Relevance IN - Prelims ( about PCIM&H and about the laboratories - PLIM and HPL + about ASUDTAB + Drugs & Cosmetics Rules, 1945.+ Mains ( GS II Issues relating to development and management of Social Sector/Services relating to Health, Education, Human Resources.
What's the NEWS

• The Union Cabinet has given its approval to re-establish Pharmacopoeia Commission for Indian Medicine & Homoeopathy (PCIM&H) as Subordinate Office under Ministry of AYUSH by merging into it Pharmacopoeia Laboratory for Indian Medicine (PLIM) and Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia Laboratory (HPL)- the two central laboratories established at Ghaziabad since 1975.
• PLIM & HPL being the subordinate offices and PCIM&H- an autonomous organization under Ministry of AYUSH are going to be merged to establish PCIM&H, as a subordinate office of the Ministry with a common administrative control.

• Presently, Pharmacopoeia Commission for Indian Medicine & Homoeopathy (PCIM&H) is an autonomous body under the aegis of Ministry of AYUSH established since 2010.
• The merger is aimed at optimizing the use of infrastructural facilities, technical manpower and financial resources of the three organizations for enhancing the standardization outcomes of Ayurveda, Siddha, Unani and Homoeopathy drugs towards their effective regulation and quality control.
• It is also intended to accord legal status to the merged structure of PCIM&H and its laboratory by virtue of making necessary amendment and enabling provisions in the Drugs & Cosmetics Rules, 1945.
• Consultation in this regard has been done with the Director General Health Services, Drugs Controller General and Ayurveda, Siddha and Unani Drugs Technical Advisory Board (ASUDTAB),

• It is a statutory body under the provisions of Drugs & Cosmetics Act, 1940 meant for advising Central and State Governments in regulatory matters of ASLT drugs.

• Pharmacopoeia Commission for Indian Medicine & Homoeopathy (PCIM&H) is an autonomous organization under Ministry of AYUSH, Govt. of India with a primary mandate of publishing Pharmacopoeias and Formularies for drugs/formulations used in Ayurveda, Siddha, Unani (ASU) and Homoeopathy (ASU&H) systems of Medicine.
• The Commission serves as an umbrella organization for Ayurvedic Pharmacopoeia Committee (APC), Siddha Pharmacopoeia Committee (SPC), Unani Pharmacopoeia Committee (UPC) and Homoeopathic Pharmacopeia Committee (HPC).

• The Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940 is an Act of the Parliament of India which regulates the import, manufacture and distribution of drugs in India.
• The primary objective of the act is to ensure that the drugs and cosmetics sold in India are safe, effective and conform to state quality standards.
• The related Drugs and Cosmetics Rules, 1945 contains provisions for classification of drugs under given schedules and there are guidelines for the storage, sale, display and prescription of each schedule.
• The term "drug" as defined in the act includes a wide variety of substance, diagnostic and medical devices.
• In 1964, the act was amended to include Ayurveda and Unani drugs.

• Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports will begin a 25-day Khelo India Community Coach Development Programme
• The programme will be inaugurated by Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports, Kiren Rijiju.

• The programme will help in the professional development of 15,000 Physical Education (PE) teachers and community coaches and aims to equip them with skills to train students to take up fitness and sport as a way of life.
• The programme will see a host of international experts speaking to PE teachers and community coaches.
• Throughout the programme, participants will benefit from interactions from a host of international experts

• The PMO has rejected an RTI application seeking details of the PM CARES Fund, stating that the fund is not a public authority under the Act.
• The Fund is not a public authority under section 2 (h) of the Right to Information Act, 2005, and therefore it won't be able to divulge information sought in the application.

• The fund - Prime Minister's Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations Fund -was created on March 28 to deal with any emergency posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
• The PM is the ex-officio chairman of the trust, and three cabinet ministers are its trustees.
• Its trustees are Union home minister Amit Shah, defence minister Rajnath Singh and finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman.
• The opposition had questioned the need for a creation of the Fund as the PM's National Relief Fund (PMNRF) already exists to receive donations for such emergencies.

a)by or under the constitution;
b) by any other law made by parliament;
c) by any other law made by the state legislature and
d) by notification issued or order made by the appropriate government.

• It also includes "body owned, controlled or substantially financed; non-governmental organisation substantially financed directly or indirectly by funds provided by the appropriate government".

• The Power Ministry has launched pan-India Real Time Market in electricity
• This has placed Indian electricity market amongst a league of few electricity markets in the world, which have real time market.

• Real time market is an organized market platform to enable the buyers and sellers pan-India to meet their energy requirement closer to real time of operation.
• It will bring required flexibility in the market to provide real time balance while ensuring optimal utilization of the available surplus capacity in the system.

• The proposed real time market would provide an alternate mechanism for Discoms to access larger market at competitive price.
• National Load Despatch Centre-POSOCO is facilitating necessary automation in coordination with power exchanges to ensure faster transactions and settlements in the real time market framework.
• The real time market would help to mitigate challenges to the grid management due to intermittent and variable nature of renewable energy generation and therefore, help to integrate higher quantum of renewable energy resources into the grid.
• It is expected that shorter bidding time, faster scheduling, and defined processes (e.g. gate closure) are expected to enable the participants to access resources throughout the all India grid, promoting competition.

Relevance IN - Prelims ( about the new schemes and its objectives) + Mains ( GS II Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation.
What's the NEWS

• To make India a global leader in electronic manufacturing, the government has announced three schemes worth of Rs 50,000 crore.

• It will be implemented from June 2 for the development of electronics manufacturing sector in India.

• These three schemes that entail an outlay of about Rs 50,000 crore (approximately $7 billion), will help offset the disability for domestic electronics manufacturing, which will strengthen the electronics manufacturing ecosystem in the country.
• The three schemes together will enable large scale electronics manufacturing, the domestic supply chain of components and state-of-the-art infrastructure and common facilities for large anchor units and their supply chain partners.
• These schemes are expected to contribute significantly to achieving a $1 trillion digital economy and a $5 trillion GDP by 2025.
• The three new schemes are expected to attract substantial investments, increase the production of mobile phones and their components to around Rs 10,00,000 crore by 2025 and generate around 5 lakh direct and 15 lakh indirect jobs.

• To boost domestic manufacturing and attract large investments in mobile phone manufacturing and specified electronic components.
• The PLI Scheme shall extend an incentive of 4 per cent to 6 per cent on incremental sales (over base year) of goods manufactured in India and covered under the target segments, to eligible companies, for a period of five years subsequent to the base year.

• The SPECS shall provide a financial incentive of 25 per cent on capital expenditure for the identified list of electronic goods that constitute the supply chain of electronic products such as electronic components, semiconductor, specialized sub-assemblies.

• The EMC 2.0 shall provide support for the creation of world-class infrastructure along with common facilities and amenities, including Ready Built Factory (RBF) sheds / Plug and Play facilities for attracting major global electronics manufacturers, along with their supply chains.