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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 

Climate change- impact on children

Climate change- impact on children 
According to the new analysis, in view of Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative (ND-GAIN) list, has shown the effect of environmental change on youngsters across the world. 
The investigation was finished by Save the Children International, a kid rights non-benefit association. 
Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative 
ND-GAIN is essential for the Climate Change Adaptation Program of the University of Notre Dame's Environmental Change activity (ND-ECI). 
ND-GAIN's Country Index shows which nations are best set up to manage worldwide changes achieved by congestion, asset imperatives and environment interruption. 
The Country Index utilizes 20 years of information to rank in excess of 180 nations yearly dependent on their weakness and, interestingly, that they are so prepared to adjust. 
Weakness is considered in six life-supporting areas – food, water, wellbeing, environment administration, human territory and foundation. 
In general preparation is estimated by thinking about three segments – monetary availability, administration status and social availability. 
As indicated by the scores for 2018, India positioned 122 and is the 48th most weak country and the 70th least prepared country. 
Main key point 
Nations with Highest Climate Risk: 
Sub-Saharan Africa has 35 of the 45 nations all around the world at most noteworthy environment hazard. 
Environment hazard can be characterized as a mix of danger openness, affectability to affect, and versatile limit. 
Chad, Somalia, Central African Republic, Eritrea and Democratic Republic of the Congo are the most un-equipped for adjusting to the effect of environmental change. 
Around 490 million youngsters younger than 18 out of 35 African nations are at the most noteworthy danger of enduring the effect of environmental change. 
Circumstance in South Asian Region: 
Of the 750 million youngsters in 45 nations prone to be generally influenced by environment hazard, 210 million are in three South Asian countries — Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. 
Effect of Climate Change on Children: 
Floods, dry seasons, typhoons and other limit climate occasions will profoundly affect weak kids and their families. 
Intestinal sickness and dengue fever as of now plague kids in the Democratic Republic of Congo. 
Expanding outrageous climate occasions can prompt new wellbeing hazards while the wellbeing framework is as of now restricted. 
Around 9.8 million individuals were uprooted because of the fiascos brought about by environmental change during the main portion of 2020. 
The vast majority of them were in South and South-East Asia and the Horn of Africa, affirmed the 

National Panchayati Raj day

National Panchayati Raj day
India celebrates the 12th National Panchayati Raj day on 24th April 2021. 
The Prime Minister has dispatched the dispersion of e-property cards under the SWAMITVA conspire on the Day. 
Main key points
About: 
Foundation: The primary National Panchayati Raj Day was praised in 2010. From that point forward, the National Panchayati Raj Day is commended on 24th April consistently in India. 
Award Presented on the Day: 
The Ministry of Panchayati Raj has been granting the best performing Panchayats/States/UTs the nation over in acknowledgment of their great work. 
Grants are given under different classifications to be specific, 
Deen Dayal Upadhyay Panchayat Sashaktikaran Puraskar, 
Nanaji Deshmukh Rashtriya Gaurav Gram Sabha Puraskar, 
Youngster cordial Gram Panchayat Award, 
Gram Panchayat Development Plan Award and 
e-Panchayat Puraskar (given to States/UTs as it were). 
Interestingly, the Prime Minister will move the honour cash (as Grants-in-Aid) straightforwardly to the ledger of the Panchayats worried continuously. 
Panchayati Raj: 
After the Constitution came into power, Article 40 made a notice of panchayats and Article 246 engaged the state assembly to enact as for any subject identifying with neighbourhood self-government. 
Panchayati Raj Institution (PRI) was constitutionalized through the 73rd Constitutional Amendment Act, 1992 to assemble majority rules system at the grass roots level and was endowed with the undertaking of provincial improvement in the country. 
PRI is an arrangement of country neighbourhood self-government in India. 
Neighbourhood Self Government is the administration of nearby undertakings by such nearby bodies who have been chosen by the nearby individuals. 
To fortify e-Governance in Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs) the nation over, Ministry of Panchayati Raj (MoPR) has dispatched e GramSwaraj, an easy to understand online entrance. 
It brings together the arranging, bookkeeping and observing elements of Gram Panchayats. It's mix with the Area Profiler application, Local Government Directory (LGD) and the Public Financial Management System (PFMS) renders simpler detailing and following of Gram Panchayat's exercises.