28.02.20 Chhattisgarh (CGPCS) Daily Current Affairs

CHHATTISGARH

Chhattisgarh dairy federation plans to launch new products

 

Enthused by the increase in sale of milk this year, the Chhattisgarh State Cooperative Dairy Federation is drawing up ambitious plans, including launch of new products and tapping e-commerce opportunities, that would benefit the dairy farmers associated with the primary milk cooperative societies across the state.

More than 42,000 dairy farmers, associated 990 primary milk cooperatives located in rural and remote villages supply about 85,000 litres of milk daily.

 

Moreover, three new mobile sale centres (mobile vans) have also been started to make milk products available to rural customers, he said, adding that the federation has begun exploring tie-up with food aggregators and e-commerce companies to boost sale of its products.

The number of milk parlours set up in 2018-19 was 183, which has increased to 191 in 2019-20. Referring to expansion plans, Dugga said new plants have been set up at the main dairy plant with the funds received from various schemes of the central government. After the renovation of the plant, the capacity of the main dairy plant has increased from one lakh litres per day to 1.30 lakh litres per day.

INTERNATIONAL

3, 000 kilometre long power grid from Myanmar-Thailand to India: BIMSTEC

 

Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) is working on connecting about 3,000-kilometre long power grid from Myanmar-Thailand to India.

This was announced by the Energy Adviser to the Prime Minister of Bangladesh Dr Tawfiq-E-Elahi Chowdhury while inaugurating the energy conference of BIMSTEC in Dhaka.

The grid connectivity would ensure better capacity utilization by complementing member country’s demand and supply situation.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) are interested in investing in BIMSTEC regional power grid.

BIMSTEC countries had signed a Memorandum of Understanding for establishing a regional power grid in 2018.

BIMSTEC is a regional grouping with seven countries from South and Southeast Asia including Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand , Nepal and Bhutan.

 

NATIONAL

National Science Day 2020: 28 February

National Science Day (NSD) is observed every year on February 28.

On this day President Ram Nath Kovind will present several awards for science communication and popularization as well as for women scientists.

The theme of this day is ‘women in science’.

NSD is celebrated every year on 28 February to commemorate the discovery of the ‘Raman Effect’.

On this day, Sir C.V. Raman announced the discovery of the ‘Raman Effect’ for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1930.

The Government of India designated 28 February as National Science Day (NSD) in 1986.

 

International Conference on Standardisation of AYUSH Terminologies ‘ICoSDiTAUS-2020’ concludes in Delhi

 

ICoSDiTAUS-2020, the two-day International Conference on Standardisation of Diagnosis and Terminologies in Ayurveda, Unani and Siddha Systems of Medicine concluded in New Delhi.

It concluded with adopting the “New Delhi Declaration on Collection and Classification of Traditional Medicine (TM) Diagnostic Data”.

The sixteen countries came together for the cause of Traditional Medicine at this conference.

ICoSDiTAUS-2020 is the biggest ever international event dedicated to standardisation of Diagnosis and Terminologies of Traditional Medicine in terms of the broad level of participation covering virtually all the continents.

The New Delhi declaration emphasised the commitment of the countries to Traditional Medicine as a significant area of health care.

NTPC, CPCB to set up 25 CAAQMS in States and UTs

 

NTPC Limited has agreed to help the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) to set up 25 Continuous ambient air quality monitoring stations (CAAQMS) across six States and three Union Territories (UTs) in India.

 

As per the agreement, NTPC will provide financial support of Rs.80 crore for the installation of CAAQMS in the States and Union Territories.

The six states are Gwalior in Madhya Pradesh, Ranchi in Jharkhand, Patna in Bihar, Varanasi, Lucknow, Kanpur, and Allahabad all in Uttar Pradesh, Pimpri-Chinchwad in Maharashtra and Madurai in Tamil Nadu.

 

The 3 UTs where the CAAQMS will be installed are Port Blair in Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Silvassa in Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman in Daman & Diu.

 

 

Cabinet approved the 2020 Surrogacy Regulation Bill

 

The Union Cabinet approved the Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2020, on 26 February. The Bill will allow widows and divorced women to be surrogate mothers. The Bill has incorporated all recommendations made by the Rajya Sabha Select Committee.
The amended Bill is the reformed version of the draft legislation, which was passed by Lok Sabha in August 2019.

 

The Bill aims to ensure effective regulation of the surrogacy service. It bans commercial surrogacy and allow altruistic surrogacy.

 

Bill provisions:

 

The Bill aims to ensure effective regulation of the surrogacy service. 

The Bill has now proposed that the surrogate mother should be a “willing” woman. Earlier it was termed and instructed as “close relative.” The Bill has recommended that not only close relatives but any woman, whether she is a widow or divorcee, who is “willing” should be allowed to act as a surrogate mother.

The Bill stated that only Indian couples (both partners being of Indian origins) could opt for surrogacy in the country.

The Cabinet decided that the insurance cover of the surrogate mother, which was proposed for 16 months, should be increased to 36 months.

As per the Bill, National Surrogacy Board at the central level and State Surrogacy Board and appropriate authorities in states and Union Territories (UT) respectively, will be established to regulate surrogacy.

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