Daily Current Affairs Quiz: March 27, 2025

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The Government of India extended the Employees’ State Insurance (ESI) Scheme to 15 more districts in Uttar Pradesh. Now, 74 out of 75 districts in Uttar Pradesh are covered under the scheme. The total number of districts covered under the ESI scheme in India is 689 out of 778. Newly covered districts include Ambedkar Nagar, Bahraich, Gonda, Jalaun, Kannauj, and others. ESI Scheme is India’s largest social insurance scheme, administered by Employees’ State Insurance Corporation (ESIC). It was launched by Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru in Kanpur and New Delhi on 24 February 1952.

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The National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 highlights the need for universal, high-quality Early Childhood Education and multilingualism in primary education. To achieve this, the Department of School Education & Literacy (DoSE&L), Ministry of Education, launched the “Baalpan ki Kavita” initiative. This initiative aims to create a collection of nursery rhymes and poems in all Bhartiya Bhasha and English. The focus is on Indian cultural relevance to enhance learning at the foundational stage. It helps children understand their surroundings better through joyful and easily understandable poems in their mother tongue.

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Karnataka Forest Department will ‘soft release’ captured elephants into Bhadra Wildlife Sanctuary to reduce human-elephant conflicts in Hassan, Chikkamagaluru, and Kodagu. Bhadra Wildlife Sanctuary is located in Chikkamagaluru and Shivamogga districts of Karnataka. It is named after the Bhadra River, which flows through the sanctuary. Declared a Wildlife Sanctuary in 1951 and became a Project Tiger Reserve in 1998. It was the first tiger reserve in India to complete a village relocation program by 2002.

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Sunil Kumar won India’s first medal at the 2025 Senior Asian Wrestling Championship in Amman, Jordan, securing a bronze in the 87kg Greco-Roman category. He defeated China’s Jiaxin Huang 3-1 after an initial 10-1 win over Tajikistan’s Sukhrob AbdulKhaev but lost the semifinal to Iran’s Yasin Ali Yazdi. This is Sunil’s fifth senior Asian Championship medal, including a 2020 gold, 2019 silver, and bronze in 2022 and 2023.

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On 19th March 2025, the Ministry of Labour & Employment launched India’s Social Protection Data Pooling Exercise with State Governments and the International Labour Organization (ILO). In Phase 1, 10 states, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka, and Gujarat, were selected for data consolidation. The initiative integrates 34 major social protection schemes using encrypted Aadhaar, processing over 200 crore records. Social protection coverage doubled from 24.4% in 2021 to 48.8% in 2024, benefiting 65% of India’s population. The exercise aims to optimize welfare spending, enhance financial sustainability, and strengthen India’s global social security negotiations.