Exambazaar Current Affairs Feb 2019
CURRENT AFFAIRS FEBRUARY 2019
Important Current Affairs for IAS, SSC, Bank, RRB and Other Government Exams
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APPOINTMENTS AND RESIGNATIONS
01 Feb Vice Admiral Ajit Kumar P takes over as Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief Western Naval Command
01 Feb Mohit Malhotra to replace Sunil Duggal as Dabur CEO
01 Feb LT Gen Rajeev Chopra takes over as DG NCC
02 Feb Yes Bank senior group president Pralay Mondal resigns
03 Feb Rishi Kumar Shukla appointed as CBI director
04 Feb P V Bharathi assumes charge as CEO of Corporation Bank
05 Feb Salvadorans elect Nayib Bukele as new President
07 Feb Air India CMD Pradeep Singh Kharola appointed civil aviation secretary
08 Feb Ashutosh Raghuvanshi appointed Fortis Healthcare CEO
08 Feb Shri Sailesh assumes charge as Secretary, Ministry of Minority Affairs
09 Feb Sanjay Ramabhadran appointed president of Texas Lyceum
09 Feb Ricky Ponting appointed Australia assistant coach for World Cup
12 Feb Analjit Singh replaces Rahul Khosla as Chairman of Max Life and Max India
12 Feb Morton Frost is consultant coach for PPBA
13 Feb Noel Wallace to replace Ian Cook as Colgate-Palmolive CEO
13 Feb Boeing appoints Salil Gupte as India head
14 Feb IPS officer Rina Mitra appointed principal adviser to Bengal government
14 Feb Ashwani Lohani appointed Air India CMD for second time
14 Feb Tata Trusts inducts Noel and Jehangir Tata
14 Feb Goair CEO Cornelis Vrieswijk quits within 9 months, cites personal reasons
14 Feb Tata Steel UK CEO Bimlendra Jha resigns, Ashish Anupam to take charge
14 Feb DHFL CEO Harshil Mehta resigns
15 Feb CBDT Chairman Sushil Chandra appointed as the new Election Commissioner
15 Feb Vice Admiral SN Ghormade takes over as Chief of Staff, Eastern Naval Command
16 Feb Pramod Chandra Mody takes over as new CBDT chairman
16 Feb Kapil Wadhawan will be CEO of DHFL until a strategic partner comes on board
21 Feb Trump chooses Jeffrey Rosen for deputy attorney general
24 Feb Trump picks Canada envoy Kelly Craft as UN ambassador
24 Feb Twitter co-founder Evan Williams steps down from Board after 13 years
25 Feb
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25 Feb Saudi Arabia replaces US ambassador, appoints kingdom's first woman envoy
27 Feb Indra Nooyi joins Amazon’s Board of Directors
AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS
02 Feb Books & Authors Refugee detained in PNG wins Australia’s richest literary prize
06 Feb National President to confer Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards (Akademi Puraskar) for the Year 2017
Business and 06 Feb NFDC declared winner under Miniratna Category by Ministry of MSME Economy
07 Feb People Father Francois Laborde conferred with Legion of Honour
11 Feb People Sanjay Subrahmanyam wins Israel's prestigious USD 1 million Dan David award
11 Feb People Colonel Ranveer Jamwal becomes first Indian to summit the 7 highest mountains in the world
11 Feb Sports Ninth National snooker title for Pankaj Advani
11 Feb Sports Jamie Chadwick makes history at the MRF challenge
Business and 13 Feb Siddhartha Lal of Eicher Motors is EY Entrepreneur of the year 2018 Economy
Jitendra Singh presents Certificates of Appreciation to 9 Ministries for implementation of e- 14 Feb National Office programme
16 Feb International Sudanese refugee Muhamat wins major human rights award
16 Feb People NTPC Ramagundam bags award
19 Feb International Pak confers highest civilian award Nishan-e-Pakistan on Saudi crown prince
President of India presents Tagore Award for Cultural Harmony for the Years 2014, 2015 and 19 Feb National 2016
20 Feb Sports Nikhat, Meena Kumari strike gold at Strandja Memorial Tournament
23 Feb People PM Modi receives Seoul Peace Prize for 2018
24 Feb Sports ISSF World Cup: Apurvi Chandela shatters 10m air rifle world record
26 Feb National Prime Minister to confer the National Youth Parliament Festival 2019 Awards
26 Feb Sports Lifetime Achievement award for GR Karthikeyan
27 Feb People Sivaganga Collector J. Jayakanthan recieves ‘National Water Award'
27 Feb People Creators of robotic arm and Braille printer win first Aarohan awards
IMPORTANT DATES
05 Feb National Suraksha Yatra flagged from Rajghat ahead of National road safety week
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GOVERNMENT POLICIES & SCHEMES
01 Feb 4,,78,,670 Houses Sanctioned Under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana(Urban) The approval was given in the 42 meeting of the Central Sanctioning and Monitoring Committee held here yesterday. The cumulative number of houses sanctioned under PMAY(U) now is 72,65,763. nd
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A total of 940 projects with a project cost of Rs22,492 crore with central assistance of Rs7,180 crore has been approved. Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana is an initiative by Government of India in which affordable housing will be provided to the urban poor with a target of building 20 million affordable houses by 31 March 2022. This scheme is converged with other schemes to ensure houses have a toilet, Saubhagya Yojana electricity connection, Ujjwala Yojana, LPG gas connection, access to drinking water and Jan Dhan banking facilities, etc.
