PUNJAB
Punjab budget 2020 highlights: Rs 132 crore allocated for modernisation of Punjab Police
Punjab finance minister allocates Rs 132 crore for modernisation of Punjab Police
Punjab FM says Rs 13 crore allocated for providing sanitary napkins to school girls
All government and private buses in Punjab will be fixed with vehicles tracking system/passenger information system for safety of women and operational efficiency
Soon air cargo facilities will start at Chandigarh and Amritsar international airports: Punjab FM
Punjab FM says fourth small industrial park will come up at Wazirabad in Fatehgarh Sahib
Punjab to establish three mega industrial parks over 1,000 acres at Mattewara, Bathinda and Rajpura
Rs 11 crore is allocated for establishing Armed Forces Preparatory Institute at Hoshiarpur for joining armed forces at graduation level, says Punjab FM.
Drug de-addiction: 25 more OOAT clinics to be made operational in the state. 193 OOAT clinics are already operational.
Punjab finance minister allocates Rs 2,000 crore for farm debt relief, including Rs 520 crore for waiving off loans of landless and farm workers
Rs 8,275 crore allocated for free power to farmers by Punjab FM
Total outstanding debt of Punjab government for financial year 2020-21 is likely to be Rs 2.4 crore, which is 38.53 per cent of GSDP.
Rs 3,830 crore allocated for for rural development and panchayat schemes, says Manpreet Singh Badal
Punjab FM allocates Rs 600 crore for smart village campaign and Rs 100 crore for promoting digital education
Rs 12,488 crore allocated for school education. It accounts for 8 per cent of total expenditure. It is 23 per cent higher than 2016-17 budgetary allocation.
Construction of five new degree colleges to start this year with an allocation of Rs 25 crore: Punjab FM
19 new ITIs to be established in state, says Punjab finance minister
Punjab FM says Rs 3,778 crore allocated for health sector, which is 15 percent higher against 2019-20 revised budget estimates
Rs 100 crore allotted for promoting digital education
Manpreet Singh Badal said that Rs 12,488 crore is allocated for school education
Rs 600 crore is allocated for smart village campaign
Retirement age of state employees reduced from 60 to 58 in Punjab, announces finance minister Manpreet Badal
Rs 3,830 crore is allocated for rural development and panchayats schemes: Punjab finance minister
Rs 25 crore is allocated for 400th birth anniversary of Guru Teg Bahadur
Rs 447 crore is allocated for tourism sector, says Punjab FM
There is 20 per cent increase over budget estimates of 2016-17: Manpreet Singh Badal
Rs 324 crore outlay to support employment generation and training department: Punjab finance minister
Punjab finance minister says that Rs 2,267 crore is allocated for providing industrial power subsidy
Punjab finance minister Manpreet Singh Badal presents budget in the state assembly for the financial year 2020-21.
INTERNATIONAL
3, 000 kilometre long power grid from Myanmar-Thailand to India: BIMSTEC
Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) is working on connecting about 3,000-kilometre long power grid from Myanmar-Thailand to India.
This was announced by the Energy Adviser to the Prime Minister of Bangladesh Dr Tawfiq-E-Elahi Chowdhury while inaugurating the energy conference of BIMSTEC in Dhaka.
The grid connectivity would ensure better capacity utilization by complementing member country’s demand and supply situation.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) are interested in investing in BIMSTEC regional power grid.
BIMSTEC countries had signed a Memorandum of Understanding for establishing a regional power grid in 2018.
BIMSTEC is a regional grouping with seven countries from South and Southeast Asia including Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand , Nepal and Bhutan.
NATIONAL
National Science Day 2020: 28 February
National Science Day (NSD) is observed every year on February 28.
On this day President Ram Nath Kovind will present several awards for science communication and popularization as well as for women scientists.
The theme of this day is ‘women in science’.
NSD is celebrated every year on 28 February to commemorate the discovery of the ‘Raman Effect’.
On this day, Sir C.V. Raman announced the discovery of the ‘Raman Effect’ for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1930.
The Government of India designated 28 February as National Science Day (NSD) in 1986.
International Conference on Standardisation of AYUSH Terminologies ‘ICoSDiTAUS-2020’ concludes in Delhi
ICoSDiTAUS-2020, the two-day International Conference on Standardisation of Diagnosis and Terminologies in Ayurveda, Unani and Siddha Systems of Medicine concluded in New Delhi.
It concluded with adopting the “New Delhi Declaration on Collection and Classification of Traditional Medicine (TM) Diagnostic Data”.
The sixteen countries came together for the cause of Traditional Medicine at this conference.
ICoSDiTAUS-2020 is the biggest ever international event dedicated to standardisation of Diagnosis and Terminologies of Traditional Medicine in terms of the broad level of participation covering virtually all the continents.
The New Delhi declaration emphasised the commitment of the countries to Traditional Medicine as a significant area of health care.
NTPC, CPCB to set up 25 CAAQMS in States and UTs
NTPC Limited has agreed to help the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) to set up 25 Continuous ambient air quality monitoring stations (CAAQMS) across six States and three Union Territories (UTs) in India.
As per the agreement, NTPC will provide financial support of Rs.80 crore for the installation of CAAQMS in the States and Union Territories.
The six states are Gwalior in Madhya Pradesh, Ranchi in Jharkhand, Patna in Bihar, Varanasi, Lucknow, Kanpur, and Allahabad all in Uttar Pradesh, Pimpri-Chinchwad in Maharashtra and Madurai in Tamil Nadu.
The 3 UTs where the CAAQMS will be installed are Port Blair in Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Silvassa in Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman in Daman & Diu.
Cabinet approved the 2020 Surrogacy Regulation Bill
The Union Cabinet approved the Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2020, on 26 February. The Bill will allow widows and divorced women to be surrogate mothers. The Bill has incorporated all recommendations made by the Rajya Sabha Select Committee.
The amended Bill is the reformed version of the draft legislation, which was passed by Lok Sabha in August 2019.
The Bill aims to ensure effective regulation of the surrogacy service. It bans commercial surrogacy and allow altruistic surrogacy.
Bill provisions:
The Bill aims to ensure effective regulation of the surrogacy service.
The Bill has now proposed that the surrogate mother should be a “willing” woman. Earlier it was termed and instructed as “close relative.” The Bill has recommended that not only close relatives but any woman, whether she is a widow or divorcee, who is “willing” should be allowed to act as a surrogate mother.
The Bill stated that only Indian couples (both partners being of Indian origins) could opt for surrogacy in the country.
The Cabinet decided that the insurance cover of the surrogate mother, which was proposed for 16 months, should be increased to 36 months.
As per the Bill, National Surrogacy Board at the central level and State Surrogacy Board and appropriate authorities in states and Union Territories (UT) respectively, will be established to regulate surrogacy.
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