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Ministry of Defence
OP DEMO AND INTERNATIONAL CITY PARADE
Visakhapatnam witnessed an enthralling Operational Demonstration by the Indian Navy and a colourful International City Parade on Sunday evening at RK Beach. The event conducted as part of the ongoing Multilateral Exercise MILAN 22 saw an overwhelming response from the people of the city. Hon'ble Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh Shri YS Jagan Mohan Reddy was the Chief Guest for the event.
The Operational Demonstration showcased various operations by the Indian Navy including special operations and sky diving by Marine Commandos, rescue operations by naval helicopters and fly-past by naval aircraft. The sky diving demonstration was the show stealer, where six divers landed next to the dais and presented a memento to the Chief Minister. The Chief Minister addressed the audience on completion of Operational Demonstration and extended a warm welcome to all the international participants from the visiting Friendly Foreign Countries and lauded the Indian Navy for selfless service to the nation.
The International City Parade included smart marching contingents from the Indian Navy, Coast Guard, visiting navies, NCC, SCC, Sainik School Korukonda, AP Police Department, AP Fire Services and Veterans. The dazzling dance performances by cultural troupes and tableaux by AP Tourism Dept, celebrating 'Azadi ka Amrut Mahotsav', kept the audience captivated throughout the event. The spectacular Horn Pipe Dance Show by the Cadets from Sea Cadet Corps, dance on the theme 'Global Peace' by students of Navy Children School, Tattoo Ceremony by the Indian Naval Band and a grand Dance Finale by artists showcased the cultural vibrancy of India and added colour to the City Parade. The event culminated with a spectacular laser show, fireworks and illumination by naval ships at anchorage including INS Visakhapatnam, which was dedicated to the 'City of Destiny by the Chief Minister earlier in the day. The Operational Demonstration and International City Parade left the local populace mesmerised.
Ministry of Defence
GOA MARITIME CONCLAVE – 2021
IN’s Outreach Initiative for ‘Harnessing Maritime Thought’
The 3rd edition of Goa Maritime Conclave, successfully conducted from 07 to 09 November 2021 at Goa, brought together the Chiefs of Navy/ Heads of Maritime Agencies of IOR littorals, namely, Bangladesh, Comoros, Indonesia, Madagascar, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritius, Myanmar, Seychelles, Singapore, Sri Lanka and Thailand. The theme for GMC-21, “Maritime Security and Emerging Non-Traditional Threats: A Case for Proactive Role for IOR Navies”, was derived keeping in mind the necessity of ‘winning everyday peace’ in the maritime domain.
Delivering the Conclave Address, Shri Ajay Kumar, Defence Secretary highlighted GMC’s symbolism of India’s constructive engagement in the IOR and that the Maritime Security and Economic prosperity are inter-related and inter-dependent since time immemorial. He also stressed on the role played by constructive engagements such as IONS, IORA, BIMSTEC, Colombo Security Conclave, etc towards promoting pluralistic cooperation for Maritime Security. Shri Harsh Vardhan Shringla, Foreign Secretary, during his Keynote Address reiterated maritime transport and logistics as major components of Blue Economy and its significance to IOR littorals. He laid emphasis on institutional dialogues between maritime security agencies, towards building relationships and processes that contribute to improvement of security related outcomes.
The various panel discussions saw enriching contribution from eminent scholars, subject matter experts and veteran Naval officers wherein relevant insights, thought provoking ideas and possible solutions were put forth on the GMC-21 theme. A ‘Make in India’ Defence and Shipyard Pavilion was also inaugurated by the Chief of the Naval Staff, wherein DPSUs/ private shipyards viz M/s MDL, GSL, L&T and Chowgule Global, Goa, showcased their shipbuilding capabilities. The visiting delegations were also provided with a first-hand demonstration of Indian Navy’s Deep Submergence and Rescue Vessel  capabilities towards promoting a submarine rescue mechanism for IOR, along with a tour onboard Guided Missile Destroyer INS Kochi, to showcase India’s indigenous shipbuilding prowess.
In his Closing Remarks, Admiral Karambir Singh, Chief of the Naval Staff brought out that GMC should move beyond dialogue and focus on cogent outcomes. He proposed four guiding principles for future editions, viz., iterative and incremental gains, harnessing complementarities, synchronisation and focussed operations, and lastly up-skilling and up-scaling existing capabilities.