02 Feb Budget 2019: Single window clearance mechanism for Indian film makers The single window clearance was earlier available only for foreign films. Considering the huge job creating potential of the film industry, Piyush Goyal extended the single window clearance for Indian films.
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The move will help in cutting down the time required by film makers to seek permissions before the commencement of shooting. Goyal also announced that anti cam-cording provision will be introduced to the Cinematography Act to fight piracy. This means that the pre-production period for making films will reduce since the time spent on seeking permissions will come down.
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02 Feb Interim Budget: Goyal declares pension of Rs 3,,000 for informal workers The scheme will cover all those unorganised sector workers like autorikshaw driver, whose income is up to Rs 15,000 per month.
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The scheme will attract matching contribution of Rs 100 per month from government as well as from workers. He also announced hiking of tax free gratuity to Rs 30 lakh from existing Rs 20 lakh for employees having service of more than five years. The scheme will be called 'Pradhan Mantri Shram Yogi Mandhan'. The government will also provide a matching contribution of Rs 100 for every unorganised workers covered under the scheme, which is expected to benefit 10 crore workers in next five years.
02 Feb Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi launched to provide income support for
farmers Agriculture continues to be the main driver of the rural economy. Our hard-working farmers, supported by pro-farmer policies of our Government in the past four and half years, have produced agriculture commodities in record quantities.
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Under this programme, vulnerable landholding farmer families, having cultivable land upto 2 hectares, will be provided direct income support at the rate of Rs 6,000 per year. This income support will be transferred directly into the bank accounts of beneficiary farmers, in three equal installments of Rs 2,000 each. This programme will be funded by Government of India. Around 12 crore small and marginal farmer families are expected to benefit from this. The programme would be made effective from 1st December 2018 and the first installment for the period upto 31st March 2019 would be paid during this year itself.
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04 Feb Visually impaired,, blind voters to get braille voter slips in Lok Sabha polls It is a tactile reading and writing system used by blind and visually impaired people who cannot access print material.
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Braille is a script with raised dots that can be read with the fingers by people who are blind or who have low vision. As part of its strategy framework for 'accessible elections', the commission has told all chief electoral officers to issue accessible photo voter slips with braille to voters who are visually impaired or blind. The braille enabled slips were used in the recently held assembly elections also. Electronic voting machines already have the braille feature. The ballot paper pasted on the machine with name and symbol of candidates is braille enabled.
05 Feb PM Kisan scheme: Aadhaar optional for 1st installment,, compulsory from 2nd Agriculture Ministry prescribes rules to avail the recently-launched Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi, where a beneficiary would get ₹6,000 per year in three installments.
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States have been told to prepare a database of beneficiaries — small and marginal landholder farmer families in all villages — including whether they belong to SC/ST, bank account, mobile and Aadhaar details. States have also been told to update their land records, as that would serve as the basis for determination of landholding for beneficiaries. States would be given a maximum of 0.25% of funds transferred to beneficiaries in the first instalment to pay for their administrative expenses in the implementation of the scheme. That amount would drop to 0.125% for all further instalments.
05 Feb Pre-departure orientation programme launched for potential migrant workers Given the need to orient potential migrant workers with regard to language, culture, do’s and don’ts in the destination country, the emigration process and welfare measures, a Pre-Departure Orientation Training (PDOT) programme has been launched for gulf countries.
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The National Skill Development Corporation is the implementing agency for this programme. The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) in collaboration with Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) is conducting the PDOT programme under the Pravasi Kaushal Vikas Yojna (PKVY).
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05 Feb Upgradation and digitalisation of school under Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan The Central Government has launched an Integrated Scheme for school education - Samagra Shiksha, which subsumes the three erstwhile Centrally Sponsored Schemes of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) , Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) and Teacher Education, from the year 2018-19.
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ICT in Education Curriculum for School Sy stem - Students curriculum was piloted in 588 Navodaya Vidyalayas for one year. e- pathshala – e-pathshala has been developed by NCERT (National Council for Educational Research and Training) for showcasing and disseminating all educational e-resources including textbooks, audio, video, periodicals and a variety of other print and non-print materials. National Repository of O pen Educational Resources (NRO ER) - The National Repository of Open Educational Resources (NROER) is an initiative to bring together all digital and digitisable resources across all stages of school education and teacher education. SWAYAM:- The ‘Study Webs of Active Learning for Young Aspiring Minds’ (SWAYAM) is an integrated platform for online courses, using Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and covering school (9th to 12th) to Post Graduate Level.
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