Daily Current Affairs Quiz : December 24, 2021

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The Indian government launched “National Oxygen Stewardship Programme” to train health care workers in rational utilisation of medical oxygen to prevent wastage.
Under the Programme, at least one oxygen steward will be identified and trained in each district across the country, as per the Union health ministry. OxyCare, a dashboard to publish information on the oxygen stock, was also set up.

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Atal Innovation Mission, NITI Aayog launched the Vernacular Innovation Program which enables entrepreneurs to have access to innovative ecosystem in 22 mother tongue languages.
Atal Innovation Mission will train a Vernacular Task Force in each of the 22 scheduled languages. Each task force includes vernacular language teachers, subject experts,  technical writers, and the leadership of regional Atal Incubation Centres.

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Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar has released the book titled Spices Statistics at a Glance 2021’.
It includes all statistics like area, production, productivity, export, import, price and value of output. The book has been published by the Directorate of Arecanut and Spices Development. Spices production in the Country has grown from over 67 lakh tonnes in 2014-15 to over 106 lakh tonnes in 2020-21 with an annual growth rate of 7.9 percent.

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The fixation of Minimum Support Price (MSP) is based on recommendations of the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP). It assures a minimum of 50 percent as margin of profit for farmers.
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has given approval to increase the minimum support price (MSP) of milling copra by Rs 255 per quintal and ball copra by Rs 400 per quintal.

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Myanmar, earlier known as Burma, is the world’s biggest source of jade. It is a green-coloured mineral used in jewellery.
Recently, after a jade mine in Myanmar was hit by a landslide, over 100 people are feared missing and one person is confirmed dead. The landslide is believed to have been caused by the overflow of rubble discarded from trucks to open-pit mines.