12-05-21 Daily-Punjab-PPSC Current Affairs

ThePunjabgovernment vaccinated 16,932 persons in the age group of 18-44 years, taking the total number of vaccinated people in this group to 4,27,329.

All of them have been administered Covishieldvaccine. The entire target was met by the for this group without wasting any dose.

The state nodal officer for vaccination Vikas Garg said that priority groups in the age group of 18-44 years were formed by the state government and these were vaccinated vigorously. He said the state government had received a total of 4.29 lakh doses for this age group.

Giving details of vaccination recipients, the state nodal officer said that 3,328 people with co-morbidities, 3,326 registered construction workers and their families, 7,463 unregistered construction workers and their families, 2,485 members of Health workers families and 330 jail inmates have been vaccinated.

TheSports Ministryhas decided to set up 143Khelo Indiacentres across seven states with a total budget of Rs 14.30 crore in its bid to nurture talent at the grassroot level.
These centres will be set up inMaharashtra,Mizoram, Goa,Karnataka,Madhya Pradesh,Arunachal PradeshandManipur.

Each centre will be entrusted with one Sports discipline.

The Khelo India centres have been launched by the Sports Ministry in PARTNERSHIP with state governments to ensure the availability of grassroot-level across the country.

In June 2020, the ministry had planned to open up as many as 1,000 new Khelo India centres over a period of four years, with at least one centre in each district of the country.

The Supreme Court‘s E-Committee has released a manual in 14 languages for its free “e-Courts Services Mobile App.”

The Supreme Court’s e-committee has released a manual for its “e-Courts Services Mobile App” in 14 languages, and the app itself has received over 57 lakh downloads.

The manual is available in the following languages: English, Hindi, Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Khasi, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, and Telugu.

The App functions as a personalised digital case diary, with case details available on the handset at any time of day, for free. It allows any litigant, advocate, judge, or anyone else in India to check the current status of a case.

Karnatakawith 4.4 lakh active Covid cases is at the top among all states with highest active coronavirus cases in the country.Maharashtrais second with 3.3 lakh active cases, followed byTamil Naduwith 3 lakh, Kerala (2.6 lakh) andAndhra Pradesh(2 lakh).

Many other states have reported significant drop in daily cases and coupled with a high recovery rate, the total caseloads have come down countrywide – from a peak active cases of 37 lakh to 26 lakh on Tuesday. West Bengal,OdishaandRajasthanhave 1 lakh active cases each.

Indias exporters are not complaining about the order book, despite some hiccups in recent weeks due to lockdowns across states.

According to the latest data available with thegovernment, Indias exports reached $50.7 billion during the first seven weeks of the fiscal year, 11% higher than the corresponding period in 2019-20. The initial weeks of the last financial year were washed out due to a strict country-wide lockdown in India, which coincided with a similar situation across large parts of the world.

Over 14,000 hectares area in Car Nicobar and Nancowry islands in the Union Territory of Andaman & Nicobar Islands has become Indias first large contiguous territory to be certified as organic under theCentre’s Large Area Certification (LAC) scheme.
Farming operations will be completely free from chemical inputs in this area like how it’s being done in the country’s fully organic stateSikkim.

India currently has several smaller clusters, accounting for more than 30lakh hectaresarea spread over many states, registered under organic certification as per the PGS-India certification programme where the areas having chemical input usage HISTORY are required to undergo a transition period of a minimum of 2-3 years to qualify as organic.

As per the international survey report (2021) on , India ranks fifth in terms of area and is at the top in terms of a total number of producers (the Base Year 2019).