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2. International Events 7
3. Science & Technology 9
4. Economy 10
5. Environment 11
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7. Awards 16
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10. Central Government Schemes in India 22
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NATIONAL EVENTS from their respective constituency as a model village by 2016 and two more by 2019. This will ensure development of 2500 villages. Here Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 25 are some of the highlights of the Yojana: September 2014 launched Make In India • MPs are required to pick one village Campaign at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi to with a population of 3000-4000 in plains and make India a manufacturing hub. 1000-3000 in hills within a month of the Logo- lion, The programme lays emphasis on launch. 25 sectors with focus on job creation and skill • Prime Minister Narendra Modi adopted enhancement. Jayapur village in Varanasi, • Sonia Gandhi has adopted Udwa village in her Rae Bareli constituency while Rahul has s per the World Bank’s ease of doing A adopted Deeh in Amethi business index, India ranked lowly 134 out of • Sachin adopted Puttamraju Kandriga 189 countries in 2014, which was three places village in Potti Sriramulu, Nellore district, in lowest than in 2013. Andhra Pradesh
• union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has Union Government has allowed 100 per cent adopted 4 villages in Vadodara district in Foreign Direct Investment under automatic Gujarat as part of the Sansad Adarsh Gram route in construction, operation and Yojana. maintenance in rail infrastructure projects and increased FDI in Defence to 49 per cent. Telangana became 29th State on June 2, 2014 which will comprise of 10 districts. The Union Cabinet has granted its approval for • Hyderabad, the central point of the the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (SBA) which Telangana, will be the common capital of the will be officially launched on October 2, 2014. newly proposed State and the other regions, The main goal of the programme is a clean Rayalaseema and Andhra for a period of 10 India with all gram panchayats being open years. defecation free by 2019. • 17 Lok Sabha seats and 119 Assembly The Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (Urban) will seats last a span of five years and cover 4,041 • Telangana government has started pilot statutory towns. The earlier mission on project of National Digital Literacy Mission sanitation, Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan, will be (NDLM) in a mandal each in four districts. restructured into Swachh Bharat Abhiyan This national mission in state is being named as (Rural). The urban component of SBA will be ‘Prati Inta e-Sakshatha’ programme. implemented by the Ministry of Urban Development, and the rural component by the Eminent free-market economist Arvind Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation. The Panagariya has been appointed as Vice- total outlay is Rs. 62,009 crores with Rs. chairman of National Institution for 14,623 coming from the Centre. Transforming India (NITI) Aayog. About Arvind Panagariya On the birth anniversary of Jayaprakash • He is an Indian-American economist and Professor of Economics at Columbia Narayan, (11 Oct.) PM Modi launched University. He holds a Ph.D. degree in the Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana keeping his Economics from prestigious Princeton commitment, he made to the nation in his University. Independence Day speech. • He was an ex-Chief Economist at the The scheme is properly and religiously Asian Development Bank (ADB). implemented will revolutionize the village • He has also worked for the World Bank, economies and culture. It encourages MPs or International Monetary Fund, World Trade Sansads to identify and develop one village Organization, and the United Nations 3
Conference on Trade and Development Global Artist village in the country at (UNCTAD) in various capacities. Kakkananpara in Kannur district of Kerala • He has written around 10 books and the latest was India: The Emerging Government has met its target of opening 10 Giant published in 2008. crore bank accounts under its flagship scheme Other Appointments of NITI Aayog of Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana Full-Time Members: (PMJDY). It was launched on 28th August • Bibek Debroy- Economist. 2014 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi This • V.K. Saraswat- Former Secretary Defence target was met a month before its revised R&D. deadline of 26 January 2015. Ex-officio members: Key facts • Rajnath Singh- Union Home Minister. • As of 24 December 2014, 10 crore • Arun Jaitley- Union Finance, Corporate accounts have been opened under the Affairs and Information & Broadcasting PMJDY scheme with a collective deposit Minister. amounting to Rs 7,690.89 crore. • Suresh Prabhu- Union Minister of • In this regard, a total of 7.74 crore RuPay Railways. debit cards have also been issued by banks to • Radha Mohan Singh- Union Minister of beneficiaries. Agriculture. • States likes Goa, Kerala, Tripura and
Madhya Pradesh and union territories (UT’s) of Good governance day-25th dec, international Chandigarh, Puducherry and Lakshadweep yoga day-21june, World Hindi Day- 10th Jan. have opened at least one bank account in every targeted household i.e. they have attained 100 per cent financial inclusion under PMJDY . Railway Ministry has flagged off India’s first
Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) powered train between Rewari and Rohtak in Haryana. Rajan Devadas, Indian-American About CNG train photojournalists recently passed away in • It is powered by Diesel Electric Multiple Washington, United States. Unit (DEMU). It is based on dual fuel system- As photojournalists, his lenses have chronicled diesel and CNG. most important role in US-India relations for more than half a century. Alur Seelin Kiran Kumar has been appointed chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). Hyderabad, capital of Telangana State is going to host prestigious World Information Technology Congress (WITC) in 2018. The National Biodiversity Conference
(NBC)-2015 held in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala from 23rd to 27th February. Government has launched Mission It will be second edition of this biodiversity Indradhanush to immunise kids against 7 conference and its focal theme for 2015 vaccine-preventable diseases. is ‘Biodiversity: Access and Benefit Sharing’. Mission Indradhanush depicts 7 colours of the rainbow which aims to cover all those children The 13th Pune International Film Festival by 2020 who are either unvaccinated, or are partially vaccinated against 7 vaccine (PIFF) was held at Pune and Pimpri preventable diseases. Chinchwad in Maharashtra from January 8 to • 7 preventable diseases: diphtheria, 15. This edition of film festival will focus on whooping cough, tetanus, polio, tuberculosis, the theme “War against War”. measles and hepatitis B. Kerala government has laid foundation stone • It was launched by Union Health Minister J for the first government-run Kalagramam’ i.e P Nadda on the occasion of National Good Governance Day. 4
On 18th November 2014, Union Government Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged-off the re-launched Kisan Vikas Patra scheme (KVP) first train from Mendipathar, Meghalaya, to in New Delhi to encourage the habit of small Guwahati. This was an important occasion in savings among the citizens. The scheme will the history of Indian Railways, as Meghalaya soon be made available through designated was being added to the rail network of India for branches of nationalized banks across the first time. He also unveiled the plaque for a country. new rail line from Bhairabi to Sairang. Maturity period: With a maturity period of 8 years 4 months,
Uttar Pradesh has become the first State in the country to take the route of e-governance Fourth edition of India-China Joint Training to provide pension and scholarships to 15 Exercise Hand-in-Hand 2014 began at Aundh million beneficiaries. Besides, UP has also Military Station in Pune, Maharashtra On made commercial taxes department consumer 17th November 2014. This exercise will friendly by making almost all payments and continue till 25th November 2014. registration online.