The Conclave also saw declaration of ‘Common Maritime Priorities’, which had been identified during the Goa Maritime Symposium 21, earlier this year.
With the culmination GMC 21, all Nations agreed to endeavour, to work together on the deliverables and take forward further constructive activities in the future editions.
Ministry of Commerce & Industry
186 Agri products testing laboratories set up by APEDA
Recognition of Laboratories Simplified; will boost Agri exports from states
Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority  has added 135 laboratories to existing 51 recognized laboratories. With this initiative APEDA recognition of laboratories has reached 186 laboratories across the country. The number of laboratories have increased in states with exporting potential like Maharashtra , Gujarat , Andhra Pradesh & Telangana , Tamil Nadu  and Karnataka . Laboratory testing requirements are crucial in agri export supply chain.
For increasing the laboratory network further, APEDA has taken a policy decision for simplification of APEDA recognition of laboratories. It has been decided that the laboratories which are NABL accredited will be recognized by APEDA and same will be added in the network of APEDA recognition laboratories. This will enable APEDA to continuously expand its recognition network of laboratories across the country and will enable the exporters to have an easy access to the laboratories for testing of APEDA scheduled products for exports.
Special Service and Features
RBI Exhibition Pavilion
New Delhi: Sept 5, 2023
New Delhi is all geared up to host the 18th G20 Heads of State and Government Summit that will serve as a culmination of all the G20 processes and meetings that have been held through the year among ministers, senior officials, and civil societies. The G20 Summit will be held between September 9-10, 2023 at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi. The RBI Exhibition Pavilion will be one of the highlights of the Summit. The following 5 items will be showcased and put up for live demonstration:
1. Public Tech Platform  for Frictionless Credit - An experience centre would be available for the delegates/Media/visitors where one can experience an interactive demonstration of the entire process i.e., from on-boarding to sanction and disbursement of the KCC and dairy loans in an entirely digital manner in a few minutes, revolutionising rural credit.
2. Central Bank Digital Currency – It will showcase an informational video on the RBI’s Digital Rupee and its journey. Live Digital Rupee transactions will be demonstrated by select banks which are participating in the pilot.
3. UPI One World - Visitors will be on boarded to UPI without having a bank account in India and they will benefit in the process to have a first-hand experience of breezing payments through UPI.
4. RuPay On-The-Go– This would allow customers to carry out contactless payment transactions through accessories they wear  or use  every day and highlight the adaptability of the domestic card scheme associated products at par with such global products.
5. BBPS  cross border bill payment - This will highlight the adaptability of the BBPS platform to integrate with FinTechs and conventional financial players to facilitate domestic as well as cross-border payment transactions.
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
Additional Travel Advisory for Novel Coronavirus Disease 
In continuation of the travel advisory issued on 11th March, 2020 and 16th March, 2020, the following additional advisory is issued:
- Travel of passengers from Afghanistan, Philippines, Malaysia to India is prohibited with immediate effect. No flight shall take off from these countries to India after 1500 hours Indian Standard Time . The airline shall enforce this at the port of initial departure.
- This instruction is a temporary measure and shall be in force till 31st March 2020 and will be reviewed subsequently.
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
Highlights of Annual Report of PMJAY
The annual report of National Health Authority  contained the salient features of the scheme, the institutional structure, important milestones, achievements, financial performance and audited accounts.
A zero tolerance approach has been adopted towards fraudulent activities including claims. For this National Anti-Fraud Unit  has been created at NHA for overall monitoring and implementation of anti-fraud framework. NAFU is supported by State Anti-Fraud Units  at State level.
The proactive steps taken for prevention, detection, and deterrence of different kinds of fraud that could occur at different stages of implementation are at the Annexure.
The Minister of State , Sh Ashwini Kumar Choubey stated this in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha here today.
Annexure
Steps taken for prevention, detection, and deterrence of different kinds of fraud under AB-PMJAY
1. Strong Policy Framework:
- All packages prone to fraud are reserved for public hospitals or need mandatory pre-authorization and require detailed documentation before claims are paid.
