescuing and rehabilitating 9146 missing
children.
iv. Under
Operation Smile the particulars of missing children will be uploaded on the
Missing child portal of the Ministry of Women and Child Development by the
respective State Police.
v. In January
2015 all States/UTs were advised to take up a month campaign titled Operation
Smile -1 to rescue/rehabilitate the missing children.
