DAILY GK : 3,4 JULY 2022
1.
‘UDYAMI BHARAT’ PROGRAMME
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Prime
Minister(PM) Narendra Modi participated in the ‘Udyami Bharat’ programme
organised at the Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi, Delhi.
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He also
launched ‘Raising and Accelerating MSME
Performance’ (RAMP) scheme, ‘Capacity Building of First-Time MSME
Exporters’ (CBFTE) scheme and New features of the Prime
Minister’s Employment Generation Programme – (PMEGP) to ramp up the Micro,
Small & Medium Enterprise (MSME) sector.
2.
INDIA’S LARGEST FLOATING SOLAR PLANT
COMMISSIONED
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NTPC
Limited, India’s largest state-run energy conglomerate, has announced the
commercial operation of the Ramagundam
Floating Solar photovoltaic (PV) Project in Ramagundam, Telangana,
which is India’s largest floating solar power plant with a total capacity of
100 MW (megawatts).
·
It
commenced operation on July 1, 2022, and made the final final operation of 20
MW of the 100 MW Ramagundam Floating Solar PV Project.
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TheRamagundam
Floating Solar PV Project, which has 4.48 lakh photovoltaic (PV) panels
floating across 500 acres of the NTPC-Ramagundam reservoir, was built at a cost
of Rs. 423 crore.
3.
GOI AMENDS FOREIGN CONTRIBUTION (REGULATION)
ACT (FCRA) RULES 2011
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The
Government of India (GoI) has made seven key amendments to the existing Foreign
Contribution (Regulation) Act (FCRA) Rules 2011, which renamed as
the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Rules, 2022, w.e.f. July
01, 2022.
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Foreign
Contribution (Regulation) Act (FCRA)
allowing Indians to receive up to Rs 10 lakh in a year from
relatives staying abroad without informing the authorities.The earlier limit was Rs 1 lakh.
4.
ACC ESTABLISHES FSIB FOR APPOINTMENTS IN
FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
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The
Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) headed by the Prime Minister (PM)
has approved the establishment of Financial Services Institutions Bureau (FSIB)
with one chairperson and two members.
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It is a
single entity constituted for making recommendations for appointments of
Wholetime Directors and Non-Executive Directors in public sector banks (PSBs),
public sector insurers (PSIs) and financial institutions (FIs) including
selection of General Managers and Directors in non-life PSIs.
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The
former Banks Board Bureau Chairman Bhanu Pratap
Sharma to be the 1st chairman of
the entity for 2 years, with 2 other members.
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Animesh Chauhan,
has been appointed in the ex-banker from public sector category.
·
Shailendra Bhandari,
have been appointed as Members of FSIB in the ex-banker from Private Sector
category.
5.
UK'S
AYURVEDA RATNA AWARD
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Director
of All India Institute of Ayurveda (AIIA), Tanuja Nesari, was awarded with the
Ayurveda Ratna Award 2022 by the United Kingdom (UK) Parliament for
contribution in the field of growth of Ayurveda at global and national level.
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It was conferred
by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Indian Traditional Sciences
(ITSappg) of UK.
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The award
was presented on the occasion of the International Day of Yoga (June 21).
6.
“THE LIFE AND TIMES OF GEORGE FERNANDES”, A
BIOGRAPHY OF GEORGE FERNANDES
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A new
biography of former Union Minister of India, George Fernandes, titled “The Life
and Times of George Fernandes”, is authored
by Rahul Ramagundam and will be released on July 25, 2022.
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In 1989,
George Fernandes became the Railways minister under V.P. Singh’s National Front
coalition government, comprising mostly Left leaning parties.
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Later,
Fernandes joined the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government
under Prime Minister AtalBihari Vajpayee in 1998 and 1999, in which he was
appointed the defense minister.