- National Anti-Fraud Unit  has been created supported by State Anti-Fraud Units 
2. Beneficiary Empowerment:
- Beneficiary empowerment is done by system generated messages to each beneficiary at the time of – e-card creation, hospitalization and discharge.
- Feedback is collected through outbound calls and letters after treatment
3. Regular monitoring of empanelled hospitals:
- Utilization data is analyzed on different triggers and results are shared with States for carrying out due diligence
- Capacity building of the states is done on medical audits and Joint medical audits ofhospitals are done to identify any wrong doing.
4. Fraud Control IT enhancements:
- Bio-authorization has been made mandatory at the time of admission and discharge. Pilot of the same is done in 20 states and full implementation is done in 10 states.
- Investigation app has been made functional in 16 states for prompt medical audits
- Standard treatment Guidelines have been created for 30 abuse prone packages.
5. Use of Artificial Intelligence:
- Partnership has been made with analytics companies to develop algorithms that can use big data to identify suspect transactions & entities. This would go through Rule engines, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning techniques.
- SAS has been selected as a partner to develop a comprehensive Fraud Analytics and Forensics solution to detect fraud proactively.
Ministry of Finance
Government of India and Asian Development Bank Sign $85 Million Loan to Support Odisha Skill Development Project
The Government of India and the Asian Development Bank  signed a $85 million loan on 03.12.2018 to improve the skill development eco-system in Odisha and establish an advanced skill training center, the World Skill Center , in the state capital Bhubaneswar.
The signatories to the Odisha Skill Development Project were ShriSameer Kumar Khare, Additional Secretary , Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance, who signed on behalf of the Government of India, and Mr Kenichi Yokoyama, Country Director of ADB’s India Resident Mission, who signed for ADB.
“The project will improve the quality of the State’s TVET programs by making them relevant to industry and demand driven, and will impart advanced occupation-ready skills training aligned with international standards. It would also complement the efforts to target the employment needs of the emerging sectors in India and globally,” said Shri. Khare after signing the loan agreement.
“The project will engage Institute of Technical Education Services , Singapore, to support Odisha Skill Development Authority in setting-up and operationalizing WSC which would offer internationally bench marked advanced training programs for the working age population of Odisha.” said Mr. Yokoyama.
The project will help over 150,000 people learn skills in priority sectors, including manufacturing, construction and services for formal employment.WSC will deliver eight training courses for 13,000 full-time students, provide training for 5,000 teachers, and train 1,000 assessors. It will improve the overall eco-system of skill development in Odisha by providing integrated services through an entrepreneurship incubation center, a career counseling and placement center, a curriculum design and development center, and education technology deployment center. These important functions of WSC will support a network of Government ITIs and develop skills and capacity of polytechnics, college of engineering, and other private skilling centers.
ADB will also administer a $2 million technical assistance grant from the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction, financed by the Government of Japan that will support capacity development activities under the project
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Prime Minister's Office
PM to attend the 56th DGP Conference at Police Headquarters, Lucknow on 20-21 November
Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi will attend the 56th Conference of Director Generals of Police  and Inspector Generals of Police  at Police Headquarters, Lucknow on 20-21 November, 2021.
The two day Conference will be held in hybrid format. DGP of States/UTs and Heads of Central Armed Police Forces and Central Police Organizations will attend the Conference physically at the venue in Lucknow, while the remaining invitees will participate virtually from 37 different locations at IB/SIB Headquarters. The conference will discuss a wide range of issues including Cyber Crime, Data Governance, Counter Terrrorism challenges, Left Wing Extremism, Emerging Trends in Narcotics trafficking, Prison Reforms among others.
Since 2014, the Prime Minister has taken a keen interest in the DGP conference. Unlike the symbolic presence earlier, he makes it a point to attend all sessions of the conference and encourages free and informal discussions that provide an opportunity to top police officials to directly brief the Prime Minister on key policing and internal security issues affecting the country.
As per the vision of the Prime Minister, since 2014, the annual conferences, which used to be customarily organised in Delhi, have been organised outside Delhi with an exception of the year 2020 when the conference was held virtually. The conference has been organised at Guwahati in 2014; Dhordo, Rann of Kutch in 2015; National Police Academy, Hyderabad in 2016; BSF Academy, Tekanpur in 2017; Kevadiya in 2018; and IISER, Pune in 2019.
Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution
Centre allows Telangana to deposit 6.05 LMT of fortified parboiled rice with FCI of the remaining paddy of KMS 2020-21 & KMS 2021-22
The Centre has allowed the State Govt. of Telangana to deposit a total of 6.05 LMT of fortified parboiled rice with FCI, out of the remaining paddy of KMS 2020-21 & paddy of KMS 2021-22. The letter in this regard was issued on 11.05.2022, keeping view the request of the state government.
The original milling/ delivery of Customed Milled Rice  period of KMS 2020-21  in Telangana was upto September, 2021. On the request of State Govt. of Telangana, this has been extended seventh time upto May, 2022 vide GoI letter dated 04.05.2022.
Earlier, the Centre approved procurement estimate of 40.20 LMT of rice in Telangana during KMS 2021-22  with procurement period upto June, 2022 and milling period upto September, 2022. As requested by the State Govt. of Telangana in a letter dated 13.04.2022, the Department of Food & Public Distribution, Govt. of India, in its letter dated 18.04.2022 approved the procurement estimate.
Govt. of India has always supported procurement operations in all States including Telangana. As compared to 15.79 LMT of rice procured during KMS 2015-16 benefitting 5,35,007 farmers with MSP value of Rs. 3,417.15 Crores, 94.53 LMT of rice was procured in Telangana during KMS 2020-21 benefitting 21,64,354 farmers with MSP value of Rs. 26,637.39 Crores.
As on 11.05.2022, in the ongoing KMS 2021-22, 72.71 LMT of paddy  has been procured benefitting 11,14,833 farmers with MSP value Rs. 14251.59Crores.
Ministry of Education
DIKSHA Website
DIKSHA is the platform for providing quality e-content for school education in States/UTs and QR coded Energized Textbooks for all grades . DIKSHA complies with World Wide Web Consortium  Web Content Accessibility Guidelines  2.0 level AA. This enables people with visual impairments to access the website using assistive technologies, such as screen readers.
Special e-content for visually and hearing impaired developed on Digitally Accessible Information System  and in sign language on NIOS website/ YouTube. DAISY is the emerging world standard for digital talking books for people who are visually impaired or have a print disability. DAISY books have “embedded navigation” that enables readers to instantly jump to any part of a work- the same way a sighted person can turn to any page. With DAISY, the text is delineated with tags, such as part, chapter, page, paragraph, etc., and synced with the audio files. Readers can navigate through this hierarchy using the tab key or other player control.
In all 2,031 textbook based ISL videos have been recorded. Out of these 541 textbook based on ISL videos are uploaded on DIKSHA. A 10,000 word ISL dictionary has been uploaded on DIKSHA. 3,345 audio books chapters are also uploaded on DIKSHA.
The information was given by the Minister of State for Education, Smt. Annpurna Devi in a written reply in the Lok Sabha today.
Ministry of Finance
Presentation made by Union Finance & Corporate Affairs Minister Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman on measures to boost Indian Economy
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100 days to 7th International Day of Yoga
IDY 2021 Activities by National Institute of Naturopathy, Pune
National Institute of Naturopathy in association with Regional Outreach Bureau  will be conducting 100 days countdown for IDY in which "Common Yoga Protocol" sessions will be conducted through video conferencing mode and will be screened by social media handles of NIN, Pune. The countdown sessions started today on 13th March, 2021 which have been virtually inaugurated today in the auspicious presence of Shri. Prakash Magdum, Director,National Film Archives of India & ROB, Pune, Shri. Ayush Prasad IAS, Chief Executive Officer, Zilla Parishad and Prof. Dr. K. Satya Lakshmi, Director, NIN, Pune and will continue till 21st June, 2021 for one hour daily at 7:00 am-8:00 am on National Institute of Naturopathy’s facebook page . The objective of this session is to reinforce CYP amongst the public more specifically ASHA and health workers.
