Bihar Affairs
With a view to provide adequate infrastructure and other facilities, the state education department has directed the officials concerned to take stock of the physical status in higher secondary and secondary schools and create a database.
There are 9,361 higher secondary and secondary schools inBihar, out of which 2,948 middle schools have been upgraded to secondary schools to admit students from the academic session 2020-21. In these upgraded schools, a survey would be conducted for providing necessary facilities to ensure Education up to class XII.
TheBihar Education Project Councilhas also asked the district education officers (DEOs) to conduct survey and collect information from government schools on various parameters, including enrolment of students (as on September 30, 2020), — number of buildings, status, condition, number of classrooms, scope of expansion and year of construction, and availability of land among other things.
National and International Affairs
Steps for Online Education to Students
The Indian government has taken steps to provide online Education to students the information given by the Union Minister for Education.
Highlights:
PM eVIDYA: Facilitating online Learning and TEACHING materials of various types among teachers and students.
DIKSHA: It is a Digital for providing students with quality e-content for school education in states/UTs, and it has QR coded Energized Textbooks for all grades.
Swayam Prabha: Its a programme that offers TV channels for classes 1 to 12 (one channel per class).
Shiksha Vani: This includes the usage of Radio, Community radio and CBSE podcasts.
Special e-content for the visually and hearing impaired developed on Digitally Accessible Information System (DAISY) and in sign language on NIOS website/YouTube.
All the mentioned schemes/programmes are free of cost and available to all the students across the country.
Khel Ratna Award as Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award
PM Narendra Modi has announced that the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award will be renamed as the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award.
Highlights:
The pass was primarily based on the numerous requests he obtained from across the nation. Dhyan Chand, whose birthday is celebrated as National Sports Day, won three Olympic golds for India in Hockey.
The award was inaugurated in 1991-92. The Khel Ratna award comprises a medallion, a certificate, and a prize of Rs.25 lakh. The first awardee of the Khel Ratna was chess legend, Viswanathan Anand. In recent years, some of the winners include cricketer Rohit Sharma, wrestler Vinesh Phogat, womens hockey team captain Rani Rampal, amongst others.
Earth Observation Satellite Soon be Launched by ISRO
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is ready to launch an Earth Observation Satellite on 12th August.
Highlights:
The satellite is set to be launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota.
Satellite referred to as EOS-03 will be carried onboard the 14th flight of the GSLV celled GSLV-F10.
GSLV-F10 will be a satellite in the Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit.
EOS-03 will attain the remaining geostationary orbit using its onboard propulsion system.
In this GSLV flight, a 4-metre diameter Ogive-shaped payload fairing will be flown for the first time.
This will be the 14th flight of GSLV.
Anniversary of Quit India Movement – 8th August
The 79th anniversary of the August Kranti Din or Quit India Movement, which is regarded as one of the necessary milestones in the HISTORY of the freedom hostilities of our country, is being determined on eight August 2021.
Highlights:
On eighth Aug 1942, Mahatma Gandhi gave a clarion call to stop British rule and launched the Quit India Movement at the All-India Congress Committee in Mumbai.
After the failure of the Cripps Mission, Gandhiji gave the name Do or Die in his Quit India speech delivered at the Gowalia Tank Maidan in Mumbai. Grateful India is paying homage to the freedom fighters and remembering the supreme sacrifices of the martyrs during the freedom struggle.
Nagasaki Day of Japan – 9th August
Japan commemorates the ninth of August every year as Nagasaki day. On August 9, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan.
Highlights:
The bomb was code-named Fat Man due to the diagram of the bomb as it had a wide, spherical shape. This passed off three days after losing an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
A region of about 5 square miles was obliterated, and around 65,000 human beings have been killed in the bombing. Nagasaki and Hiroshima continue to experience the impact of the adverse bombing even today.