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Vision Ias Current Affairs January 2019 in English
Vision Ias Current Affairs January 2019 in English
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CURRENT AFFAIRS
JANUARY 2019
Way forward
• Avoid shallow declarations: India remains a long way away from elimination at the state or district levels, let
alone eradication. It is necessary to learn lessons and avoid creating an environment of complacency.
• Speedy implementation of the Health and Wellness Centres (HWC) initiative in the true spirit of
comprehensive primary healthcare approach.
• Enhancing training of health-care providers: in communication and behaviour change skills, and by improving
the patients’ access to quality care and friendly services.
• Adherence to MDT: can be improved by multiple initiatives that target the views and actions of patients,
health-care workers, and society.
• Removal of stigma: Leprosy program managers should design positive health messages and use innovative
media to appeal to and reach target groups to motivate leprosy patients to seek early treatment and the
community to accept leprosy patients.
• Creating Livelihood Opportunities: Those who have been cured at an early stage and can work, should be
given opportunities to learn skills and trades that would enable them to work.
About UNODC
• It was established in 1997 through a merger between the United Nations Drug Control Programme and the Centre for
International Crime Prevention.
• UNODC relies on voluntary contributions, mainly from Governments, for 90 per cent of its budget.
• It created United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (entered into force 2003-04), which
have supported international law’s ability to combat human trafficking. It was ratified by India in 2011. Its two related
protocols-
o United Nations Protocol to Prevent, Suppress, and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children,
and
o United Nations Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea, and Air,
• In support of enforcing these instruments, the UNODC established the United Nations Global Initiative to Fight Human
Trafficking (UN.GIFT) in 2007.
Additional tools of international law that include segments against the trafficking of persons include:
• Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948).
• International Covenants on Civil and Political Rights (1966).
• The United Nations Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution
of Others (1949).
• Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (1979).
Way forward
• States should establish national laws and policies that ensure that legal persons and natural persons can be
held liable for trafficking in persons, and enable authorities to confiscate the proceeds of such crimes and
wherever possible, use confiscated assets of traffickers to compensate the victims of trafficking.
• Training, empowerment and specialization of criminal justice officials: The training should adopt a human
rights approach, aiming to strengthen the capacity of criminal justice officials to protect victims and to respect
and promote their rights.
11.3. UDAN 3.0 (UDE DESH KA AAM NAAGRIK SCHEME)/ REGIONAL CONNECTIVITY
SCHEME (RCS)
The Ministry of Civil Aviation awarded routes to airlines under the third phase of the scheme.
Objective Salient Features
• Facilitate / stimulate regional • It is under the Ministry of Civil Aviation and the Airports Authority of India is the
air connectivity by making it implementing authority.
affordable by supporting airline • It is a key component of National Civil Aviation Policy.
operation through • It has a unique market-based model to develop regional connectivity.
o Concessions by Central • Provides connectivity to un-served and under-served airports of the country through revival
Government, State of existing air-strips and airports.
Governments and airport • Inclusion of Tourism Routes in coordination with the Ministry of Tourism.
operators • Inclusion of Seaplanes for connecting Water Aerodromes.
o Financial (Viability Gap • Bringing in a number of routes in the North-East Region under the ambit of UDAN.
Funding or VGF) support • Helicopter routes are not considered under the UDAN 3 bidding.
• It will be applicable on flights which cover distance between 200 km and 800 km with no
lower limit set for hilly, remote, island and security sensitive regions.
• Airlines have to provide a minimum of 9 and a maximum of 40 UDAN Seats (subsidized
rates).
• The Centre will subsidize the losses incurred by airlines flying out of dormant airports.