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 Kattunayakan or Kattunayakar tribe
The Elephant Whisperers won Oscar in short documentary film which was
shot in Tamil Nadu's Mudumalai- Theppakadu Elephant Camp and It’s based
on Kattunayakar tribe.

👉 About
● Kattunayakan community, a tribal group that, for
generations, has devoted itself to caring for
elephants.
● They are mainly found in parts of Tamil Nadu and
Kerala (Nilgiris and surrounding region).
 Kattunayakan or Kattunayakar tribe

◎ They are one of the earliest known inhabitants of the Western Ghats, who are
engaged in the collection and gathering of forest produce, mainly wild honey
and wax.
◎ Also called as Kattunayakar or Jennu Kurumbas.
◎ This community is one of the 75 Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs)
of India.
◎ Designated as scheduled tribe in the states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka,
and Andhra Pradesh.
◎ Monogamy is generally practiced among the Kattunayakans.
◎ Religion ➔ Hinduism.
 Kattunayakan or Kattunayakar tribe

◎ The main deity of the tribe is Lord Shiva and Nayakkar under the name of
Bhairava.
◎ They also worship animals, birds, trees, rock hillocks, and snakes, along with the
other Hindu deities.

👉 Theppakadu Elephant camp

◎ Located in the Mudumalai National Park in Tamil Nadu.
◎ Established in 1917 by the British, it is the oldest camp in Asia.
◎ Situated on the banks of the river Moyar.
◎ Currently houses 28 elephants who were captured while they were wild tuskers
creating problems for humans, and these elephants are tamed at this camp and
converted to 'Kumki' elephants.
 Previous year question 2019
Consider the following statements about Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs)
in India:

1. PVTGs reside in 18 States and one Union Territory.

2. A stagnant or declining population is one of the criteria for determining PVTG status
3. There are 95 PVTGS officially notified in the country so far
4. Irular and Konda Reddi tribes are included in the list of PVTG
Which of the statements given above are correct?
A. 1, 2 and 3
B. 2, 3 and 4
C. 1, 2 and 4
D. 1, 3 and 4
 Previous year question 2013

Under the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of
Forest Rights) Act, 2006, who shall be the authority to initiate the process for
determining the nature and extent of individual or community forest rights or both?
(a) State Forest Department
(b) District Collector/Deputy Commissioner
(c) Tahsildar/Block Development Officer/Mandal Revenue Officer
(d) Gram Sabha
 National Sample Survey Office
National Sample Survey Office conducted "multiple indicator survey".

👉 About Highlights of the Survey

● There are more young men and women in South
India who can write computer programs using
specialised languages, or code, than in other parts
of the country.
● The survey’s purpose is to keep track of India’s
progress on various Sustainable Development
Goals.
 National Sample Survey Office

◎ 9.8% of people aged 15-29 in Kerala — the highest in India — were adept at
programming, followed by Sikkim (6.8%), Tamil Nadu (6.3%), Karnataka (6.2%),
Telangana (5.7%) and Andhra Pradesh (4.2%).
◎ The States near the bottom of the table included Bihar (0.5%), Chhattisgarh
(0.7%), Assam (0.7%), and Meghalaya (0.2%).
◎ 2.4% of people aged 15-29 reported being able to code, and 1.4% of all people
older than 15 years.
◎ The fraction was higher in urban (5.2%) than in rural India (1.3%) and similarly
higher among men (3%) than women (1.8%).
◎ The survey assessed programming skills in nine levels, from “copy or move a file
or folder” to “write a computer program using a specialized programming
language”.
 National Sample Survey Office

👉 About National Sample Survey Office

◎ The National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) is now merged with the Central
Statistical Office to form the National Statistical Office (NSO).
◎ This merger was approved by the Government on 23rd May 2019.
◎ It is the statistics wing of the Ministry of Statistics and Program Implementation
and also headed by the same Ministry.
◎ The National Sample Survey Office was set up in 1950 to conduct large-scale
sample surveys throughout India.
◎ There are four divisions of NSSO - Survey Design and Research Division, Field
Operations Division, Data Processing Division and Co-ordination & Publication
Division.
 Noida International Airport
Noida airport on course to start test flights from mid-2024.

