Daily CURRENT AFFAIRS

Daily Current Affair - UPSC/KAS Exams - 2nd Feb 2022

NEWS

Success of Andra Pradesh’s CLAP scheme is being discussed

DETAILS

What is the full form - Clean Andhra Pradesh (CLAP)-Jagananna Swachha Sankalpam programme

When was it launched – October 2021

What it aims at –

• Clean up rural areas
• Improve sanitation conditions and waste management
• Increase public participation.

What are the objectives –

• Door-to-door collection of garbage
• Segregation of liquid and solid waste
• Onsite waste treatment
• Encouraging home composting
• Make the rural areas free of open defecation( over 13,000 sarpanches have been “strictly instructed” to lead the Open Defecation Free (ODF) campaign)
• A more complex project involves treatment of sewage water at 582 locations across the state using soil bio-technology treatment, wetland treatment, and waste stabilisation ponds.

Additional Information

What is an ODF plus village - a village which sustains its ODF status, ensures solid and liquid waste management and is visually clean.

NEWS

Union Budget 2022-23 provided for a new scheme, Prime Minister’s Development Initiative for North East (PM-DevINE) will be implemented through the North-Eastern Council.

DETAILS

• It will fund infrastructure, in the spirit of PM GatiShakti, and social development projects based on felt needs of the northeast.
• This will enable livelihood activities for youth and women, filling the gaps in various sectors.
• While the Central Ministries may also pose their candidate projects, priority will be given to those posed by the States.

“To define the term “virtual digital asset”, a new clause (47A) is proposed to be inserted to section 2 of the Finance Bill.

As per the proposed new clause, a virtual digital asset

• Mean any information or code or number or token (not being Indian currency or any foreign currency)
• Generated through cryptographic means or otherwise, by whatever name called
• Providing a digital representation of value which is exchanged with or without consideration
• With the promise or representation of having inherent value
• Functions as a store of value or a unit of account and includes its use in any financial transaction or investment
• Not limited to, investment schemes and can be transferred, stored or traded electronically.

Non fungible token and; any other token of similar nature are included in the definition.”

NEWS

PM extends best wishes to Indian Coast Guard family on their Raising Day

INDIAN COAST GUARD DAY

• WHEN - 1 February annually
• 2022 - 46^th Year celebration

About ICG

• Fourth largest Coast Guard in the world
• Operates under the Ministry of Defence
• HQ : New Delhi
• Protects India’s maritime interests and enforces maritime law
• Responsible for marine environment protection in maritime zones of India
• Coordinating authority for response to oil spills in Indian waters
• Has jurisdiction over the territorial waters of India, including its contiguous zone and exclusive economic zone.

NEWS

Amnesty International labelled Israel an “apartheid” state that treats Palestinians as “an inferior racial group,” joining the assessment of other rights groups which the Jewish state vehemently rejects.

DETAILS

What is Apartheid - System of institutionalized racial segregation

Where was Apartheid seen first - 

• Existed in South Africa and South West Africa (Present day Namibia) from 1948.
• Characterised by the authoritarian political culture on the basis of white supremacy.
• Culture of white supremacy ensured that the country was dominated politically, socially, and economically by minority white population of the country.

Why Israel gets the tag -  Israel had occupied the West Bank region

Israel-Palestine Conflict

• Establishment of Palestine as the national home of Jews by the Balfour declaration created tension in the region between the Jews and the Arabs.
• Conflict widened after the 1947-1949 Palestine war. It further increased after Israeli military occupation of Palestinian territories in 1967 after a six-day war.
• The United Nations has called for “Two State Solution” to end the Israel-Palestine conflicts.

Balfour Declaration

• Public statement made by the British Government during the first World War.
• British extended its support for the establishment of a national home for Jewish people in Palestine.
• Founding document of Mandatory Palestine that later became Israel and Palestine.
• Considered as the principal cause of the ongoing Israeli-Palestine conflict.

• Project Management Institute (PMI), a not-for-profit global organisation that offers courses and certifications for project managers, has launched a portal to connect professionals with organisations looking for project management talent called ‘Career Connect’
• Lt Gen Manoj Pande takes over as vice chief of the army staff
• Japan’s parliament passed a rare resolution expressing concern about rights issues in China, including the treatment of its Uighur Muslim population and the city of Hong Kong, days before the Beijing Olympics open. The wording of the resolution proposed by a bipartisan group was reportedly watered down after lengthy discussions, avoiding directly accusing Beijing of rights abuses.