UPSC Daily Current Affairs| One Liners 06-02-2025

One Liners 06-02-2025

Polity & Governance

                                                       PM Surya Ghar Muft Bijli Yojana

• Beneficiary - 8.46 lakh households.
• Aims - To increase rooftop solar installations in India.
• It is the world's largest domestic rooftop solar initiative.
• Recent Developments - Government aims for 10 lakh installations by March and 20 lakh by October. 45% of households estimated to receive zero electricity bills.

Web portal of National Youth Parliament Scheme (NYPS) 2.0

• Initiated by – Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs.
• Aim – Strengthen roots of democracy and Enable students and other citizens to learn about Parliaments.
• Objectives – Inculcate discipline and tolerance for different views.
  • To know Functioning of the Government.
  • Understanding Constitutional values.
  • Learning to Live in a democratic way.
• Institution Participation – Educational institutions can organize Youth Parliament sittings.
• Individual Participation – By taking a quiz on 'Bhartiya Democracy in Action.'

Skill Training of Rural Youth (STRY)

• Launched in – 2015.
• Nodal Ministry – Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare.
• Umbrella scheme – Agriculture Technology Management Agency (ATMA).
• Aim – At providing short duration skill-based training programs to rural youth above 18 years and farmers on agri-based vocational areas for creating a pool of skilled manpower.
• Purpose – To impart short term skill training for 7 days duration.

Agriculture Technology Management Agency (ATMA) Scheme

• Launched in – 2005.
• ATMA – It promotes decentralized farmer-friendly extension system in the country.
• Objective – To support state government’s efforts to revitalize the extension system,
  • Making available the latest agricultural technologies,
  • Good agricultural practices in different thematic areas of agriculture and allied areas to farmers, farm women and youth, through various interventions.
• Implemented in – 28 States & 5 UTs in the country.
• It is also known as Support to State Extension Programmes for Extension Reforms.

Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK)

• Established in – 1974.
• Nodal Ministry – Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare.
• Under – Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR).
• KVK – It serve as single window agricultural knowledge, resource and capacity development centres in different states of the country.
• Purpose – To imparting training to the farmers, farm women and rural youths on different aspects of agriculture and allied sectors.
• It is also known as Farm Science Centre.

National Skill Development Mission

• Launched in – 2015, on the occasion of World Youth Skills Day 15^th July.
• Nodal Ministry – Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE).

• Umbrella scheme – Agriculture Technology Management Agency (ATMA).
• Concept – It operationalizing skill training courses of minimum 200 hours duration for rural youth and farmers in the areas of agriculture and allied sectors.

International Relations and Issues

3^rd India-Japan Steel Dialogue

• Aim - To foster innovation, sustainable growth, and resilience in the steel industry and enhance bilateral collaboration in steel production and safety.
• Based on Memorandum of Cooperation (MOC) signed on December 2020.
• Key Highlights
  • Strategic initiatives to promote ease of doing business.
  • Sustained growth in steel demand from infrastructure investment.
  • Release of the Green Steel Report and Taxonomy of Green Steel.
  • Emphasis on R & D opportunities for Japanese investors.

Agriculture

Extra-long Staple (ELS) Cotton

• It is a classification of cotton based on the length of its fibres.
• It mostly comes from the species Gossypium barbadense, commonly known as Egyptian or Pima cotton.
• Fibre lengths – 30 mm and above.
• Origin – South America.
• Growing countries – China, Egypt, Australia, India and Peru.
• India – It is grown along rain fed parts of Atpadi taluka, Maharashtra and Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu.

Environment

 Kolleru Wildlife Sanctuary

• Kolleru Wildlife Sanctuary is a bird sanctuary in Andhra Pradesh, protects part of the Kolleru Lake wetland.
• Established in - 1999 under the Wildlife Protection Act of 1972.
• Kolleru Lake - Located between the Godavari and Krishna deltas in Andhra Pradesh.
• Kolleru Lake wetland- Recognized as Ramsar site in 2002.

Miscellaneous

15^th International Meeting of World Pharmacopoeias (IMWP)

• Hosted by - Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission (IPC).
• Coordinated with - Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and World Health Organization.
• Aim – To focus on pharmaceutical standards and harmonization.
• Introduced the IP Online platform for Indian Pharmacopoeia standards.
• Enhancing collaboration among global pharmacopoeias.