Bollywood actor-director Farhan Akhtar has India and Nepal signed an agreement to been appointed as UN Women’s Goodwill construct a USD one billion hydropower plant Ambassador for South Asia. He has become on Arun River. It aims to generate 900- the first male to be appointed as Goodwill megawatt of electricity. Ambassador in UN’s history. As UN Women’s Goodwill Ambassador for South Asia, he will dedicate his efforts towards the empowerment Kathak queen and legend Sitara Devi passed of women and girls and will serve as an away. She was 94. She was living legend and a advocate for UN Women’s newly launched renowned exponent of the classical Indian ‘HeForShe’ campaign in advocating for gender dance Kathak and was well known for her own equality and women’s empowerment. niche style of Kathak.
Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani has laid the President Pranab Mukherjee inaugurated foundation stone for Indian Institute of First Commonwealth Science Conference Management (IIM)-Visakhapatnam at (CSC) held in Bengaluru. It is organised for Gambheeram village of Visakhapatnam district the first time in nearly after 50 years. Special of Andhra Pradesh. guest at the inaugural event was Duke of York IIM- Visakhapatnam will be fourteenth IIM Prince Andrew. of the country.
The National Tiger Conservation Authority Union Government has launched (NTCA) has given in-principle approval for ambitious Beti Bachao - Beti Padhao creation of Guru Ghasidas-Tamor Pingla (BBBP) campaign to save and empower girl tiger reserve in Chhattisgarh. The NTCA in child. this regard has sought a final proposal from the
Chhattisgarh state administration. • The scheme was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi from Panipat in • Guru Ghasidas national park lies between Haryana. two important tiger reserves- Bandhavgarh Why Haryana was chosen to launch Beti (Madhya Pradesh) and Palamau (Jharkhand) Bachao-Beti Padhao campaign? and is also contiguous with the Sanjay-Dubri • Haryana was chosen to launch the nation- tiger reserve (Madhya Pradesh). wide Beti Bachao-Beti Padhao initiative
because of the skewed sex ratio in the state.
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• It has one of the lowest Child Sex Ratio in country which stands at 879 girls per 1,000 boys as against the national child sex ratio of Nigeria’s military has issued a statement 918 girls per 1000 boys. saying that the Nigerian government and Boko Haram had reached a ceasefire that will lead to the release of around 200 girls that Boko India and United States (US) have signed three Haram had kidnapped. Memoranda of Understandings (MoUs) on smart cities. • Vishakapatnam in Andhra Pradesh. Nigeria has been declared officially free of • Ajmer in Rajasthan. Ebola by the WHO. Earlier, WHO also • Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh. declared Senegal Ebola free. Impact of Ebola Madhya Pradesh has been awarded the 10th The Ebola outbreak has killed more than 4,500 national award for excellent work in Mahatma people in West Africa, mostly in Liberia, Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Guinea, and Sierra Leone. Fruit bats, which Act (MNREGA). are a delicacy for some West Africans, is believed to be the virus’ natural host
In recently released World Press Freedom Index (WPFI), India was placed at 136th India and Mexico have signed pacts to rank out of 180 nations surveyed worldwide in cooperate in the field of space technology. terms of press freedom in 2015. • In WPFI 2015, India has shown • Mexico agreed to set up an ‘India Room’ improvement from its rank of 140 in 2014. in the National Museum of Cultures in Mexico However, India’s absolute score has declined City for which India has gifted 108 pieces from 40.34 to 40.49. • In 2015, a ‘Days of India in Mexico’ will be launched in Mexico to commemorate the • Top countries: Finland (1st), Norway th (2nd), Denmark (3rd),). 60 anniversary of bilateral relations between • India’s Neighbours: Sri Lanka (165th), the two nations Pakistan (159th), Afghanistan (122th), China (176th), Bangladesh (146th). India and Vietnam signed seven agreements after PM Modi met his counterpart Nguyen Tan India and Sri Lanka have signed an Dung. The two also held talks on a wide range agreement on civil nuclear cooperation, of bilateral and regional issues, and called for Cultural cooperation during Sri Lanka’s newly ‘freedom of navigation and commerce, and elected President Maithripala Sirisen four-day peaceful settlement of maritime disputes in visit to India. the region’. Sri Lanka has signed first such bilateral agreement on civil nuclear cooperation. India’s OVL (ONGC Videsh Ltd.) and Petro Vietnam signed an agreement to explore two The first National Tribal Festival ‘Vanaj’ additional oil and gas blocks in the hydrocarbon rich South China Sea. concluded on 18 February 2015 in New Delhi.
World’s Most Powerful People • For the consecutive second year, Russian President Vladimir Putin has been named the world’s most powerful person in the list. • US President Barack Obama took the second spot on Forbes’ list for the second INTERNATIONAL EVENTS consecutive year. 6
• Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is Chinese pro-democracy activist Xu Youyu new comer in this list, ranked 15th. was awarded Sweden’s Olof Palme Human For the first time, two women German Rights prize. Chancellor Angela Merkel and Head of US
Federal Reserve System, Janet Yellen, reached the top 10. Tropical storm Jangmi has hit Surigao del Sur province on northern Mindanao in Philippines. Transparency International has ranked India at 85th place in its Corruption Perception Index Veteran Indian-origin civil servant Joseph 2014 (CPI) which enlisted 178 countries. India Yubaraj Manuel Pillay was reappointed as the scored 38 on a scale from 0 (most corrupt) to Chairman of the Presidential Council of 100 (least corrupt). The CPI score of India has Advisers (CPA) by Singapore President Tony increased by 2 points in 2014 from its 2013 Tan Keng Yam. score of 36, thus helping India’s rank move up to 85 in 2014 from 94 in 2013. India and Bangladesh inaugurated third Top 3: Denmark (Score -92), New Zealand border haat in Srinagar-Purba on the (Score -91) and Finland (Score -89) Tripura-Bangladesh border. Bottom 4: Afghanistan (Score -12), Sudan
(Score -11), North Korea (Score -8) and Somalia (Score – 8). Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha was India’s neighbours in Corruption appointed Chief Justice of Bangladesh by Perception Index 2014 President Mohammad Abdul Hamid th • Bhutan was placed at 30 The 5th General Assembly of the Sir Anerood Jugnauth was elected as new International Renewable Energy Agency Prime Minister (PM) of Mauritius. Mauritius’ (IRENA) has began in Abu Dhabi. President Kailash Purryaghas named him as prime minister after his party’s landslide As per United Nations Conference of Trade victory in recent parliamentary elections. and Development (UNCTAD) report, China In recent elections, Jugnauth’s centre-right has overtaken the United States (US) as the top Alliance Lepep won destination for foreign direct investment (FDI)
The world’s largest cruise ship terminal- The U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Global Hamdan bin Mohammed Cruise Intellectual Property Center (GIPC) has Terminal was unveiled in Dubai. It was released its third annual international inaugurated by Sheikh Hamdan, Crown Prince intellectual property (IP) index list. of Dubai. In this list India is placed at 29th rank among
the 30 countries. While, US has been placed at Bangladesh’s oil spill disaster is considered as the top in the list and Thailand at last position ecological catastrophe which may threaten rare dolphins, other wildlife species and world’s largest mangrove forests in the Sundrban’s. Oil spill disaster: The tanker carrying an estimated 350,000 litres of furnace oil partly sank in the Sundarban’s Shela River after it collided with another vessel.
