23.10.21 Daily [Madhya Pradesh] MPPSC Current Affairs

The State Cabinet here decided to give subsidy of over Rs 20,000 crore in electricity rates to domestic and agricultural consumers for the financial year 2021-22.

In the scheme implemented for domestic consumers, a maximum bill of Rs 100 up to the first 100 units on monthly consumption of up to 150 units, and for the BPL domestic consumers of SC and ST, the provision of charging Rs 100 in 4 months at the rate of only Rs 25 per month from domestic consumers, whose monthly consumption is 30 units, has been continued this year as well. A subsidy of Rs 4981.69 crore has been approved under the Griha Jyoti Yojana.

The Cabinet has also decided to provide relief in electricity rates to the agricultural consumer category. In this, a flat rate of Rs 750 per horsepower per year will be payable to the consumers of meterless permanent agricultural pump of capacity up to 10 horsepower. The remaining amount will be payable by the as subsidy. For this, a subsidy of Rs 9876 crore will be provided by the state government to the distribution companies. About 21 lakh 75 thousand agricultural pump consumers of the state will be benefited by this decision.

New rules will also ease the financial Stress of various stakeholders.

It will also ensure timely recovery of costs incurred in the electricity generation.

It will promote clean energy for ensuring the suitability and meet commitment made by India towards <a href="https://exam.pscnotes.com/Climate-change”>Climate Change.

New rules will help in achieving the goal of RE generation. Rules will also help in ensuring that the consumers get green and clean power. They will also secure a healthy Environment for future generation.

Offshore Sailing Regatta is being conducted from Kochi to Goa.

In the event, Six Indian Naval Sailing Vessels namely, Tarini, Mhadei, Neelkanth, Bulbul, Kadal Pura and Hariyal will participate.

The race is scheduled to start from 24th October and will run for a tentative duration of five days.

Sailing vessels would cover an approximate distance of 360 nautical miles between Kochi to Goa.

Hypersonic Missile Technology is a new weapons system which is already being deployed by Russia and China.

The test was conducted at a NASA facility in Wallops, Virginia.

It is a significant step in development of a Navy-designed common hypersonic missile.

This test by US demonstrated advanced hypersonic technologies, prototype systems and capabilities in a realistic operating Environment.

Hypersonic missiles such as traditional ballistic missiles can fly at five times the speed of Sound that is, Mach 5.

These missiles are more manoeuvrable as compared to their ballistic counterparts.

The report notes that, Child sexual abuse is a chronically underfunded issue.

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, cases of child sexual exploitation and abuse online have increased.

In the last two years, reporting of child sexual exploitation and online abuse cases has reached its highest level.

According to The Internet Watch Foundation, there is an increase of 77% in child self-generated sexual material in between 2019 to 2020. Such instances arose without any apparent external cause.

As per report, currently, 37% children use tools to detect online grooming.

China passed its New Education Law on October 23, 2021 with the aim of cutting the twin pressures of homework and off-site tutoring in the core subjects.

This law is new, in series of Chinas assertive paternal hand in the year 2021. China took several assertive moves ranging from:

Tackling addiction of youngsters to online games,

Deemed a form of spiritual opium

Clamp down on blind worship of Internet celebrities.

On October 18, 2021, Parliament of China noted that, it will consider legislation for punishing parents if their young children exhibit bad behaviour or commit crimes.

Bangladesh has planned to present its Climate prosperity plan at the upcoming United Nations climate talks in Glasgow.

Climate prosperity plan will be presented with the aim of mitigating the effects of on Economic Development.

This plan will also visualise boosting the RENEWABLE ENERGY.

It will make <a href="https://exam.pscnotes.com/Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture more resistant to climate shocks.

The plan also seeks to find solutions in nature to challenges created by global warming, like restoring.