Daily Current Capsules 30^th April 2022
Government Schemes
National Behaviour Change Communication Framework for Garbage Free Cities

 What's the NEWS

 

• Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban 2.0, under the aegis of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, has launched the ‘National Behaviour Change Communication Framework for Garbage Free Cities' to strengthen the ongoing jan andolan for ‘Garbage Free Cities'.

National Behaviour Change Communication Framework for Garbage Free Cities

• It serve as a guiding document and blueprint for States and Cities to undertake large scale multimedia campaigns along with intensive and focused inter-personal communication campaigns.
• The framework focuses on intensifying messaging around the key focus areas of source segregation, collection, transportation, and processing of waste, plastic waste management, and remediation of legacy dumpsites to truly transform the urban landscape of India.

SBM-U 2.0

• SBM-U 2.0 envisions to make all cities ‘Garbage Free' and ensure grey and black water (used water) management in all cities other than those covered under AMRUT, making all urban local bodies ODF+ and those with a population of less than 1 lakh as ODF++, and Water+, thereby ensuring that no untreated used water is discharged in open to pollute water bodies, thus achieving the vision of safe sanitation in urban areas.
• The Mission will also focus on source segregation of solid waste, utilizing the principles of 3Rs (reduce, reuse, recycle), scientific processing of all types of municipal solid waste and remediation of legacy dumpsites for effective solid waste management.

Government Schemes
Atal New India Challenge 2.0 (ANIC 2.0) Launch

 

What's the NEWS

• Atal Innovation Mission launched the phase 1 of the 2nd edition of the Atal New India Challenge (ANIC 2.0) on 28th April 2022.
• Atal New India Challenge is a flagship program of Atal Innovation Mission, NITI Aayog.

Know! about ANIC 2.0

• The program aims to seek, select, support and nurture technology-based innovations that solve sectoral challenges of national importance and societal relevance.
• One of the primary goals of the ANIC program is to support innovations in areas critical to India's development and growth - Education, Health, Water and Sanitation, Agriculture, Food Processing, Housing, Energy, Mobility, Space Application etc.
• The Atal New India Challenge aims to address the Commercialization Valley of Death - supporting innovators scale over the risks associated with access to resources for testing, piloting and market creation.
• ANIC solicits innovations from start-ups and MSMEs in the prototype stage and after a competitive process of selection supports them through to the commercialization stage over a course of 12 - 18 months with a funding of up to INR 1 crore along with other associated support from the AIM's innovation ecosystem.
• Working in collaboration with the different verticals of NITI Aayog and the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, ISRO and Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, the 1st phase of ANIC 2.0 will see 18 challenges being thrown open from 7 sectors.

Sector: E-mobility
Sector : Road Transportation (in partnership with Ministry of Road Transport and Highways)
Sector : Space Technology and Application (in partnership with Department of Space - Indian Space Research Organization)
Sector: Sanitation Technology (in partnership with Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment)
 Sector: Medical Devices and Equipment
Sector: Waste Management
Agriculture
Social Issues
Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE)

 

What's the NEWS

• Data from the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) shows that India's labour force participation rate (LFPR) has fallen to just 40% from an already low 47% in 2016.
• This suggests not only that more than half of India's population in the working-age group (15 years and older) is deciding to sit out of the job market, but also that this proportion of people is increasing.
• According to the CMIE, the labour force consists of persons who are of age 15 years or older, and belong to either of the following two categories:

 

 

1. employed
2. unemployed and are willing to work and are actively looking for a job

The Unemployment Rate (UER), is the number of unemployed (category 2) as a proportion of the labour force.

 

• There is a crucial commonality between the two categories - they both have people "demanding" jobs. This demand is what LFPR refers to. While those in category 1 succeed in getting a job, those in category 2 fail to do so.

Labour force participation rate (LFPR)

 

 

• The LFPR essentially is the percentage of the working-age (15 years or older) population that is asking for a job; it represents the "demand" for jobs in an economy. It includes those who are employed and those who are unemployed.

Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE)

• CMIE, or Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy, is a leading business information company.
• It was established in 1976, primarily as an independent think tank.
• CMIE produces economic and business databases and develops specialised analytical tools to deliver these to its customers for decision making and for research.
• It analyses the data to decipher trends in the economy.
• CMIE has built India's largest database on the financial performance of individual companies
• It conducts the largest survey to estimate household incomes, pattern of spending and savings
• It runs a unique monitoring of new investment projects on hand and it has created the largest integrated database of the Indian economy.
• CMIE is a privately owned and professionally managed company head-quartered at Mumbai.

 

Prelims Factoids
Anang Tal

What's the NEWS

• Union Minister of State for Culture and Parliamentary Affairs visited the mini lake Anang Tal (Mehrauli, New Delhi) created in 1052 A.D by the founder king of Delhi Maharaja Anang Pal Tomar.
• He instructed to finish the work of cleaning of Anang Tal and declare it a National Monument immediately.
• The millennium old Anang Tal signifies the beginning of Delhi.
• Anang Tal has a strong Rajasthan connection as Maharaja Anang Pal is known as nana (maternal grandfather) of Prithviraj Chauhan whose fort Rai Pithora is on the list of ASI.
• NMA has been trying for the last two years to bring back the glory of pre-islamic monuments destroyed by foreign invaders.

Know! about Baolis of Mehrauli

• These are three water wells approached through single stage or three stage steps known as stepwells located in Mehrauli in Delhi, India, in the Mehrauli Archaeological Park mainlined by the Archaeological Survey of India.
• These are the Anangtal Baoli, the Gandhak Ki Baoli, and the Rajon Ki Baoli.
• These were built below the ground level as ground water edifices and were built as near shrines in medieval times.
• Anangtal Baoli is in a forest 100 meters (330 ft) west of the Yogmaya Mandir, behind a neighborhood and outside of the Archaeological Park complex.
• While the baoli built by Emperor Aurangzeb near Zafar Mahal was illegally occupied and destroyed by locals to make residential houses.

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