ETEN Enlightens-Daily current capsules
(Prelims Prominence) – 22ndJan 2018
GOVERNMENT SCHEMES
Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritva Abhiyan
Crosses 1 crore markin antenatal check-ups.
It was launched in 2016
To ensure comprehensive and quality antenatal checkups to
pregnant women across country.
It has provided quality antenatal checkups to pregnant women on
the 9th of every month.
The scheme is helping in making safe pregnancy to become social
movement in country.
It also is successful in reaching out to difficult and remote areas.
Top States -
Maharashtra has reported largest number of check-ups among
non-empowered action group states and Rajasthan has reported
largest number of check-ups among empowered action group
states.
Role of Private doctors -
More than 4,800 private sector doctors have pledged to provide
voluntary service under PMSMA.
Enlighten about Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritva Abhiyan
It is scheme implemented by Health Ministry to provide free health
check-ups to pregnant women at government health centres and
hospitals in both rural and urban areas.
Aims to provide pregnant ladies free ante-natal services (ANC)
and required treatment for free on 9th of every month.
Objectives
Provide healthy life to the pregnant women.
Lowering the maternity mortality rate.
Making pregnant women aware of their health issues and
diseases.
Making sure safe delivery and healthy life of the baby.
Applicable for -
The scheme is applicable only for pregnant women in their
pregnancy period of 3 to 6 months. Facilities:
The scheme provides all kinds of medical checkups completely
free to pregnant women.
These checkups take place at medical centres, government and
private hospitals and private clinics across the country.
These free of cost tests includes blood pressure, sugar level,
weight, haemoglobin test, blood test and screening.
Colour Coding: Women will be marked differently using different
colour stickers based on their health problems so that doctors can
easily detect the problem.
Different colour stickers will be Red Sticker for Serious patients,
Blue Sticker for High blood pressure and Yellow Sticker for Other
diseases.
DISASTER MANAGEMENT
India’s First Automatic Early Warning Dissemination System
A pre-warning siren in event of occurrence of natural disasters like
tsunami or cyclone
To come up in Odisha
will be commissioned by March 2018
The project aims to establish fool-proof communication system to
address existing gaps in disseminating disaster warning up to
community level.
The project is being implemented under National Cyclone Risk
Mitigation Project with World Bank’s help.
Enlighten about EWDS -
The EWDS comprises certain devices inbuilt into it like as Satellite-
Based Mobile Data Voice Terminals (SBMDVT), Digital Mobile
Radio (DMR), Mass Messaging System (MMS) and Universal
Communication Interface (UCI) which help in inter-operability
among different communication technologies.
Whenever, there is slightest hint of disasters like tsunami or
cyclone or any other natural calamity, it will broadcast warning to
entire state just by press of button from control room in state
capital Bhubeneswar.
With press of button, loud sirens will go off at same time and
warning sound will heard in localities to radius of 1.5 km.
ECONOMY
Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas
Acquisition of HPCL by ONGC
The Government of India entered into an agreement with ONGC
for sale of its 51.11% equity shareholding in HPCL at a
consideration of Rs. 36,915 crore.
This is in line with the Budget announcement 2017-18 to create oil
majors in the country. This has completed the successful
implementation of the Budget announcement in a time bound
manner.
Shri Pradhan said ONGC-HPCL integration is the first innovative
vertical integration that will help leveraging the strength of both the
companies.
Through this acquisition, ONGC will become India’s first vertically
integrated ‘oil major’ company, having presence across the entire
value chain.
The group company will have advantage of having enhanced capacity
to bear higher risk, take higher investment decisions and improve
business.
Ministry of Defence
Navika Sagar Parikrama
INSV Tarini
Reached port Stanley Falkland Islands
INSV Tarini entered Port Stanley (Falkland islands) today during
it’s maiden voyage to circumnavigate the globe.
This is the first-ever Indian circumnavigation of the globe by an all-
women crew.
