19.06.21 Daily [Andhra Pradesh] APPSC Current Affairs

In line with Indias nationally determined contributions (NDC) submitted under the Paris Agreement, the Bureau of Energy Efficiency is gearing up to prepare an action plan for 2021-30 to meet its NDC commitments with the support of states.

The AP State Energy Conservation Mission, the state designated agency of BEE, has come forward to support the efforts ofBEEin its endeavour to have clean by reducing emissions as per the International Conventions like Paris Agreement.

The BEE has urged state governments to aggressively promote energy efficiency and conservation to achieve comprehensive development. As part of this, the BEE held a stakeholders consultation meeting through a webinar to discuss on enhancing energy efficiency in key sectors, including Industry, MSMEs, buildings, electric appliances, transport, etc.

The BEE estimated that its activities related to energy efficiency and conservation would result in a reduction of 557 million tonnes of Co2 per annum by 2030. It also estimated that the energy-saving Investment potential of the country would be around Rs 10.02 lakh crore by 2031 under the moderate scenario, and Rs 13.20 lakh crore under the ambitious scenario.

Andhra Pradeshis the only state in the country to issue an order, giving directions to all government departments to set up energy conservation cells in all government offices within a month.

GeM is implementing the SAHAY project in collaboration with the Indian Software Product Round Table (iSPIRT), a non-profit tech think tank’s volunteer team.

The GeM-SAHAY portal can be used to provide frictionless financing for MSMEs on the Government eMarketplace, allowing them to obtain a loan at the Point of Order acceptance on the GeM platform.

The SAHAY platform is affiliated with the country’s leading lenders.

Using the portal, the loan payment will be instant, rather than the traditional principle of approving the loan, which usually does not end with the actual payment.

The GeM SAHAY platform is lender agnostic,’ allowing any lender that is duly regulated by the Reserve Bank Of India to participate and provide capital and smart collection accounts to GeM sellers.

Minister of Tribal Affairs, Shri Arjun Munda, inaugurated Second National Sickle Cell Conclave on the occasion of World Sickle Cell Awareness Day 2021 on 19th June.

This conclave is held to mark world Sickle Cell Day each year. It is being organised with the aid of Ministry of Tribal Affairs in association with Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI), Apollo Hospitals, Novartis, Piramal Foundation etc. It will prepare discussions about brand new advances and future traits in remedy of SCD on vulnerable patient Population.

SCD is the most regular inherited blood sickness or a genetic red blood cell disorder. People with sickle cell issues dont have sufficient wholesome red blood cells which lift Oxygen throughout the body.

The Adi Prashikshan Portal was launched by the Minister of Tribal Affairs.

The portal would serve as a Central Repository for all training programmes offered by Tribal Research Institutes (TRIs), various divisions of the Tribal Affairs Ministry, the National Society for Education of Tribal Students (NESTS), Ministry-funded Centers of Excellence, and the National Tribal Research Institute. It was created by the Government of India’s Tribal Affairs Ministry.

The fifteenth version of the Global Peace Index (GPI) announced by using Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) Sydney, the GPI is the worlds leading measure of world peacefulness. The index ranks 163 independent states and territories according to their level of peacefulness. This record affords the most complete data-driven evaluation to date on trends in peace, its financial value, and how to boost peaceable societies.

Iceland stays the most peaceable country in the world, a position it has held because 2008. It is joined at the pinnacle of the index through New Zealand, Denmark, Portugal, and Slovenia. Afghanistan is the least peaceable country in the world for the fourth consecutive year, followed with the aid of Yemen, Syria, South Sudan, and Iraq.

The biggest enchancment in peacefulness in South Asia happened in Pakistan, which ranked 150th globally and 6th in the region, by using moving up two notches from the previous years ranking.

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute that is SIPRI has released the SIPRI Yearbook 2021. The file assesses the current status of armaments, disarmament and global security. China is in the center of huge modernisation and expansion of its nuclear weapon inventory, and India and Pakistan also appear to be increasing their nuclear arsenals.

According to the yearbook, India possessed an estimated 156 nuclear warheads at the begin of 2021 in contrast to one hundred fifty at the begin of last year, whilst Pakistan had a hundred sixty-five warheads, up from a hundred and sixty in 2020.

Russia and the U.S. collectively possessed over 90% of world nuclear weapons and have big and steeply-priced modernisation programmes underway.