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On 30th October 2014, ISRO Chairman K Radhakrishnan announced that the experimental mission of Geo-synchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark III (GSLV- MK III) will take place in the first half of December. • Objective: To launch heavy satellites weighing more than two tonnes into geostationary orbit 36,000 km above Earth.
China has launched remote sensing satellite Yaogan-23 from Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre. It was carried by a Long March-2C rocket,
India and United Kingdom (UK) have announced a “Newton-Bhabha Fund programme”
India’s multi-band communication satellite GSAT-16 was successfully put on a Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO) by the SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY European launcher Ariane 5 VA221, from the Kourou space port in French Guiana. • Earlier, due to bad weather, the launch of Canada’s M3M (Maritime Monitoring and GSAT-16 was delayed by two days. Messaging Micro-Satellite) is set to be • It was launched on 6 December 2014 launched by India’s PSLV rocket. The • It is indigenously developed by Indian agreement for the same was signed by India’s Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and has Antriux Corp. and Canada’s COM DEV Intl. lift-off mass of 3,181 kg. The satellite is due to be launched in July 2015. The satellite was built for the Canadian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has Department of National Defence, and is a inaugurated the Indian Science Congress communications satellite. 2015 at the Mumbai University. It is the 102nd
edition of this congress and Mumbai is hosting IRNSS 1C, the next satellite in India’s IRNSS it again after the gap of 45 years. (Indian Regional Navigational Satellite System) The theme of 102nd Congress is Science and series, is set to be launched on October 9 by Technology for Human Development. ISRO. IRNSS 1C will be launched on a PSLV C26 from Sriharikota. Idukki district of Kerala has become first
district in India to have high speed Rural Defence Research Development Broadband Network i.e. National Optical Fibre Organisation (DRDO) has developed herbal Network (NOFN) Internet connectivity. drug Lukosin, for treatment of leucoderma (white patches on skin). This drug is developed Kolkata has become India’s first Wi-Fi- from medicinal plants. The scientists of enabled metro city as the service was launched Defence Bio-Energy Research (DIBER from Park Street in city.
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This 4th Generation (4G) free Wi-fi service was As per recently released UN World Economic launched by West Bengal Chief Minister Situation and Prospects 2015 (WESP) Mamata Banerjee. report, India’s economic growth is expected to
improve to 6.3% in 2016. India successfully test-fired its nuclear capable Prithvi-II surface-to-surface missile from a Forbes 9th annual ranking of the Best test range at Chandipur in Odisha. Countries for Business has placed India on • Payload capacity: 500-1,000 kg. 93rd position out of 146 nations. • Range: 350 km.
Six Indian women entrepreneurs and ECONOMY businesswomen have been named by Forbes magazine as among the 50 ‘Power Businesswomen’ from Asia. A World Bank report titled ‘India Indians included in the list are Development Update’ has said that India’s • Arundhati Bhattacharya- Chairperson of GDP is likely to expand at 5.6% in the State Bank of India (SBI). Forbes list referred current fiscal year, 2014-15 her as the first lady of Indian banking and as The report also said that the GDP growth may chair of the Indian behemoth with 225 million rise further to 6.4% and 7% in 2015-16 and customers. 2016-17. • Chanda Kochchar- MD & CEO of ICICI Bank. Forbes list referred her as India’s second- most-powerful banker after Bhattacharya Goa and Kerala became the first states in the country to achieve 100 percent Financial Inclusion under Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY). • Union Territories (UTs) namely Chandigarh, Puducherry and Lakshadweep achieved 100 percent financial inclusion under PMJDY.
Wind turbine manufacturer Suzlon Energy has installed the world’s first and tallest hybrid wind generator turbine in Kutch, Gujarat
Visitors from over 40 countries, including Germany, the US, Israel and Palestine, will soon be able to avail the electronic visa (E- Visa) facility of India. The tourism ministry along with the home ministry launched the facility on 27th November 2014.
State-run Indian Oil Corp (IOC) has emerged as the country’s biggest company in terms of annual revenue as per an annual list of Fortune 500 companies in India- 2014. IOC topped the list with annual revenue of Rs 4, 75, 867 crore.
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French open Men's 2014 winner: As per the 2013 ‘Threatened Bird’ list by the Rafel Nadal (Spain) -French open Women's International Union for Conservation of Nature 2014 winner -Maria Sharapova (Russia) (IUCN), the Great Indian Bustard is listed under the category of Critically Endangered 2014 Wimbledon Men's title winner -N. birds. Djokovic-.2014 Wimbledon Women's title winner -Petra Kvitova NASA satellites discovered a desolate and remote ice plateau in East Antarctica, the winner of " Australian Open in badminton coldest place on earth. The remote region women's title" -Saina Nehwal o plunged as low as minus 94.7 C (minus o 135.8 F). This beat the previous record of -89.2 Indian Women Boxer, Sarjubala Devi has degrees Celsius measured at the Russian won Silver medal in the World Women’s Vostok Research Station in East Antarctica on Boxing Championships held in Jeju City, July 21, 1983. Korea. In the final match of the 48kg division, she lost to Nazym Kyzaibay of Kazakhstan by A new greenhouse gas that is 7,000 times 0-3. more powerful than carbon dioxide to cause greenhouse effect which causes warming of the Ludhiana: Services lifted the Santosh Trophy Earth. after edging out hosts Punjab 5-4 via tie- As per the scientists, the newly discovered breaker in a nail-biting summit clash at Guru gas, Per Fluoro Tri Butyl Amine Nanak Stadium here on Sunday. (PFTBA), has been in use by the electrical industry since the mid-20th century. 31 year old Seema Punia, won India its first India ranked 155th out of 178 countries with gold in the track and field events when she an index score of 31.23 points, in its efforts to defeated her two Chinese rivals to come first in address environmental challenges, in the 2014 discus throw. Her best throw was 61.03m in the Environmental Performance Index (EPI). women’s discus throw event. She had also won The overall list is topped by Switzerland a silver medal in the Commonwealth Games held this year at Glasgow. • The national record for discus throw in Welspun Solar MP project, the largest Solar women is held by Seema Antil with 64.84m Power Plant of India launched at Bhagwanpur and Krishna Poonia with 64.76m. Krishna in Neemuch, Madhya Pradesh. Poonia was also competing in the Asian Games but her performance was disappointing at 55.57m. She finished fourth.
