Uttarakhand Affairs
WECD Dept issues Rs 3 crore to 5K beneficiaries under MVY
The Women Empowerment and Child Development (WECD) minister Rekha Arya transferred Rs three crore to the bank accounts of 5,000 newly marked beneficiaries of Mukhyamantri Vatsalya Yojana (MVY) for August and September. Arya said that the government is committed to taking care of such children who lost their parents or guardians to Covid or any other disease between March 1, 2020 to March 30, 2022. She said that protecting such childrens assets and legal rights are also the departments responsibilities under this scheme besides providing them monthly monetary assistance of Rs 3,000 till they turn 21 years old. She said that the WECD department in coordination with various departments has made important provisions for the beneficiaries in a coordinated manner like the facility of Atal Ayushman card by the Health department for providing free medical treatment along with the reservation and free Education provided by the technical education department for studies in technical educational institutions of the State.
Similarly, the department concerned has also made a provision of five per cent Horizontal Reservation Rules, 2021 for orphan children in government Services.
National and International Affairs
Indian Navy to join Exercise Malabar in Japan
Japan will host the 2022 edition of the Malabar naval exercise consisting ofIndia, Australia, Japan and the U.S. in the second week of November,according toofficial sources.INDIAN NAVY will also participate in theInternational Fleet Review(IFR)being hostedin the first week of Novembertocommemorate the 70thanniversary ofthe Japanese Maritime Self DEFENCE Force (JMSDF).
Thisis the latest in aseries of bilateral and multilateral exercises in which the Indian armed forces have taken part recently.End of October,theIndia-U.S. bilateral Army exercise Yudh Abhyas is scheduled to take placein the high altitude areasofUttarakhand, around 100 km(aerial distance)from the Line of Actual Control (LAC).
India is currently hosting the multilateral anti-terror exercise Manesar Anti-terror 2022 under the ambit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Regional Anti-Terrorism Structure scheduled from October 8 to 13.
Minister for Civil Aviation Jyotiraditya Scindia said the Union Government will draw a national plan for helicopter emergency medical Services in the country and a pilot project towards it would soon be launched at Aiims Rishikesh.
Mr. Scindia said that under the pilot project Sanjeevani, a helicopter will be deployed in the next few weeks to provide emergency medical services at AIIMS Rishikesh. The helicopter will have a service cover of 150 km radius and will provide emergency evacuation within 20 minutes.
The Minister on the day also unveiled the guidelines for a new initiative called fractional ownership of helicopters, under which multiple owners share the cost of acquisition and operation of the aircraft in return for rights to use them for a specified number of hours or days in a year.
President Droupadi Murmu launched herSTART, an initiative of the Gujarat University Startup and Council (GUSEC) aimed at supporting Women-led startups.
The herSTART platform will boost innovation and start-up efforts of women entrepreneurs and also help them connect with various government and private enterprises, according to a government release. The platform will include a digital platform to provide Resources and training modules free of cost to aspiring women entrepreneurs, a digital community for them, and a digital publication to spread their success stories.
India has moved from 81st position to 40th position in the Global Innovation Index (GII) of 2022 as a result of the startup program started across the country with the efforts of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the President said in her address.
The National Education Policy-2020 is an initiative towards making India a super power. She lauded various efforts made by Gujarat in the field of primary and higher education in the last two decades and the results obtained. She lauded the state on the reduction in the drop out rate, as well as the real-time monitoring of the education system of more than 55,000 schools in the state by the Vidya Review Centre. The President also appreciated a project of upgrading the Infrastructure of about 20,000 schools of the state through Mission School of Excellence.