Connect to Current -Daily Current Capsules 08th March 2019
Culture Release of Dictionary of Martyrs of India’s Freedom Struggle (1857-
1947)
Relevance IN – Prelims( about the dictionary) + Mains – ( GS I – Indian art ans
culture + freedom struggle)
What’s the NEWS
The Prime Minister, released the Dictionary of Martyrs of India’s Freedom
Struggle.
Know! about the dictionary
This five-volume dictionary contains an account of the martyrs from India’s
First War of Independence in 1857, to India’s Independence in 1947.
This includes the martyrs of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, the non-
cooperation movement, the Quit India Movement, and those soldiers of the
Azad Hind Fauj, who attained martyrdom, among many others.
The effort of the Union Government is to nurture and recall the brave deeds
of the heroes of our freedom struggle.
Know! more about the project
The project for compilation of “Dictionary of Martyrs” of India’s Freedom
Struggle was commissioned by the Ministry of Culture, to the Indian
Council of Historical Research (ICHR) to commemorate the
150th anniversary of uprising of 1857.
In this dictionary a martyr has been defined as a person who died or who
was killed in action or in detention, or was awarded capital punishment
while participating in the national movement for emancipation of India.
It includes ex-INA or ex-military personnel who died fighting the British.
It includes the martyrs of 1857 Uprising, Jallianwala Bagh Massacre (1919),
Non-Cooperation Movement (1920-22), Civil Disobedience Movement
(1930-34), Quit India Movement (1942-44), Revolutionary Movements
(1915-34), Kissan Movements, Tribal Movements, Agitation for
Responsible Government in the Princely States (Prajamandal), Indian
National Army (INA, 1943-45), Royal Indian Navy Upsurge (RIN, 1946),
etc. Information of about 13,500 martyrs has been recorded in these
volumes.
Infrastructure Development PM lays foundation stone of Integrated Command and Control
Centres in Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh and Tripura
Relevance IN – Prelims( about the command centre and smart city ) + Mains
(GS III infrastructure development)
What’s the NEWS
The Prime Minister,laid the foundation stone of Integrated Command and
Control Centres at five North Eastern Smart Cities
The Command and Control Centres at Namchi and Gangtok in Sikkim,
Itanagar and Pasighat in Arunachal Pradesh and Agartala in Tripura.
Know! about Integrated Command and Control Centres
One of the key components of the system is the CCTV Surveillance
system for Citizen Safety.
This system is designed to help tackle crime. The Intelligent Traffic
Management System will help ease traffic flow.
The Solid Waste Management component in the Command and Control
Centre will boost cleanliness in these cities.
Smart Street Lighting will make our streets safer and citizen friendly. It
will also improve energy efficiency through the conversion to LED
systems.
Smart cities are also installing Public-Address Systems and Variable
Message Signs to communicate important civic information.
Digital access is an important component of Digital India Mission. Public
Wi-Fi system will provide free internet access to Citizens.
The North-East is an environmentally sensitive region. The
Environmental Monitoring System and Disaster Management modules
will give real time information to Citizens and Government.
The North-East will have its first completed Smart Command and Control
Centre as early as October 2019.
Science and Technology Cabinet approves Continuation of Atal Innovation Mission
Relevance IN – Prelims ( about AIM) + Mains ( GS III awareness in the field of
science and technology)
What’s the NEWS
The Union Cabinet has approved Continuation of Atal Innovation Mission
(AIM), and for incurring expenditure up to Rs. 1000 crore till 2019-20 by Atal
Innovation Mission for expanding Atal Tinkering Labs to 10,000 schools in
view of their huge success at school level.
Atal Innovation Mission
AIM has multiple programs to encourage and support innovation in the
country.
State of the art Atal Tinkering Labs (ATLs) are being established in
thousands of schools, world class Atal Incubation Centres (AIC) and Atal
Community Innovation Centers (ACIC) are being established for
universities and industry,
Promotion of product development in areas of national relevance and social
importance is being supported through Atal New India Challenges (ANICs).