th 17 Asian Games Incheon 2014 was held in Incheon, South Korea from 19 September to 4 October 2014, featuring 439 events in 36 sports. It is officially called XVII Asiad. It is SPORTS governed by the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA). The theme of the 2014 Asian Games is Meet Asia’s Future. 2014 Australian open Men's title • The moscot of the Asian Games Incheon winner: Stanislas Wawrinka 2014 was three spotted Harbour Seal siblings named Barame, Chumuro and Vichuon
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meaning wind, dance and light in Korean Former New York Mayor and philanthropist language. billionaire Michael Rubens Bloomberg on 6 • The Slogan of the Asian Games Incheon October 2014 was granted an honorary 2014 was Diversity Shines Here that represents knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II in and highlights the significance of Asia’s Britain. wonderful diversity in history, cultures, and • Bloomberg, who is well known for his love religions. of Britain, was honoured for his prodigious entrepreneurial and philanthropic endeavours Next Asian Games Incheon will be hosted by and his works that have benefitted British-US the Singapore in 2018. relations. Ranks of the countries in the Asian Games Incheon 2014 Indian boxer Sarita Devi had refused to accept Rank Country G S B Total her bronze medal in the lightweight 57-60 kg 1 China 151 108 83 342 category at the Asian Games. The boxer handed 2 South Korea 79 71 84 234 the medal to South Korean silver medalist Park Ji-na, to whom she had suffered a controversial 3 Japan 47 76 77 200 loss in the semi-finals. Disciplinary Action 8 India 11 10 36 57 The International Boxing Association 9 Chinese 10 18 23 51 (Amateur) or AIBA has ordered a probe against Taipei her for returning the medal during the podium 10 Qatar 10 0 4 14 ceremony. Gold Medals for India Names Sport Category After a gap of 16 years, India defeated Jitu Rai Shooting Men's 50 metre Pakistan in the Men’s Hockey finals of the pistol Asian Games, to win the gold medal. India had Rajat Chauhan Archery Men's team earlier won the gold in 1966 and 1998, Sandeep Kumar compound while Pakistan has clinched the gold eight times Abhishek Verma in the past including the Asian Games at Saurav Ghosal Squash Men’s team Guangzhou in 2010. Mahesh Mangaonkar Harinder Pal Sandhu he Indian hockey women’s team defeated Kush Kumar T Japan to win the bronze medal at the Asian Yogeshwar Dutt Wrestling Men's freestyle 65 Kg Games. The national hockey team is controlled Seema Punia Athletics Women's discus by Hockey India, which is the body that throw governs field hockey in India. The Indian team Sania Mirza Tennis Mixed doubles was the first Non-European team to be a part of Saketh Myneni the International Hockey Federation. The team Mary Kom Boxing Women's 51 kg won its first Olympic gold in 1928. With a total of eight gold medals, India’s hockey team Men’s hockey team Field Men has the maximum medals of any single country. hockey
Priyanka Pawar Athletics Women's 4 x 400 Tintu Luka metres relay In the Champions League Twenty-20 final Mandeep Kaur match, Chennai Super Kings defeated M R Poovamma Kolkata Knight Riders by 8 wickets to win the Women's kabaddi Kabaddi Women Champions League Trophy. team Player of the Match Men's kabaddi team Kabaddi Men P.Negi of the Chennai Super Kings was named the Player of the Match.
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Past Performance Sri Lankan cricket captain Angelo Mathews This is the second Champions League win for has been named as captain of the ICC Test the Chennai Super Kings, who won earlier in Team of the Year 2014. Indian cricket captain 2010. Mahendra Singh Dhoni was named as the Champions League Twenty-20 captain of ICC ODI Team of the Year 2014. This is an international Twenty-20 cricket He has been selected in the ICC ODI team of competition played between major domestic the year for the eight time (seventh year in a teams from cricketing nations. It has been an row), while fifth year as a captain of the team. annual event from 2009. The League is jointly owned by BCCI, Cricket Australia and Cricket South Africa. Indian cricketer Virat Kohli has become the fastest cricketer in the history to reach 6000 The Hero Indian Super League (ISL) was one-day international run mark. launched amid festivities at Kolkata’s Salk • He achieved this run mark during his 53-run knock in India’s third ODI against Sri Lanka. Lake Stadium on October 12 in the presence of He overtook legendary West Indian Vivian fans, industrialists, celebrities and politicians. Richards’ record. Virat Kohli made this debut, The inaugural ceremony was celebrated with th th dances and fireworks. The ISL is a professional while playing his 144 match and 136 innings at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium at Indian football league. Uppal, Hyderabad. • The ISL football tournament will last a span of 10 weeks, from October to December. It is backed by industrialist, Mukesh Ambani, and Indian cricketer Rohit Sharma has made many team owners are sportspersons and history by scoring the highest ODI score of 264 celebrities. runs. He achieved this distinction during the Similarities with IPL 4th ODI between India and Sri Lanka played ISL is modeled on the lines of IPL, and is the at Kolkata. Rohit surpassed several records IPL for the game of football. Like IPL, it has including Virender Sehwag’s 219 and his own teams based in cities. ISL has eight teams – 209 – scored against Australia in Bangalore in Chennai, Delhi, Goa, Guwahati, Kochi, November 2013. Kolkata, Mumbai and Pune. • He made this record score in 173 which included 33 fours and 9 sixes. He also became The Central Zone team defeated the South only the fifth Indian batsman after Gautam Gambhir, Virender Sehwag, Sourav Ganguly Zone team to win the 2014 edition of the Duleep Trophy. The Central Zone team was led and Sachin Tendulkar to post two or more by Piyush Chawla, who helped clinch the scores in excess of 150 in ODIs. narrow win. Of the total 13 games played by the five teams, the South Zone dominated 10 , Former India captain Dilip Vengsarkar has at the Ferozshah Kotla Ground in New Delhi. been selected for Col. CK Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award as part of Board of The Justice Mukkul Mudgal Committee, Control for Cricket in India’s annual awards. which was constituted to conduct an He has been conferred with this prestigious independent inquiry over allegations of Lifetime achievement award for his contribution to Indian cricket. corruption, betting and spot-fixing in IPL matches, Vengsarkar was felicitated at BCCI’s annual awards on November 21, 2014. The award comprised a citation, trophy and cheque for Rs Cricketers Sachin Tendulkar and Steve 25 lakhs. Vengsarkar was the 19th recipient of Waugh have been inducted into the Bradman the Lifetime Achievement Award. Hall of Fame. Last year, former Indian all-rounder Kapil Dev was conferred with this award. The likes of Sunil Gavaskar, Gundappa Viswanath, Ajit 12
Wadekar, Salim Durrani and others have case against Sports ministry. Manoj Kumar is received this award in the past. 2010 Commonwealth Games gold medalist.
Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna 2014: Australian cricketer Phillip Hughes died • Not awarded this year after he had suffered a severe head injury due • It comprises a medal, a scroll of honour and to a bouncer during a match. He was 25. He a cash prize of Rs. 750,000. was in coma for three days following the injury
sustained while playing in a Sheffield Shield Arjuna Awards 2014: 15 awardees game in Sydney Cricket Ground. • Ravichandran Ashwin (Cricket)
• Akhilesh Varma (archery) • Tintu Luka (athletics) Olympic Champions Germany has won • HN Girisha (paralympics) the Champions Trophy Hockey title. It is th • V Diju (badminton) Germany’s 10 Champions Trophy title. • Geetu Ann Jose (basketball) Germany defeated Pakistan by score of 2-0 • Jai Bhagwan (boxing) goal margin in the final match held at Kalinga • Anirban Lahiri (golf) Stadium, Bhubaneswar, Odhisa. • Mamta Pujari (kabaddi) Earlier for the third position India lost to • Saji Thomas (rowing) Australia 1-2. • Heena Sidhu (shooting) • Anaka Alankamony (squash) East Zone has won the Deodhar Trophy • Tom Joseph (volleyball) 2014- 15, a cricket tournament, by beating • Renubala Chanu (weightlifting) and West Zone by 24 runs. The final match was • Sunil Rana (wrestling) held at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. East Arjuna, Dronacharya and Dhyan Chand Zone won the toss and opted to bat first. East Awardees recieves statuettes, citation and Rs 5 zone captain was Manoj Tiwary while West Lakh. Zone was led by Yusuf Pathan. Dronacharya Awards 2014: • Mahabir Prasad: Wrestling Five-time chess world champion • N Lingappa: Athletics – Lifetime Viswanathan Anand has won his • G Manoharan: Boxing – Lifetime maiden 6th London Chess Classic title. • Gurcharan Singh Gogi: Judo– Lifetime It the fifth and final round he defeated British • Jose Jacob: Rowing – Lifetime Grandmaster Michael Adam Dhyan Chand Awards 2014
• Gurmail Singh: Hockey • KP Thakkar: Swimming (Diving) Indian women and men Kabaddi teams have • Zeeshan Ali: Tennis won the 5th Kabaddi World Cup in their respective matches in the final held at Badal village in Sri Mukatsar district of Punjab. Indian Women Boxer, Sarjubala Devi has Women’s Team • In the final match of Indian women’s team won Silver medal in the World Women’s defeated New Zealand team by score of 27-36. Boxing Championships held in Jeju City, • Indian team got a monetary prize of Rs. 1 Korea. In the final match of the 48kg crore, a trophy and a gold medal while runners division, she lost to Nazym Kyzaibay of up New Zealand team got a prize of Rs. 51 Kazakhstan by 0-3. lakh, a trophy and a silver medal.
Men’s Team Boxer Manoj Kumar was awarded • While in the Indian men’s team defeated prestigious Arjuna Award by Sports Minister Pakistan by score of 45-42. Sarbananda Sonowal in New Delhi. He was awarded this award after winning a High Court
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Bharat Ratna awardee and doyen of cricket • According to the Limca Book’s 2015 Special Literature Edition, this play is about a Sachin Tendulkar has been named as the mascot, which had been staged in most number brand ambassador for ICC Cricket World of schools. By 9 April 2014, the play had been Cup 2015. It was announced by the International Cricket Council (ICC) at Dubai. staged in 147 schools across seven districts of Kerala.
Union Sports Ministry has recommended ormer India Captain and ace spinner Anil badminton player Saina Nehwal’s name F Kumble has been chosen to be inducted into for Padma Bhushan award. the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame. He will be 77th
inductee into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame. Cristiano Ronaldo has won the FIFA Ballon d’Or award for year 2014. arnataka beat Maharashtra to win K seventh Ranji Trophy title Australian cricketer Sean Abbott has won Bradman young cricketer of the year award 2015. While, Steve Smith was awarded the Allan Border Medal and being named both Test and one day player of the year.
Malaysia’s female professional squash player Nicol David has set a new record by topping the world squash rankings for 106th month. • She is first Asian to achieve this milestone and has overtaken previous 105th month record set by four time world champion Susan Devoy from New Zealand which was set in February 1993. • For first time she had topped Women’s Squash Association (WSA) list in January 2006.
Indian golfer Anirban Lahiri has won the Malaysian Open 2015. • With this win Anirban Lahir secured his breakthrough European Tour title. AWARDS
• In the final 4th round he defeated Austria’s Bernd Wiesberger by one shot at the Kaula Novel Prizes- 2014 Lumpur Golf Club and Country Club. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has 35th National Games mascot Ammu- the announced that the Nobel Prize for Chemistry Great Hornbill, has made into the Limca for the year 2014 is being awarded to Eric Book of Records. Betzig, Stefan W. Hell and William E. Moerner “for the development of super- • It made into the record books owing to a play Kalikkunna Kuttikalkkayi Bharatham resolved fluorescence microscopy Kathirikkunnu (India Awaits Children Who Play) in which Ammu is featured as lead role.
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Physics to Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano Former India captain Dilip Vengsarkar has and Shuji Nakamura “for the invention of been selected for Col. CK Nayudu Lifetime efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has Achievement Award as part of Board of enabled bright and energy-saving white light Control for Cricket in India’s annual awards. sources”. Indian American Neha Gupta, 18 has been John O’Keefe and Norwegian couple May- awarded with the prestigious International Britt and Edvard Moser have won the 2014 Children’s Peace Prize 2014. Nobel Peace Nobel Prize for medicine for their work which Laureate Desmond Tutu the patron of the Dutch has led to discovering the brain’s internal children’s rights organization presented her positioning system. with the award in The Hague, Netherlands.. John O’Keefe is a 74 yr old American-British Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at th The 49 Jnanpith Award (for year 2013) to University College in London. eminent Hindi poet Kedarnath Singh for his
outstanding contribution towards Indian The Nobel Prize for Economics was awarded literature. kedarnath Singh as a poet has to Jean Tirole “for his analysis of market offered a rare assimilation of rhymes and lyrical power and regulation”. He will be awarded prose, exploring both the realms of reality and prize money of 8 mn Swedish krona. fantasy with equal felicity. His poetry presents Jean Tirole is the second Frenchman to have a collage of meaning, colours and acceptance. been awarded a Nobel Prize this year. Legendary playback singer Asha Bhosle was The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded honoured with the Lifetime Achievement the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize to Kailash Award, 2014 at the 11th Dubai International Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai for their Film Festival (DIFF) for her contribution to “struggle against the suppression of children Indian cinema. and young people and for the right of all children to education.” Acclaimed Egyptian actor Nour El Sherif also
received the DIFF Lifetime Achievement The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2014 has Award, 2014 for his work in more than 40 films been awarded to the French author, Patrick in a career that spanned almost five decades. Modiano, “for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee destinies and uncovered the life-world of the and late educationist Madan Mohan Malviya occupation”. (posthumously) have been chosen for Bharat
Ratna- country’s highest civilian award. The Darjeeling Zoo won an award at the International Earth Heroes Awards. It is the Union Sports Ministry has recommended first Indian zoo to have received this prestigious badminton player Saina Nehwal’s name honour. Apart from being the only specialized for Padma Bhushan award. As per Sports zoo in India, it ministry, recommending her name is a special
case. The Man Booker Prize 2014 for fiction was awarded to Australian author Richard A British magazine has named RBI Governor Flanagan, for his novel The Narrow Road to and well-known economist Raghuram the Deep North. Rajan as the Governor of the Year in the
Central Banking Awards for 2015.
