UIDAI unveiled framework after consultations with Ministry of Cooperation, NABARD and other stakeholders.
About the Framework
- Objective: To enable co-operative banks to leverage Aadhaar-based authentication services for customer onboarding and Aadhar Enabled payment System (AePS) for delivery of financial service to underserved populations.
- Process: Only the State Cooperative Banks (SCB) will be registered with UIDAI as Authentication User Agencies and eKYC User Agencies.
- A new identification is proposed to be given to District Central Cooperative Banks (DCCBs) called as ''DCB-ID'’ which will act as internal identifier for the SCBs
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1 sourceIndia has extended privileges and immunities (legal safeguards) to the IBCA and its officials which are normally granted to representatives of UN organisations.
About IBCA
- Genesis: It was launched in 2023 in India during the event ‘Commemorating 50 years of Project Tiger’.
- Establishment: by Government of India, through National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change (MoEFCC)
- It is a multi-country, multi-agency coalition of 95 big cat range countries and non-range countries with an interest in big cat conservation.
- Objective: Conservation of 7 big cats - Tiger, Lion, Leopard, Snow Leopard, Cheetah, Jaguar and Puma .
- Headquartered in India.
- Members: 12 countries (including India).
Union Government informed the Rajya Sabha about the ongoing Strategic Partnership on Water (SWP) between India and the Netherlands.
About Indo-Dutch Strategic Water Partnership
- Signed: In 2022 between Ministry of Jal Shakti (India) and the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management (Netherlands).
- Objective: To intensify and expand bilateral cooperation between India and the Netherlands in water management, focusing on water safety, availability, and quality.
- Centre of Excellence (CoE): An Indo-Dutch Centre of Excellence on Water has been established in collaboration with IIT Delhi and the Government of Netherlands.
- Key Focus Areas: Urban water and river management, Artificial Intelligence and Geospatial Technologies, water quality, and river economy.
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1 sourceGovernment of India launched a 15-day Entrepreneurship Development Programme under the SMILE scheme to empower transgender persons through self-employment and livelihood opportunities.
About SMILE scheme
- It stands for Support for Marginalized Individual for Livelihood and Enterprise (SMILE) scheme
- Type: Central Sector Scheme
- Ministry- Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
- It encompasses two subschemes:
- Central Sector Scheme for Comprehensive Rehabilitation for Welfare of Transgender Persons &
- Central Sector Scheme for Comprehensive Rehabilitation of persons engaged in the act of Begging
- Measures taken - rehabilitation, provision of medical facilities, counseling, education, skill development, economic linkages etc
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1 sourceRGI asked States to take steps towards achieving universal registration of births and deaths.
About RGI
- Appointed under the Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969.
- Ministry: Ministry of Home Affairs.
- Key Responsibilities
- Housing & Population Census: Under Census Act, 1948.
- Civil Registration System (CRS): Under the Registration of Births & Deaths (RBD) Act (1969) which provides for the compulsory registration of births and deaths.
- Others: Sample Registration System, National Population Register, Mother Tongue Survey, etc.
NATO is considering establishing a logistics base in Sweden.
About NATO
- It is a political and military alliance of countries from Europe and North America.
- Founded: in April 1949 with the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty
- Headquarter: Brussels, Belgium
- Members: 32 at present
- The last member to join NATO was Sweden (2024).
- Objectives: Formed to provide collective security against the Soviet Union then, presently Its members are committed to protecting each other from any threat.
- Article 5: It says that an armed attack against one or more members will be considered an attack against all.
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Dal Lake is hosting first-ever Khelo India water games.
About Dal Lake
- Location: Eastern part of the Srinagar city in the UT of Jammu and Kashmir, on the right bank of Jhelum.
- It covers an area of 18 square kilometers and is part of a natural wetland which covers 21.1 square kilometers including its floating gardens.
- It is fed by the “Arrah” river, flows in a northerly extremity through a dark and deep channel called Tel Bal.
- The wetland is divided by causeways into four basins - Gagribal, Lokut Dal, Bod Dal, and Nagin.
URET Mechanism has been scrapped by Ministry of power.
About URET
- URET aimed to provide a uniform tariff to consumers by averaging competitive bid tariffs of similar renewable energy projects within central pools.
- It aimed to address potential impacts on procurers resulting from declining bid-discovered prices.
- Reasons for revocation
- Procurers were reluctant to sign Power Sale Agreements due to the uncertainty of tariffs over the three-year fixed period.
- This reluctance resulted in stalled projects.
- To facilitate transparent price discovery between producers and consumers and speed up renewable energy deployment across the country.
- Procurers were reluctant to sign Power Sale Agreements due to the uncertainty of tariffs over the three-year fixed period.
