1. Nagaland decided to grant 33 percent women reservation in urban local bodies announced by the CM TR Zeliang during state level watershed conference held in Kohima.
2. Odisha Government to make Adhar card mandatory for the procurement of paddy under National Food Security Scheme and work under MGNREGA.
3. India’s first touch-and-feel garden for visually impaired has been inaugurated by the Kerala Assembly Speaker P Sreeramakrishnan on the Calicut University campus in Thenjipalam, Kerala.
-The garden with nearly 6 dozen aromatic plants will provide the visually impaired a unique opportunity of learning.
-They can study the plants not only by touching, feeling, smelling and tasting them, but also through audio inputs to get complete information about them.
4. India’s first facility to produce nickel, a metal for which India is completely dependent on imports, has been launched by the Hindustan Copper Limited (HCL) at its Indian Copper Complex (ICC) at Ghatshila in Jharkhand.
-The new facility “Nickel, Copper and Acid Recovery Plant” is the first facility in India to produce nickel metal of London Metal Exchange (LME) grade from primary resource.
-The annual demand for pure nickel in India is around 45,000 MT and its domestic market is totally dependent on import.
5.Pradeep Kumar Sinha committee - NCTF
-The Union Government has constituted a National Committee on Trade Facilitation (NCTF) under the Chairmanship Pradeep Kumar Sinha, who is the Cabinet Secretary of India, to develop the pan-India road map for trade facilitation.
-The NCTF has been constituted in line with the World Trade Organisation (WTO) pact in April 2016 on Trade Facilitation Agreement (FTA), which India also ratified.
-The committee will facilitate domestic coordination and implementation of the TFA provisions.
-It will also synergise the various trade facilitation perspectives across the country and focus on an outreach programme for sensitization of stakeholders about it.
2. Odisha Government to make Adhar card mandatory for the procurement of paddy under National Food Security Scheme and work under MGNREGA.
3. India’s first touch-and-feel garden for visually impaired has been inaugurated by the Kerala Assembly Speaker P Sreeramakrishnan on the Calicut University campus in Thenjipalam, Kerala.
-The garden with nearly 6 dozen aromatic plants will provide the visually impaired a unique opportunity of learning.
-They can study the plants not only by touching, feeling, smelling and tasting them, but also through audio inputs to get complete information about them.
4. India’s first facility to produce nickel, a metal for which India is completely dependent on imports, has been launched by the Hindustan Copper Limited (HCL) at its Indian Copper Complex (ICC) at Ghatshila in Jharkhand.
-The new facility “Nickel, Copper and Acid Recovery Plant” is the first facility in India to produce nickel metal of London Metal Exchange (LME) grade from primary resource.
-The annual demand for pure nickel in India is around 45,000 MT and its domestic market is totally dependent on import.
5.Pradeep Kumar Sinha committee - NCTF
-The Union Government has constituted a National Committee on Trade Facilitation (NCTF) under the Chairmanship Pradeep Kumar Sinha, who is the Cabinet Secretary of India, to develop the pan-India road map for trade facilitation.
-The NCTF has been constituted in line with the World Trade Organisation (WTO) pact in April 2016 on Trade Facilitation Agreement (FTA), which India also ratified.
-The committee will facilitate domestic coordination and implementation of the TFA provisions.
-It will also synergise the various trade facilitation perspectives across the country and focus on an outreach programme for sensitization of stakeholders about it.
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