DAILY GK : 3,4 JULY 2022

 

DAILY GK : 3,4 JULY 2022

1.       ‘UDYAMI BHARAT’ PROGRAMME

·         Prime Minister(PM) Narendra Modi participated in the ‘Udyami Bharat’ programme organised at the Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi, Delhi.

·         He also launched ‘Raising and Accelerating MSME Performance’ (RAMP) scheme, ‘Capacity Building of First-Time MSME Exporters’ (CBFTE) scheme and New features of the Prime Minister’s Employment Generation Programme – (PMEGP) to ramp up the Micro, Small & Medium Enterprise (MSME) sector.

 

2.       INDIA’S LARGEST FLOATING SOLAR PLANT COMMISSIONED

·         NTPC Limited, India’s largest state-run energy conglomerate, has announced the commercial operation of the Ramagundam Floating Solar photovoltaic (PV) Project in Ramagundam, Telangana, which is India’s largest floating solar power plant with a total capacity of 100 MW (megawatts).

·         It commenced operation on July 1, 2022, and made the final final operation of 20 MW of the 100 MW Ramagundam Floating Solar PV Project.

·         TheRamagundam Floating Solar PV Project, which has 4.48 lakh photovoltaic (PV) panels floating across 500 acres of the NTPC-Ramagundam reservoir, was built at a cost of Rs. 423 crore.

 

3.       GOI AMENDS FOREIGN CONTRIBUTION (REGULATION) ACT (FCRA) RULES 2011

·         The Government of India (GoI) has made seven key amendments to the existing Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act (FCRA) Rules 2011, which renamed as the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Rules, 2022, w.e.f. July 01, 2022.

·         Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act (FCRA) allowing Indians to receive up to Rs 10 lakh in a year from relatives staying abroad without informing the authorities.The earlier limit was Rs 1 lakh.

 

4.       ACC ESTABLISHES FSIB FOR APPOINTMENTS IN FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS

·         The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) headed by the Prime Minister (PM) has approved the establishment of Financial Services Institutions Bureau (FSIB) with one chairperson and two members.

·         It is a single entity constituted for making recommendations for appointments of Wholetime Directors and Non-Executive Directors in public sector banks (PSBs), public sector insurers (PSIs) and financial institutions (FIs) including selection of General Managers and Directors in non-life PSIs.

·         The former Banks Board Bureau Chairman Bhanu Pratap Sharma to be the 1st chairman of the entity for 2 years, with 2 other members.

·         Animesh Chauhan, has been appointed in the ex-banker from public sector category.

·         Shailendra Bhandari, have been appointed as Members of FSIB in the ex-banker from Private Sector category.

 

5.       UK'S  AYURVEDA RATNA AWARD

·         Director of All India Institute of Ayurveda (AIIA), Tanuja Nesari, was awarded with the Ayurveda Ratna Award 2022 by the United Kingdom (UK) Parliament for  contribution in the field of growth of Ayurveda at global and national level.

·         It was conferred by the  All-Party Parliamentary Group on Indian Traditional Sciences (ITSappg) of UK.

·         The award was presented on the occasion of the International Day of Yoga (June 21).

 

6.       “THE LIFE AND TIMES OF GEORGE FERNANDES”, A BIOGRAPHY OF GEORGE FERNANDES 

·         A new biography of former Union Minister of India, George Fernandes, titled “The Life and Times of George Fernandes”, is authored by Rahul Ramagundam and will be released on July 25, 2022.

·         In 1989, George Fernandes became the Railways minister under V.P. Singh’s National Front coalition government, comprising mostly Left leaning parties.

·         Later, Fernandes joined the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government under Prime Minister AtalBihari Vajpayee in 1998 and 1999, in which he was appointed the defense minister.