ANSWER: A

ANSWER: C

ANSWER: A

ANSWER: C

• The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has launched the SAKSHAM:LMIS.
• It has been developed by the National Institute of Health & Family Welfare (NIHFW), New Delhi.
• Currently SAKSHAM: LMIS is hosting more than 200 public health and 100 clinical courses through online mode.
• Health professionals can register themselves for these courses on the portal and get the certification after undergoing requisite training and qualifying the required assessment criteria.
• SAKSHAM is a dedicated and unified platform for providing online training and medical education to all health professionals in the country.
• It will ensure inclusive capacity building of health professionals from primary health centres located in rural and remote areas all the way up to tertiary care and corporate hospitals in metropolitan cities.

ANSWER: A

• About 50,071 water bodies have been rejuvenated ahead of schedule against the aim of building 50,000 ‘Amrit Sarovar’ by August 2023, under the Mission Amrit Sarovar.
• Mission Amrit Sarovar was launched in 2022 with an objective to develop at least 75 Amrit Sarovar in every district of the country with a view to conserve water for the future.
• Nodal ministry– Ministry of Rural Development.
• It aims to construct or renovate the ‘Amrit Sarovar’ in such a way that they become the centre of local community activities.
• A user group is being formed for each Amrit Sarovar as there should be community ownership for their maintenance, so that their long-term conservation can be ensured.
  • So far 59,282 user groups have joined Mission Amrit Sarovar for maintaining the Sarovar and generating their livelihood from it.

ANSWER: B

• First meeting of national MSME Council held with emphasis on RAMP.

About RAMP

• It is a World Bank assisted Central Sector Scheme, supporting COVID Resilience and Recovery interventions of the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MoMSME).
• It aims at
  • Improving access to market and credit
  • Strengthening institutions and governance at the Centre and State
  • Improving Centre-State linkages and partnerships
  • Addressing issues of delayed payments and greening of MSMEs
• The total outlay for the scheme is Rs. 6,062.45 crore out of which 3750 crore would be a loan from the World Bank and the remaining Rs. 2312.45 crore would be funded by India.
• The National MSME Council has been set up to oversee inter-Central Ministerial/Departmental coordination.

ANSWER: B

• The 6th Indian Ocean Conference (IOC) is being held between May 12-13 in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
• It will discuss aspects strengthening cooperation between the countries of the Indian Ocean region.
• The 6th edition of the Conference is being organised by India Foundation in association with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Bangladesh and Rajaratnam School of International Studies.
• Theme: “Peace, Prosperity and Partnership for a Resilient Future”.
• The Conference endeavours to bring critical states and principal maritime partners of the region together on a common platform to deliberate upon the prospects of regional cooperation for Security And Growth for All in the Region (SAGAR).
• The first edition of the Conference was held in Singapore in 2016.

ANSWER: D

• Punjab has become the first state to implement the ‘right to walk’.
• Right to walk make it mandatory for all road-owning agencies, including the NHAI, to provide footpaths and cycle tracks on the road.

ANSWER: A

• Telangana has become the first state in the country to launch a state robotics framework with a vision to create a sustainable robotics ecosystem.
• It has been developed by the Emerging Technologies Wing in collaboration with the All-India Robotics Association and inputs from academia, industry experts and stakeholders.
• It focuses on leveraging robotics technology to drive growth and development across identified four key domains – agriculture, healthcare, industrial automation and consumer robotics.

ANSWER: C

• Odisha CM office recently directed officials to begin construction of the multipurpose irrigation project at Chheligada.

About Chheligada Irrigation Project

• It is a multipurpose medium project being undertaken across river Badjhore, a tributary of river Vansadhara in the Gajapati District of Odisha.
• The Project envisages the construction of a 250m long & 30m high dam across the river Badjhore with a central spillway.
• This Project will also provide drinking water to Brahampur City.

ANSWER: A

• The population of the Himalayan monal, the former state bird, has risen to 176 at the Great Himalayan National Park (GHNP), a UNESCO world heritage site, in Kullu district, revealed a survey conducted by the park authorities for 2022-23.
  • Last year, the strength of the bird was 168, while it was merely 90 in 2015-16.
• The Himalayan monal is continuously under threat from poachers because of its colourful crest, which people use to decorate their caps.
  • However, the use of the crest of the bird on the cap is prohibited under law.

About Himalayan Monal

• Himalayan monal (Lophophorus impejanus) is widely distributed from Afghanistan to northeast India.
• It is the national bird of Nepal, where it is known as the danphe or danfe.
• It is the state bird of Uttarakhand.
• IUCN status- Least Concern; CITES- Appendix 1