Five X Five current affairs 3 august
Five X Five current affairs 3 august
Five X Five current affairs 3 august
(1)Gati Shakti Vishwavidyalaya, a multi-disciplinary and multi-dimensional institute, would be the first central university after rollout of the National Education Policy.
The plan is to unify different departments to create a new infrastructure where various transport sector elements — railways, road, waterways, aviation and port along with information and technology — will coordinate with each other on the platform of Gati Shakti Mission.
(2) A Nagar Van-Udyan is a forested area in the vicinity of a city accessible to the city dwellers suitably managed for providing wholesome natural environment for recreation, conservation education, biodiversity conservation and supported services like water and soil conservation, pollution abatement, reduction of heat islands effect of the city with the essential elements for regular use
To create 400 Urban Forest and 200 Nagar Vatikas in at least 20 hectares of Land in the urban areas in the next five years (2020-2025) (on existing forest land or any other vacant land by Urban local bodies)
About:Launched in 2020 ,Van will be maintained By State Government ,Funding: CAMPA Fund (under Compensatory Afforestation Fund Act 2016) Minister of State for Environment, Forest & Climate Change Warje Urban Forest in Pune (Maharashtra) will be considered a role model for the Scheme.
(3)The Revised Budgetary Allocation of F.Y 2021-22 for 'Saksham Anganwadi and Poshan 2.0' is 11.71% more than the Revised Budget Allocation for the Financial Year 2020-21.
The estimated number of underweight, malnourished and severely malnourished children under 5 years of age is obtained under National Family Health Survey (NFHS) conducted by the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare.
As per the recent report of NFHS-5 (2019-21), the nutrition indicators for children under 5 years have improved as compared with NFHS-4 (2015-16). Stunting has reduced from 38.4% to 35.5%, while Wasting has reduced from 21.0% to 19.3% and Underweight prevalence has reduced from 35.8% to 32.1%.
(4) A weapon of mass destruction is a nuclear, radiological, chemical, biological, or other device that is intended to harm a large number of people. The Department of Homeland Security works every day to prevent terrorists and other threat actors from using these weapons to harm Americans.
Parliament passed a bill (The Weapons of Mass Destruction and their Delivery Systems (Prohibition of Unlawful Activities) Amendment Bill, 2022 )which seeks to ban funding of weapons of mass destruction and also empowers the Centre to freeze, seize or attach financial assets and economic resources of people engaged in such activities.
The previous act, the Weapons of Mass Destruction and their Delivery Systems (Prohibition of Unlawful Activities) Act, passed in 2005, only banned the manufacture of weapons of mass destruction.
Key Amendments:
Section 12A:The amendment bill seeks to insert a new Section 12A in the existing law which states that “no person shall finance any activity which is prohibited under this Act, or under the United Nations (Security Council) Act, 1947 or any other relevant Act for the time being in force, or by an order issued under any such Act, in relation to weapons of mass destruction and their delivery systems.”
Prevent financing of such activities:
To prevent persons from financing such activities, the central government may freeze, seize or attach funds, financial assets, or economic resources (whether