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Daily Current Capsules – 20th February 2020

Social Justice

India is the World’s First Country with 100 %

digital process for Haj 2020(Ease of Doing Haj)

Relevance IN – Prelims ( factual info about Haj process + about e-Masiha app)

+ Mains ( GS II Welfare schemes for vulnerable sections of the population by

the Centre and States and the performance of these schemes; mechanisms, laws,

institutions and Bodies constituted for the protection and betterment of these

vulnerable sections.

What’s the NEWS

100 per cent digital/online Haj process in India has fulfilled the dream of

“Ease of Doing Haj” for the Indian Muslims.

Know! the steps taken by the Ministry for the ease of doing Haj

The entire Haj process has been made digital and transparent and this has

removed the middlemen ensuring Haj pilgrimage become affordable in

comparison to last several decades.

Even after removal of Haj subsidy, no additional financial burden has

been put on the pilgrims India has become the first country in the entire world which has made the

entire Haj 2020 process 100 per cent digital.

Online application, E-Visa, Haj mobile app, “E-MASIHA” health facility,

“E-luggage pre-tagging” providing all information in India itself regarding

accommodation/transportation in Makkah-Madinah have been provided to

Indian Muslims going for Haj.

E-MASIHA (E-Medical Assistance System for Indian Pilgrims Abroad)

An online system to create and maintain the complete health database of

Indian pilgrims along with doctors’ prescriptions, medical treatment as

well as medicine disbursals, has been developed to deal any emergency in

Makkah-Madinah

Haj Group Organisers (HGOs)

Haj Group Organisers (HGOs) have also been connected with 100 per

cent digital system which has ensured transparency in their functioning

and it has also ensured better facilities to Indian Haj pilgrims.

For the first time, a portal of HGOs - http://haj.nic.in/pto/ (Portal for Haj

Group Organisers) has been developed which contains all the details of

HGOs, their packages etc. In 2020, a total of 2 lakh Indian Muslims will perform Haj that too

without any subsidy and about 1 lakh 23,000 Indians Muslims will go

through Haj Committee of India and remaining through Haj Group

Organisers.

This year more than 2100 Muslim women will go to Haj without

“Mehram” (male companion)

International Organisations/Conventions

3rd High Level Global Conference on Road Safety

Relevance IN – Prelims ( about the 3rd high level global conference on road

safety + about Brasilia Declaration) + Mains (GS II Government policies and

interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of

their design and implementation)

What’s the NEWS

Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari reached

Stockholm to represent India at the 3rd High Level Global

Conference on Road Safety for Achieving Global Goals 2030.

Know! more about the Conference

The objective of the two-day conference is to bring road safety on

the global agenda and renew the world community’s commitment to

safer roads.

Leaders from participating countries will draw up a road-map for

reaching the United Nation’s goal set under the UN Decade of

Action of reducing road crashes by 2030.

The conference is being organised in active collaboration with

World Bank, World Health Organisation and other agencies

Know! about Brasilia Declaration

The 2nd Global High-Level Conference on Road Safety Hosted by the

Government of Brazil on 18-19 November 2015 in Brasilia, Brazil,

and co-sponsored by WHO, adopted the “Brasilia Declaration on Road

Safety” and declared Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020.

They agreed ways to halve road traffic deaths by the end of this decade

– a key milestone within the new Sustainable Development Goal

(SDG) target 3.6.

The Brasilia Declaration is a call to rethink transport policies in order

to favour more sustainable modes of transport such as walking, cycling

and using public transport.

India had signed the Brasilia Declaration at the 2nd High Level

Global Conference on Traffic Safety Brazil in 2015 which

committed the world community to reducing the number of deaths in

road accidents.

Miscellaneous

Government unveils plan for research on ‘indigenous’ cows

Scientific research will be carried out on milk and milk products derived from Indian indigenous cows. File

Relevance IN – Prelims ( about SUTRA PIC and about SVAROP)

What’s the NEWS

The government has unveiled a programme to research on

‘indigenous’ cows.

