Bihar Affairs
Nearly 5 lakh guest workers register in labour dept portal
early 5 lakh guest workers have registered in the labour departments online portal. The exercise has been expedited to create a complete <a href="https://exam.pscnotes.com/Database“>Database of the workforce from other states by the end of October this year.
The department launched the portal in April 2020 to create a realtime database of the guest workers in the state. Within a span of two months from the launch of the portal, the department has registered 3.49 lakh guest workers. The department has continued the exercise with the help of the district administrations and we have registered around 5lakh workersfrom other states in the portal, said a senior official in the department.
As of now, the department would have captured around 15% of the total workforce, which accounts for around 30 to 35 lakh people in various sectors. A majority of them hailed from Madhya Pradesh,Uttar Pradesh,Bihar, West Bengal, Chhattisgarh,Odishaand Jharkhand. They account for a significant number in textiles and garments, brick kiln, and construction and manufacturing sectors.
National and International Affairs
Implementation Strategy of BharatNet Project
The BharatNet Project’s implementation strategy has been revised.
Highlights:
The Cabinet approved the revised BharatNet implementation strategy through Public Private PARTNERSHIP mode in 16 states across the country.
The programme will be expanded to include all inhabited villages outside of Gram Panchayats (GPs)
The revised strategy also includes the creation, upgrade, operation, maintenance, and utilisation of BharatNet by the concessionaire, who will be chosen through a competitive international bidding process.
The Cabinet has given in-principle approval to cover all inhabited villages in the remaining states/UTs of the country. The Department of Telecommunications will work out the details separately.
iLEAP Program AIM
The first fintech cohort of the Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), AIM-iLEAP, has concluded.
About AIM iLEAP:
This programme under the Atal Innovation Mission gives AIM-backed start-ups access to , markets, and investors.
The fintech cohort was formed through a series of thematic virtual demo days organised by AIM in collaboration with Startup Rseau and Visa as part of the AIM-iLEAP (Innovative Leadership for entrepreneurial agility and profitability) initiative.
The AIM-iLEAP programme invites technology start-ups from a wide range of functions to present their solutions to the corporate leadership and innovation team in order to enable market access and industry partnerships.
Revamped Distribution Sector Scheme
The Revamped Distribution Sector Scheme was approved by the .
About the Revamped Distribution Sector Scheme:
It is a reform-based and results-oriented scheme to improve the operational efficiencies and financial sustainability of all DISCOMs/Power Departments, with the exception of Private Sector DISCOMs.
The scheme envisages providing conditional financial assistance to DISCOM to strengthen the supply Infrastructure.
Assistance will be based on meeting pre-qualification criteria and basic minimum benchmarks achieved by DISCOM. These will be evaluated according to an agreed evaluation framework related to financial improvement.
Rather than a “one-size-fits-all” approach, each state would develop its own action plan for implementing the scheme.
The scheme proposes to incorporate the ongoing schemes of IPDS, DDUGJY, and PMDP-2015 for the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.
The scheme will be available until 2025-26.
REC Limited and Power Finance Corporation (PFC) serve as nodal agencies for the scheme’s implementation.
The scheme focuses on improving farmers’ electricity supply and providing them with daytime electricity through solarization of agricultural feeders.
India Ranked 10th in Global Cybersecurity Index
India has been ranked as the tenth excellent country in the world in the Global Cybersecurity Index (GCI) 2020, launched by ITU (International Telecommunication Union). The GCI 2020 is the 4th edition of the annual index and ranked 194 countries. The GCI measures the dedication of countries to cybersecurity at a global level. Countries have been ranked on the foundation of overall performance on five parameters, which includes: legal measures, technical measures, organisational measures, capacity development, and cooperation.
Index:
India ranked at the tenth position, with 97.5 factors to rank amongst the top ten high-quality countries in the world.
The United States has topped the GCI 2020.
The United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia is tied in the second position
Estonia was ranked third in the index.