DAILY GK: 03, 04 OCT 2021
1.PPC
2021
• Union
Minister for Panchayat Raj and Rural Development Giriraj Singh launched the
People’s Plan Campaign (PPC) 2021- Sabki Yojana Sabka Vikas and Vibrant Gram
Sabha Dashboard.
• PPC-2021
is a strategy for ensuring the preparation of GPDP (Gram Panchayat Development
Plan) in a campaign mode.
• PPC
2021 meetings will be rolled out from October 2, 2021, to January 31, 2022.
2.2ND
PHASES OF SWACHH BHARAT MISSION-URBAN
• PM
Narendra Modi launched the second phase of Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban (SBM-U
2.0) and the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation 2.0 (AMRUT
2.0).
• The
SBM-U 2.0 aims to make cities completely ‘free of garbage’ and ensure grey and
black water management in all cities other than those covered under AMRUT.
• The
outlay of SBM-U 2.0 is around Rs 1.41 lakh crore.
• AMRUT
2.0 intends to improve sewage and septic management, making the cities into
water safe cities and ensuring that no sewage drains anywhere in rivers.
• It
will benefit more than 10.5 crore people in urban areas and the outlay of AMRUT
2.0 is around Rs 2.87 lakh crore.
3.NUTRITIONAL
PROFILE FOR 19 STATES AND UTS
• NITI
Aayog, in a joint effort with International Food Policy Research Institute
(IFPRI), Indian Institute of Population Sciences (IIPS), UNICEF and Institute
of Economic Growth (IEG) launched ‘The State Nutrition Profile’ for 19 States
and Union Territories.
4.NAMAMI
GANGE PROGRAMME’S MASCOT
• The
Union government unveils Chacha Chaudhary, a popular comic book character, as a
mascot for ‘Namami Gange Programme’, for sensitising children and youths about
the cleaning of Ganga and other rivers during the 37th executive committee
meeting of the National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) which was chaired by
Director General Rajiv Ranjan Mishra.
• Public
engagement activities like ‘Ganga ki Baat, Chacha Choudhary Ke Sath’ will be
initiated with the character.
• Chacha
Chaudhary character was created by cartoonist Pran Kumar Sharma in 1971 for the
Hindi magazine Lotpot.
5.ADANI
GROUP TO DEVELOP SRILANKA’S PORT
• Adani
group signed a more than $700-million build-operate-transfer agreement with the
Sri Lankan government-owned Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) and John Keells
Holdings (from Sri Lanka) for 35 years to jointly develop a Colombo Western
Container Terminal (WCT).
• Adani
Ports and Special Economic Zone (APSEZ) Limited is the largest developer and
operator company in India which holds 24 percent of the overall port capacity
in India.
6.BLOOMBERG
BILLIONAIRES INDEX
• According
to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, a daily ranking of the world’s richest
people, as of 28th September 2021, with a total net worth of 213 billion USD,
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla has overtaken Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon,(total net
worth of 197 billion USD) to become the world’s richest person.
• Elon
Musk gained 13 billion USD in net worth with a rise in the share price of
tesla.
• Mukesh
Ambani Topped among Indians & ranked 11th globally.
7.BRAND
AMBASSADOR OF UP GOVT ‘ODOP’ SCHEME
• The
government of Uttar Pradesh (UP)
appointed Indian actor Kangana Ranaut as the brand ambassador of its ”
one district-one product” programme (ODOP).
• The
ODOP aims to create product-specific traditional industrial hubs across 75
districts of the state.
• It
facilitates development of ingenious and specialized products and crafts of UP
that are not found anywhere else.
• Under
the initial phase of the ODOP programme, 106 Products have been identified from
103 districts across 27 States.
8.CENTRE
APPOINTS BC PATNAIK MD OF LIC
• The
Union government appoints BC Patnaik Managing Director of Life Insurance
Corporation of India (LIC) on October 1, 2021.
• Currently,
LIC has one chairman and four Managing Directors.
9.ISRO’S
FIRST DEMAND-DRIVEN COMMUNICATION SATELLITE
• The
Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) commercial arm, New Space India
Limited (NSIL) announced its first ‘demand-driven’ communication satellite
mission as part of Space reforms announced by the government in June 2020.
• As
part of this initiative, NSIL is undertaking its 1st demand driven
communication satellite mission named GSAT-24, a four-tonne class Ku- band
satellite.
• The
entire satellite will be leased to Tata Sky for meeting their DTH application
needs.
10.INTERNATIONAL
COFFEE DAY 2021 – OCTOBER 1
• International
Coffee Day is annually observed across the globe on October 1st to celebrate
the diversity, quality and passion of the coffee sector.
• The
day also highlights the challenges faced by the farmers of coffee beans.
11.WORLD
VEGETARIAN DAY 2021 – OCTOBER 1
• World
Vegetarian Day is annually celebrated across the globe on October 1st to
promote compassion and life-enhancing possibilities of vegetarianism.
• The
day celebrates the benefits of being vegetarian.
