Daily Current Affairs Quiz: January 07 2023

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• National Single Window System, NSWS Portal for various Central, State, and UT clearances has hit a new milestone by crossing 75 thousand approvals.

About National Single Window System (NSWS):

• The National Single Window System (NSWS) is a digital platform to guide you in identifying and applying for approvals according to your business requirements.
• The portal hosts applications for approvals from 26 Central Departments and 19 State Governments.These approvals can be applied through NSWS.
• NSWS is providing a single interface to apply for all G2B clearances from various Ministries and Departmentsas well as eliminating duplication of work by auto-populating form fields across different approvals based on single investor profile.
• The platform is built to serve as an advisory tool to identify approvals based on user input and is to be used for guidance purpose only.
• The NSWS initiative is an epitome of the ‘Whole of Government’ approachwith different Central ministries/departments, states and UTs coming together to facilitate investor related clearances on a single portal, with transparency and accountability, enhancing ease of doing business exponentially.

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• Youth Affairs and Sports Minister Anurag Singh Thakur will launch the themes of the Y20 summit, logo, and website in New Delhi on January 6 in the curtain raiser event of Y20 Summit India.

About Y20 Summit:

• The Y20 is the official youth engagement group for the G20 (Group of 20), the forum for the world’s largest and most advanced economies.
• The Y20 is a process which brings together young leaders from across the globe, to discuss and debate global challenges and agree policy recommendations they would like to see G20 leaders take forward.
• The list of policy recommendations is known as a communiqué, which is announced publicly at the Y20 Summit and presented to world leaders as part of the official G20 summit.
• India is hosting the Y20 summit for the first time.
• In Youth 20 Engagement Group, India’s key focus is to bring young leaders from all across the globe together and discuss ideas for a better tomorrow and draft an agenda for action.
• The activities to be undertaken by Y20 during India’s presidency will focus on global youth leadership and partnership.
• In a run-up to the final Youth-20 Summit, for the next eight months, there will be Pre summits on the five Y20 themes along with various discussions and seminars at different Universities across the country.

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• The first-of-its-kind inclusive festival in India, ‘Purple Fest: Celebrating Diversity’ is set to begin on January 6, 2023 in Goa.

About Purple Fest:

• It aims to showcase how we can come together to create a welcoming and inclusive world for everyone.
• It is aimed at furthering the spirit of inclusion, the Purple Fest will feature a variety of exciting live performances, sporting events, grand exhibitions, immersive experience zones, accessible movie screenings, & discussions on vital subjects like inclusive education, tourism, employment, & independent living.
• Who is organising Purple Fest?
  • The Purple Fest will be hosted by the Goa State Commission for Persons with Disabilities in association with the Directorate of Social Welfare and Entertainment Society of Goa.
• When is Purple Fest Goa?
  • Purple Fest Goa will be held from January 6-8, 2023, in Panjim, Goa.

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• Prime Minister Narendra Modi is recently chaired the national conference of Chief Secretaries in New Delhi.

About National Conference of Chief Secretaries:

• The three-day conference of Chief Secretaries began on January 5, 202
• The conference is focused on achieving rapid and sustained economic growth in partnership with the States.
• It will lay the ground for collaborative action for achieving a Viksit Bharat with a thrust on growth and job creation and inclusive human development.
• It will be another key step towards further boosting the partnership between the Centre and the State Governments.
• The discussion during the conference will be held on six identified themes.
• These are Thrust on MSMEs, Infrastructure, and Investments, Minimising Compliances, Women’s Empowerment, Health and Nutrition, and Skill Development.
• The first such conference of Chief Secretaries was held in Dharamshala in June 2022.

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• Recently, The Assam Cabinet approved the construction of elephant underpasses in 7 jumbo corridors between Azara and Kamakhya railway stations along the boundary of Deepor Beel.

About Deepor Beel:

• Deepor Beel is a permanent freshwater lake and also a bird sanctuary in Kamrup district, Assam.
• It is a riverine wetland, lying in a former channel of the Brahmaputra River, it lies to the south of the main river channel.
• It was designated as a Ramsar site in 2002 for sustaining a range of aquatic life forms besides 219 species of birds and it is the only Ramsar site in Assam.
• This lake is a staging site on migratory flyways and some of the largest concentrations of aquatic birds in Assam can be seen, especially in winter.
• Some globally threatened birds are supported, including Spot-billed Pelican, Lesser Greater Adjutant Stork  and Baer’s Pochard.
• The 50 fish species present provide livelihoods for many surrounding villages, and nymphaea nuts and flowers, as well as ornamental fish, medicinal plants, and seeds of the Giant water lily Euryale Ferox, provide major revenue sources in local markets.
• In 2021, the Environment Ministry notified it as an Eco-sensitive zone.

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• After directions from the Ministry of Rural Development, the attendance of all MGNREGA workers in Kangra district is marked online from January 1.
• This will ensure transparency and check fake muster rolls being prepared manually by panchayat pradhans or ward members in the gram panchayats.
• Authorities of the Department of Rural Development had received many complaints that village pradhans were creating forged muster rolls (attendance papers) to please their favourites.
• As per information, the Ministry of Rural Development had initially made it mandatory that the attendance of all MGNREGA works involving more than 20 workers to be marked online a year ago. Following its success, the online attendance system has been introduced for all community works to be carried out in the rural areas involving any number of workers.
• The online attendance scheme has been implemented in the state to check the practice of forged manual attendance of workers in the muster rolls.
• The online attendance of every MGNREGA worker is being marked through the National Mobile Monitoring Software (NMMS) by the elected ward member or other representative of the respective gram panchayat. The attendance is being marked twice on a working day.
• Sonu Goyal, project officer, District Rural Development Agency (DRDA), Kangra, said the online attendance of every MGNREGA worker in community works in rural areas had become mandatory now and added this system had been introduced in the district.
• He asserted that the online attendance of workers would ensure transparency and ensure that only genuine MGNREGA workers get their names registered on muster rolls.

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• Post-monsoon seasonal rainfall was deficient in Himachal last year, as per a report of the Indian Meteorological Department.
• According to the data, the state received 63.9 mm of rainfall during the post-monsoon period in 2022 against its normal 82.9 mm with 23 per cent departure.
• Actual rainfall in October, November and December was 38.2 mm, 19.5 mm and 6.4 mm, respectively. However, no extreme weather events were recorded.
• A spell of 5.1 cm snowfall was reported at Hansa in Lahaul-Spiti district on October 10 while Hamirpur, Bilaspur and Una districts were hit by a cold wave at isolated pockets. Mandi and Una districts witnessed fog, mainly during morning hours.

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