Jan 2020

UTTARAKHAND Uttarakhand government signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with online travel portal MakeMyTrip With the aim to promote homestays on national and international level, the Uttarakhand government on Wednesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with online travel portal MakeMyTrip. Uttarakhand has 2,100 homestays and this year, they intend to take the number up … Read more 30.01.20 Uttarakhand (UKPSC) Daily Current Affairs

UTTARAKHAND   Nainital: Inmate calling system in jails by March end The state government informed the Uttarakhand high court (HC) that it will install a ‘prison inmate calling system’ in all jails in the state within three months. Court was informed that the government had studied the systems in jails of places such as Punjab and Haryana … Read more 22.01.20 Uttarakhand (UKPSC) Daily Current Affairs

UTTARAKHAND Uttarakhand to monitor air quality across all 13 districts Uttarakhand Environment Protection and Pollution Control Board (UEPPCB) has decided to monitor air quality across all 13 districts under its ‘State Air Quality Monitoring Programme. Till now, air quality was monitored manually barely twice a week and 104 times annually at five locations of these three cities. The … Read more 16.01.20 Uttarakhand (UKPSC) Daily Current Affairs

Indian Navy launches ‘Operation Vanilla’ Indian Navy launches ‘Operation Vanilla’ to help cyclone-hit Madagascar INS Airavat has been deployed for ‘Operation Vanilla’ The ship is carrying five pallets each of victualing, clothing and naval stores along with three pallets of medicines   India successfully test-fires K-4 missile On January 19, 2020, India successfully test-fired 3,500 … Read more 29.01.20 Uttarakhand (UKPSC) Daily Current Affairs

UTTARAKHAND   Deaths in road accidents dip by over 17% in Uttarakhand in 2019   In some good news pertaining to road safety in the Himalayan state, the numbers of road accidents and related causalities have seen a drop last year as compared to 2018. According to police department data, in 2019, Uttarakhand witnessed 867 fatalities in road accidents, … Read more 03.01.20 Uttarakhand (UKPSC) Daily Current Affairs

Budget Highlights   Expenditure: The government proposes to spend Rs 30,42,230 crore in 2020-21, which is 12.7% higher than the revised estimate of 2019-20.   Receipts: The receipts (other than net borrowings) are expected to increase by 16.3% to Rs 22,45,893 crore, owing to higher estimated revenue from disinvestments.   GDP growth: The government has … Read more 31.01.20 Uttarakhand (UKPSC) Daily Current Affairs

UTTARAKHAND   Sanskrit to replace Urdu at Uttarakhand stations The railway authorities have decided to replace Urdu language on signboards at state platforms with Sanskrit. The signboards which have names of railway stations written in Hindi, English and Urdu will now be written in Hindi, English and Sanskrit. According to railway officials, the decision has been taken … Read more 07.01.20 Uttarakhand (UKPSC) Daily Current Affairs

UTTARAKHAND   Albendazole tablets to be administered to 43L children The state health and family welfare department would administer ‘Albendazole’ tablet to about 43 lakh children in the state under ‘National Deworming Day’. To complete the target of 43 lakh children the health department has also earmarked 8.57 children who don’t go to the school, … Read more 23.01.20 Uttarakhand (UKPSC) Daily Current Affairs

UTTARAKHAND   Uttarakhand to set up Sainya Dham in Doon   In sync with the Sainya-Dham notion mooted by the Prime Minister (PM) , Narendra Modi, Uttarakhand government has started deliberations for construction of a mega Sainya Dham in the provisional state capital.   The state administration has started a drive to find a suitable … Read more 24.01.20 Uttarakhand (UKPSC) Daily Current Affairs

UTTARAKHAND   U’khand comes up with policy for leasing out agri land   The Uttarakhand government has issued a notification for the policy to lease out agricultural land in the state for a period of 30 years.   Keeping in mind the tough terrain, migration and large expanse of barren land, the state cabinet had earlier approved the amendments … Read more 05-06.01.20 Uttarakhand (UKPSC) Daily Current Affairs