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www.gradeup.co 1 www.gradeup.co Important News: Other States August 2020 ✓ Madhya Pradesh state government has identification number. The 8-digit number will launched a public awareness campaign “Ek enable seamless delivery of state government Mask-AnekZindagi” from August 1-15. services. ✓ Maharashtra government approved MagNet ✓ Uttarakhand state is set develop India’s first project worth Around Rs 1,000 crore to Help Snow Leopard Conservation centre. Farmers. Note: The main aim of the centre is to Note: This will boost the fruit and vegetable conserve and restore Himalayan ecosystems. It production and will improve processing and also aims to conserve elusive snow leopards minimise the losses in the sector of and other endangered Himalayan species. A perishables. number of snow leopards has been spotted in ✓ Andhra Pradesh state government has signed the districts of Pithoragarh and Uttarkashi. an MoU with Hindustan Unilever Ltd, P&G ✓ Haryana state government has launched and ITC to Support Economic Empowerment “Mahila Evam Kishori Samman Yojana” to of Women. provide free sanitary napkins to girls and ✓ Union territories Dadra and Nagar Haveli & women of below poverty line (BPL) families. Daman and Diuhas launched E-Gyan Mitra ✓ Haryana state government has launched mobile application for online education. “:Mukhya Mantri DoodhUphar Yojana” to Note: Through the app, the students from provide fortified flavoured skimmed milk primary till the higher secondary can take powder to women and children. online classes along with attempting. The app ✓ Chhattisgarhgovernment has launched will have lectures and quizzes posted by “Shaheed Mahendra Karma teachers along with a system of monitoring in TendupattaSangrahakSamajik Suraksha which teachers can monitor students’ progress Yojana” for tendu leaves collectors. ✓ ‘Thenzawl Golf Resort’ project has been Note: Used for making bidis (leaf-wrapped inaugurated in Mizoram. cigarettes), these are collected by forest Note: The project will develop Golf Tourism dwellers and from them it is purchased by the attracting both national and international state government.Mahendra Karma was tourist in the country. It will have an popularly known as Bastar tiger for his tough international standard of 18 holes Golf Course stand against Naxals.He was among 29 people, with a total cost of Rs 92.25 crore. Designed including senior Congress leaders, who were by: Canadian based Golf Course Architect killed in a Naxal attack in Jhiram valley of Firm Graham Cooke & Associates and 30 Eco Bastar district on May 25, 2013. Log Huts. ✓ Maharashtra became the first state in India to ✓ ‘E-Raksha Bandhan’ awareness programme collaborate with Google India for state-wide launched by Andhra Pradesh is related to distribution of G suite for Education and Cybercrime. Google Classroom. Note: It is a month-long online campaign that ✓ The Ministry of Railways has inaugurated a will create awareness on Cyber crimes across dedicated museum for railways in Hubballi, the State with slogan ‘Let us make August a Karnataka. month of e-freedom and e-safety. Note: This is the first of its kind museum in ✓ Haryana state government has launched Northern Karnataka and second in South “ParivarPehchan Patra” to enable the Western Railways after the historic railway citizens to get the benefits of various central museum at Mysore, Karnataka.The main and state government schemes. objective of the museum is to preserve and Note: PPP each family will be considered as a portray the glorious heritage of various single unit and will be allotted a 8 digit unique branches of Railways and displays the gradual 2 www.gradeup.co evolution of advanced systems in all spheres Vendors Atma-Nirbhar Scheme (PM of Railway. SVANidhi). The state has sanctioned interest ✓ Gujarat state government has launched free loans of Rs 10000 to more than 58000 Mukhya Mantri Kisan Sahay Yojana. street vendors, so far. Identity cards are Note: The yojana has been announced for the distributed to the registered vendors. current Kharif season and all farmers of the ✓ Madhya Pradesh has launched the ‘Ek state will be covered under this scheme. Sankalp – Bujurgoke naam’ campaign for Farmers would not have to pay any premium the elderly people living alone in homes or registration process for the scheme. during the global pandemic COVID-19. ✓ Assamstate government has started Note: This unique campaign is proving to be a “Orunodoi Scheme” for women’s boon for the Elderly People living alone in empowerment. homes during the global pandemic COVID- Note: Under the “Orunodoi” scheme, Rs 830 19. per month aid would mean an additional ✓ Madhya Pradesh has launched the ‘Ek annual income of Rs 10,000 to the poor Sankalp – Bujurgoke naam’ campaign for households to meet their medical, nutritional, the elderly people living alone in homes and academic needs besides to meet the during the global pandemic COVID-19. additional spending during various festivals,”. Note: In this campaign, the police are taking ✓ The Madhya Pradesh state government has care of the elderly people from the food to announced to name Gwalior-Chambal their health. Renowned social activist Anna Expressway after Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Hazare has also praised this initiative of Note: The Gwalior Chambal Expressway is a Chhatarpur Police. 