👉 About
● The Prime Minister of India laid the foundation stone
of Asia's largest Noida International Airport at Jewar
in Gautam Buddha Nagar, Uttar Pradesh.
● It will be the world's fourth largest international
airport and 5th international airport of Uttar
Pradesh.
 Noida International Airport
◎ Airport will be constructed with an integrated multi-modal cargo hub, for the first
time in India.
◎ It will be the country's first net zero emission airport in terms of environment and
a forest park will be prepared by planting trees on the nearby land.
◎ Developed by ➔ Swiss company Zurich Airport International, which has built nine
other airports, most of which are in Latin America.
◎ Tata Projects Ltd was also awarded two contracts in June 2022 for engineering,
procurement and construction.
 Parakeets
Police and forest officials in western Assam’s Kokrajhar district booked a
YouTuber for capturing parakeets from the wild and putting them up for
sale on his YouTube channel.

👉 About
● A parakeet is one of many small to medium-sized
species of parrot, in multiple genera.
● Parakeets comprise about 115 species of birds that
are seed-eating parrots of small size, slender build,
and long, tapering tails.
● They are social birds that roam in large flocks.
 Parakeets
◎ Distribution ➔ Parakeets occur worldwide in warm regions; they are abundant
from India and Sri Lanka to Australia and the Pacific Islands, throughout
Southeast Asia, and in tropical America.
◎ There are around 11 native parakeet species found in India such as Vernal
Hanging-parrot, Rose-ringed Parakeet, Alexandrine Parakeet, Plum-headed
Parakeet, Malabar Parakeet, Red-breasted Parakeet, Grey-headed Parakeet,
Slaty-headed Parakeet, Long-tailed Parakeet, Nicobar Parakeet, Blossom-headed
Parakeet.
◎ Parakeets are protected under Schedule IV of the WPA, 1972, and capturing,
keeping, or selling them is a punishable offence.
 India-Bhutan Satellite
The ground station of the India-Bhutan Satellite, which has been built in
Thimpu, was recently inaugurated.

👉 About
● It is also known as the ISRO Nano Satellite 2 for
Bhutan (INS-2B).
● It was launched as a payload on ISRO's PSLV C54
rocket on November 26, 2022.
● It has been jointly developed by scientists from
both countries.
 India-Bhutan Satellite
◎ The satellite contains two payloads ➔
○ NanoMx multispectral optical imager: It is developed by India's Space
Applications Centre (SAC). It will provide high-resolution images to Bhutan
for its natural resources management.
○ Automatic Packet Reporting System (APRS) repeater: It is jointly developed
by Department of Information Technology and Telecom (DITT) Bhutan and
ISRO's UR Rao Satellite Centre (URSC) to serve the amateur radio
community, relaying realtime information about the region.
 Quick revision (True/False)

Question True / False

Multiple indicator survey -> recently released by Reserve Bank of India.

Parakeet -> recently seen in news is species of Pigeons.

Noida International Airport -> is developed by the Zurich Airport

International.
India – Bhutan Satellite -> Built in Sriharikota.

Theppakadu Elephant camp -> located in Andhra Pradesh.

 Quick revision (True/False)

Question True / False

SIPRI Report -> recently identified France as the biggest arms exporters
between 2018 and 2022.
Academy Awards -> founded in 1927 but first time held in 1929.

Tropical Cyclone-> blow Clockwise in Northern Hemisphere.

State Disaster Response Fund -> Central Government contributes 90% of

SDRF allocation for general category States/UTs.
Forest Rights Act 2006 -> gives right to collect, use, and dispose of minor
forest produce.