04.03.22 Daily [Madhya Pradesh] MPPSC Current Affairs

With the aim of re-regulating girls Education in the state, the Women and Child Development Department will launch ‘Kanya Shiksha Pravesh Utsav’campaignfrom March 7.

The mainobjectiveof the campaign is to identify and ensure re-admission of the girls in the age group of 11 to 14 years, said the officials. It is a part of theBeti Bachao-Beti Padhaocampaign.
The goal of the Beti Bachao-Beti Padhao campaign launched in the year 2015 is to celebrate the birth of the girl child and to enable her by educating her. There is also a provision to provide protein, calorie-rich take-Home ration to school-aged adolescent girls for 300 days by the Women and Child Development Department.

The survey ofAnganwadicentres is conducted every year by the department in April through which information is collected about girls in the age group of 11- 14 years, who have left school, have not taken admission in school, have taken admission once but are not going to school, or have stopped going toschoolfor some time. Take-home ration is given to such girls.

Minister of State for AYUSH (Independent Charge) Ramkishore Nano Kavre called on Union Minister of State for Food Processing and Jal Shakti Prahlad Patel in New Delhi.

Minister of State Kavre informed the Union Minister of State for Jal Shakti that approval is pending for expansion, renovation and modernization of canals in the Sanjay Sarovar project of Balaghat and Seoni districts.

He said that an action plan worth Rs 357 crore has been prepared and sent to the Central Jal Shakti Ministry earlier. Minister of State Kavre said that the wastage of water can be stopped by getting the lining work done in the Irrigation project.

Along with this, irrigation facility will be available in about 11 thousand hectares of additional land in Balaghat and Seoni districts and farmers of 300 nearby villages will be benefited.

The Ministry of Women and Child Development (MoWCD) on Wednesday launched the Stree Manoraksha Project in collaboration with NIMHANS Bengaluru with an aim to improve the mental Health of women in India.

The project would focus on building on capacity building of OSC (One-Stop Center) functionaries on the tools and techniques as to how to handle the cases of women approaching the One-Stop Centres, particularly the women who have suffered violence and distress with due sensitivity and care.

The project which has been outlined meticulously by NIMHANS based on the requirements projected by the Ministry will be imparted in two formats. One format will focus on basic training for all OSC functionaries including the security guards, cooks, helpers, caseworkers, counsellors, centre administrators, paramedical staff etc.

Indians believe Women make better political leaders and share an egalitarian vision of womens place in Society, but an overwhelming majority agrees that when there are few jobs available, men should have more rights to a job than women. These are the findings of the latest Pew Research Centre survey of nearly 30,000 adults throughout India interviewed on gender roles in families and societies.

According to the report, while 55% of Indians believed that men and women make equally good political leaders, nine-in-ten Indians agree with the notion that a wife must always obey her husband. Indian women were only slightly less likely than Indian men to agree with this sentiment (61% versus 67%). Although most Indians expressed egalitarian views on gender roles, with 62% saying that both men and women should be responsible for child care, traditional norms still held sway, with 34% convinced that child care should be handled primarily by women.

Similarly, while a slim majority (54%) says that both men and women should be responsible for earning , as many as 43% believed that earning an income is mainly the obligation of men. Also, 80% of Indians agreed with the idea that when there are few jobs, men should have more rights to a job than women.

The survey also found that Indians with a college degree were less likely to hold traditional views on gender roles, although this did not extend to all gender-related issues. So for instance, 80% of the college-educated (as compared with 88% of those with less Education) still agreed with the notion that wives must always obey their husbands.

National Safety Day is celebrated every year. The day aims to highlight the importance of following safety regulations and measures in order to avoid workplace mishaps. The motive behind celebrations of this day is to create awareness and commitment to working safely.

The National Safety Council declared the holiday to raise public awareness of all safety principles. These also include road safety, workplace safety, human Health and environmental safety.

The National Safety Council is a non-profit and self-financing organization running at the national level.

With the bang of a gavel made of recycled plastic and a standing ovation, representatives of 175 nations agreed on Wednesday to begin writing a global treaty that would restrict the explosive Growth of plastic pollution.

Theagreement commits nationsto work on a broad and legally binding treaty that would not only aim to improve recycling and clean up the worlds plastic waste, but would encompass curbs on plastics production itself. That could put measures like a ban on single-use plastics, a major driver of waste, on the table.

Under the new rules of the Canadian government, a 3% digital Services tax will be imposed on the companies with total annual revenue of at least850millionandprofitsof16 million or more from providing digital services in Canada.

It is to tax large multinational corporations (MNCs) such as Facebook, Apple, and Google which do business in Canada but pay most taxes in USA or tax-havens.

USTR has argued that this tax goes against the spirit and the text of the Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) agreement, where it was agreed that the signatories would not impose new unilateral taxes that work against the spirit of the BEPS agreement.

A day after the virtual Quad summit in which PM Narendra Modi called on the four-nation grouping to focus on its core principles, the MEA reiterated the same message on Friday. The agenda leaders signed up to is Indo-Pacific being at the core of the Quad agenda.

It is something they want to push ahead. The message is clear that all four countries are trying to take forward the agenda