Two individuals were arrested under the Atomic Energy Act, 1962 for having uranium without permit and selling it unlawfully. On testing, the about sample was affirmed as natural uranium by Bhabha Atomic Research Center (BARC). 

Main key points 

Uranium: 

About: 

Uranium happens normally in low focuses in soil, rock and water. It is a hard, thick, pliant, malleable, silver-white, radioactive metal. 

Uranium metal has an extremely high thickness. 

When finely isolated, it can respond with cold water. In air it is covered by uranium oxide, discoloring quickly. 

It can frame solids arrangements and intermetallic compounds with large numbers of the metals.

 

Applications: 

Energy Production: The primary utilization of uranium in the regular citizen area is to fuel business thermal energy stations for age of thermal power. 

This expects uranium to be improved with the uranium-235 isotope and the chain response to be controlled so the energy is delivered in a more reasonable manner. 

Making Atomic Bomb: The primary nuclear bomb utilized in fighting was a uranium bomb. 

This bomb contained enough of the uranium-235 isotope to begin a runaway chain response which in a negligible portion of a second made an enormous number of the uranium iotas go through parting, along these lines delivering a fireball of energy. 

Utilized as Shield against Radiation: Depleted uranium is likewise utilized as safeguard against radiation in clinical cycles utilizing radiation treatment and furthermore while shipping radioactive materials. 

Despite the fact that itself radioactive, uranium's high thickness makes it compelling in stopping radiation. 

Utilized as Counterweights in Industry: Its high thickness likewise makes it helpful as stabilizers in airplane and modern apparatus. 

Radiometric Dating:

The isotope uranium 238 is utilized to gauge the age of the most punctual molten rocks and for different kinds of radiometric dating. 

Manure: Phosphate composts are produced using material commonly high in uranium, so they ordinarily contain high measures of it. 

Health and Environmental Impacts: 

Effect on Health: Potentially drained uranium has both substance and radiological poisonousness with the two significant objective organs being the kidneys and the lungs. 

Effect on Environment: Uranium mining offices produce tailings that for the most part are discarded in close to surface impoundments near the mine. 

These tailings present genuine ecological and wellbeing hazards as Radon outflow, windblown residue dispersal and draining of foreign substances including substantial metals and arsenic into the water. 

Uranium Deposits In India: 

In India, Uranium stores happen in the Dharwar rocks. 

It happens along the Singhbhum Copper belt (Jharkhand); Udaipur, Alwar and Jhunjhunu locale of Rajasthan, Durg area of Chhattisgarh, Bhandara region of Maharashtra and Kullu region of Himachal Pradesh. 

Critical amounts of stores have been as of late found in pieces of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana between Seshachalam backwoods and Sresailam (Southern edge of Andhra to Southern edge of Telangana). 

Legal Framework in India: 

In compatibility to passage at sequential No. 54 of List I (Union List), the Parliament has passed 'The Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957 (MMDR Act)'. 

In any case, concerning minor minerals, the rulemaking powers have been assigned to the States through this Act. 

Since Uranium is a significant mineral, it is overseen by the Union Government under arrangements of MMDR Act. 

The approach and enactment identifying with Major minerals are overseen by the Ministry of Mines, yet Uranium being a nuclear mineral is overseen by the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE). 

The Atomic Energy Act, 1962 looks to give principles of controlling radioactive substances and plants and measures to forestall radiation mishaps, hold public wellbeing, guarantee careful removal of radioactive squanders, etc. 

A significant number of these mineral stores are found in rich woods stores and in this way endorsement of the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change gets fundamental.

 

Bhabha Atomic Research Center  (BARC)

Dr. Homo Jahangir Bhabha considered the Nuclear Program in India. Dr Bhabha set up the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) for doing atomic science research in 1945. 

To escalate the work to abuse thermal power to serve the country, Dr Bhabha set up the Atomic Energy Establishment, Trombay (AEET) in January 1954 for a multidisciplinary research program fundamental for the aspiring atomic program of India. AEET was renamed Bhabha Atomic Research Center (BARC) in 1966.

According to the recent news, the Union Territory of Puducherry has become the fourth State/UT after Goa, Telangana and Andaman and Nicobar Islands to give guaranteed tap water supply to each rustic home under Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM). 

About Further, the State of Punjab and the UTs of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu have likewise crossed the achievement of covering 75% of rustic homes with guaranteed tap water supply. 

 

Jal Jeevan Mission: 

JJM imagines supply of 55 liters of water for each individual each day to each rustic family through Functional Household Tap Connections (FHTC) by 2024. 

It is under the Ministry of Jal Shakti. 

JJM centers around coordinated interest and supply-side administration of water at the nearby level.

 

Making of local infrastructure for source maintainability measures as obligatory components, similar to water reaping, groundwater re-energize and the board of family wastewater for reuse, is embraced in intermingling with other government programs/plans. 