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Well-known Hindi scholar and writer Dr Kamal Kishore Goyankahas been selected for Indian American Pulitzer Prize-winning the prestigious Vyas Samman for the year author Jhumpa Lahiri has won prestigious 2014. DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2015. • He has been chosen for this award for his Fifth edition of this prize was announced at the research work‘Premchand Kee Kahaniyo Jaipur Literature Festival. Kaa Kaalkramanusar Adhyayan’. Poetess Arundhathi Subramaniam has won Eminent Sanskrit scholar Prabhu Nath the inaugural Khushwant Singh Memorial Prize Dwivedi has been conferred with prestigious for Poetry. Sahitya Akademi Award 2014 for Sanskrit • She has been conferred this prize for her language. work When God is a Traveller. Her name was • He was chosen for his work announced at a prize ceremony held at Jaipur Kanakalochanaha- a collection of 16 short- Literature Festival. stories based upon various social issues eroding the system. Distinguished journalist Vinod Mehta has been conferred Yash Bharti Samman by Uttar M.Y.S. Prasad, director of Satish Dhawan Pradesh Government. Space Centre, Sriharikota Range (SHAR), has Yash Bharti Samman is Uttar Pradesh’s highest been selected for the prestigiousVikram civilian award. Sarabhai memorial award 2014-15. He will be presented award by the Indian Eminent Indian economist and Nobel Science Congress Association (ISCA). laureate Amartya Sen has been awarded the inaugural Charleston-EFG John Maynard Frank Islam, an eminent Indian-American Keynes Prize 2015. entrepreneur and philanthropist has been presented with the prestigious Martin Luther Former India Captain and ace spinner Anil King Jr Award. Kumble has been chosen to be inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame. He will be 2015 Padma Vibhushan Awards 77th inductee into the ICC Cricket Hall of It is the second highest civilian award. It is Fame. awarded for exceptional and distinguished service. Sr Name of the The 87th Academy Awards ceremony, Discipline State/Domicile No Awardee presented by the Academy of Motion Picture 1 L. K. Advani Public Gujarat Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) was held at the Affairs Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles. 2 Amitabh Bachchan Art Maharashtra The Academy Awards (commonly referred as 3 Prakash Singh Badal Public Punjab Affairs Oscars) were presented in twenty four 4 Dr.D.Veerendra Social Work Karnataka categories. They are Heggade • Best Picture- Birdman or (The 5 Dilip Kumar Art Maharashtra Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance). 6 Swami Others Uttar Pradesh • Best Actor- Eddie Redmayne (The Theory Rambhadracharya of Everything). 7 Prof. Malur Science & Tamil Nadu • Best Actress- Julianne Moore (Still Ramaswamy Engineering Alice). Srinivasan 8 Shri Kottayan K. Public Delhi Venugopal Affairs Sanjaya Rajaram received World Food 9 Karim Al Hussaini Trade & France/UK Prize 2014 Aga Khan (Foreigner) Industry 16
• Awarded for his research that led to Film Liar's Dice: India's official entry for increase in wheat production Oscar Awards 2015 • He is credited with developing the Veery • The movie has been directed by Geethu lines of wheat in the 1980s Mohandas • He helped secure 1.3 percent rise in global • It is nominated for the Best Foreign wheat production per annum. Language Film category • He is senior scientific advisor at the • 12-member jury headed by eminent International Center for Agricultural Research filmmaker T Hariharan nomi in the Dry Areas
PERSONS IN NEWS Govind Mishra received Saraswati Samman 2013 New Governors • He received it for novel Dhool Paudhon Kalyan Singh : HP Par Vajubhai Rudabhai Vala : Karnataka • His novel was published in 2008 C. Vidyasagar Rao : Maharashtra • The novel illustrates the struggle of modern Mridula Sinha : Goa Indian women Krishan Kant Paul : UK
Aziz Qureshi : Mizoram Chandi Prasad Bhatt won the Gandhi Peace prize 2013 Alur Seelin Kiran Kumar has been appointed • He is a Gandhian, an environmentalist and a chairman of Indian Space Research social activist. Organisation (ISRO). • In 1964, he founded Dasholi Gram
Swarajya Sangh (DGSS) in Gopeswar. • He was awarded with the Ramon India’s open water swimmer Bhakti Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership Sharma has set a new world record by in 1982. swimming 1.4 miles in 52 minutes in one degree temperature in the Antarctic Ocean.
Medea Benjamin to Receive 2014 Gandhi Peace Award Arunima singh from UP got padma shri • Medea Benjamin is a co-founder of award in sport both CODEPINK and the international human *Wing Commander Pooja Thakur has become rights organization Global Exchange. the first woman officer to lead the ceremonial Benjamin is the author of eight books. Her Guard of Honour at Rashtrapathi Bhavan. latest book is Drone Warfare: Killing by On 25 January 2015, she led the ceremonial Remote Control, and she has been campaigning Guard of Honour which was inspected by the to stop the use of killer drones. U.S. President Barack Obama at Rashtrapathi Bhavan. Winners OF Midori Prize for Biodiversity- 2014 Eminent singer, composer, lyricist and • Dr. Kamal Bawa, President of Ashoka actor Shekhar Sen has been appointed as the Trust for Research in Ecology and the chairman of the Sangeet Natak Akademi Environment (ATREE), India, and (SNA). Distinguished Professor of university of Massachusetts, Boston. Indian Journalist-writer Hindol Sengupta’s book Recasting India: How Entrepreneurship is Revolutionizing the minent actor Amitabh Bachchan is E World’s Largest Democracy, has been conferred with Yash Chopra Memorial shortlisted for the U.S.’ prestigious Hayek Award 2014. Prize, 2015
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Professor NR Madhava Menon committee Filmmaker Nagesh Kukunoor’s framed guidelines to regulate expenditure and film Dhanak has been honoured with The contents of advertisements paid out of tax Grand Prix of the Generation Kplus payers' money International Jury for the best feature-length film at the 65th Berlin International Film Union Government on 20 October 2014 Festival (also known as the Berlinale). constituted Vishwanathan committee to provide
Bankruptcy code for small and medium The Andhra Pradesh High Court directed to enterprises (SMEs). Telugu actors Mohan Babu and List of Recent Summits and Conferences - Brahmanandam Kanneganti to surrender 2014 Padam Shri to the President of India, as they ★ 7th BRICS Summit 2015 – Ufa, Russia allegedly misused it. The HC gave its decision on the petition filed by the BJP senior leader N ★ G-7 Summit: Indraseena Reddy. Members : France – Germany – Italy – Japan– United Kingdom – United States of America – Pushpa Kapila Hingorani (86), a lawyer who is Canada. known by the title ‘Mother of PIL’ for th being the first women to file a Public Interest ★ 40 G-7 Summit 2014 –Brussels, Belgium. Litigation (PIL) on behalf of voiceless under- June 4th & 5th, 2014. trial prisoners in Bihar around more than three *41st G7 Summit 2015 – Schloss Elmau decades ago, has passed away. (Germany)
IMPORTANT COMMITTEES ★G20 Meeting: 9th G20 Meeting 2014: Brisbane, Australia. Debroy Panel on restructuring Railway 15–16 November 2014 Board 10th G20 Meeting 2015 : Turkey, Antalya th Lok Sabha speaker Sumitra Mahajan 11 G20 Meeting 2016 : China constituted a committee to review Parliamentary security. RK Singh is the head ★SAARC Summit : of the panel. SAARC – South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation Membership : The Union Government decided to appoint Maldives – Bangladesh – Sri Lanka – Pakistan former RBI governor Bimal Jalan as the head – Afghanistan – India and Nepal. of the Expenditure Management *18th SAARC Summit 2014 : Kathmandu, Commission on 12 August 2014. Nepal (in November 26& 27, 2014) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 27 August ★ASEAN Summit: 2014 set up a Ramanujam committee to ASEAN – Association of South East Asian identify obsolete laws. Nations Member Countries (10): Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, nion Finance Minister constituted H R Khan U Myanmar, panel to assess unclaimed deposits in the PPF Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam accounts.
