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Current Affairs for IAS Exams - 29 October 2022
Current Affairs for IAS Exams - 29 October 2022
::NATIONAL::
Grievance Appellate Committees
- 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.
About:
- 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 says he has sought ‘second opinion’ in office-of-profit case
- Jharkhand Governor had sent the matter of Chief Minister’s disqualification as an MLAfor holding office of profit to the Election Commission of India.
About:
- 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:
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::INTERNATIONAL::
lobal Tuberculosis Report 2022
- 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.
About:
- 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).
Emissions Gap Report2022
- 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.
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::Economy::
RCS UDAN scheme
- 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.
About:
- 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.
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::SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY::
Green Crackers
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Green crackers cause 30 per cent less air pollution as compared to traditional ones.
About:
- They reduce emissions substantially and absorb dust and don’t contain hazardous elements like barium nitrate.
There are three categories of green crackers:
- SWAS - Safe Water Releaser.
- STAR – Safe Thermite Cracker.
- SAFAL – Safe Minimal Aluminium.
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