Daily Current Affairs :  24-11-2020

Table of Contents :

1. UMANG APP India
2. Goods and service Tax (GST)
3. Innovative Technology infusion for better implementation of jal jeevan Mission
4. Mariana Trench
5. Militry Exercises
6. Chnges 5
7. Indian Medicine Central council (PG) Amendment Regulation,2020
8. Kala-azer or Visceral leishmaniasis(VL)
9. 28 Food processing projects worth RS320 Crores Approved Across many states
10. Third Permanent  Court of Arbitration (PCA)-INDIA Conference held in new Delhi
11. Land Records to be linked with e-COURTS

1. UMANG APP India

(Unified Mobile Application for New-age Governance)  completes three years

It has been developed by Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and National e-Governance Division (NeGD) to drive Mobile Governance in India.

It provides a single platform for all Indian Citizens to access pan India e-Gov services ranging from Central to Local Government bodies and other citizen centric services.

It provides easy access to a plethora of Indian government services ranging from - Healthcare, Finance, Education, Housing, Energy, Agriculture, Transport to even Utility and Employment and Skills.

2.Goods and service Tax (GST)

• The Law Committee of GST Council has recommended tightening the registration process to weed out those issuing fake invoices.
•  Annually, 18-19 lakh new GST registrations take place, but at the end of the year, only 30% of them are left.
• About 13-14lakh GST-registered entities vanish.
• The committee suggested new or fresh GST applicants follow an Aadhaar-like process under which new registrations can be done online with a live photo, use of biometrics, and verification of documents.

3.Innovative Technology infusion for better implementation of jal jeevan Mission

• Ministry of JalShakti has recommended five innovative technologies in Drinking Water& Sanitation to provide Field LevelSolutions to statements.
• Five technologies, three technologies for drinking water, and two technologies for sanitation:
• Grundfos AQpure: A solar energy-based water treatment plant.
• JanajalWater on Wheel: AnloT based electric vehicle based on GPS location.
•  Presto Online Chlorinator: A non-electricity dependent online chlorinator for disinfection of water.
• Johkasou technology: An inbuilt packaged black (sewage) and greywater (kitchen and bath water)treatment system.
• FBTec: A site assembled decentralized sewage treatment system

4.Mariana Trench

• Recently, China vessel Fendouzhe descended more than  10,000 meters into Mariana Trench with three researchers on board.
• Mariana Trench is the deepest part of the ocean (11,034 meters deep}and the deepest location on Earth.
• It is located In the western Pacific east of the Philippines.
• Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench is the deepest known spot in world oceans below the surface of the Pacific Ocean.

5.Militry Exercises

• SIMBEX-20:It is a bilateral maritime exercise between India and Singapore.
• SITMEX-20: It is a trilateral maritime exercise between India, Singapore, and Thailand.

6.Chnges 5

• It was recently launched by China.
• I t is China'smost ambitious lunar mission yet and it seeks to bring rocks and debris from the moon to Earth.
• It Is composed of a lander, ascender, service module, and return capsule.
• The landing site for the mission has been selected on the moon's near side and it has remained unexplored, either by human or robotic missions.

7.Indian Medicine Central council (PG) Amendment Regulation,2020

• The new regulation has come after the Central Council of Indian Medicine amended Indian Medicine Central Council {Post Graduate Ayurveda Education) Regulations, 2016, to include the regulation to allow the PG students of Ayurveda to practice general surgery.
• CCIM is the statutory body that regulatesthe Indian Medical systems of Ayurveda,Siddha,Sowa-Rigpa and Unani Medicine.
• Earlier,Indian MedicalAssociation has been opposing the Centre's move to allow traditionalsystems of AYUSH to offer allopathic therapies andtreatment.

8.Kala-azer or Visceral leishmaniasis(VL)

• It is a tropical disease characterized by Irregular fever, weight loss, anemia, and swelling of the spleen and liver.
• It is caused by a protozoan Leishmania parasite and is transmitted to humans by the bite of infected female sandflies.
• According to WHO, globally, about 7 to 1O lakh new cases occur annually.
• India accounts for about 2/3rd of total global cases, and it is endemic to Bihar, Jharkhand, UP, and West Bengal.
• An initiative was launched by WHO to eliminate VL as a public health problem from the South East Asia region by 2020. The deadline has now been extended to 2023.

9.28 Food processing projects worth RS320 Crores Approved Across many states

• Projects were approved under Creation/Expansion of Food Processing and Preservation Capacities (CEFPPC) of the Ministry of Food Processing Industries.
• CEFPPC scheme is for the creation of processing and preservation capacities and modernization/ expansion of existing food processing units with a view to increasing the level of processing, value addition leading to reduction of wastage.
•  It is implemented through organizations such as Central & State PSUs/ Joint Ventures/Farmer Producers Organization/ NGOs/ Cooperatives/ SHG etc.
• It is one of the components of Pradhan Mantri Kisan Sampada Yojana.
• This step will help In:
• Reducing wastages,
•  Ensuring value addition,
• Generating employment opportunities as well as export earnings.
• Food processing is a series of unit operations to convert unprocessed food to-foodstuffs with prolonged shelf life and enable storage that abolishes or reduces time or effort spent in culinary procedures for increased consumption.
• 100% FDI  is permitted under the automatic route in  Food processing industries and The processed food market is expected to grow to US $958 billion by 2025 in India.
• India faces challenges in food processing like inadequate infrastructural facilities, availability of trained manpower, inconsistency in central and state policies, access to Credit, etc.

10.Third Permanent  Court of Arbitration (PCA)-INDIA Conference held in new Delhi

• India at the 3rd PCA-India Conference has highlighted how "upholding of International law is central to India's diplomacy".Further, India supports the PCA and its mandate to resolve international disputes.
• PCA was established by the Convention for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes during the First Hague Peace Conference in 1899.
• It is the first permanent intergovernmental organization to provide a forum for the resolution of international disputes through arbitration and other peaceful means.
• PCA provides administrative support in international arbitrations involving various combinations of states, state entities, international organizations, and private parties.
• Award is final and binding upon the parties.
• India became its member in 1950 and in 1998, India and PCA entered into Host Country Agreement, under which PCA-administered proceedings can be conducted in India.
• India under its new BilateralInvestment Treaty (BIT) has the Secretary-General of the PCA as the appointing authority, for arbitrations under the treaty.
• India has sought to resolve certain disputes through PCA like Kishenganga Arbitration with Pakistan under the Indus Water Treaty; the Maritime Boundary delimitation with Bangladesh; Italian Marines Case etc.

11.Land Records to be linked with e-COURTS

• The government is planning to link e·courts with land records and registration databases of the Department of Land Resources.
• As per an estimate, about 7.7 million people in India are affected by conflict over 2.S
• million hectares of lands, threatening investments worth $200 billion.
•  Also, according to the Centre for Policy  Research, about 25% of all cases decided by the Supreme Court involve land disputes.
•  Linking the record will help at easier and earlier disposal of land disputes.
• Land Records include records such as, register of lands, Records of Rights, tenancy and crop inspection register, mutation register, disputed cases register, etc.
• land records in India are unclear and do not guarantee ownership because of issues like Difficulty in accessing land ownership documents as they are maintained by different departments.
•  People avoid registering property transactions because of the high registration cost.
• Other government initiatives for improving the quality of land records National Land Records Modernization Programme (now Digital India Land Records Modernization Programme ) in 2008.
• SVAMITVA Scheme which provides the 'record of rights' to village household owners possessing houses in inhabited rural areas in villages.

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