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One Liners 22-08-2025
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Social Issues
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Ex-Servicemen Contributory Health Scheme (ECHS)
- Launched in – 2003.
- Allocated to – Department of Ex-Serviceman Welfare, Ministry of Defence.
- Managed by – Armed Forces, so as to minimize the administrative expenditure.
- Aim – To provide allopathic and AYUSH Medicare to Ex-servicemen pensioner.
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Polity & Governance
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Special Intensive Revision (SIR)
- It is a House-to-House verification to be done to ensure enrolment of all eligible Citizens.
- Verified by – Booth Level Officers.
- Legal basis – Article 324 of the Constitution & Section 21 of the Representation of the People Act 1950.
- Aim – To ensure that all eligible citizens are included in the electoral roll.
- Significance – To protect the 'one person, one vote' principle.
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Economy
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Anna Chakra
- It is a tool for optimizing the supply chain of food-grains under the Public Distribution System (PDS) across states.
- Objective - To ensure seamless movement of food grains across supply chain nodes & save the annual cost of transporting food items.
- Developed by – World Food Programme with Foundation for Innovation and Technology Transfer, IIT-Delhi.
- Ministry – Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution.
- Integrated with – Freight Operations Information System (FOIS) portal through Unified Logistics Interface Platform (ULIP).
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World Food Programme (WFP)
- It is a world's largest humanitarian organization within the United Nations.
- Established in – 1961.
- Headquarters – Rome, Italy.
- Aim – To deliver food assistance in emergencies & eradicate hunger and malnutrition.
- Coverage – More than 120 countries and territories, helping around 80 million people each year.
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Freight Operations Information System (FOIS)
- It is an application implemented in Indian Railways.
- Aim – To improve productivity, customer service and thus meet the needs of a rapidly growing economy.
- 2 modules –
- Rake Management System (RSS)
- Terminal Management System (TMS)
- Roles – To track and monitor the movement of wagons, locomotives and unit trains.
- To handle the billing and revenue collections by complete management module for freight trains.
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Unified Logistics Interface Platform (ULIP)
- Launched in – 2022, by Ministry of Commerce & Industry.
- Umbrella scheme – National Logistics Policy (NLP).
- Objectives – To bring ease of doing business and reduce logistics cost & time in the logistics sector.
- To improve its efficiency, transparency and visibility.
- To monitor cargo movement, consignment tracking and inventory management.
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Agriculture
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Aquaculture Insurance Scheme
- Provide under – Pradhan Mantri Matsya Kisan Samridhi Sah-Yojana (PM-MKSSY).
- One-time incentive – At the rate of 40% of the premium paid with a ceiling up to ₹25,000 per hectare.
- Limit – Rs.1 lakh per farmer for farms upto 4 hectares Water Spread Area (WSA).
- Additional 10% incentive – SC/ST and women beneficiaries
- Coverage – Cage culture, RAS, bio-floc, and raceways etc.
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Pradhan Mantri Matsya Kisan Samridhi Sah-Yojana
- It is a Central Sector Sub-scheme.
- Umbrella scheme – Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana (PMMSY).
- Administered by – Department of Fisheries, Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying.
- Aim – To formalise the fisheries sector and incentivise fisheries-based microenterprises and entrepreneurs to access institutional finance.
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Science
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National TB Elimination Programme (NTEP)
- In 2020, Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) was renamed as NTEP.
- Implemented under – National Health Mission (NHM), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
- Aim – To identify undiagnosed Tuberculosis (TB) cases, to provide free screening, diagnosis and treatment to all TB patients in public and identified private healthcare facilities.
- Renewed approaches –
- Mapping of vulnerable population & screening with Chest X-ray, upfront Nucleic Acid Amplification Test (NAAT).
- To give differentiated TB care for managing high-risk TB cases.
- To provide TB preventive treatment to household contacts and vulnerable population.
- Decentralized TB services – To the level of Ayushman Arogya Mandir (AAM).
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Ayushman Arogya Mandir (AAM)
- It is a selective approach to health care to deliver comprehensive range of services spanning preventive, promotive, curative, rehabilitative and palliative care.
- Umbrella scheme – Ayushman Bharat, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
- Aim – To provide comprehensive, affordable, and quality healthcare services to citizens.
- 2 components -
- Ayushman Arogya Mandir – Comprehensive Primary Health Care.
- Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PM-JAY) – Health insurance cover of Rs. 5 lakhs per year for seeking secondary and tertiary care.
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