★25th ASEAN Summit 2014 (12, November): H Devaraj Committee on 8 September 2014 Naypyidaw, Myanmar. reported that most of the deemed universities ★9th East Asia Summit (EAS) -ASEAN: are not fit for being a university. 13 November 2014 ★ IBSA Summit : 18
★IBSA Dilogue Forum (India, Brazil, South the Asian Development Bank (ADB) held Africa) is an every year. international tripartite grouping for promoting ★ADB Annual Meeting 2014: Astana, international Kazakhstan cooperation among these countries. ★ADB Annual Meeting 2015: Baku, ★ 7th IBSA Summit 2015 : India (New Delhi) Azerbaijan ★APEC Summit: ★Global Insurance Summit: APEC – Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation ★7th Global Insurance Summit (2014): *26th APEC Summit 2014 – China Hyderabad (Telangana) *27th APEC Summit 2015 – Philippines ★CHOGM : *28th APEC Summit 2016 – Lima, Peru CHOGM - Commonwealth Heads of *29th APEC Summit 2017 – Hano, Vietnam Government Meeting ★OPEC International Seminar: # This meeting is held every two years OPEC – Organization of Petroleum Exporting ★ 23rd CHOGM 2015 : Portloyis (Mayritius) Countries ★Arab Summit: * 6th OPEC International Seminar 2015 : ★Arab Summit 2014: Kuwait host the Arab Vienna, Austria Summit for the first time ★NAM (Non Aligned Movement) Summit: ★Arab Summit 2015: Cairo ★16th NAM - Tehran (Capital of Iran): ★PETROTECH: 2012 August 25 - 28. ★ Two nations namely Azerbaijan Republic and International Petroleum Conference 2014 Fiji (118+2) (PETROTECH 2014)* held in New Delhi Present Member countries: 120 ★Pravasi Bharatiya Divas: th ★ 17th NAM Summit 2015 – Caracas, ★ 12 Pravasi Bharatiya Divas 2014 held in Venezulea New Delhi ★ Nuclear Security Summit: Theme: Engaging Diaspora: Connecting Across Generations ★3rd Nuclear Security Summit 2014: The Chief Guest : Datuk Seri G Palanival, Hague, Netherlands Malaysian minister ★4th Nuclear Security Summit 2016: ★13th Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas 2015 held at United States Gujarat (Gandhinagar): ★ NATO Summit: Marks 100th year of Mahatma Gandhi’s return NATO- North Atlantic Treaty Organization to India from South Africa. Head Office : Brussels, Belgium Chief Guest : Guyana President Donald Members: 28 Ramotar ★ NATO Summit 2014 : Wales (Britain), UK ★ Indian Science Congress: ★ BIMSTECH Summit: ★101th Indian Science Congress: BIMSTECH – Bay of Bengal Initiative for 3-7 February 2014. Multisectoral ★ 102nd Indian Science Congress: Technical and Economic Cooperation Mumbai from 3-7 January 2015 Countries (7): theme: Science and Technology for Human Bangladesh - India – Myanmar – Sri Lanka – Development. Thailand – Bhutan – Nepal ★ ATOMEXPO: ★3rd BIMSTECH Summit 2014: Nay Pyi Taw ★ (Myanmar) 2014, March 3 -5. 6th International Nuclear Energy Forum Atomexpo 2014 held in Moscow ★4th BIMSTEC Summit: will be held in ★ Nepal. EU – US Summit : EU US - United States and the European Union ★ADB Annual Meeting: Host : Brussels ADB – Asian Development Bank ★ Annual meeting of the board of governors of UN Climate Change Summit: UN Climate Change Summit 2014: New York. 19
★Global Investors meet: • Construction of sanitary latrine and Global Investors Meet 2015: Chennai. smokeless chullah is mandatory ★ Indian Economy Summit: • Hiring a contractor is banned World Economic Forum (WEF) hosted 29th • House is allotted in the name of woman or Indian Economy Summit in Delhi. jointly in the name of both man and woman. ★★New Members of Important Organizations Janani Suraksha Yojana ★United Nations– Total Members – 193 (Last Started- 12 April 2005 Member : South Sudan). Objective- JSY aims at reducing maternal ★ WTO – Total Members – 160 (Last Member deaths by promoting deliveries in public and : Yemen). private health institutions ★World Bank and International Monetary Working- Mother should be at least 19 year Fund old and belong to BPL or SC/ST category. Total Members – 188 (Last Member – South Sudan). Government provides ★European Union– Total Members– 28 (Last • Rs 500 in case of home delivery Member – Croatia). • Rs 600 in case of mother from ★★Important Note: municipal/corporation area delivering baby in ★ India is not a member of G-8, NATO, EU, private or public health care center AU, APEC, OPEC & ASEAN. • Rs 700 in case of mother from rural area ★India is member of G-20, SAARC, BRICKS, delivering baby in private or public health care CHOGM, NAM & BIMSTEC. center
Ladli Scheme ENTRAL OVERNMENT C G Started - 20 August 2008 SCHEMES IN INDIA Aim- Objective of this scheme was to raise the ★Aam Aadmi Bima Yojna status of girl child and change the social Started - 02-10-2007 mindset of people towards girls in Haryana. Objective- To provide life and accident (Separate scheme for Delhi) insurance to people without land living in rural Working- Financial assistance of Rs 5000 per areas family per year is given by state government on Working- Both State government and National the birth of second girl child. This scheme is government contributes Rs 200 each towards available for parents who are domiciles of insurance one family member of age 18-59. Haryana. Money paid to insurance beneficiary • In case of natural death - Rs 30,000 Ladli Laxmi Yojna • In case death due to accident or permanent Aim- Objective of this scheme was to raise the disability - Rs 75,000 status of girl child and change the social • In case of permanent disability due to any mindset of people towards girls in Madhya accident - Rs 37,500 Pradesh. Working- Government purchases National ★Doodh Ganga saving certificate worth Rs 6000 per year for Goal - Provide interest free loan and capital four years for every girl child born after 01-04- subsidies to diary farmers 2008 and whose parents are domicile of Madhya Pradesh. ★Indira Awaas Yojna Started - 1985 Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Objective - Providing financial assistance to Employment Guarantee Act rural and urban poor for construction of houses Started - 25 August 2005 Working - Financial assistance of Rs 70,000 in Objective- To provide 100 days employment plain areas and Rs 75,000 in difficult areas is guarantee per year to unskilled labourers provided. Working- Government provides 100 days 20
