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CLAT 2022 CURRENT AFFAIRS (17TH AUGUST)

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GOVT. ANNOUNCED PM GATISHAKTI SCHEME

PRESIDENT ANNOUNCED 144 GALLANTRY AWARDS

WORLD SECOND LARGEST NATIONAL GENE BANK

CHHATTISGARH CM ANNOUNCED 4 NEW DISTRICTS

75 VANDE BHARAT TRAINS TO CONNECT PARTS OF INDIA

UNION MINISTER FLAGGED OFF ‘OPERATION BLUE FREEDOM’

BIOGRAPHY OF REVOLUTIONARY LEADER JP NARAYAN

 

GOVT. ANNOUNCED PM GATISHAKTI SCHEME


 

  • Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced a Rs 100 lakh crore Pradhan Mantri Gatishakti scheme while addressing the nation on the 75th Independence Day from Red Fort.

 

  • The Pradhan Mantri Gatishakti scheme aims to adopt a holistic and integrated approach in infrastructure growth and create employment opportunities for the youth of the country.

 

  • The government will soon announce the Master Plan for the scheme, to help boost the productivity of industries, and boost the economic growth of the country, besides creating job opportunities for hundreds of thousands of youths.

 

  • About the scheme: Gati Shakti will be a national infrastructure master plan for our country that will lay the foundation of holistic infrastructure and will lead to an integrated and holistic pathway to our economy.

 

  • The PM Gati Shakti scheme is aimed at breaking the silos between road, rail, air and waterways to reduce travel time, improving industrial productivity, making manufacturing globally competitive, facilitating future economic zones and creating employment.

 

(SOURCE: INDIAN EXPRESS)

 

PRESIDENT ANNOUNCED 144 GALLANTRY AWARDS


 

  • President Shri Ram Nath Kovind, the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, has approved 144 Gallantry awards for armed forces, police and paramilitary personnel on the occasion of Independence Day 2021.

 

  • Besides, President Kovind also approved 28 Mention-in-Despatches to the army personnel for their significant contributions in different military operations.

 

  • The 144 Gallantry awards include:

 

  • Ashok Chakra: Babu Ram (posthumously), ASI, Jammu and Kashmir Police.

 

  • Kirti Chakra: Altaf Hussain Bhat (posthumously), Constable, J&K Police.

 

  • Shaurya Chakra:

 

  • Major Arun Kumar Pandey, The Rashtriya Rifles, Indian Army
  • Major Ravi Kumar Chaudhary, The Rashtriya Rifles, Indian Army
  • Captain Ashutosh Kumar, The Madras Regiment (Mysore)
  • Captain Vikas Khatri, The Rashtriya Rifles
  • Kumar, The Rashtriya Rifles
  • Sepoy Neeraj Ahlawat, The Rashtriya Rifles
  • Captain Sachin Reuben Sequeira, Indian Navy
  • Group Captain Perminder Antil, Flying (Pilot), Air Force
  • Wing Commander Varun Singh Flying (Pilot), Air Force
  • Shri Chitesh Kumar, Deputy Commandant, CRPF
  • Shri Manjinder Singh, Sub Inspector, CRPF
  • Shri Sunil Choudhary, Constable, CRPF
  • Shri Debasis Sethy, Commando, Odisha Police (Posthumous)
  • Shri Sudhir Kumar Tudu, Commando, Odisha Police (Posthumous)
  • Shri Shahbaz Ahmad, Special Police Officer, J&K Police (Posthumous)

 

(SOURCE: LIVE MINT)

 

WORLD SECOND LARGEST NATIONAL GENE BANK


 

  • The Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Narendra Singh Tomar has inaugurated the world’s second-largest National Gene Bank at the National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources (NBPGR), Pusa, New Delhi.

 

  • The refurbished state-of-the-art National Gene Bank provides the facility for germplasm, to secure the heritage of seeds for years in minus 20 degrees Celsius temperature.

 

  • The new facility will help in the conservation of the diversity of indigenous crops in the country, as well as benefit the farmers by making them self-reliant and providing a source of increasing their income.

 

  • A National Gene Bank is a facility to preserve the seeds of Plant Genetic Resources (PGR) for future generations.

 

(SOURCE: THE HINDU)

 

CHHATTISGARH CM ANNOUNCED 4 NEW DISTRICTS


 

  • Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel has announced the creation of four new districts and 18 new tehsils in the state.

 

  • The four new districts are: Mohla Manpur, Sarangarh-Bilaigarh, Shakti, Manendragarh. With the creation of four new districts, the total number of administrative districts in the state have reached 32.

 

  • Apart from this, a garden will be developed exclusively for women in every district headquarter and the municipal corporation of the state, which will be known as the “Minimata Udyan”.

 

  • The park has been named after ‘Minimata’, the first woman MP from Chhattisgarh elected in 1952, who devoted her life toward the empowerment of women and the betterment of society.

 

(SOURCE: TIMES OF INDIA)

 

75 VANDE BHARAT TRAINS TO CONNECT PARTS OF INDIA


 

  • Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the nation on the occasion of 75th Independence Day and announced that 75 ‘Vande Bharat’ trains would connect different parts of the country in 75 weeks of the celebration of Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav.

 

  • The 75 Vande Bharat trains will connect every corner of the country, in 75 weeks of the ‘Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav’, which is being celebrated from March 12, 2021, upto August 15, 2023.

 

  • Presently two Vande Bharat Express trains are operating in the country by the Indian Railways.

 

  • The first Vande Bharat Express operates between Varanasi and New Delhi and the other Vande Bharat Express operates between Katra and New Delhi.

 

(SOURCE: HINDUSTAN TIMES)

 

UNION MINISTER FLAGGED OFF ‘OPERATION BLUE FREEDOM’


 

  • The Union Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment Dr Virendra Kumar has flagged off a pioneering world record expedition named ‘Operation Blue Freedom’ from Dr. Ambedkar International Centre, New Delhi on the occasion of 75th Independence Day.

 

  • The Operation Blue Freedom expedition comprise of a team of people with disabilities from across the country to reach Siachen Glacier, to create a new World Record, for the largest team of people with disabilities reaching the world’s highest battlefield.

 

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  • The team of people with disabilities was trained by ‘Team CLAW’, a team of Armed Forces veterans. The expedition was undertaken till Kumar Post (Siachen Glacier).

 

  • The event was organised by Dr. Ambedkar International Centre, a premier autonomous research body mandated to research and provide policy feed to empower marginalised communities and to bring in Socio Economic transformation in the society.

 

(SOURCE: JAGRAN JOSH)

 

BIOGRAPHY OF REVOLUTIONARY LEADER JP NARAYAN


 

  • A new biography of revolutionary leader and independence activist Jayaprakash Narayan will hit the stands on August 23, publisher Penguin Random House India.

 

  • The book, “The Dream of Revolution: A Biography of Jayaprakash Narayan”, shares anecdotes and never-before-told stories from the life of the man who was known for his “emotional hunger for transformative politics, shunning power and incubating revolutionary ideas”.

 

  • According to the publisher, the book, written by historian Bimal Prasad and author Sujata Prasad, explores “the ambiguities and ironies of a life lived at the barricades, and one man’s unremitting quest to usher in a society based on equality and freedom”.

 

  • (SOURCE: OUTLOOK, INDIAN EXPRESS)

 

 

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