DAILY GK 11 AUG 2019
1.
PRESIDENT RAM NATH KOVIND GIVES ASSENT TO THE MOTOR VEHICLES (AMENDMENT) ACT,
2019
✔President
of India Ram Nath Kovind gave his assent to the Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Act,
2019, to improve road safety and facilitation of the citizens while dealing
with transport departments. The Act will amend the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988
✔The
Act provides for the grant of licenses, regulation of cab aggregators, road
safety and penalties for violation of these provisions.
✔The
Bill proposes a scheme to allow cashless treatment of victims in a road
accident during the golden hour. The golden hour is defined as the time period
of up to one hour following a traumatic injury, during which the likelihood of
preventing death through prompt medical care is the highest.
✔The
Bill proposes to increase the minimum compensation for hit and run cases. In
case of the death, the compensation has been raised from Rs. 25,000 to Rs.
2,00,000, and in case of grievous injury it will be from Rs. 12500 to Rs.
50,000.
2.
UNION MINISTER RAM VILAS PASWAN INAUGURATES INTRA-STATE PORTABILITY IN TWO
CLUSTER OF STATES
✔Shri
Vilas Paswan, Union Minister for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
inaugurated the inter-State portability in two clusters of adjoining States of
Andhra Pradesh & Telangana and Gujarat & Maharashtra, as a major step
towards achieving the objective of ‘One
Nation One Ration Card’.
✔11
States/UT has implemented the intra-State portability. The 11 states are:
- Andhra
Pradesh, Gujarat, Haryana, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra,
Punjab, Rajasthan, Telangana and Tripura.
✔Having
implemented intra-State portability already the inter-State portability will be
introduced in these 11 States by 1st January 2020.
✔Other
states apart from these 11 states will be included in the inter-state
portability in a phased manner starting from 1st of June 2020.
3.
WORLD BIOFUEL DAY: AUGUST 10
✔World
Biofuel Day is observed every year on 10th of August to create awareness about
the importance of non-fossil fuels as an alternative to conventional fossil
fuels. Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas organized an event on World
Biofuel Day in New Delhi.
✔The
theme for year 2019: Production of
Bio-diesel from Used Cooking Oil.
✔In
association with the Health Ministry, Food Safety and Standard Authority of
India has started an initiative of “Repurpose Used Cooking Oil” and a mobile
app in which the used oil will be collected from hotels and restaurants and
sent to the biodiesal plants for blending.
4. 9
YEAR OLD MANIPURI GIRL, VALENTINA DEVI MADE MANIPUR’S GREEN AMBASSADOR
✔Elangbam
Valentina Devi, a 9 year old girl from Manipur was made the ambassador of
‘Chief Minister’s Green Manipur Mission’, after a video of her crying over felled
trees went viral on social media.
✔The
govt. made this step in recognition of her immense love and affection for
trees.
✔The
girl planted two gulmohar trees near her house in Kakching district of Manipur
when she was in class 1.
✔Valentina
Devi will be the green ambassador for a period of 1year from the issue of
order.
✔She
will be involved in various green plantation and plan conservation programmes,
including ceremonial plantations, VIP involved plantations, World Environment
day and Van Mahotsava.
5.
RAJASTHAN BECOMES THE FIRST STATE IN THE COUNTRY TO IMPLEMENT BIOFUEL POLICY
✔Deputy
Chief Minister of Rajasthan state Government, Sachin Pilot stated that
Rajasthan is the 1st state in the country that released biofuel rules-2019 with
the vision to promote the use of biofuels.
✔82%
of fossil fuel in India comes from overseas which is a big burden on the
taxpayers and India’s economy.
✔The
Rajasthan state currently using 1250 crore liters of fossil fuel, where 5% of
it is replaced by biofuel, lead to 62 crore liters of biofuel will have to be
produced in the state.
✔The
National Policy on Biofuels-2018 approved by the Government envisages an
indicative target of 20% blending of ethanol in petrol and 5% blending of
bio-diesel in diesel by 2030.