To be funded by multiple scientific ministries, the initiative, SUTRA

PIC, is led by the Department of Science and Technology (DST).

It has the Department of Biotechnology, the Council of Scientific and

Industrial Research, the Ministry for AYUSH (Ayurveda, Unani,

Siddha, Homoeopathy) among others and the Indian Council of

Medical Research as partners.

The Science for Equity, Empowerment and Development (SEED), is

the department in charge of the programme.

Know! more about SUTRA PIC

SUTRA PIC or Scientific Utilisation Through Research Augmentation-

Prime Products from Indigenous Cows, has five themes:

1. Uniqueness of Indigenous Cows

2. Prime-products from Indigenous Cows for Medicine and Health

3. Prime-products from Indigenous Cows for Agricultural Applications

4. Prime-products from Indigenous Cows for Food and Nutrition

5. Prime-products from indigenous cows-based utility items

Objectives of the programme.

scientific research on complete characterisation of milk and milk

products derived from Indian indigenous cows

scientific research on nutritional and therapeutic properties of curd

and ghee prepared from indigenous breeds of cows by traditional

methods

development of standards for traditionally processed dairy products

of Indian-origin cow

Earlier Researches

In 2017, SEED constituted a National Steering Committee (NSC) for

‘Scientific Validation and Research on Panchgavya (SVAROP)’.

Panchagavya is an Ayurvedic panacea and is a mixture of five

(pancha) products of the cow (gavya) — milk, curd, ghee, dung and

urine. Its proponents believe it can cure, or treat a wide range of

ailments.

Science and Technology

17th Edition of BioAsia 2020

Relevance IN – Prelims ( about BioAsia 2020 and its objective) + Mains ( GS III

Awareness in the fields of IT, Space, Computers, robotics, nano-technology, bio-

technology)

What’s the NEWS

Telangana is all set to host the three-day Bio Asia 2020, Asia’s largest

Biotechnology and Life Sciences Forum with the theme of ‘Today for

Tomorrow’ from February 17 in Hyderabad.

Know! more about BioAsia 2020

About 2,000 delegates from 37 countries will be attending the annual

flagship event of Government of Telangana

BioAsia has been playing a key role in bringing together the global industry

leaders, researchers, policymakers, innovators, and investors together on

one platform discussing the new opportunities and developing strategies to

succeed.

Genome Valley, India’s first and only systematically developed R&D and

clean manufacturing ecosystem, has become the largest innovation and life

sciences cluster in Asia.

Switzerland will be the partner Country this year as part of the annual

tradition.

BioAsia 2020 is being organized in partnership with Government of

India, Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade, Ministry

of MSME, Department of Biotechnology, Department of Pharmaceuticals

and it has state partners include Assam, Kerala, Odisha and Gujarat.

Genome Valley Excellence Award 2020

Genome Valley Excellence Award was constituted in 2004 to recognize

and honour eminent individuals and organizations for their exceptional

contribution to the Life Sciences research and public health.

The Government of Telangana presents this special award to eminent

leaders every year after a careful examination and technical consideration

by the reputed jury committee appointed by it.

e-Governance

National e-Governance Service Delivery Assessment (NeSDA) 2019

Relevance IN – Prelims ( about National Conference on e-Governance and

NeSDA) + Mains ( GS II Important aspects of governance, transparency and

accountability, e-governance- applications, models, successes, limitations, and

potential; citizens charters, transparency & accountability and institutional and

other measures.

