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Vision Ias Monthly Current Affair July 2020
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Table of Contents
1. POLITY AND GOVERNANCE _____________4 1.1. India’s Second Voluntary National Review (VNR) __________________________________4 1.2. The Consumer Protection Act,2019_______6 1.3. Issue of Local Reservation in Private Sector Jobs ___________________________________8 2. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS __________ 10 2.1. India-E.U. Relations __________________10 2.2. Chabahar – Zahedan Railway Line _______11 2.3. United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) __________________________13 3. ECONOMY _________________________ 16 3.1. Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) 2020 ______________________________________16 3.2. Private Participation in Railways________18 3.3. Privatising Discoms __________________19 3.4. Affordable Housing __________________21 3.5. Special Liquidity Scheme for NBFCs and HFCs ______________________________________23 3.6. Financing of MSME Sector _____________26 3.7. Unified Gas Price System ______________27 3.8. Bundling Scheme for Round-the-clock (RTC) Power Supply___________________________28 3.9. Model Concession Agreement for BOT Model ______________________________________29 3.10. National Land Management Corporation 30 4. SECURITY__________________________ 32 4.1. Militarization of Andaman and Nicobar Islands ________________________________32 4.2. Non-Personal Data ___________________33 4.3. Space Warfare ______________________35 5. ENVIRONMENT _____________________ 38 5.1. Draft Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), 2020 __________________________________38 5.2. COVID-19 and Its Impact on Environment and Climate Change Efforts ___________________40 5.3. Decarbonising Transport ______________42 5.4. Agricultural Emissions in India__________44 5.5. Methane Emissions __________________46
5.6. E-waste ____________________________48 5.7. Marine Plastic Pollution_______________49 5.8. Sustainable Ocean Economy for 2050 Report ______________________________________51 5.9. Cooling Emissions and Policy Synthesis Report ________________________________53 5.10. Virtual Water ______________________54 5.11. Watershed Development_____________55 5.12. Hydropower Projects in Northeast _____56 5.13. Tiger Status Report 2018 _____________58 6. SOCIAL ISSUES ______________________60 6.1. New Education Policy 2020 ____________60 6.1.1. School Education ____________________ 60 6.1.2. Higher Education ____________________ 63 6.1.3. Other Major Provisions________________ 65 6.1.4. Analysis of New Education Policy-2020 ___ 65 6.2. Role of ASHAs During Pandemic ________67 6.3. Lancet Study on Population Trends______69 6.4. State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2020 ____________________________70 7. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY____________72 7.1. Nano Technology in Agriculture ________72 7.2. Accelerate Vigyan____________________73 8. CULTURE ___________________________74 8.1. Gurjara-Pratiharas ___________________74 9. ETHICS _____________________________75 9.1. Social and Emotional Learning__________75 10. SCHEMES IN NEWS __________________78 10.1. Schemes for Medical Devices _________78 11. NEWS IN SHORT ____________________79 11.1. States to be Ranked on Financial Management Index (FMI) for Rural Development ___________ 79 11.2. AIM iCREST _________________________ 79 11.3. Capital Procurement Powers to Armed Forces _______________________________________ 79 11.4. Operation Samudra Setu _______________ 79 11.5. Fish Cryobanks_______________________ 79 11.6. Central Zoo Authority Reconstituted______ 80 11.7. Protected Areas – Dehing Patkai _________ 80 11.8. KAZI 106F___________________________ 80 11.9. Black Panther________________________ 81 11.10. Germany to Become First Major Economy to Phase Out Coal, Nuclear Power ______________ 81
11.11. Pied Cuckoo to be Tracked in Migration, Climate Change Study ______________________81 11.12. New Human Fingerprint on Global Drought Patterns _________________________________81 11.13. Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) Launches KRCNet and Mobile App “Mausam” ___________82 11.14. Initiatives for Energy Efficiency & Promoting emobility Launched _________________________82 11.15. Subhash Chandra Bose Aapda Prabandhan Puraskar _________________________________82 11.16. YuWaah____________________________82 11.17. Aatamanirbhar Skilled Employee-Employer Mapping (ASEEM) Portal ____________________82 11.18. Himachal Pradesh: First State with 100% LPG Connections ______________________________82 11.19. Lead Poisoning in children _____________82 11.20. Human Growth Hormone (hGH)_________83 11.21. Winter Diesel _______________________83 11.22. BlackRock Android Malware ____________83
11.23. Latent Viral Infection (LVI)_____________ 83 11.24. BelYo _____________________________ 83 11.25. Yellow Fever _______________________ 83 11.26. Mars Missions ______________________ 84 11.27. Asteroid 2020 ND ___________________ 84 11.28. India’s First In-orbit Space Debris Monitoring and Tracking System_______________________ 84 11.29. Siddi Community ____________________ 84 11.30. Kashmir Saffron gets Geographical Indication (GI) Certificate ___________________________ 85 11.31. Indigenous Mango Heritage Area _______ 85 11.32. Hagia Sophia, Turkey _________________ 85 11.33. Gandhi-King Scholarly Exchange Initiative Bill _______________________________________ 85 11.34. Mahalanobis Award__________________ 85 12. APPENDIX _________________________86 12.1. Status Report________________________ 86 12.2. Good Practices in Localising SDGs ________ 97
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