DAILY GK 30 JUNE 2019
1. FLOW
OF RAW SEWAGE INTO RIVER GANGA WILL BE STOPPED BY 2022
✔Union
Minister for Jal Shakti, Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, in a national conference,
exhibition and awards ceremony ‘Innovative Water Solutions’ in New Delhi
announced that the flow of raw sewage into the Ganga river will be fully
stopped by 2022.
✔States
of Uttarakhand and Jharkhand have already achieved this and they have promised
to make Ganga fit for holy rituals by December 2019.
✔Ernst
& Young-ASSOCHAM report titled “Think-Blue”
Effective Water Management: Integrating Innovation & Technology was
released during the event.
✔India
is ranked 122nd in the World in terms of contamination.
2. ALL
GRAM PANCHAYATS BROADBAND CONNECTIVITY UNDER BHARATNET BY MARCH 2020
✔Electronics
and IT Minister, Ravi Shankar Prasad stated that all gram panchayats in the
country will be connected with the high-speed broadband under BharatNet project
by March 2020.
✔Its
aim is to provide hassle-free high-speed broadband connectivity to 2.5 lakh gram
panchayats across India.
✔Under
phase 1 of BharatNet project,1 lakh gram panchayats were connected by the
Government and it was completed in December 2017.
3. SAUDI
ARABIA INCREASED INDIA’S HAJ QUOTA BY 30,000
✔Saudi
Arabia increased India’s Haj quota by 30,000 which was the third hike in 3
years.
✔It
was increased from 1,70,000 to 200,000. With this, more Indians will get a
chance to visit annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, a city in Hejazi region of
Saudi Arabia.
✔India
discussed regarding the cooperation in trade and investment, energy security
and counter-terrorism with Saudi Arabia.
4. AS
PER MERCER’S SURVEY FOR 2019, MUMBAI AMONG THE TOP 20 MOST EXPENSIVE CITIES IN
ASIA FOR EXPATRIATES
✔As
per Mercer’s 25th Annual Cost of Living Survey, Mumbai was considered as
India’s most expensive city.
✔209
cities were ranked in the list. The costliest city in the world was Hong Kong
for the second consecutive year followed by Tokyo, Singapore and Seoul.
✔The
world’s least expensive cities for expatriates were Tunis, Tashkent and
Karachi.
5. NAGALAND
OCCUPIES THE TOP POSITION IN THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE: NSSO SURVEY
✔
“The Periodic Labour Force Survey for 2017-18” by National Sample Survey
Organization, Nagaland has the
highest unemployment rate among the states with 21.4% followed by Goa (13.9%) and Manipur (11.6%), while Meghalaya
has the lowest rate at 1.5%.Chhattisgarh
and Sikkim also have the lowest
rates.
✔Goa
and Kerala are high in female
unemployment at 26.0% and 23.3%respectively, but their respective male
unemployment rates are three times lower at 8.1% and 6.2%.
6. FORMER
NAVY CHIEF ADMIRAL SUSHIL KUMAR AUTHORED A BOOK TITLED “A PRIME MINISTER TO
REMEMBER,” RELEASED
✔Former
Navy Chief Admiral Sushil Kumar authored a book named as “A Prime Minister to Remember- Memories of a Military Chief”
released.
✔The
book talks about his distinguished career in the Indian Navy during the Kargil
War and Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee when Operation Parakram was
launched after the terror attack on the Indian Parliament.
7. STATISTICS
DAY 2019: JUNE 29
✔Union
Minister of State (I/C) of the Ministry of Statistics and Program Implementation
and Ministry of Planning, Rao Inderjit Singh inaugurated the 13th Statistics
Day on June 29, 2019 at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi
✔The
theme for Statistics Day 2019 is “Sustainable
Development Goals”.
✔The
Prof. C.R. Rao Award 2019 was conferred to Dr. Subhra Sankar Dhar, Associate
Professor, IIT (Indian Institute of Technology), Kanpur for his contribution in
the field of Statistics.
