18-07-23 Daily-Punjab-PPSC Current Affairs

Punjabhas emerged as one of the best performers in the country, while Barnala has topped among all the districts in the most significant domain of schooleducationlearning outcome shows the report released by the Union ministry of Education about a week ago.

ThePerformanceGrading Index Report 2021-22 used 73 indicators and six domains to assess the potential of schools across the country.
Besides Barnala, six more districts of Punjab Ferozepur, Patiala, Muktsar, Moga, Amritsar and Mansa are among the top-12 performers in the country in the Learning outcome category.

Punjab has been grabbing the top slots on the list for the past three years, but the achievement was lost first due to the Punjab governments silence on it, and then because of floods, which grabbed focus from all the quarters.

The state has been ranked second in the overall performance with a score of 647.4, while its joint capital Chandigarh is on the top at 659.
In learning outcome, Punjab tops the country with a grade score of 113.6, followed by Chandigarh (103.4), Rajasthan (98.8) and Delhi (63.8).

Punjab was at 22nd position in 2017-18, when the grading system was launched. However, following the reforms pushed during Captain Amarinder Singhs government, it jumped to 13th rank in 2018-19 before securing the top position the next year.

Withdrawal of Rs 2,000 notes by Reserve Bank on May 19 and the subsequent near total return of the currency to the system has buoyed deposit accretion to a six-year high of Rs 191.6 lakh crore in June, according to a report.

Earlier this month, the RBI said more than three-fourths of the total 3.62 lakh crore of Rs 2,000 bank notes have come back to the system by way of deposits (over 85 per cent) and the rest as note exchanges.

Deposits rose 13 per cent in the reporting fortnight and sequentially, it expanded by 3.2 per cent to Rs 191.6 lakh crore and in absolute terms, deposits rose by Rs 22 lakh crore in the trailing 12-month period when it had stood at Rs 185.7 lakh crore.

The Centre is aiming for digitising land records across all districts by March 31 next year and the ministry of rural development is also working on linking the digitised records with e-courts and banks to check fraudulent land transactions and prevent disputes.

According to the ministry under the Digital India Land Records Modernization Programme (DILRMP), 94% digitisation targets have already been achieved across the country. Showing the way to others to meet the targets are 68 districts across nine states Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Tripura, Gujarat, Bihar, West Bengal, Chhattisgarh and Assam. On Tuesday they received the Bhoomi Samman from PresidentDroupadi Murmufor meeting 99% and above of the targets on all components of digitisation.

The government, under DILRMP, carries out monthly grading on six components computerisation of land records; digitisation of cadastral maps; linkage of land records with cadastral maps; computerisation of registration; integration of registration (sub registrar office) with land records (revenue office); and creation of a modern record room. The districts are graded as platinum (99% and above), gold (95% and above till 99%) and silver (90% and above till 95%).

India and Argentina discussed the ongoing DEFENCE cooperation initiatives, including measures to enhance defence industrial PARTNERSHIP, the Ministry of Defence said after a bilateral meeting between Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and his Argentine counterpart Jorge Enrique Taiana.

Argentina has shown interest in sourcing Tejas, a Light combat aircraft, from India. The Argentine Minister will visit the public sector giant, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, the makers of the plane. Hal has already done its sales pitch with the South American country.

India and Argentina are working closely together to make defence engagements an important facet of their strategic partnership.

The Asian (ADB) on Wednesday retained Indias economic Growth forecast at 6.4 per cent for the current financial year and 6.7 per cent for the next, saying robust domestic demand will continue to support the region’s recovery.

In an update to its Asian Development Outlook, the ADB said Inflation is expected to continue to fall, approaching pre-pandemic levels as fuel and food prices decline. It forecast 3.6 per cent inflation this year for developing economies in Asia, and 3.4 per cent in 2024.

In April, the ADB had projected that India’s economic growth is expected to moderate to 6.4 per cent in the current financial year due to tight monetary conditions and elevated oil prices.

Researchers have discovered a new way to reverse the effects offentanyl, which is 50 to 100 times stronger than morphine.
Their research, which was published in the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, could lead to a new method of reversing overdoses, either through a new product or by working in tandem with naloxone.
According to the Centres for Disease Control, 100,000 Americans die each year from overdoses, the majority of which are caused by the use of synthetic opiates such as fentanyl. While naloxone, the only antidote for opiateoverdose, is becoming more widely available, it is less effective against fentanyl-class synthetic opioids.