It also encompasses:

Focusing on provisions of FHTCs in quality influenced territories, towns in dry spell inclined and desert regions, Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana (SAGY) towns, and so on 

Giving practical tap association with Schools, Anganwadi focuses, Gram Panchayat structures, Health focuses, wellbeing focuses and local area structures. 

Mechanical intercessions for expulsion of impurities where water quality is an issue. 

The Mission depends on a local area way to deal with water and incorporates broad Information, Education and Communication as a vital segment of the mission. 

JJM hopes to make a jan andolan for water, accordingly making it everybody's need. 

The asset dividing design among the Center and states is 90:10 for Himalayan and North-Eastern States, 

50:50 for different states, and 100% for Union Territories. 

The all out allotment to the plan is over Rs. 3 lakh crore.

 

Jal Jeevan Mission (Urban): 

It’s launch : In the Budget 2021-22, Jal Jeevan Mission (Urban) was reported under the Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry to give widespread inclusion of water supply to all families through practical taps in all legal towns as per Sustainable Development Goal-6 (clean water and disinfection). 

Objectives: 

Secure tap and sewer associations. 

Rejuvenation of water bodies. 

Making a circular water economy.

According to the recent news the National Financial Reporting Authority (NFRA) is currently making a checked and precise data set of organizations (Public Interest Entities) and inspectors that go under the regulatory ambit of it. 

According to this such type of manner, the NFRA has been drawing in with the Corporate Data Management (CDM) division of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) and three perceived stock trades in India. 

Main key points 

Constitution: NFRA was comprised in 2018 by the Government of India under area 132 (1) of the Companies Act, 2013. It is a review controller. 

Foundation: The choice to comprise the NFRA was taken after the job of reviewers and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India went under the scanner for supposed breaches in different corporate tricks including that at the Punjab National Bank.

 

Structure: It comprises of a director, who will be an individual of greatness and having ability in bookkeeping, reviewing, account or law, selected by the Central Government and such different individuals not surpassing 15. 

Function and Duties: 

Suggests bookkeeping and examining approaches and guidelines to be received by organizations for endorsement by the Central Government. 

Screen and implement consistence with bookkeeping guidelines and evaluating norms. 

Regulate the nature of administration of the callings related with guaranteeing consistence with such guidelines and propose measures for development in the nature of administration. 

Protect the public interest. 

Powers: 

It can attempt examination identified with the accompanying class of organizations and bodies corporate

called Public Interest Entities: 

The companies whose protections are recorded on any stock trade in India or outside India. 

The Unlisted public organizations having settled up capital of at least Rs. 500 crores or having yearly turnover of at the very least Rs. 1,000 crores or having, in total, remarkable credits, debentures and stores of at the very least Rs. 500 crores as on the 31st March of quickly going before monetary year. 

Insurance agencies, banking organizations, organizations occupied with the age or supply of power. 

Where proficient or other offense is demonstrated, it has the ability to make request for forcing punishment of— 

at least one lakh rupees, however which may reach out to multiple times of the expenses got, if there should be an occurrence of people; and 

at least ten lakh rupees, however which may stretch out to multiple times of the expenses got, if there should be an occurrence of firms. 

According to the recent report, the thirteen states have started distributing food grains under the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Ann Yojana (PMGKAY).

 

The plan has been rolled out again for a very long time (May and June 2021) as the country's medical services foundation has arrived at its ability and a few states have made strides like total lockdown, night check in time to contain the spread of the infection. 

Main key points 

About: 

PMGKAY is a piece of Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Package (PMGKP) to help the helpless take on the conflict against Covid-19. 

Its nodal Ministry is the Ministry of Finance. 

It was at first reported for a multi month time frame (April, May and June 2020), covering 80 crore proportion cardholders. Later it was stretched out till November 2020. 

Anyway in April 2021, the public authority had reported its choice to restart the PMGKAY. 

The plan pointed toward giving every individual who is covered under the National Food Security Act 2013 with an extra 5 kg grains (wheat or rice) free of charge, notwithstanding the 5 kg of financed food grain as of now gave through the Public Distribution System (PDS). 

The new form of the PMGKAY needs one of its significant segments which was there in 2020 PMGKAY i:e liberated from cost 1 kg beats each month to every family covered under the NFSA. 

Expenditure: 

The government of India will bear all use of over Rs. 26,000 crore by virtue of food subsidy and Central help to states/UTs because of intra-state transportation etc .

Allocation Till Now: 

Out of an all total monthly distribution of 39.69 lakh Metric Tons (MT) under the PMGKAY, 15.55 lakh MT have been lifted by states. 

1.01 lakh MT have been disseminated to  2.03 crore recipients till May 2021. 

Challenge: 

Here A main key issue is that of that the Beneficiaries of the National Food Security Act depend on the last registration (2011). The quantity of food-uncertain individuals has expanded from that point forward and they remain uncovered.