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Disaster Management Act, 2005

Disaster Management Act, 2005 
Recently, the Ministry of Home Affairs summoned Disaster Management Act, 2005 (DM Act) and requested free between state development of oxygen conveying vehicles.
Prior in March 2020 different government specialists summoned their individual forces under the DM Act to manage the novel (Covid-19) flare-up in the country. 
Central issues 
About: 
The DM Act was passed by the public authority of India in 2005 for the 'effective administration of calamities and different issue associated with it. Anyway it came into power in January 2006. 
Objective: 
To oversee debacles, including readiness of relief procedures, limit building and that's just the beginning. 
Meaning of a "debacle" in Section 2 (d) of the DM Act expresses that a fiasco implies a "disaster, setback, cataclysm or grave event around there, emerging from regular or man made causes. 
Significant Features of The Act: 
Nodal Agency: 
The Act assigns the Ministry of Home Affairs as the nodal service for controlling the general public catastrophe the board. 
Institutional Structure: It establishes a methodical construction of organizations at the public, state and locale levels. 
Public Level Important Entities: 
The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA): 
It is entrusted with setting down catastrophe the executives strategies and guaranteeing opportune and viable reaction components. 
The National Executive Committee (NEC): 
It is comprised under Section 8 of the DM Act to help the National Disaster Management Authority in the presentation of its capacities. 
The NEC is answerable for the readiness of the National Disaster Management Plan for the entire country and to guarantee that it is "investigated and refreshed yearly. 
The National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM): 
It is a foundation for preparing and limit advancement programs for overseeing normal cataclysms. 
Public Disaster Response Force (NDRF): 
It alludes to prepared proficient units that are called upon for particular reaction to catastrophes 
State and District level: 
The Act likewise accommodates state and area level specialists answerable for, in addition to other things, drawing plans for execution of public plans and planning nearby plans. 

AIM- PRIME


AIM- PRIME
AIM is Government of India’s flagship initiative to promote a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship in the country. Recently the Innovation Mission (AIM), NITI Aayog launched AIM-PRIME (Program for Researchers on Innovations, Market-Readiness & Entrepreneurship.
Objective: 
To grow new projects and arrangements for cultivating development in various areas of the economy, give stage and joint effort freedoms to various partners, make mindfulness and make an umbrella design to manage the advancement environment of the country. 
Major Achievement: 
Point's drives have assumed a significant contributory part in the progression of India from a place of 81 in the Global Innovation Index in 2015 to a place of 48 out of 2020. 
Main key Point: 
Advancing science based, profound innovation thoughts to showcase through preparing and direction over a time of a year. 
Profound innovation depends on substantial designing development or logical advances and disclosures. Profound Tech is regularly separate by its significant empowering power, the separation it can make, and its capability to catalyze change. 
Focus Area: 
Science-based, information escalated, profound innovation business venture. 
Launching and Implementing Agency: 
Point has teamed up with Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) to dispatch this cross country program which will be carried out by Venture Center - a non-benefit innovation business hatchery facilitated by Council Of Scientific And Industrial Research–National Chemical Laboratory (CSIR-NCL). 
Beneficiary: 
Innovation designers (beginning phase profound tech new companies, and researchers/engineers/clinicians) with solid science-based profound tech business thoughts. 
CEOs and Senior brooding chiefs of AIM Funded Atal Incubation Centers that are supporting profound tech business visionaries. 
Importance: 
Competitors chose for the program will gain admittance to inside and out learning through a complete talk arrangement, live group ventures, activities, and task explicit tutoring. 
They will likewise approach a profound tech fire up playbook, curated video library, and a lot of distributed learning openings.

Madhu Kranti Portal & Honey Corners

Madhu Kranti Portal & Honey Corners.
Recently, the Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare has launched “Madhu Kranti Portal & Honey Corners.
Main key feature
It is an activity of National Bee Board (NBB), Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare under National Beekeeping and Honey Mission (NBHM). 
This entry is being created for online enrolment to accomplish a detectability wellspring of Honey and other bee colony items on an advanced stage. 
The stage will help in checking the quality and wellspring of debasement of nectar. 
Importance: 
The gateway will help in expanding pay of the ranchers, support fares and increment work age. 
The gateway will hold the information base of the relative multitude of partners associated with nectar creation, showcasing chains, hive creation and deals. 
It will expand the span of nectar to global business sectors. 
Honey Corners: 
Nectar Corners are extraordinary spaces for the showcasing and offer of nectar. 
It is worked by National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Ltd (NAFED). 
National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Ltd. 
The NAFED is enlisted under the Multi State Cooperative Societies Act. 
It was set up in 1958 with the target to advance agreeable promoting of Agricultural Produce to profit the ranchers. 
National Bee Board 
Little Farmers' Agribusiness Consortium (SFAC) enrolled the NBB as a general public under the Societies Registration Act, 1860 out of 2000 and it was reconstituted (with the secretary as administrator) in June 2006. 
Objective: 
Generally improvement of beekeeping by advancing logical beekeeping in India to build the efficiency of yields through fertilization and increment the nectar creation for expanding the pay of the beekeepers/ranchers. 
Presently NBB is executing National Horticulture Mission (NHM) and Horticulture Mission for North East and Himalayan State (HMNEM) 
National Beekeeping and Honey Mission (NBHM) 
The mission was reported as a component of the Atma Nirbhar Bharat conspire. It is a focal area conspire. 
NBHM focuses on the general advancement and improvement of logical beekeeping in the nation to accomplish the objective of 'Sweet Revolution' which is being carried out through the National Bee Board (NBB). 

Brucellosis

brucellosis
Recently, Kerala launched preventive measures after a few cases of brucellosis, a zoonotic infection, have been detected in some dairy animals. Prior in September 2020 Brucellosis abort us S19δ per immunization" was created by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research's - Indian Veterinary Research Institute (ICAR-IVRI) for brucellosis counteraction in the dairy area. 
Zoonotic Diseases 
It is an illness that passes into the human populace from a creature source straightforwardly or through a delegate species. 
Zoonotic contaminations can be bacterial, viral, or parasitic in nature, with creatures assuming a crucial part in keeping up such diseases. 
Instances of zoonosis incorporate HIV-AIDS, Ebola, Malaria, and the flow Covid-19 illness. 
Main key point 
It is a bacterial illness brought about by different Brucellosis species, which for the most part taint steers, pig, goats, sheep and canines. 
It is otherwise called Malta fever or Mediterranean fever. 
Brucellosis is endemic in India making enormous monetary misfortunes dairy industry due to: 
Barrenness 
Fetus removal 
Birth of feeble off springs 
Decreased profitability 
Infection to Humans: 
Disease: 
Brucellosis has contaminated more than 3000 individuals in China. 
People by and large procure the sickness through: 
Direct contact with contaminated creatures. 
Eating, drinking debased creature items, unpasteurized milk. 
Breathing in airborne specialists. 
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention expresses that individual to-individual transmission of brucellosis is "incredibly uncommon" yet a few manifestations may reoccur or never disappear. 
Symptoms: 
Fever, sweats, disquietude, anorexia (mental confusion in which one eats less because of dread of weight acquire), migraine and muscle torment. 
Treatment and prevention: 
It is generally treated with anti-infection agents, including rifampin and doxycycline. 
Staying away from unpasteurized dairy items and playing it safe like wearing elastic gloves, outfits or