What’s the NEWS

23rd edition of National Conference on e-Governance 2020 based on

the theme “India 2020: Digital Transformation” with 6-sub themes

The six sub-themes of the conference include:

(i) Digital Platforms and Digital Economy

(ii) Improving Service Delivery

(iii) Building Digital Trust – Transparency, Security and Privacy

(iv) Digital Payments and Fintech

(v) National e-Governance Service Delivery Assessment (NeSDA)/

Digital Service Standard (DSS)

(vi) Skilling and Capacity Building

Know! about NeSDA

NeSDA was a key initiative announced by Prime Minister Narendra

Modi in 2018 to push the government machinery towards his promise of

‘minimum government, maximum governance’.

It is also aimed at pushing up India’s overall performance on the global e-

governance index, an important parameter to attract investment.

India was ranked 96 among 193 countries in the United Nations E-

Government Survey of 2018.

While this was an improvement over the 118 rank in 2014 and the 107

position in 2016, more effort is clearly needed.

The NeSDAframework is a step in that direction to nudge states and

government interfaces to become more people -friendly.

Know! more about the assessment

The assessment was aimed at improving the overall e-Government

development by evaluating the efficiency of service delivery mechanism

from a citizen’s perspective.

The assessment is done broadly for four categories – Union territories,

remaining states, union territories and central government ministries

websites

Know! more about the conference

The conference, is being jointly organised by the Department of

Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG), Government

of Maharashtra and the Ministry of Electronics and Information

Technology

The index has been prepared by the Department of Administrative

Reforms and Public Grievances(DARPG) with NASSCOM as the

designated knowledge partner.

The NeSDA framework

The NeSDA framework primarily assessed all the service portals

(state/UT and central ministry service portals) on seven key parameters,

namely accessibility, content availability, ease of use, information

security & privacy, end service delivery, integrated service delivery and

status & request tracking.

The framework covers six sectors, namely finance, labour &

employment, education, local government & utilities, social welfare

(including agriculture & health) and environment (including fire) sectors.

Know! the Ranking

Kerala has topped the index followed by Goa at the second spot and

Haryana at the third spot.

Delhi and Chandigarh are the leading UTs with their service portals

Among the north-east and hill states, Nagaland has got the first rank

The website of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) under the

finance ministry is the winner under

The index, which also assesses central ministries, has given the top spot

to the ministry of health & family welfare, while the second position has

been secured by the ministry of human resource development (MHRD)

for its SWAYAM education platform and the National Scholarship

Portal.

The CBDT portal has been ranked first under the assessment of central

ministry service portals, according to the report.

The list of Union Territories is topped by Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

Other Awards

The Andhra Pradesh Pollution Control Board (APPCB) has cliched a

national award for e-Governance 2019-20 for the Board’s Real-Time

Pollution-Monitoring System (RTPMS) project.

Odisha Govt’s GO SWIFT Portal won the National e-Governance Silver

award for the year 2019-20 under the Category-1 ‘Excellence in

Government Process Re-engineering for Digital Transformation’.

The Election Commission of India has been awarded ‘Silver’ for

Excellence in Government Process re-engineering for digital

transformation for the year 2019-20.

Antyodaya Saral of Department of IT, Haryana was awarded Gold for

Excellence in providing citizen-centric delivery.

IIT(Indian Institute of Technology) Roorkee’s (Uttarakhand) Satellite-

based Agriculture Information System: An Efficient Application of ICT

received the Gold Award for Outstanding Research on Citizen-Centric

Services.

Know! about ERONet

ERONet, a web portal launched by the Election Commission of India

through which citizens can now not only register for their voter-ID cards

online but also choose to change the state in which they want to enrol as a

voter without going through unnecessary bureaucratic hurdles. Persons

can apply online throughout the entire year at any time through this

portal.

The system strives to make an applicant’s entry in e-roll unambiguous

and error free without much of hassle.

For poll officials, meanwhile, this portal will help them deal with

inaccuracies in voter-related information, besides preventing the

proliferation of duplicate cards.

The software will allow officials to discern whether the person they are

enrolling in the voters’ list is a first-timer or someone who has registered

multiple times across India.

ERONet system will ensure that everything related to a voter is stored in

a computer and the process is digitized

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