employment guarantee per year to unskilled Sampoorna Grameen Rozgar Yojana labourer to do public works for which he is paid Rs 120 per day. In case Government is unable Started- 25 September 2001 to provide employment to labourers then it need Aim- Started by cobining two ongoing schemes pay labourers for 100 days at their home. namely Jawahar Gram Smridhi Yojana and Budget aloocated for MNREGA - Rs 45000 employment Assurance Scheme. This scheme crores (2012-2013) was started to provide supplementary employment so that labourers in rural areas can Midday Meal Scheme earn extra and thus providing food security to Started - Started on 1995 in different dates in them. various states in India. It was first introduced in Working- Budget of Rs 10,000 crores has been Uttar Pradesh alloted which is to be provided in ratio of ratio Objectives - Providing free lunch on working of 75:25 by Center and State and government. days to primary and upper primary students of government schools in India. This scheme aims Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan at promoting education and removal Started – 2001 malnutrition in children. Aim- Provide useful and free education to children in the age group of 6 -14 years under National Pension Scheme India RTE act 2009 Started- 1 January 2004 Funds allocated- Rs 61,734 crores allocated in Objectives- Provides social security to 2011-12 Government employees on retirement Working- 10% of basic salary is deducted from Swabhiman basic salary and DA and contributed to pension Started - 10 February 2011 fund. Central government makes equal Aim- To provide banking facilitates in rural contribution to the fund. areas with banking services. Goal of this scheme is to start banking services in 20,000 Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana villages without banking services with a Started - 5 December 2000 population of 2000 by March 2012 Objective - To provide roads in villages with population of 1000+ Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana Started - 1 April 1999 Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana Objective - SGSY provide assistance to rural Started - August 2007 people living below poverty line to take up self Objective- This scheme aims at achieving 4% employment. annual growth in agriculture sector. Working- Rs 5875 crores will be in Swavalamban agricultural sector in 11th five year plan to Started- 2010 (Will be closed on 2017-2017) improve agricultural productivity. Goal- To encourage workers working in unorganized sector to save for their retirement Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana Working- Workers must invest contribute Started- April 1, 2008 minimum Rs.1000 to maximum Rs.12000 per Objective- Providing health insurance to poor year into their NPS account. Government will people living below poverty line and holding contribute Rs 1000 per year to NPS account per yellow card year. Working- Anybody holding yellow card need to register for this scheme and get a smart card. NEW SCHEMES Family get insurance of Rs 30,000 per family. ★ Union Government on 25 September 2014 This is cashless facility to get treatment in launched Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Antyodaya public as well as private hospitals. Yojana for urban and rural poor. The Yojana
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through enhancement of livelihood Aim: Aims at training 10 lakh (1 million) rural opportunities through skill development and youths for jobs in three years, that is, by 2017. other means. Ministry/Department in charge of the scheme: Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Antyodaya Yojana Ministry for Rural Development. has two components one for urban India and other for rural India. The Urban component will ★Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Antyodaya Yojana be implemented by the Union Ministry of for urban and rural poor Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation while Launched on: 25 September 2014 rural component named as Deen Dayal Aim: Aims at alleviating urban and rural Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana will be poverty through enhancement of livelihood implemented by the Union Ministry of Rural opportunities through skill development and Development. other means. the Yojana aims at training 10 lakh (1 million) Ministry/Department in charge of the scheme: rural youths for jobs in three years, that is, by Union Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty 2017. Alleviation & Union Ministry of Rural • The minimum age for entry under the Yojana Development. is 15 years compared to 18 years under the Aajeevika Skills Programme. ★Digital life certificate 'Jeevan Pramaan' • Skill development training centres to be for pensioners launched so as to address the unemployment Launched on: 11 November 2014 problem in the rural area. Aim: Retired employees of government and PSUs can now digitally provide proof of his ★Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana existence to authorities for continuity of Launched on: 28 August 2014 pension every year instead of requiring to Aim: Ambitious scheme for comprehensive present himself physically or through a financial inclusion by providing bank accounts, Life Certificate issued by specified authorities. insurance cover and a debit card to all the Ministry/Department in charge of the scheme: citizens of the country. Department of Electronics and IT Ministry/Department in charge of the scheme: Department of Financial Services, Ministry of ★Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (Clean India Finance Campaign) Launched on: 2 October 2014 ★Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay Shramev Aim: National level campaign by the Jayate Karyakram Government of India covering 4041 statutory Launched on: 16 October 2014 towns to clean the streets, roads and Aim: To create an environment conducive to infrastructure of the country. Aims to industrial development while also ensuring accomplish the vision of 'Clean India' by 2 transparency in the labour sector. October 2019, 150th birthday of Mahatma Ministry/Department in charge of the scheme: Gandhi. Labour Ministry Ministry/Department in charge of the scheme: All Ministries & Departments. ★Bal Swachhta Mission Launched on: 14 November 2014 ★ ‘Make in India’ global initiative Aim: Nationwide sanitation initiative for Launched on: 25 September 2014 schools as part of Swachh Bharat Mission. Aim: Aims to boost India`s manufacturing Ministry/Department in charge of the scheme: sector. Ministry of Women and Child Development. ★Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana ★Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Launched on: 12 October 2014 Kaushalya Yojana Aim: encourages Members of Parliament from Launched on: 25 September 2014 both Houses to identify and develop one village from their constituency as a model village by 22
2016, and two more by 2019, covering over 2,500 villages of the 6 lakh villages country- wide. Ministry/Department in charge of the scheme: Rural Development Ministry
★Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao Yojana Launched on: 10 July 2014 Aim: Help in generating awareness and improving the efficiency of delivery of welfare services meant for women with an initial corpus of Rs 100 crore.
★Deendayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana Launched on: 20 November 2014 Aim: To provide access of electricity to rural households across the country.
★Sukanya Samriddhi account Launched on: 22 January 2015 Aim: Under the scheme, an interest of 9.1 per cent is provide on deposited amount which is tax free. The account under this scheme a saving account can be opened by the parent or legal guardian of a girl child of less than 10 years of age with a minimum deposit of Rs 1,000 in any post office or authorised branches of commercial bank.
★HRIDAY (National Heritage City Development and Augmentation Yojana) scheme Launched on: December 2014 Aim: For conserving and preserving the heritage characters of 12 cities. These are: Amritsar, Varanasi, Gaya, Puri, Ajmer, Mathura, Dwarka, Badami, Velankanni, Kanchipuram, Warangal (Telangana) and Amaravati (Andhra Pradesh).
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