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Wage Code Bill, 2019
It may also fix different floor wages for different geographical areas.
Minimum wages to be fixed higher than floor wages.
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The flagship program of the Election Commission of India for voter
education,voter awareness and voter literacy in India.
GSAT-31
India’s communication satellite.
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Saturday, March 21, 2020
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Fit India Movement.
Stride Scheme:
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1. Extension of Right to Education Act - RTE, 2009 will cover all Indians between
ages 3 and 18 by 2030 (from pre-school to class XII).
2. Age-appropriate foundational literacy and numeracy for every student to be
achieved by 2025.
3. It proposes new Curricular and Pedagogical Structure, with 5+3+3+4 designfor
children in the age group 3-18 years.
4. MHRD will be called the Ministry of Education (MoE).
5. Protect and promote our culture through the study of classical languages,
mother tongues, and regional languages.
6. Promote school education, higher education and professional education(includes
agricultural education, legal education, medical education and technical
education).
7. Rashtriya Shiksha Aayog or the National Education Commission - apex body -
to be constituted.
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Friday, March 20, 2020
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1. Scheme to provide direct income support at the rate of Rs. 6,000 per year.
Amount to transferred directly into the bank accounts of beneficiary
farmers, in three equal installments of Rs. 2,000 each.
Transfer to be made in Aadhar linked-bank accounts of farmers.
2. Totally Centrally funded Scheme to benefit around 14.5 crore beneficiaries.
3. Launched by Prime Minister in February 2019, in Gorakhpur.
4. All land holding eligible farmer families (subject to the prevalent exclusion
criteria) would avail of the benefits under this scheme. It excludes:
Former or present holders of any constitutional posts;
Former or Present (Ministers, State Ministers, MPs of Lok Sabha
and Rajya Sabha, State Legislative Councils or Assemblies, Mayors
of Municipal Corporations and Chairpersons of district panchayat).
Income Tax payers.
5. State/UT Governments will be responsible for identification of
beneficiaries.
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1951: The register was first prepared after the 1951 Census of India. But
remained updated until recently.
It demanded the updating of the NRC and the deportation of all illegal
migrants who had entered Assam after 1951.
March 25, 1971 was set as the cut-off date for the deportation of
illegal migrants.
2013: Assam Public Works and Assam Sanmilita Mahasangha & Ors filed a writ
petition before the Supreme Court demanding the deletion of illegal migrants'
names from voter lists in Assam.
2014: Supreme Court ordered for updation of NRC in accordance with
Citizenship Act, 1955 and Citizenship Rules, 2003 in all parts of Assam.
August 31, 2019: The updation process officially started in 2015 and the
updated final NRC was released on August 31.
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1. Voluntary andcontribution
based Pension scheme for
farmers.
Thursday, March
2. Launched 19, Minister
by Prime 2020
at Ranchi in September
2019.
3. Beneficiaries: all
landholding Small and
Marginal Farmers (with land
holdings areless than 2 hectares of land).
4. A fixed pension ofRs.3,000/- to beneficiaries.
5. Eligibility: farmers of the age between 18 and 40 years.
6. The
Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC)shall be the Pension Fund
Manager.
7. Farmers to make a monthly contribution of Rs.55 to Rs.200, depending on their age
of entry, in the Pension Fund till they reach the retirement- 60 years. The Central
Government will also make an equal contribution of the same amount.
8. Beneficiariesof PM-Kisan Scheme can allow their contribution debited from
the benefit of that Scheme directly.
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