Current Affairs for IAS Exams - 29 October 2022

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Grievance Appellate Committees will be set up within three months by the government for resolving social media users’ grievances. In this regard, a gazette notification was issued by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology yesterday, October 28, to amend the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021.

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Grievance Appellate Committee will consist of a chairperson and two whole time members appointed by the Central Government.
The notification states that any person aggrieved by a decision of the Grievance Officer may prefer an appeal to the Grievance Appellate Committee within a period of thirty days from the date of receipt of communication from the Grievance Officer.
It also states that the Grievance Appellate Committee will adopt an online dispute resolution mechanism.
Terming this a step towards empowering the users, Electronics & Information Technology Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said, the focus is on the protection of online users.
Grievance Appellate Committee has been introduced for hearing appeals against decisions of the Grievance Officer appointed by the intermediary.
The privacy policy and user agreements of intermediary are to be made available in the Eighth Schedule Indian languages.

Jharkhand Governor had sent the matter of Chief Minister’s disqualification as an MLAfor holding office of profit to the Election Commission of India.

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Office of profit is interpreted as a position that brings to the officeholdersome financial gain, remuneration, or benefit.
It is not defined in Constitution or Representation of the People Act of 1951.
Under Article 102 (1) and Article 191 (1) of Constitution, an MP or an MLA (oran MLC) is barred from holding any office of profit under the central or stategovernment.
Provisions also protect a legislator if the office in question has been madeimmune to disqualification by law.
Questions of disqualifications in respect of office of profit shall be referred tothe President and Governor.

Rationale behind Office of profit:

The WHO Global Tuberculosis Report 2022 provides a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the TB epidemic and of progress in prevention, diagnosis and treatment of the disease, at global, regional and country levels.

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The 2022 edition of the report is based primarily on data gathered by WHO from national ministries of health in annual rounds of data collection.
In 2022, 202 countries and territories with more than 99% of the world’s population and TB cases reported data.

Key findings:

Estimated number of deaths from TB increased between 2019 and 2021,reversing years of decline between 2005 and 2019.
Around 10.6 million people were diagnosed with TB in 2021, an increase of4.5% from 2020.
TB is the second leading infectious killer after COVID-19 (above HIV/AIDS).

Findings about India:

With 28% of cases, India has the highest TB patient count.
Gap between estimated TB incidence and reported number of peoplenewly diagnosed is highest in India (24%).
India was among the three countries that accounted for most of thereduction in 2020 (67% of the global total).

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has released the Emissions Gap Report 2022 underlining the gap in global efforts. Read here to know the gist of the report.

Key highlights:

Global average per capita GHG emissions was 6.3 tonnes of CO2 equivalent (tCO2e) in 2020.
India remains far below the world average at 2.4 tCO2e.

The Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) and the Airport Authority of India (AAI), signed an Operation and Management (O & M) agreement in New Delhi to facilitate commercial operations from Rourkela in the state of Odisha.

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UdeDesh ka Aam Naagrik, known by its acronym UDAN is a regional airport development program of the Government of India and part of the Regional Connectivity Scheme (RCS) of upgrading under-serviced air routes.
Its goal is to make air travel affordable and improve economic development in India.
At the beginning of the scheme, out of total 486 airports, 406 were under-serviced airports,27 were well-served airports, out of 97 non-RCS airports only 12 were operational airports, out of 18 participating airports under-served regional operational airports (Nov 2016) with regular fixed-wing scheduled flights.