National Institute of Naturopathy in association with Pune Zilla Parishad has started the training sessions on "Common Yoga Protocol" for the Asha workers of Pune district on 22nd Feb, 2021. The training sessions are expected to continue till the end of March 2021 teaching 5,000 Asha workers. These Asha workers will act as trainers for their respective villagers. The target of this Training of Teachers program is to train at least one member a family on CYP and involve the entire villagers to perform CYP on 21st June, 2021. With this objective, from 22nd February, 2021 till date, doctors of NIN have inducted training to more than 1,300 Asha workers of various talukas of Pune district.
Shri. Ayush Prasad , Chief Executive Officer, Zilla Parishad has challenged everyone to take 100 days challenge to practice yoga every day and he himself committed for this challenge. He encouraged everyone to practice Common yoga protocol as it is simple series of asanas and pranayama to keep one healthy.
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Prime Minister's Office
PM lauds the completion of Arch closure of the Chenab Bridge, World's highest Railway Bridge
The Prime Minister has lauded the completion of Arch closure of the Chenab Bridge, World's highest Railway Bridgein Jammu & Kashmir by Indian Railways.
In a tweet, Shri Modi said that capability and trust of the countrymen is setting an example before the world. This feat of construction does not only showcase growing prowess of India in the field of modern engineering and technology but also is an example of changing work culture marked by the ethos of ‘sankalp se siddhi’.
Ministry of Culture
Preservation of Historical Monuments
There are 3693 monuments of national importance under protection of Archaeological Survey of India. The encroachment in the premises of the protected monuments/area are removed as per the provisions contained in the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act, 1958 and Rules framed thereunder.
The Superintending Archaeologist in charge of the Circles has also been vested with the powers of an Estate Officer to issue eviction notices/orders to the encroachers under Public Premises  Act, 1971. Assistance in containing and removing encroachments is also sought from the respective State Government/Police force and where there are no fruitful results, actions are initiated against the encroachers by filing cases in the court of law. Regular watch and ward staff, private security personnel, State Police guards and CISF have also been provided for the safety and security of selected monuments.
The Archaeological Survey of India has a list of 24 monuments which remain untraceable. The Archaeological Survey of India has made efforts to locate/identify the untraceable monuments through field offices based on inspection, old records, revenue maps and published reports.
State-wise list of Centrally Protected Monuments/Sites in the country
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Sl.No.
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Name of State / U.T.
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No. of Monuments
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-
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|
Andhra Pradesh
|
|
135
|
|
-
|
|
Arunachal Pradesh
|
|
03
|
|
-
|
|
Assam
|
|
55
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|
-
|
|
Bihar
|
|
70
|
|
-
|
|
Chhattisgarh
|
|
46
|
|
-
|
|
Daman & Diu 
|
|
11
|
|
-
|
|
Goa
|
|
21
|
|
-
|
|
Gujarat
|
|
203
|
|
-
|
|
Haryana
|
|
91
|
|
-
|
|
Himachal Pradesh
|
|
40
|
|
-
|
|
Jammu & Kashmir 
|
|
56
|
|
-
|
|
Jharkhand
|
|
13
|
|
-
|
|
Karnataka
|
|
506
|
|
-
|
|
Kerala
|
|
29
|
|
-
|
|
Ladakh 
|
|
15
|
|
-
|
|
Madhya Pradesh
|
|
291
|
|
-
|
|
Maharashtra
|
|
286
|
|
-
|
|
Manipur
|
|
01
|
|
-
|
|
Meghalaya
|
|
08
|
|
-
|
|
Mizoram
|
|
01
|
|
-
|
|
Nagaland
|
|
04
|
|
-
|
|
N.C.T. Delhi
|
|
173
|
|
-
|
|
Odisha
|
|
80
|
|
-
|
|
Puducherry 
|
|
07
|
|
-
|
|
Punjab
|
|
33
|
|
-
|
|
Rajasthan
|
|
163
|
|
-
|
|
Sikkim
|
|
03
|
|
-
|
|
Telangana
|
|
08
|
|
-
|
|
Tamilnadu
|
|
412
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|
-
|
|
Tripura
|
|
08
|
|
-
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|
Uttar Pradesh
|
|
743
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|
-
|
|
Uttarakhand
|
|
43
|
|
-
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|
West Bengal
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|
135
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TOTAL
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3693
This information was given by the Minister of State  of Culture and Tourism, Shri Prahlad Singh Patel in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha today.