Current Affairs Quiz - April, 2021

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The Government of India has announced scholarships to 2000 descendants of the Liberation War fighters of Bangladesh under its new Muktijoddha Scholarship scheme, which was announced it 2017.
The scheme aims to benefit 10,000 students from Bangladesh over a period of five years. This year, 1000 students each from the Higher Secondary and Undergraduate categories have been given as scholarship directly in their account.

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In the state of Telengana, India’s largest floating solar power plant is proposed to be set up with a generation capacity of 100MW. The unit is coming up in Ramagundam.
The project is being commissioned by National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) at an estimated cost of Rs.423 crore with 4.5 lakh photovoltaic panels.

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The Tribal Co-operative Marketing Federation of India (TRIFED) under the Union Ministry of Tribal Affairs has recently launched “Sankalp se Siddhi” – Village & Digital Connect Drive. This drive has commenced on April 1, 2021.
This is a 100-day drive that would include participation of 150 teams and would cover 1500 villages of the country. The main aim of this drive is to activate the van dhan kendras of these villages.

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The Uttar Pradesh Cabinet has approved the Uttar Pradesh Regulation of Urban Premises Tenancy (second) Ordinance 2021.
It aims to reduce tenancy disputes as it makes signing of contract compulsory to rent out a property. There is no clear mechanism for conflict resolution under the present law. It was promulgated and implemented in the state of January 2021.

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The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has revised its global merchandise trade volume growth in 2021 and 2022 to 8 per cent and 4 percent respectively.
Earlier in October 2020, WTO has predicted 7.2 per cent growth. The slow down of 4 per cent in 2022 is due to the continued effects of pandemic. The report also highlighted that much of global import demand will be met by Asia.

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The Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare – Dr Harsh Vardhan has launched the Integrated Health Information Platform (IHIP) in a virtual mode, recently.
This platform is capable of tracking 33 diseases as compared to 18 diseases in the earlier version of the platform. The new version of IHIP will house the data entry and management for India’s disease surveillance program.

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Meghalaya’s Assembly Committee on Women Empowerment has said that three out of every 1,000 pregnant women test positive for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
The panel headed by Ampareen Lyngdoh has also sought a scheme to rehabilitate commercial sex workers in the state. The increase in HIV cases observed in the state is increasing at an alarming rate.

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The Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Narendra Singh Tomar has launched the Madhukranti portal developed by the National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation, NAFED at New Delhi.
This is an online registration platform to achieve a traceability source of Honey and bring various bee hive products on a digital platform.

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The Union Ministry of Food Processing Industries and the Ministry of Rural Development has agreed to converge for successful implementation of Pradhan Mantri Formalization of Micro Food Processing Enterprises Scheme.
Under the convergence, MoFPI and DAY NRLM (Ministry of Rural Development) agreed to work together on implementation of PM-FME to support Self Help Groups (SHGs) in food processing.

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The Reserve Bank of India has revised and modified its inflation-forecasting model. This has been done to better capture the relationship between monetary policy and real economic elements.
fiscal-monetary dynamics, fuel pricing, exchange-rate fluctuations etc have been incorporated in the revised model to adjust inflation. This is termed as the Quarterly Projection Model 2.0.