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To Know: The committee (titled „Medium-Term path on
Financial Inclusion‟) was constituted in July 2015 with the
objective of working out a medium-term (five-year)
measurable action plan for financial inclusion. It was
chaired by Deepak Mohanty, RBI executive director.
Important Recommendations of the Deepak Mohanty Committee:
Banks have to step up account opening for women
Union Govt. should consider a welfare scheme (Sukanya Shiksha) for promoting
financial inclusion of women that can be jointly funded by the Central and State
governments
Need for better use of the mobile banking facility for Government-to-Person (G2P)
payments, and this would push government in its financial inclusion drive A unique biometric identifier such as Aadhaar be linked to each individual credit account
and the information should be shared with credit information companies
Commercial banks in India must be enabled to open specialised interest-free windows
(primarily for Islamic banking) with simple products
The committee pressed for digitisation of land records to increase formal credit to all
To Know: The agreements coming in force were announced on the sidelines of the
G-20 Summit in Turkey by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Australian
counterpart Malcolm Turnbull, in November 2015.
Currently, India sources uranium from Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Russia. It
has a total requirement of around 1,000 tonne of a year. Australia has around
31% of the world‟s uranium reserves.
It also has some of the cheapest reserves. Earlier in the year, India also signed
a contract with Canada for the long-term supply of uranium.
Place
Delhi-Meerut Expressway
Foundation of India‟s First 14-lane Expressway was laid by Prime Minister Narendra
Modi on 31 December 2015.
To Know: The ambitious Delhi-Meerut Expressway project, the foundation for which
was laid by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a programme held on 31 December,
aims at easing traffic congestion in the national capital. The project is proposed
under four packages and is expected to cost Rs. 7,500 crore.
The Delhi-Meerut Expressway will be a controlled-access expressway,
connecting Delhi with Meerut via Dasna in Ghaziabad (UP). While the present
stretch of National Highway 24 (NH-24) up to Uttar Pradesh Gate will be
widened to 14 lanes from the present eight, the road between UP Gate and
Dasna will be eight-laned.
This project is expected to ease massive congestion on the 24-km stretch
between Nizamuddin Bridge and Dasna.
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Sports
India wins SAFF Cup 2 15
India won the 2015 South Asian Football Federation Cup (SAFF Cup) by defeating
defending champions Afghanistan by 2-1 in the finals on 3 January 2016.
To Know: India defeated defending champions Afghanistan by 2-1 in the finals
played on 3 January. Afghanistan went into the lead after Zubayr Amiri scored in the
71st minute. But inform Indian striker Jeje Lalpekhlua equalized in the very next
minute. The game went into extra time and Indian captain Sunil Chhetri gave India
the winning goal by scoring through a free-kick in the 10th minute of extra time. With
this win India also took a sweet revenge of their 2013 final loss to Afghanistan.
The 2015 SAFF Cup title was India’s seventh title of this biennial football title. India
has won the title in 1993, 1997, 1999, 2005, 2009, 2011 and now 2015. It was the
11th edition of the biennial SAFF Championship and was held at Trivandrum
International Stadium, Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala). The 2017 SAFF Cup will be
hosted by Bangladesh.
Sports – Cricket
Gujarat won its maiden Vijay Hazare Trophy
To Know: Captain Parthiv Patel‟s polished 105 helped Gujarat
hammer former champions Delhi by 139 runs and capture their
maiden Vijay Hazare Trophy in the final played at the M
Chinnaswamy stadium (Bengaluru) on 28 December 2015.
Patel powered Gujarat to 273 for nine before their medium
pacers R P Singh (4/42) and Jasprit Bumrah (5/28) brought the star-studded Delhi
batting to its knees, dismissing the 2013-13 winners for 134 in 32.3 overs.
Vijay Hazare Trophy is the most prestigious domestic one-day tournament of thecountry. It has been named after the famous Indian cricketer Vijay Hazare and was