Severe Climate Disasters of 2022 and COP27
While the developing and vulnerable nations continue to demand climate finance at COP27, it is important to realise that the lives have also been severely affected by global catastrophes, especially in the year 2022.
GS III: Environment and Ecology
What were the major global catastrophic events witnessed this year?
Major Outcomes of the COP27
Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme
The Central government has constituted a committee to review the implementation of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) scheme, especially to assess the programme's efficacy as a poverty alleviation tool.
GS-II: Social Justice and Governance (Health and Poverty related issues, Government Interventions and Policies, Issues arising out of the design and implementation of Government Policies)
Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA)
How MGNREGA came to be?
Features of MGNREGA
Objectives of MGNREGA
India's Push for Millets
At a pre-launch celebration of the International Year of Millets 2023 organised by the Ministries of Agriculture and External Affairs named "Covid, conflict, and climate" as the world's main food security challenges, and placed the cultivation and popularisation of millets in the context of the wider imperative of "de-risking the global economy".
GS III: Agriculture
About Millets crop
Advantages of promoting millets
About International Year of Millets
Millets under PDS
Main millets states
Draft Aircraft Security Rules, 2022
The Ministry of Civil Aviation has notified the draft Aircraft Security Rules, 2022 which enable the aviation security regulator, Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) to impose penalties upto ₹1 crore on airports and airlines for violation of security measures.
Why such move?
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