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Current Affairs for IAS Exams - 04 August 2022

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Ministry of Women and Child Development has issued Operational Guidelines regarding implementation of ‘Saksham Anganwadi and Poshan 2.0’.
The scheme has been approved by the Government of India for implementation during the 15th Finance Commission period 202l-22 to 2025-26.

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Saksham Anganwadi and Poshan 2.0 is an Integrated Nutrition Support Programme.
It seeks to address the challenges of malnutrition in children, adolescent girls, pregnant women and lactating mothers through a strategic shift in nutrition content and delivery and by creation of a convergent eco-system to develop and promote practices that nurture health, wellness and immunity.
Nutrition Support for POSHAN through Supplementary Nutrition Programme (SNP) for children of the age group of 06 months to 6 years, pregnant women and lactating mothers (PWLM); and for Adolescent Girls in the age group of 14 to 18 years in Aspirational Districts and North Eastern Region (NER);
Early Childhood Care and Education [3-6 years] and early stimulation for (0-3 years);
Anganwadi Infrastructure including modern, upgraded Saksham Anganwadi; andPoshanAbhiyaan.

The objectives of Poshan 2.0 are as follows:

IT industry players have appreciated the government’s move to withdraw the personal data protection bill and have sought participation in the consultation process for the fresh draft.
The industry was critical of the data protection bill tabled in Parliament by the Joint Committee on Personal Data Protection Bill.

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The Joint Committee on Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019, headed by BJP member PP Chaudhary had tabled its report in Lok Sabha on December 16, 2021 which had a number of different points than the draft protection data bill (PDP) Bill prepared by the Ministry of Electronics and IT.
The government withdrew the Personal Data Protection Bill from Lok Sabha and said it will come out with a “set of fresh legislations” that will fit into the comprehensive legal framework. US-based ITI, whose members include all IT majors appreciated the government’s move to withdraw the Parliamentary panel version of the bill.

The Tenth Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT)Review Conference, scheduled to take place in New York from 1 to 26 August 2022, will review progress on the implementation of the treaty.

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NPT is an international treaty with the aim of
preventing the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology.
to foster the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, and
to further the goal of disarmament.
It was opened for signature in 1968 and entered into force in 1970. In 1995 it was extended indefinitely.
It has 191 State Parties. India is not a party to it.
It establishes a safeguards system under the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

India will host diplomats and officials from all 15 countries of the United Nations Security Council, including China, Russia and the U.S., for a special meeting on terrorism, in Delhi and Mumbai in October.

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The meeting of the Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC), which India is chairing for 2022 as a member of the UNSC, will focus particularly on challenges such as terrorism financing, cyberthreats and the use of drones.
New Delhi is expected to highlight cross-border threats from Pakistan and Afghanistan at the meeting, which will come two months before India completes its tenure as an elected member of the UNSC (2021-22).

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said that India’s financial inclusion index (FI-Index) for the year ended March 31, 2022 improved to 56.4 from 53.9 in the previous year, with growth seen across all its sub-indices. The index is published annually in July.

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It is released by Reserve Bank of India.
The index for the FY 21-22 improved to 56.4 from 53.9 in 2020-2021, with growth seen across allits sub-indices.
It captures the extent of financial inclusion across the country by including details of banking,investments, insurance, postal as well as the pension sector.
Index has been constructed without any base year and reflects cumulative efforts of allstakeholders over the years towards financial inclusion.
Comprises of three parameters including access, usage and quality and has 97 indicators.

Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati has established the ICMR-DHR Centre of Excellence for Biomedical Device and Diagnostics Innovation and Commercialisation to cater for rural India with a focus on healthcare delivery to the last-mile population.

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The Centre of Excellence is situated at the Centre of Nanotechnology and Jyoti and Bhupat Mehta School of Health Sciences and Technology of IIT Guwahati.
The primary objective of the centre is to develop three indigenous products in the domain of healthcare that can be commercially successful in the near future.
They would also work to detect biomarkers using microfluidic and semiconductor nano-biosensors to detect various non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as chronic kidney disorder, post diabetic complications, liver or pancreatic malfunctions, cardiac illnesses, and urinary tract infections, said a press release issued by IIT Guwahati.