🔆 National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA)
✅ Establishment: Formed in 1997, regulates drug prices to ensure affordable medicines.
✅ Nodal Ministry: Department of Pharmaceuticals (DoP), Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers.
📍 Functions:
✅Price Control: Sets ceiling prices for essential drugs.
✅DPCO Enforcement: Implements Drug Prices Control Orders.
✅Market Monitoring: Tracks drug availability.
✅Legal Support: Manages pricing-related legal issues.
📍 DPCO, 2013:
✅Regulates 384 essential drugs.
✅Scheduled Drugs: Tightly controlled prices.
✅Non-Scheduled Drugs:Flexible pricing.
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#polity #prelims
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✅ Establishment: Formed in 1997, regulates drug prices to ensure affordable medicines.
✅ Nodal Ministry: Department of Pharmaceuticals (DoP), Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers.
📍 Functions:
✅Price Control: Sets ceiling prices for essential drugs.
✅DPCO Enforcement: Implements Drug Prices Control Orders.
✅Market Monitoring: Tracks drug availability.
✅Legal Support: Manages pricing-related legal issues.
📍 DPCO, 2013:
✅Regulates 384 essential drugs.
✅Scheduled Drugs: Tightly controlled prices.
✅Non-Scheduled Drugs:Flexible pricing.
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#polity #prelims
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🔆National Maritime Domain Awareness (NMDA) Project:
✅It is aimed at strengthening maritime and coastal security.
✅The project will bring in an integrated approach to data collation, analysis, and information sharing amongst the various maritime stakeholders.
✅The project entails upgradation of the existing National Command, Control, Communication, and Intelligence (NC3I) Network to the NMDA Network along with the incorporation of AI-enabled software for smarter surveillance and decision-making.
✅As part of the project, the existing Information Management and Analysis Centre (IMAC) at Gurugram, which is the nodal centre of the NC3I Network, will also be upgraded into a Multi-Agency NMDA Centre.
✅This upgraded centre will host personnel from 15 agencies spanning seven key ministries — including Defence, Shipping, Petroleum, Fisheries, and others — to ensure seamless coordination and information sharing.
✅The NMDA project will link various maritime agencies, coastal states, and union territories for a unified operational picture of India’s vast coastline and surrounding seas.
✅It will also integrate data from sectors such as commercial shipping and fisheries, improving response capabilities to maritime threats, search-and-rescue missions, and environmental incidents.
✅The project, set to be executed on a turnkey basis, will be administered by the Indian Navy.
✅Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) will serve as the lead integrator, providing state-of-the-art hardware and AI-enabled software solutions.
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#defence #internal_security #security
✅It is aimed at strengthening maritime and coastal security.
✅The project will bring in an integrated approach to data collation, analysis, and information sharing amongst the various maritime stakeholders.
✅The project entails upgradation of the existing National Command, Control, Communication, and Intelligence (NC3I) Network to the NMDA Network along with the incorporation of AI-enabled software for smarter surveillance and decision-making.
✅As part of the project, the existing Information Management and Analysis Centre (IMAC) at Gurugram, which is the nodal centre of the NC3I Network, will also be upgraded into a Multi-Agency NMDA Centre.
✅This upgraded centre will host personnel from 15 agencies spanning seven key ministries — including Defence, Shipping, Petroleum, Fisheries, and others — to ensure seamless coordination and information sharing.
✅The NMDA project will link various maritime agencies, coastal states, and union territories for a unified operational picture of India’s vast coastline and surrounding seas.
✅It will also integrate data from sectors such as commercial shipping and fisheries, improving response capabilities to maritime threats, search-and-rescue missions, and environmental incidents.
✅The project, set to be executed on a turnkey basis, will be administered by the Indian Navy.
✅Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) will serve as the lead integrator, providing state-of-the-art hardware and AI-enabled software solutions.
#gs3 #prelims
#defence #internal_security #security
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The Prime Minister proposed nine resolutions anchored in the Navkar Mantra, each a commitment to knowledge, action, harmony, and rooted progress.
✅Saving water,
✅planting a tree in one’s mother’s name,
✅promoting cleanliness,
✅being vocal for local products,
✅fostering a sense of national pride through ‘Desh Darshan,’
✅adopting natural farming practices,
✅embracing a healthy lifestyle,
✅encouraging yoga and participation in sports,
✅and helping the poor.
📍Vishwa Navkar Mahamantra Divas
✅It is an annual event observed on April 9, dedicated to promoting global peace, non-violence, and spiritual harmony through the collective chanting of the Navkar Mantra – the most revered prayer in Jainism.
✅The mantra venerates the five supreme beings: Arihants, Siddhas, Acharyas, Upadhyayas, and all Sadhus, personifying the core values of Jain philosophy.
The day is observed by mass chanting sessions, both in-person and virtual.
📍Jainism
✅It is a spiritual path focused on non-violence, truth, self-discipline, and the pursuit of liberation (moksha) through personal effort.
✅The word Jaina is derived from a Sanskrit word jina, meaning the ‘conqueror’, i.e., conqueror of passion and desire.
✅The last tirthankara, Mahavir is called Jina as he conquered his passion after the attainment of the supreme realisation
✅Jainism later split into two sects: Digambaras (sky-clad) and Swetambaras (white-clad).
✅Kings like Bimbisara and Ajatsatru adopted Jainism, and Jain art, architecture, and literature flourished under their patronage.
#prelims
#art_and_culture
#GS1
✅Saving water,
✅planting a tree in one’s mother’s name,
✅promoting cleanliness,
✅being vocal for local products,
✅fostering a sense of national pride through ‘Desh Darshan,’
✅adopting natural farming practices,
✅embracing a healthy lifestyle,
✅encouraging yoga and participation in sports,
✅and helping the poor.
📍Vishwa Navkar Mahamantra Divas
✅It is an annual event observed on April 9, dedicated to promoting global peace, non-violence, and spiritual harmony through the collective chanting of the Navkar Mantra – the most revered prayer in Jainism.
✅The mantra venerates the five supreme beings: Arihants, Siddhas, Acharyas, Upadhyayas, and all Sadhus, personifying the core values of Jain philosophy.
The day is observed by mass chanting sessions, both in-person and virtual.
📍Jainism
✅It is a spiritual path focused on non-violence, truth, self-discipline, and the pursuit of liberation (moksha) through personal effort.
✅The word Jaina is derived from a Sanskrit word jina, meaning the ‘conqueror’, i.e., conqueror of passion and desire.
✅The last tirthankara, Mahavir is called Jina as he conquered his passion after the attainment of the supreme realisation
✅Jainism later split into two sects: Digambaras (sky-clad) and Swetambaras (white-clad).
✅Kings like Bimbisara and Ajatsatru adopted Jainism, and Jain art, architecture, and literature flourished under their patronage.
#prelims
#art_and_culture
#GS1
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