Anti Piracy Scheme
- A scheme by Information & Broadcasting Ministry for carrying out an anti-piracy initiative in the audio-visual sector.
- Activities :
- Campaign on piracy through audio-visual, internet and print media
- Dedicated web portal
- Training programmes and workshops to sensitize police, judicial, administrative officials, multiplex and cinema hall owners about the Copyright Act
- Conduct research on effects of piracy and develop public-private strategies to combat piracy
- Production of a film/documentary
- Efforts at inclusion of anti-piracy awareness material in the curriculum of the schools and colleges
- Spreading awareness via road shows/street plays and programme in schools and colleges.
IBIN – ‘India Backbone Implementation Network’
- Montek Singh Ahluwalia (The Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission) recently launched the India Backbone Implementation Network (IBIN).
- Objective : To improve execution of policies, programs, and projects, which the 12th Five Year Plan has set as the vital requisite for speeding up more inclusive and quicker growth by removing choke points.
- A study of projects and schemes has brought out that the key reasons of chokepoints in execution are conflict amongst stakeholders and poor coordination between agencies.
- Modeled on the very successful Total Quality Movement (TQM) in Japan.
- IBIN will spread techniques and skills for collaboration, coordination, and improve planning via a network of agencies in India. The partners in IBIN already comprise institutions such as the Administrative Staff College of India, the Indian School of Business, SEWA, WISCOMP, UNDP, GIZ, the World Bank, FISME, etc.
- The IBIN network will form around nodes
- The Planning Commission partnered with India@75 to launch IBIN and incubating it in India@75
- India@75 is a 3-Dimensional development idea for India which was articulated by Prof C.K.Prahalad and then accepted by Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) on May 8, 2008.
- IDEA : economic strength,technological vitality,moral leadership by 75 years of independence i.e. YEAR 2022.
TechVIL
- TECHVIL, a technology village to improve the quality of life of people
living below poverty line through science & technology interventions
is being established under a Council of Scientific and Industrial
Research (CSIR) initiative at Mandollagudem Gram Panchayat in Nalgonda
district of Andhra Pradesh.
- CSIR-National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI) is setting up TECHVIL at Mandollagudem in Choutuppal mandal.
- In each TECHVIL, a Grameen Vigyan Kutir (GVK) will be constructed to
house need-based rural technologies for use by local villages to improve
their livelihood.
- Under CSIR-800, technology focus areas are; (i)
Affordable health and Nutrition; (ii) Potable Water and Sanitation;
(iii) Affordable Housing; (iv) Sustainable Energy, (V) Value-added
agriculture; (vi) Energy Efficiency; and (vii) Waste to Wealth.
- CSIR has adopted six clusters for the purpose of enhancing technological base of MSME. They
are (i) Mango Cluster, Krishnagiri; (ii) Brass Cluster, Moradabad;
(iii) Bamboo Cluster, Agartala; (iv) Auto Cluster, Faridabad; (v)
Ayurveda Cluster, Thrissur; and (vI) Life Sciences Cluster, Ahmedabad
- CSIR has been adopting villages to promote employment generation and income augmentation.
- Tax benefits for investing up to Rs 50,000 in the capital markets for first-time retail investors with an annual income of Rs 10 lakh.
- The scheme initially announced in Budget 2012 had allowed tax benefits for investments in stocks. Later, Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) and MFs were included under its ambit.
- Open to retail investors who have opened demat accounts but have not made any transactions in equity or derivatives till the notification of the scheme.
- Open to retail investors who have opened demat accounts but have not made any transactions in equity or derivatives till the notification of the scheme.
- All those opening fresh accounts would also be eligible to participate in RGESS.
- Investments can be made in various installments during a year.
- Total lock-in period: 3 years,including an initial lock-in of one year in the stock/ETF/MF in which the money has been invested.
- Stocks listed under BSE 100 or CNX 100 or those of PSUs which are Navratnas, Maharatnas and Miniratnas would be eligible.
- Investment in follow-on offers of these companies would also be eligible for tax deduction.
- Largest importer of earth rare metals.
India and Japan
- India and Japan inked a strategic agreement that will allow Japan to import rare earth minerals from India.
- Joint venture : Japan’s Toyota Tsusho Corp. and India’s state-run Indian Rare Earths Ltd.
- The 3 projects that Japan is backing are:
- Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC)
- Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC)
- Chennai-Bangalore Industrial Corridor (CBIC)
- Passed by Parliament in May, 2012 to address the evil of child sexual abuse.
- Definition of Child : The Act is gender-neutral and defines a child as any person below the age of eighteen years
- Provides :
- Precise definitions for different types of Child abuse crimes
- Stringent punishments(max life term and fine)
- Mandatory reporting
- Child-friendly procedures
- Under Section 45 of the Act, the power to make rules rests with the Central Government
- Qualifications and experience of interpreters
- Arrangements for care and protection
- Criteria for award of compensation by the Special Court
- The rules rely on the structures established under the Juvenile Justice Act, 2000.
- such as Child Welfare Committees and District Child Protection Units, to make arrangements for the care and protection of the child and to ensure that the child is not re-victimized in the course of investigation and trial. Where a child is taken to a medical facility for emergency medical care, no magisterial requisition or other documentation may be demanded by such facility prior to rendering medical care.
- National Commission for the Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) and State Commissions for the Protection of Child Rights (SCPCRs) have been made the designated authority to monitor the implementation of the Act.
- Leaf turns Yellow : Shri Muzaffar Ali : researched account of Sufism in (erstwhile) Awadh.
- Matters of Discretion : An autobiography : I K Gujral
- Spy Princess : The life of Noor Inayat Khan : Shrabani Basu
- Can the Subaltern Speak : Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak(winner of Kyoto Prize)
- “Walking with Lions : Tales from a Diplomatic Past” Book by K Natwar Singh
- The Union Cabinet approved the National Policy on Electronics
2012.
- The Policy envisages that a turnover of USD 400 billion will create an employment for two million people.
Objectives :
- Global product :To achieve Electronic System Design and Manufacturing(ESDM) system at global level to achieve a turnover of $400 billion by 2020 that will require investment of $100 billion and to provide employment to 28 million people.
- Raw Material : To raise domestic supply of raw material from existing level of 20-25% to 60% by 2020
- Export : To increase the export in ESDM sector from USD 5.5 billion to USD 80 billion by 2020.
- Manpower : Special focus for augmenting postgraduate education and to produce about 2500 PhDs annually by 2020.
- Standards : mandating standards and certification for
electronic products and services to strengthen quality assessment
infrastructure nationwide.
- Security: To develop an appropriate cyber security ecosystem in ESDM.
- Global Leader : To become a global leader in creating Intellectual Property (IP) in the
ESDM sector by increasing fund flow for R&D
- Domestic Needs : To use technology to develop electronic products catering to domestic needs, including rural needs and conditions.
- E-waste Management : To use technology to develop electronic products catering to domestic needs, including rural needs and conditions
