17TH JULY
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ANDHRA GOVT. ANNOUNCED 10% RESERVATION FOR EWS
WORLD’S LARGEST FLOATING SOLAR PANEL FARMS
6TH ANNIVERSARY OF SKILL INDIA MISSION
WORLD’S 1ST COMMERCIAL MODULAR SMALL REACTOR
MANDUADIH RLY. STATION RENAMED AS BANARAS
ADANI GROUP TAKES OVER MUMBAI AIRPORT MANAGEMENT
WORLD DAY FOR INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE
ANDHRA GOVT. ANNOUNCED 10% RESERVATION FOR EWS
- The Andhra Pradesh government announced a 10% reservation for the Kapu community and other Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) for appointments in the initial posts and services in State government in accordance with the Constitution (103rd Amendment) Act, 2019.
- The 10% reservation in employment will benefit Kapus who are neither benefited under BC quota nor under EWS quota and other Open Competition (OC) sections who are deprived of the benefits of reservation thus far due to non-implementation of the EWS quota.
- The following are the operational guidelines for implementation of the 10% reservation:
- Persons who are not covered under the existing scheme of reservations for SCs, STs and Socially and Educationally Backward Classes and whose gross annual family income is below Rs 8 lakh are to be identified as EWS for the benefit of reservation.
- The income includes income from all sources i.e. salary, agriculture, business, profession etc. for the financial year prior to the year of application.
- The term family for this purpose will include the person who seeks the benefit of reservation, his or her parents and siblings below the age of 18 years as also his or her spouse and children below the age of 18 years.
- The persons seeking the benefit of reservation under the EWS category have to obtain the necessary EWS certificates from the Tahsildars concerned.
- Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh: YS Jagan Mohan Reddy
- Governor: Biswa Bhusan Harichandan.
(SOURCE: LIVE LAW)
WORLD’S LARGEST FLOATING SOLAR PANEL FARMS
- Singapore has unveiled one of the world’s largest floating solar panel farms. The project is part of efforts by the country to meet a goal of quadrupling its solar energy production by 2025 to help tackle climate change.
- Located on a reservoir in western Singapore, the 60 megawatt-peak solar photovoltaic farm has been built by a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sembcorp Industries.
- Spanning an area equivalent to 45 football fields and producing enough electricity to power the island’s five water treatment plants.
- The electricity generated from the one lakh 22 thousand solar panels on the 45-hectare site should make Singapore one of the few countries in the world to have a water treatment system fully powered by sustainable energy.
- The solar farm could help to reduce carbon emissions by about 32 kilotonnes annually, comparable to taking 7,000 cars off the roads.
- PM of Singapore: Lee Hsien Loong.
(SOURCE: HINDUSTAN TIMES)
6TH ANNIVERSARY OF SKILL INDIA MISSION
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi has addressed the nation on July 15, 2021, on the occasion of World Youth Skills Day 2021 and the 6th anniversary of the Skill India Mission.
- In his address, Prime Minister highlighted “Skill development of the youth of new generation is a national need and a huge foundation for self-reliant India”. According to PM, under Skill India Mission, 1.25 crore youth have been trained till date.
- About the Skill India Mission: Skill India Mission initiative was launched by the Government to train over 40 crore Indians in different jobs related to the industry.
- Under this mission, the government seeks to create an empowered workforce by 2022 with the help of several schemes and training courses.
(SOURCE: FIRSTPOST)
WORLD’S 1ST COMMERCIAL MODULAR SMALL REACTOR
- China has officially begun the construction of the world’s first commercial modular small reactor ‘Linglong One’ at the Changjiang Nuclear Power Plant in the country’s Hainan Province.
- The project is based on China National Nuclear Corporation’s (CNNC’s Linglong One (ACP100) technology.
- About the reactor: The multi-purpose, 125 MWe SMR is a pressurised water reactor designed for electricity generation, urban heating, urban cooling, industrial steam production, or seawater desalination.
- CNNC began the development of the Linglong One in 2010, and it was the first SMR project to pass an independent safety assessment by International Atomic Energy Agency experts in 2016.
- Its integrated pressurised water reactor (PWR) design was completed in 2014 and it was identified as a ‘key project’ in China’s 12th Five-Year Plan. The design, which has 57 fuel assemblies and integral steam generators, was developed from the larger ACP1000 PWR.
- It incorporates passive safety features and could be installed underground.
(SOURCE: LIVE MINT)
MANDUADIH RLY. STATION RENAMED AS BANARAS
- The Manduadih railway station has been finally renamed as Banaras by the Northeastern railways (NER).
- The NER replaced the old signboard with the new one which read ‘Banaras’ after the Railway Board gave its nod for the new name. The newly painted signboards were put up with Banaras written in Hindi, Sanskrit, English, and Urdu.
- The process to change the station’s name started in 2019 when the former railway minister and the present governor of Jammu and Kashmir Manoj Singh, put forth the request.
- In the same year, the Uttar Pradesh government accepted the proposal and forwarded it to the ministry of home affairs.
(SOURCE: TIMES OF INDIA)
ADANI GROUP TAKES OVER MUMBAI AIRPORT MANAGEMENT
- Adani Group led by Gautam Adani has completed the takeover of ‘Mumbai International Airport’ from the GVK group. With this takeover, Adani group has become the top company in terms of airport infrastructure companies in India.
- Mumbai International Airport will be operated by Adani Airport Holdings which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Adani Enterprises.
- With the takeover, Adani group’s airports now account for a fourth of total footfalls at airports across India, and a third of total air cargo handled.
- Airports operated by Adani Group: Thus, the company now operate six airports. Three airports in Ahmedabad, Lucknow and Mangaluru are being operated by the Adani group already while the takeover of three airports in Guwahati, Thiruvananthapuram and Jaipur is to be complete.
- Adani Group will also set up an airport in Navi Mumbai for which the company will achieve financial closure in the next 90 days.
- Group has planned to operationalise Navi Mumbai airport by 2024. Bids for operating these airports were won by Adani Group for a period of 50 years after participating in the tendering process of the Airports Authority of India.
(SOURCE: JAGRAN JOSH)
WORLD DAY FOR INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE
- The World Day for International Justice, (also known as Day of International Criminal Justice or International Justice Day), is celebrated globally on July 17 to support and recognize the work of the International Criminal Court (ICC).
- The day marks the anniversary of the adoption of the Rome Statute on July 17, 1998, the treaty that created the International Criminal Court.
- It came about when 120 states adopted a statute in Rome.
- It was known as the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, All the countries that agreed to adopt the statute were accepting the jurisdiction of the ICC.
(SOURCE: FIRSTPOST)