6 lane expressway connecting Madhya ✓ Delhi state government has launched the Pradesh with Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan, Niraman Mazdoor Registration Abhiyan through the ravines of Chambal region. The for construction workers from August 24 to expressway will go parallel to the Chambal September 11. River via Shivpuri, Bhind, Morena to Kota Note: Special camps would be set up for (Rajasthan). construction workers to register themselves ✓ Nagaland state government has launched and take advantage of nearly 18 different “YellowChain” centralized e-commerce assistance schemes. Delhi government will set platform. up camps at 70 schools—one each in all the 70 Note: Yellow Chain will act as an integrated assembly constituencies of Delhi—to help platform for the people of the state, where any workers who are not tech-savvy. Seller/Service Provider/Individual/Group can ✓ Odisha government is working on a mobile- register themselves and upload their products, based application to enable farmers to upload trades, skills, services etc. to enable the picture of grievances such as water availability citizens/buyers to have access to their Service in canals and their redressal in a fixed or Product. timeframe. ✓ Chhattisgarh state government has launched ✓ Kerala is to host the first-ever State a student centric scheme named as Dragonfly Festival 2020. “PadhaiTuhar Para”. Note: The festival has been christened as Note: The scheme will enable the school Thumbimahotsavam 2020. ‘Pantalu’ is the students to study with the help of community official mascot of the festival. in their localities and villages, in view of the ✓ The longest river ropeway of India has been suspension of classes due to coronavirus inaugurated in Assam. outbreak. Note: The ropeway will be operated from ✓ Madhya Pradesh state top in implementing Kachari Ghat in Guwahati to Dol Govinda PM SVANidhi Scheme. temple in North Guwahati. The new ropeway Note: Madhya Pradesh is the leading state in service empowered with state-of-the-art implementing the Pradhan Mantri Street 3 www.gradeup.co technology will decrease the travel time Note: The IWTC seeks to accelerate the between Guwahati and North Guwahati. women entrepreneurship and secure gender ✓ Odisha has launched a new scheme for parity. It will also offer a safe place away from promoting intensive aquaculture through home to women to start new businesses, set up Biofloc technology in fisheries. or expand, and get their products marketed ✓ Kerala state will establish the first globally. international women’s trade centre (IWTC) July 2020 of India. ✓ Madhya Pradesh government has launched ✓ Odisha state government has launched “HamaraGhar-Hamara Vidyalaya” campaign ‘Balaram Yojana’ to provide crop loans to to take care of academic regularity of the landless farmers. students during the Lockdown due to COVID- Note: Under the new scheme, the landless 19 pandemic. cultivators will get loans through joint liability Note: The scheme will start on 6th July 2020. groups (JLGs). Under the scheme, the school bells are going ✓ Haryana government has decided to bring an to be heard within the student’s house and the ordinance under which 75 percent of the jobs teachers will begin the class of the students with a salary of less than Rs 50,000 per month after the bell. The scheme provides a school- will be reserved for the locals of the state.. like environment for the children taught at ✓ ‘Self Scan’ mobile application has been their home through online classes. launched by West Bengal government as an ✓ Karnataka government has launched a portal, alternative for the much popular Chinese ‘Skill Connect Forum’ to connect job seekers document scanning application- Cam Scanner. and employers on a common platform. ✓ Maharashtra government has launched ✓ The UK India Business Council signed a ‘Maha Jobs’ portal that will will bridge the Memorandum of Understanding (Mou) with gap between the Industrial Units/Employers Maharshtrafor Sustainable Business and the Workers. Relation. ✓ Karnataka government has launched ‘Nekar Note: MIDC is the premier industrial Samman Yojane’ for the weaver’s community infrastructure development agency of the in the state. Government of Maharashtra. This business ✓ Assam’s DehingPatkai Wildlife Sanctuary is framework between the UKIBC and being upgraded to a National Park is located in Government of Maharashtra will help the State which state of India. to proactively better its business environment Note: It is located within the larger and strengthen its collaboration with British DehingPatkai Elephant Reserve, spreading business. across the coal- and oil-rich districts of Upper ✓ Delhi State government has launched an e- Assam (Dibrugarh, Tinsukia and Sivasagar). learning portal — LEAD for schoolchildren. After upgradation, DehingPatkai will be the Note: The portals will give students access to 6th national park in Assam.