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Lightening

🔹Lightning is the visible discharge of electricity that occurs when a region of a cloud acquires an excess electrical charge, either positive or negative, that is sufficient to break down the resistance of air.

🔹Lightning is usually associated with cumulonimbus clouds, but it also occurs in stratiform clouds, in snowstorms and dust storms, and sometimes in the dust and gases emitted by erupting volcanoes.
📚Samagra Shiksha📚

— Samagra Shiksha is an integrated scheme for school education extending from pre-school to class XII to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education at all levels of school education.

— It subsumes the three Schemes of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) and Teacher Education (TE).

— implemented as a Centrally Sponsored Scheme.

— Funding Pattern:

# Centre and States is at present in the ratio of 90:10 for the North-Eastern States and the Himalayan States and 60:40 for all other States and Union Territories with Legislature.
# It is 100% centrally sponsored for Union Territories without Legislature.
💡India Industrial Land Bank (IILB)💡

>> It is a GIS-based portal with all industrial infrastructure-related information such as connectivity, infra, natural resources and terrain, plot-level information on vacant plots, line of activity, and contact details.

>> It is under the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT).

>> It serves as a decision support system for investors scouting for land remotely.

>> It has around 4,000 industrial parks mapped across an area of 5.5 lakh hectare of land and is expected to achieve pan-India integration by December 2021.
🔺Wholesale Price Index🔺

●It is the most widely used inflation indicator in India.
●It measures the changes in the prices of goods sold and traded in bulk by wholesale businesses to other businesses.
●Wholesale Price Index (WPI) does not represent the inflation in services
●Published by the Office of Economic Adviser, Ministry of Commerce and Industry.
●WPI Covers
○Manufactured products (64%): like textiles, leather, machine tools
○Primary Articles (23%): like agricultural commodities and minerals
○Fuel and Power (13%): like coal and electricity
●Items: 448 items in rural and 460 items in urban
●Major criticism for this index is that the general public does not buy products at wholesale price.
●The base year revised from 2004-05 to 2011-12 in 2017.



🔺CPI vs. WPI🔺

●WPI, tracks inflation at the producer level and CPI captures changes in prices levels at the consumer level.
●WPI does not capture changes in the prices of services, which CPI does.
●In April 2014, the RBI had adopted the CPI as its key measure of inflation.
●CPI and WPI represent the inflation of imported goods also
● CPI includes indirect taxes , Not in WPI
SUPACE Portal:

● Launched by: Supreme Court of India

● Full Form: SUPACE stands for Supreme Court Portal for Assistance in Court’s Efficiency.

● Aim: It is an artificial intelligence portal that is designed to make research easier for judges, thereby easing their workload.It will also collect relevant facts and laws and makes them available to a judge.
Earth Hour:

● Earth Hour is a global movement started by the World Wide Fund for Nature(WWF) in 2007.

● During the Earth Hour, people turn off their lights as a sign of solidarity, globally.

● This hour showcases the need to take action on the pressing issue of global climate change. Earth Hour promotes awareness about environmental issues on a public platform.

● The Theme for 2021 is “Climate Change to Save Earth”.
Fit for 55 package - Related to ?
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Disaster
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Health
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Migrants
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Climate Change
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✅Organisation in News:✅

💡Indian Council of Agriculture Research💡

— An autonomous organisation
— Ministry: Department of Agricultural Research and Education (DARE), Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare.
—Established in July 1929
— Formerly known as the Imperial Council of Agricultural Research.
— Headquartered at New Delhi.
— It is the apex body for coordinating, guiding and managing research and education in agriculture including horticulture, fisheries and animal sciences in the entire country.
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💡Kisan Sarathi💡

— Launched by
the Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare and the Union Minister of Electronics & Information Technology.

— It is a digital platform to facilitate farmers to get ‘right information at right time’ in their desired language.

— Help farmers to interact and avail personalised advisories on agriculture and allied areas directly from the respective scientists of Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVKs).
🔰International Labour Organisation

✅ It is the only tripartite United Nation (UN) agency.

✅Members: It brings together governments, employers and workers of 187 member States (India is a member),

✅History : Established in 1919 by the Treaty of Versailles as an affiliated agency of the League of Nations.

✅Became the first affiliated specialized agency of the UN in 1946.

✅Functions: to set labour standards, develop policies and devise programmes promoting decent work for all women and men.

✅Received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1969.

✅Headquarters: Geneva, Switzerland
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Agriculture is Gaining Importance in Prelims (8-9 Questions - Even More than Medieval India )

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Which of the following species in News was Moved from Endangered to the Least Concern’ status on its Red List.
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Golden Mahseer
33%
Golden Langur
21%
Gaint Panda
25%
Blue-finned Mahseer
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Hangul or the Kashmir Stag

-IUCN status - Critically Endangered.
-State animal of Jammu & Kashmir.
-A deer species more related to the Red Deer found commonly in Europe, -Hangul is found in the valley of Kashmir especially in areas above Srinagar called Dachigam.

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Govind Pashu Vihar National Park - IN NEWS LOCATED IN
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Himachal Pradesh
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Uttarakhand
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Uttar Pradesh
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🔺State of Finance for Nature Report

-analyzes the investment flow in nature-based solutions (NbS) and identifies the future investment needed to meet the climate change, biodiversity and land degra- dation targets

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP),
World Economic Forum and
Economics of Land Degradation.

🔺Nature-based solutions (NbS)

The NbS refers to sustainable management and use of nature to tackle socio-environmental challenges, which range from disaster risk reduction, climate change and biodiversity loss to food and water security as well as human health.

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