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More than ₹1 Lakh Crore funds allocated for Rural Areas

The 15th Finance Commission has tied grants of ₹1,42,084 crore to ensure more funds to gram panchayats to make their water supply and sanitation-related plans. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 In all, the 15th Finance Commission recommended Rs. 2,36,805 Crore to RLBs/ PRIs for the period 2021-22 to 2025-26. Commission also identified ‘water supply and… Read More »

Centre launched e-SHRAM portal for unorganised sector workers

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched the e-SHRAM portal, a national database for workers of unorganised sector. The government will also provide e-SHRAM card to the workers. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 e-SHRAM Portal-National Database of Unorganized Workers, will facilitate better implementation of various Social Security Schemes for the welfare of all Unorganized Workers of… Read More »

NTPC announced recruitment of an all-Female Engineers batch

NTPC Ltd has recruited its first all-Female Engineering Executive Trainees (EETs) batch to reaffirm its stand on diversity and inclusion on Women’s Equality Day. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 NTPC received an overwhelming response of the recruitment advertisement, which was published in April, 2021. The engineering graduates were selected based on the performance in GATE… Read More »

New portal launched to facilitate geospatial planning of MGNREGA assets

The government launched a new geospatial planning portal, ‘Yuktdhara’, which Union Minister Jitendra Singh said will help in facilitating new MGNREGA assets using remote sensing and geographic information system-based data. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The “Yuktdhara” Geospatial Planning Portal will serve as a repository of assets (Geotags) created under various national rural development programmes… Read More »

Elopements most prosecuted under child marriage law

Legal proceedings against child marriages are commonly undertaken against elopements whereas forced child marriages often go unpunished, finds a new study. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The report — “Child Marriage Prosecutions in India” — brought out by Partners for Law in Development (PLD), a Delhi-based legal resource group, analysed 83 high court and district… Read More »

Hazaras of Afghanistan are vulnerable under Taliban

Taliban militants in Afghanistan have vandalised and blown up a statue of Shiite militia leader Abdul Ali Mazari in the province of Bamiyan, the unofficial capital of the Hazara ethnic group. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Mazari, widely known as a champion of the Hazaras, was executed by the Taliban in 1995. The Hazaras are… Read More »