UKPCS Prelims and Mains Notes-UKPSC Test Series
: National Green Corps is a major initiative of MOEFCC for creating environmental awareness launched in 2001-02 which aims at building cadres of young children working towards environmental conservation and sustainable development . It is operated through Eco-clubs set up in schools registered as members of NGC, this programme exposes school children to in-depth field … Read more DMPQ: National Green Corps
A carbon market allows countries, or industries, to earn carbon credits for emission reductions they make in excess of what is required of them. These credits can be traded to the highest bidder in exchange for money. The buyers of carbon credits can show the emission reductions as their own and use them to meet … Read more DMPQ- What do you understand by the term “ Carbon market”?
Infrastructure Development- Dams, Roads, Rails (Including Airways and Ports) The availability of efficient infrastructure services is an important determinant of the pace of market development and output growth. Historically, the infrastructure sector has been one of the key drivers of growth of the Indian economy and has shown positive growth in the current reporting year … Read more Transport : Railways, Highways, Airways and Water ways and their role in regional development, etc.
. The industrialized world in the 1980s had led to increasing public resistance to the disposal of hazardous wastes – in accordance with what became known as the NIMBY (Not in My Back Yard) syndrome– and to an increase of disposal costs. This in turn led some operators to seek cheap disposal options for hazardous wastes … Read more DMPQ:Write a short note on the BASEL convention on trans boundary movement of Hazardous waste, 1989.
INTERNATIONAL Nepal first country in south-east Asia to eliminate trachoma Nepal has become the first country in south-east Asia to eliminate trachoma, world’s leading cause of preventable blindness of infectious origin, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said. Trachoma was the second leading cause of preventable blindness in the Himalayan nation in the 1980s. … Read more 26.05.18 Uttarakhand (UKPCS) Current Affairs
ENERGY FLOW- Energy is the basic force responsible for all metabolic activities. The flow of energy from producer to top consumers is called energy flow which is unidirectional. Energy flows through the trophic levels: from producers to subsequent trophic levels. There is a loss of some energy in the form of unusable heat at … Read more FUNCTIONS OF AN ECOSYSTEM
UTTARAKHAND Women to be trained in making LED lights Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat today launched a programme for women self-help groups at Thano near here which will train them in making LED lights. The five-day programme named LED Gram Light Training programme will train 50 women from 10 SHGS in … Read more 07.03.18 Uttarakhand (UKPCS) Current Affairs
The Zoological Survey of India (ZSI), with its headquarters in Kolkata and 16 regional stations is responsible for surveying the faunal resources of India. Possessing a tremendous diversity of climate and physical conditions, India has great variety of fauna, numbering 89,451 species, which include protista, mollusca, anthropoda, amphibia, mammalia, reptilia, members of protochordata, pisces, aves … Read more DMPQ- Write a short note on the Fauna of India
UTTARAKHAND 100% led lamps: state govt seeks centre’s help The Urban Development, housing and census works Minister Madan Kaushik has sought help of Union Government in achieving the target of using 100 percent LED lamps in the cities of Uttarakhand. The state Government plans to replace all inefficient bulbs with energy efficient LED … Read more 18.11.17 Uttarakhand (UKPCS) Current Affairs
Deserts are formed in regions with less than 25 cm of annual rainfall, .or sometimes in hot regions where there is more rainfall, but unevenly distributed in the annual cycle. Lack’ of rain in the mid latitude is often due to stable high pressure zones; deserts in temperate regions often lie in “rain shadows”, that … Read more Hot DESERT ECOSYSTEM