15 July 2015 daily current affairs / General knowledge / Awareness : Skill India Mission launched by PM Narendra Modi in the national capital.
- Prime Minister will formally launch the National Skill Development Mission, unveil the new National Policy for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship 2015 and roll out on all-India flagship scheme.
- Narendra Modi’s ambitious Skill India Mission targets 40.2 crore workers by 2022 .
- Pushing ahead with its ambitious Skill India mission, PM Narendra Modi will launch ‘Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana’ on Wednesday to create skilled manpower at grass-root level by providing them vocational, technical and skill development education.
- These include a redesigned Model Skill Loan Scheme, Skill Card for persons certified under Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana and the new National Policy for Skill Development.
Union Ministry of Urban Development on 14 July 2015 launched the National Heritage Development and Augmentation Yojana (HRIDAY) for 12 cities in the country from Amritsar in Punjab.
- The scheme aims to preserve and rejuvenate the rich cultural heritage of the country in the selected 12 cities in the country, including Amritsar.
- The scheme was launched by Union Minister of Finance, Corporate Affairs and Information & Broadcasting Arun Jaitley in the presence of Union Minister of Urban Development Venkaiah Naidu and Chief Minister of Punjab Singh Badal among others.
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Boeing, Tata Advanced Systems Ltd (TASL) signed aerospace partnership deal.
- A collaboration in aerospace and defence manufacturing and potential integrated systems development opportunities has been inked between Tata Advanced Systems Ltd (TASL) and Boeing. The deal will include unmanned aerial vehicles.
- The framework agreement was signed by Shelley Lavender, President of Boeing Military Aircraft, and Sukaran Singh, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of TASL.
- Tata Advanced Systems is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tata Sons, focused on providing integrated solutions for aerospace, defence, and homeland security.
- TAL has also provided ground support equipment for the C-17 Globemaster III strategic airlifter.
First Railway line built under PPP model inaugurated in Gujarat.
- Minister of Railways Suresh Prabhu on 14 July 2015 inaugurated the broad-gauge railway-line between Gandhidham and Tuna-Tekra Port in Gujarat by flagging off a goods train.
- The rail line is India’s first railway-line built with private sector participation under Non-Government Railway (NGR) Policy 2012 of Indian Railways.
- The rail line has been built at a cost of approx 185 crore rupees for M/s Kandla Port Trust (KPT) to bring about better and faster rail connectivity to Port of Tuna & Tekra.
- The rail-line between Gandhidham, a town in Kutch district of Gujarat, and Tuna-Tekra Port, a port 20-km west of Kandla in Gulf of Kutch, was funded by M/s Kandla Port Trust (KPT) and Western Railway Zone of Indian Railways coordinated and pioneered it.
Golden Peacock awared for Environment Management : Krishnapatnam Port
- Krishnapatnam Port in Andhra Pradesh has been awarded Golden Peacock environment management award for its achievements and initiatives in the field of environment.
- The award was presented during the 17th World Congress on Environment Management to C Sasidhar, Managing Director of Krishnapatnam Port by Union Minister of State for Environment Prakash Javadekar in New Delhi.
Green initiatives of Krishnapatnam Port are :
- Plantation of over 20 lakhs trees within the port and more than 50,000 trees in the surrounding villages
- Installation of solar lights in the port and solar water heaters in the employee colony
- Establishing gas connections for villagers so as to discourage them from cutting of mangroves as fuel wood.
Maharashtra Guarantee of Public Services Bill, 2015 passed by Maharashtra legislative assembly on 14 July 2015.
- The bill was unanimously passed by the assembly in the absence of Congress and NCP members.
Features of the Bill :
- It empowers citizens to avail their rights in stipulated time with less efforts and cost.
- It will pave way for curbing corruption, bringing transparency and empowering citizens.
- It ensures essential services are delivered in a time-bound manner and at nominal charges.
- In case of failure in delivery in the stipulated time, the government employee will be penalized for default, which ranges between 500 rupees to 5000 rupees.
- It provides for three-tier Appellate Authorities with first two being Government Officials or Designated Officers and third will be a Right to Service Commission.
Indian Railways tie up with Ministry of Skill Development to offer ‘sparable’ space for training in its infrastructure, such as wayside stations, railway training centres, railway schools and institutes.
- An agreement in this regard was signed between the Railway Ministry and the Skill Development Ministry.
- The Railways already has 300 training centres and 150 schools, of which about 70 per cent have optical fibre cable network connections
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Andromeda, one of the country’s largest loan distributors, has acquired the apnapaisa.com, an online loan solutions space in a stock and cash deal.
- com, promoted by Harsh Roongta, a personal finance professional, has worked with several financial lending institutions.
- Andromeda’s acquisition of apnapaisa is in line with the increasing trend of digitization and the tech-edge that apnapaisa brings would drive the growth of Andromeda.
Iconic Mexican musician Joan Sebastian, also known as El Rey del Jaripeo (the King of Mexican Rodeo) passed away on 13 July 2015.
- He was battling bone cancer for more than 15 years in Juliantla, Mexico. He was 64.
- Born as Jose Manuel Figueroa, he was best known for his sentimental love songs such as Secreto de Amor and Tatuajes On Billbord’s Regional Mexican Albums chart, he placed 10 hit albums at No 1 position, second only to Vicente Fernandez with 15 hit albums.
- He was also honoured by Billboard multiple times, first with Hall of Fame honors at the 2006 Billboard Latin Music Awards and then Voice Award at the 2013 Billboard Mexican Music Awards.
- He won seven Latin Grammy Awards and five Grammy Awards, making him the most awarded Mexican performer in Grammy’s history.
Ind Vs Zim 3 Match ODI Series : India Clean sweep Zimbabwe 3-0.
India on 14 july 2015 won three match ODI Series against Zimbabwe 3-0 played in Harare.
Highlight of 3rd ODI :
Unbeaten Knock by Kedhar Jadav : 105 off 87 balls, It was his maiden One day international century.
Umbati Rayadu : Man of the Series
Kedhar Jadav : Man of the Match Award
Stylish Player Award : Harbhajan Singh.
Trusted Player of the Match Award : Manish Pandey
