January 2019

RAJASTHAN Rajasthan to be felicitated for ‘Beti Bachao Beti Padhao’   The state will be felicitated and recognised for its performance on Beti Bachao Beti Padhao (BBBP) The state is among five to be felicitated under different categories. Recognising state’s performance on BBBP, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had launched pan-India expansion of BBBP in March 2018 from Jhunjhunu.   … Read more 20-21.01.19 (RPSC) Rajasthan Current Affairs

PUNJAB   16% state schools lack toilets for girls: Survey   At least 16 per cent of the 28,200 schools, including 19,500 government ones, in the state lack toilet facilities for girls and 10 per cent for boys, reveals the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) released last week.   The report, compiled by NGO … Read more 19.01.19 Punjab (PPSC) Current Affairs

RAJASTHAN Soon, three new drug-testing labs to clear pendency ð  More than 6,000 samples of medicines are pending for quality test as only one drug-testing laboratory is functional in the state. The laboratory is functional in the state, which was set up in 1962. Since then no new drug-testing laboratory has become functional in past … Read more 19.01.19 (RPSC) Rajasthan Current Affairs

PUNJAB     ·         PSPCL tops in digital field amongst power utilities   Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) has once again attained the top position among all the power utilities of the country under digital transaction’s segment.   It is a moment of pride for the people of Punjab as its eight towns are … Read more 18.01.19 Punjab (PPSC) Current Affairs

RAJASTHAN Rajasthan cabinet agrees on bills to scrap minimum educational qualification   The state cabinet in its meeting held agreed to introduce two bills in the ongoing assembly session to scrap the minimum educational qualification norms required to contest panchayat and urban bodies’ elections.   Two bills- Rajasthan Panchyati Raj (amendment) bill 2019, and Rajasthan Nagar Palika … Read more 18.01.19 (RPSC) Rajasthan Current Affairs

PUNJAB   Govt decides to integrate welfare plans   The state government will integrate various schemes such as Rural Development Fund, MGNREGA, Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana and the horticulture mission to fund the ‘smart villages campaign’ announced by Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh recently.   Over the next three-and-a-half years, the government plans to … Read more 17.01.19 Punjab (PPSC) Current Affairs

RAJASTHAN Rajasthan among bottom five states in learning outcomes: ASER   Rajasthan stood at the bottom of five states in learning outcomes—reading, writing and arithmetic in the academic year 2018-19, says Annual Status of Education Report (ASER).   The report says that the state the poorest performer in all the main parameters – reading and arithmetic … Read more 17.01.19 (RPSC) Rajasthan Current Affairs

PUNJAB   Carbon stock assessment of forest ecosystem to become part of working plan in Punjab   Carbon stock assessment of forest ecosystem will now be a part of state working plan code for Punjab forest department. States like Chhatisgarh, Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh, Assam also began the capacity building program of their foresters with Delhi based organisation The Energy and … Read more 16.01.19 Punjab (PPSC) Current Affairs

RAJASTHAN   Gulab Chand Kataria took oath as pro tem Speaker of the Rajasthan Assembly   Gulab Chand Kataria, the Senior BJP MLA, took oath as the pro tem Speaker of the Rajasthan Assembly. He will conduct the first meeting of the 15th Assembly. Once a new Speaker is elected, Mr. Kataria, who was the Home Minister in … Read more 16.01.19 (RPSC) Rajasthan Current Affairs

PUNJAB   Punjab to provide spl ID cards to ‘divyangs’   Soon, all the divyangs in Punjab would get special identity cards for unique identity purposes.   The Union Social Justice and Empowerment Ministry has initiated a special project aimed at giving unique identity to the ‘divyang’ persons, and this project has been started in … Read more 15.01.19 Punjab (PPSC) Current Affairs