Daily Current Capsules 24^th June 2022
Factoids
Surya Nutan

 

 

What's the NEWS

• Indian Oil and Ministry of Petroleum & Natural gas have developed an indigenous Solar cook top "Surya Nutan".

Surya Nutan - Salient Features:

• Surya Nutan is a Stationary, rechargeable, and always kitchen-connected indoor solar cooking.
• This is a patented product designed and developed by Indian Oil R&D Centre, Faridabad.
• It offers online cooking mode while charging through the Sun which maximizes the system efficiency and ensures high utilization of energy from Sun.
• It works on a Hybrid Mode (i.e. can work on both solar & auxiliary energy source simultaneously) which makes the Surya Nutan a reliable cooking solution for all weather conditions.
• Insulation design of Surya Nutan minimizes radiative and conductive heat losses.
• Surya Nutan is available in three different models: The premium model (Breakfast +Lunch+Dinner) of Surya Nutan can cook all the meals for family of four.
• Surya Nutan can be used in all weather and seasons including when the Sun is not available for long durations or for continuous days, such as monsoons and extreme winters.

Governance
NIRYAT portal

 

What's the NEWS

• The Prime Minister inaugurated 'Vanijya Bhawan' and launched the NIRYAT portal
• NIRYAT - National Import-Export for Yearly Analysis of Trade portal will help in breaking silos by providing real time data to all stakeholders.
• From this portal, important information related to more than 30 commodity groups exported to more than 200 countries of the world will be available.
• In the coming time, information related to district-wise exports will also be available on this.
• This will also strengthen the efforts to develop the districts as important centers of exports

Factoids
BRO Cafes.

What's the NEWS

• Ministry of Defence (MoD) has approved setting up of wayside amenities at 75 locations in 12 States/Union Territories on different sections of roads with Border Roads Organisation (BRO).
• These are intended to provide basic amenities & comfort to the tourists and lead to boosting of economic activities in border areas, besides generating employment for the local people.
• These wayside amenities will be branded as ‘BRO Cafes'.
• The BRO has its reach in the remotest border areas and besides addressing strategic needs, it has been instrumental in socio-economic upliftment of the Northern and Eastern borders.
• The scheme provides for development and operation of wayside amenities in public private partnership mode with agencies, on license basis, which will design, build & operate the facility as per guidelines of BRO.
• The terms of the agreement will be for 15 years which may be further extended for a period up to five years. The location of 75 BRO Cafes is as under

Factoids
Fair Repair Act

 

What's the NEWS

• The U.S. state of New York recently passed the Fair Repair Act, which requires manufacturers to supply repair information, tools, and parts to independent repair shops and not just their own stores or partners.

Know! about right to repair

• This provides consumers with the right to repair and refurbish their purchased goods. With access to relevant tools and repair manuals, independent repair shops will finally be able to compete with manufacturers.
• The rationale behind the "right to repair" is that the individual who purchases a product must own it completely.
• This implies that apart from being able to use the product, consumers must be able to repair and modify the product the way they want to.

Right to repair (Indian Context)

• Monopoly on repair processes infringes the customer's' "right to choose" recognised by the Consumer Protection Act, 2019.
• Consumer disputes jurisprudence in the country has also partially acknowledged the right to repair.
• In Shamsher Kataria v Honda Siel Cars India Ltd (2017), for instance, the Competition Commission of India ruled that restricting the access of independent automobile repair units to spare parts by way of an end-user license agreement was anti-competitive.

Social Issues
FORTIFIED RICE

 

What's the NEWS

• Union Food and Public Distribution Secretary said that the Centre had started the second phase of distribution of fortified rice from April 1, 2022.

Know! about the scheme

• The scheme started in October 2021, aims to supply fortified rice to beneficiaries of the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) and the Pradhan Mantri Poshan Shakti Nirman, or PM-POSHAN, scheme.
• Fortification means "deliberately increasing the content of essential micronutrients in a food so as to improve the nutritional quality of food and to provide public health benefit with minimal risk to health".
• Various technologies are available to add micronutrients to regular rice, such as coating, dusting, and ‘extrusion'.
• ‘Extrusion' involves the production of fortified rice kernels (FRKs) from a mixture using an ‘extruder' machine.
• The fortified rice kernels are blended with regular rice to produce fortified rice.
• Fortification of food is considered to be one of the most suitable methods to combat malnutrition.

Social Issues
Migration in India 2020-21

 

What's the NEWS

• A report named ‘Migration in India 2020-21' was released by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI).

‘Migration in India' report highlights

• It is based on first-time collection of additional data during the annual round of Periodic Labour Force Survey for July 2020-June 2021, separates the categories of ‘temporary visitors' and ‘migrants'.
• Temporary visitors and migrants
• ‘Temporary Visitors' have been defined as the ones who arrived in households after March 2020 and stayed continuously for a period of 15 days or more but less than 6 months.
• ‘Migrants' have been defined as those, for whom the last usual place of residence, any time in the past, is different from the present place of enumeration.

Key findings of the report

• After the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic in March 2020, 0.7 per cent of India's population was recorded as a ‘temporary visitor' across households during the July 2020-June 2021 period.
• Over 84 % of these 0.7 % ‘temporary visitors' moved for reasons linked to the pandemic ranging from loss of job, closure of educational institutions and health related reasons.
• The all-India migration rate was 28.9 per cent for July 2020-June 2021, with 26.5 per cent migration rate in rural areas and 34.9 per cent in urban areas.
• Females recorded a higher share of migration rate of 47.9 per cent, with 48 per cent in rural areas and 47.8 per cent in urban areas.
• The migration rate for males was seen at 10.7 per cent, with 5.9 per cent in rural areas and 22.5 per cent in urban areas.
• Among females, the highest level of migration rate was seen at 86.8 per cent for marriage, while 49.6 per cent of the males migrated due to employment related reasons.

Cyber Awareness
NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE GRID (NATGRID)

 

What's the NEWS

• The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has curtailed the tenure of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Intelligence Grid (NATGRID) and moved him to the Border Security Force (BSF).

Know! about NATGRID

• NATGRID is an online database for collating scattered pieces of information from more than 20 organisations in the field of telecom, tax records, bank, immigration, etc. to enable the generation of intelligence inputs.
• At least 10 central agencies like IB, R&AW and others will have access to the data on a secured platform for counter-terror investigations.
• The project was started in 2009 in the aftermath of 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks.

Factoids
MARIJUANA
What's the NEWS

• Thailand legalised the growing of marijuana and its consumption in food and drinks, the first Asian country to do so, with the aim of boosting its agriculture and tourism sectors but smoking pot is still against the law.
• Thailand, which has a tradition of using cannabis to relieve pain and fatigue, legalised medicinal marijuana in 2018.
• The government, banking on the plant as a cash crop, plans to give away a million plants to encourage farmers to take up its cultivation.

Government Schemes
Pradhan Mantri Aadi Adarsh Gram Yojana
What's the NEWS

• The government has started a scheme, "Pradhan Mantri Aadi Adarsh Gram Yojana" for faster development of tribal villages.

Know! about the scheme

• The focus of the scheme is on converging different programs of 41 ministries in the tribal villages to ensure their all-round development.
• Aim of the program is to turn the focus on such remote and backward villages of the country which are lagging behind due to lack of attention.
• Efforts are also being made to ensure the geo-tagging of and market linkages for the tribal products through TRIFED.

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