INSV Tarini -
The indigenously-built INSV Tarini is a 56-foot sailing vessel, which
was inducted in the Indian Navy earlier this year, and showcases
the ‘Make in India’ initiative on the International forum.
Navik Sagar Parikarma -
The expedition titled ‘Navika Sagar Parikrama’, is in consonance
with the National policy to empower women to attain their full
potential.
It also aims to showcase ‘Nari Shakti’ on the world platform and help
revolutionise societal attitudes and mindset towards women in India
by raising visibility of their participation in challenging environs.
The vessel is scheduled to return to Goa in April 2018, on
completion of the voyage.
The expedition is being covered in five legs, with stop-overs at four
ports: Fremantle (Australia), Lyttleton (New Zealand), Port Stanley
(Falklands), and Cape Town (South Africa).
Agreements
The Government of India, the Government of Uttarakhand and the
World Bank sign $120 million Loan Agreement to improve access to
Water Supply Services in the Hilly State of Uttarakhand.
What -
The Government of India, the Government of Uttarakhand and the
World Bank
Signed, a $120 million Loan Agreement
Purpose -
It will help increase access to improved water supply services in
peri-urban areas in the State of Uttarakhand.
Enlighten about the agreement -
The Uttarakhand Water Supply Program for Peri-Urban Areas will
help the State increase water supply coverage as well as ensure
sustainable water supply service delivery in peri-urban areas.
It will develop and implement a service-oriented and efficient water
supply policy for peri-urban areas, strengthen the current monitoring
and evaluation systems, and provide dedicated incentives for
preparation and adoption of water supply ‘master-plans’ in peri-
urban areas.
Conferences
International Dam Safety Conference
Thiruvananthapuram
India will be hosting the International Dam Safety Conference -
2018 at Thiruvananthapuram on January 23-24.
Organising bodies -
Central Water Commission is organizing the event in association
with Kerala Water Resources Department (KWRD), Kerala State
Electricity Board, National Institute of Technology Calicut and
College of Engineering, Trivandrum.
Enlighten about IDSM -
Dam safety conferences are organized as an annual event under
the Dam Safety Rehabilitation and Improvement Project
(DRIP) project being run by the Ministry of Water Resources, River
Development and Ganga Rejuvenation (MoWR,RD & GR) in the
seven states of Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh,
Odisha, Tamil Nadu, and Uttarakhand.
Launched in the year 2012 with a financial outlay of Rs. 2100
Crores,
A World Bank aided project aims at the rehabilitation of old dams
in the country that may be experiencing distress and are in need of
attention for ensuring their structural safety and operational
efficiency.
The project also aims to strengthen the institutional capacity and
project management in this area.
The upcoming conference at Trivandrum will see the participation of
550 delegates from over 20 countries.
Seven dam safety guidelines and manuals developed under DRIP
will also be released for implementation during the conference.
A software programme - Dam Health and Rehabilitation
Monitoring Application(DHARMA)- will also be launched during
the conference.
Enlighten about DHARMA
DHARMA is a web tool to digitize all dam related data effectively.
It will help to document authentic asset and health information
pertaining to the large dams in the country, enabling appropriate
actions to ensure need based rehabilitation. It is a new stride in
asset management aspect by India.
Enlighten about the statics of DAMS in India -
Globally India ranks third after China and the United States of
America in terms of number of large dams (5254 large dams in
operation and 447 large dams under construction) with a total storage
capacity of about 283 billion cubic meters.
Enlighten about the area of work of DRIP
To provide solutions to dam safety issues,
Assisting in the development of Emergency Action Plans (EAP) for
dams,
Developing the software tool ‘Dam Health and Rehabilitation
Monitoring Application (DHARMA)’
Seismic Hazard Mapping for the entire Country and development of
Seismic Hazard Assessment Information System (SHAISYS),
Preparation of Guidelines and Manuals, strengthening of Dam Safety
Organisations
