Bihar Affairs
Biharhas emerged as one of the top performing states in terms of providing safe drinking water through taps, with 87 per cent of its rural households having access to the amenity, a key aide of chief minister Nitish Kumar said on Wednesday but insisted it was largely on account of a state scheme and not the Centre’sJal Jeevan Mission.
State <a href="https://exam.pscnotes.com/water-Resources“>Water Resources ministerSanjay Kumar Jhamade the averment on his official twitter handle, sharing a newspaper report that put Bihar among the top four states of the country in terms of availability oftap waterto rural households.
The report was based on data provided by the website of Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM), an ambitious project of the Narendra Modi government launched two years back which aims at providing tap water to all rural households by 2024.
According to the JJM data, Bihar, often accused of administrative lethargy, accounts for 1.46 crore water connections out of 4.73 crore for the entire country, placing it well above the national Average of 41.57 per cent since the launch of the mission in 2019.
Only Goa andTelanganawith a 100 per cent success rate besidesHaryana(99.25 per cent) have performed better than Bihar.
Besides, the Union territories of , Puducherry, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu have provided water connections to cent per cent households, according to the JJM website.
The JJM website shows that it has been a giant leap for Bihar, one of the most populous states in the country, where only 1.84 per cent households had access to tap water as on August 15, 2019. Since then, a staggering number of over 1.46 crore water connections have been added.
Jha, however, insisted that much of the state’s spectacular success was owing to Har Ghar Nal Ka Jal scheme of the Bihar chief minister which predated the Centre’s JJM.
According to Jha, the scheme was launched in September 2016 and was responsible for ensuring availability of tap water in mostrural areasof the state.
National and International Affairs
Draft Rules for Renewable Energy
Draft Electricity (promoting renewable strength via Green Energy Open Access) Rules, 2021 circulated.
Highlights:
The Power Ministry has circulated the Draft Electricity (promoting renewable electricity through Green Energy Open Access) Rules, 2021.
These policies are proposed to buy and consume inexperienced electricity, including the power from Waste-to-Energy Plants.
The inexperienced power draft policies have supplied important points such as Renewable Purchase Obligation (RPO); Green electricity open access; Nodal Agencies; Procedure for furnishing of inexperienced electricity open access; Banking; and go subsidy surcharge.
The draft regulations state inexperienced hydrogen is the hydrogen produced by the usage of electricity from renewable sources.
Facts on Indian National Flag
The Indian was adopted on 22nd July 1947, in its existing shape (horizontal rectangular tricolour) in the course of an assembly of the Constituent Assembly, 23 days earlier than Indias Independence. It grew to be the reliable countrywide Flag of the Dominion of India on 15th August 1947.
Present Flag is based totally on the Swaraj flag, a flag of the Indian National Congress designed by using Pingali Venkayya.
After quite a few changes, the Tricolour was once adopted as our countrywide Flag at a Congress Committee assembly in Karachi in 1931.
Constitutional & Statutory Provisions concerning National Flag of India: Art 51A(a) To abide by way of the Constitution and recognize its beliefs and institutions, the National Flag & the National Anthem.
Rules governing the show of the Tricolour: The Flag Code of 2002 is divided into three parts: 1-a well-known description of the tricolour, 2-rules for show of the Flag by means of governments and authorities bodies, 3-rules on show of the Flag by way of public and personal our bodies and instructional institutions.
Ashoka Chakra is the wheel of the regulation of dharma. Chakra intends to exhibit that there is LIFE IN MOVEMENT and demise in stagnation.
The saffron colour denotes renunciation of disinterestedness.
The white in the core is Light, the course of reality to inform our conduct.
Knowing About Taliban
On August 15, 2021, the fundamentalist Islamic pressure known as the Taliban entered Kabul after gaining control over an awful lot of the US following the withdrawal of US troops.
Taliban had dominated Afghanistan from 1996 till 2001 when US troops toppled. This team had sheltered Osama bin Laden as he deliberate the Sept. 11 assault of 2001.
Talibans manipulation over Afghanistan now poses a new danger to the US’s whole political and social order as nicely as its allies.
The Islamic pressure referred to as Taliban have been established in southern Afghanistan. Mullah Mohammad Omar was once the founder of the group. He used to be a member of the Pashtun tribe who grew to become a mujahideen commander. He helped in pushing the Soviets out of the country in 1989. Later in 1994, Mullah Omar fashioned the crew in Kandahar with 50 followers. They captured Kandahar and seized Kabul in 1996 and imposed strict Islamic rules. These policies banned tv & music, stopped Women from going to college and pressured females to put on burqas.
American troops invaded Afghanistan in the year 2001 and toppled the Talibans management when the Taliban refused US demand to hand over bin Laden.
The Taliban are battling towards the U.S.-backed authorities in Kabul. They are seeking for to reimpose their strict model of in Afghanistan.
Mawlawi Haibatullah Akhundzada (Pashtun from Kandahar) is presently the chief of Taliban in Afghanistan. A Council of leaders has been set up by the Taliban based totally in Pakistan referred to as Quetta Shura. It publishes the groups decisions.
The Taliban makes cash by way of Afghanistans unlawful drug trade. They impose taxes on poppy growers and heroin producers in the areas of Afghanistan it controls. They additionally impose taxes on agencies and function unlawful mines. Besides, it receives funding from supporters in Pakistan and the Gulf.