Impact:
The Mission has undertaken many bold and forward-looking initiatives
such as Alal Tinkering Labs (ATL) and Atal Incubation Centres (AIC),
which have received great traction;
Many Ministries/Departments of Government of India have initiated
innovation related activities with the help and technical support of AIM.
Under the ATL program, more than 10,000 schools are expected to
establish these labs by 2020.
More than 100 Atal Incubation Centres (AICs) are likely to established
around the country, supporting at least 50-60 startups each over the first
five years.
More than 100 innovators/startups are expected to receive some support
for productizing their innovations.
Each incubator is expected to foster 50-60 technology driven innovative
Startups every four years.
Implementation Strategy and targets
Corporate and international partners are connected to AIM beneficiaries, to
ensure flow of information and technology between academia, innovation,
and the start-up ecosystem as well as provide mentoring support to ensure
success of AIM's initiatives.
AIM's Mentor of Change Programme is mandated to ensure the success of the
ATLs.
Through this programme, well-qualified mentors from different professional
backgrounds are selected to provide pro-bono mentoring to ATL students over
a range of skills.
Mentors also collaborate with the School administrators to ensure the ATLs
operate in the manner
Objective of AIM
AlM's objectives are to create and promote an ecosystem of innovation and
entrepreneurship across the country at school, university, research institutions,
MSME and industry levels.
The Mission has been set up under NITI Aayog, in accordance with the
Hon'ble Finance Minister's declaration in the 2015 Budget Speech.
Culture National Council of Science Museums of Culture Ministry collaborates
with Google Arts & Culture for largest interactive online exhibition on
inventions and discoveries
Relevance IN – Prelims( about NCSM and its collaboration) + Mains ( GS I
Indian heritage and culture)
What’s the NEWS
The National Council of Science Museums (NCSM), an organization
under the Ministry of Culture, Government of India has collaborated
with Google Arts & Culture for ‘Once Upon a Try’: Epic journeys of
invention and discovery - the largest online exhibition about inventions
and discoveries ever curated, as an attempt to explore humanity’s greatest
inventions and discoveries in an interactive online exhibition.
Know! more about the online exhibition
The online exhibition was launched yesterday and contains collections,
stories and knowledge from over 110 renowned institutions from across
23 countries, highlighting millennia of major breakthroughs and the great
minds behind them.
Everybody can now explore more than 400 interactive exhibitions that
pay tribute to humanity's greatest leaps in science and technology, and the
visionaries that shaped our world, as well as tales of epic fails and happy
accidents.
National Council of Science Museums contributes six interactive stories
that share some key insights into the long and glorious Science and
Technology Heritage of India.
The treasure which was lesser known to the world is now open to all.
Explore National Council of Science Museums on Google Arts & Culture
at: https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/national-council-of-science-
museums
Google Arts & Culture puts the collections of more than 1,800 museums
at your fingertips.
National Council of Science Museums (NCSM)
National Council of Science Museums (NCSM), a premiere institution in
the field of science communication, is an autonomous organization under
the Ministry of Culture, Government of India.
Primarily engaged in popularizing Science and Technology through a
network of science centres, Mobile Science Exhibitions (MSE) units that
visit rural schools and plethora of activities for public and students in
particular, NCSM has now become a trend setter in the field of science
communication both at national and international level.
Presently NCSM, with its Headquarters in Kolkata, administers and
manages 25 science museums/centres spread across the country and is the
world’s largest network of science centres and museums that functions
under a single administrative umbrella with an annual reach to about 15
million people.
Infrastructure Development Cabinet approves Kiru Hydro Electric (HE) Project (4 X 156 MW) in
Jammu and Kashmir
Relevance IN – Prelims( about the Kiru dam location )
What’s the NEWS
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has approved the
investment sanction for construction of Kiru Hydro Electric(HE) Project
in Jammu & Kashmir.
Know! more about the project
The project is located on River Chenab in Kishtwar district of Jammu &
Kashmir.
