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Current Affairs for IAS Exams - 02 November 2021

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Union Minister of Home Affairs, launched Dairy Sahakar Scheme at Anand, Gujarat.
This scheme was launched during the function organized by Amul for celebration of 75th Foundation Year of Amul.

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The Dairy Sahakar scheme has a total investment budget of Rs 5000 crore will be implemented by NCDC under Ministry of Cooperation, Government of India to realize the vision, “from cooperation to prosperity”.  
Under Dairy Sahakar scheme, financial support will be extended by NCDC to eligible cooperatives for activities such as

There will also be a convergence with various schemes of the Government of India or of State Government/UT Administration/ Development agencies/ bilateral/multilateral assistance/ CSR mechanism is encouraged.
The Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying under Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Government of India is also implementing various schemes for the development of the Animal Husbandry and dairy sector.
This Dairy Sahakar will supplement the existing efforts for strengthening the dairy sector in the country.

The program has launched byNational Commission for Women, along with National Legal Services Authority.
Programme aims to cover all States and UTs through regular sessions to make women aware of the various machineries of the justice delivery system available for redressal of their grievances.
It will sensitize women and girls about their rights as provided under the various laws.
It will also make them aware of the procedure of approaching and utilizing various channels available for grievance redressal, i.e., Police, Executive and Judiciary.

The Climate Equity Monitor provides an online dashboard for assessing, at the international level, equity in climate action, inequalities in emissions, energy and resource consumption across the world, and ongoing climate policies of several countries.
The website has been conceptualized and developed by independent researchers from India -- the Climate Change Group at the M.S Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF), Chennai, and others.

Key highlights:

The Climate Equity Monitor is aimed at monitoring the performance of Annex-I Parties under the UNFCCC (developed countries) based on the foundational principles of the Climate Convention.
The performance and policies of the Non Annex-I Parties (developing countries) will be also provided for comparison.
In keeping with the latest scientific results of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that have underlined the importance of cumulative emissions and carbon budgets, the analysis will be anchored in these two concepts.
The website is intended to debunk the narrative provided by many developed countries, and global non-government organizations that focus attention continually on what developing countries must do, constantly demanding greater commitment and action from them.

The United States and the European Union ended a dispute over steel and aluminium tariffs and said they would work on a global arrangement on steel and aluminium to combat “dirty” production and overcapacity in the industry.

Following are some key details about the deal:

The United States will not apply Section 232 duties imposed by former president Donald Trump and will allow duty-free importation of steel and aluminium from the EU at a historical-based volume.
The EU will suspend tariffs on US products like whiskey, powerboats and Harley-Davidson motorcycles, imposed in retaliation for the steel and aluminium tariffs.
The EU and the United States will negotiate what they call the world’s first carbon-based sectoral arrangement on steel and aluminium trade by 2024, with their arrangement aiming to address carbon intensity and global overcapacity.
The two sides said they will work to restrict access to their markets for “dirty steel” and limit access to “countries that dump steel” in their markets, both of which contribute to worldwide oversupply.
The United States also published a consultation that brought on board what it called “like-minded nations” like Japan and Britain on issues related to steel and aluminium, with a focus on the impacts of overcapacity on the global steel and aluminium markets.

To protect the people taking bonafide business decisions, the finance ministry has issued a uniform staff accountability framework for NPA accounts up to Rs 50 crore.

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These guidelines shall be implemented with effect from April 1, 2022, for accounts turning non-performing assets (NPAs) beginning next financial year.
These guidelines will help quell apprehension that bankers could be hauled up for their bonafide commercial decision go wrong. It will also help banker to take credit decisions faster and help support economy.
The new guidelines will surely boost the morale of the PSBs employees immensely, it said banks will have to complete staff accountability exercise within six months from the date of classification of the account as NPA.
Further, it said that depending on the business size of the banks, threshold limits have been advised for scrutiny of the accountability by the chief vigilance officer (CVO).

The census of one of the world’s most threatened cetaceans, the Indus river dolphin, a freshwater dolphin that is found in river Beas, is all set to commence in the winter.
The Indus River dolphin was declared the State aquatic animal of Punjab in 2019.
It is classified as endangered by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
At present, the world houses seven species of freshwater dolphins, which are: Amazon River Dolphin,the Bolivian River Dolphin, the Ganges River Dolphin, the Indus River Dolphin, the IrrawaddyDolphin, the Yangtze Finless Porpoise, and the Tucuxi from Amazon and Orinoco river basins.