It envisages construction of a 135 m high concrete gravity Dam above
deepest foundation level
The project shall provide much needed power in northern grid and shall
accelerate process of development of remote areas of Jammu and
Kashmir. The Project is scheduled to be completed in a period of 4 1/2
years.
Kiru HE Project is envisaged as a Run of River (RoR) Scheme, designed
complying with the requirements of Indus Water Treaty 1960
Government Schemes Indore gets cleanest city tag for third year in a row
Relevance IN – Prelims ( about Swachh Survekshan awards )
What’s the NEWS
Indore was adjudged India’s cleanest city for the third year in a row in the
Centre’s ‘Cleanliness Survey’.
The second and third positions were bagged by Ambikapur in
Chhattisgarh and Mysuru in Karnataka.
Know! more about the award
The Swachh Survekshan awards 2019 were conferred by President Ram
Nath Kovind in New Delhi.
While the New Delhi Municipal Council was given award for the
‘Cleanest Small City’ award, Uttarakhand’s Gauchar bagged the ‘Best
Ganga Town’.
The ‘Cleanest Big City’ award has been bagged by Ahmedabad, while
Raipur is the ‘Fastest Moving Big City’.
Ujjain has been the adjudged the ‘Cleanest Medium City’ and Mathura-
Vrindavan bagged the tag of the ‘Fastest Moving Medium Cities’.Bhopal
has been named the cleanest capital.
Raipur won the ‘Fastest Moving Big City’. Mathura-Vrindavan won the
tag of Fastest Moving Medium City.
Chhattisgarh has bagged the top spot in the category of best performing
states. Jharkhand is at the second spot while Maharashtra is at the third.
Swachh Survekshan covered all urban local bodies in the country, making
it the largest such cleanliness survey in the world.
Science and Technology ISRO, French agency seal agreement on maritime security
Relevance IN – Prelims( about the agreement) + Mains ( GS III awareness in
the field of space)
What’s the NEWS
National space agency ISRO and its French counterpart CNES on
Wednesday sealed an agreement to set up a joint maritime surveillance
system in the country in May.
Know! more about the agreement
The two nations will explore putting up a constellation of low-Earth
orbiting satellites that will identify and track movement of ships globally
– and in particular those moving in the Indian Ocean region where France
has its Reunion Islands.
The agreement intends to supply an operational system for detecting,
identifying and tracking ships in the Indian Ocean, provides for a
maritime surveillance centre to be set up in India
The CNES-ISRO agreement [intends] to supply an operational system for
detecting, identifying and tracking ships in the Indian Ocean.
It provides for a maritime surveillance centre to be set up in India in May
this year; sharing of capacity to process existing satellite data and joint
development of associated algorithms
The two agencies have put up two climate and ocean weather monitoring
satellites Megha-Tropiques (of 2011) and SARAL-AltiKa (2013) that are
considered a model.
This fleet will be augmented with the launch of Oceansat-3-Argos
mission in 2020 along with a joint infrared Earth-observation satellite
ISRO and CNES will build a constellation of satellites for maritime
surveillance intended to identify and track ships in the Indian Ocean.
ISRO and CNES have signed an agreement to train Indian Scientists for
the ‘Gaganyaan’ project at the Toulouse Space Centre in France.
Indian Scientists will also be trained at CADMOS, the centre for
development of microgravity applications and space operations, and the
MEDES Space Clinic in France.
India has also signed an agreement with Russia for the Gaganyaan
Project.
Prelims Practise Question
Consider the following statements
1. National space agency ISRO and its French counterpart CNES on
Wednesday sealed an agreement to set up a joint military surveillance
system in the country.
2. National Council of Science Museums (NCSM), a premiere institution in
the field of science communication, is an autonomous organization under
the Ministry of Science and technology, Government of India.
3. Atal innovation Mission's objectives are to create and promote an
ecosystem of innovation and entrepreneurship across the country at school,
university, research institutions, MSME and industry levels.
Find the correct statement from the option given below
a. 1 and 2
b. 3 only
c. 2 only
d. All
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