21 August 2015 Daily current affairs for Bank exams : Online Application Management System (OAMS) for “Nai Roshni” launched.
Dr. Najma Heptulla, the Union Minister for Minority Affairs Launched Online Application Management System (OAMS) for Nai Roshni.
Speaking on the occasion she said the system brings the scheme in to public domain and will facilitate transparency and quick delivery.
Benefits of the System :
- Submission of online application and generation of an application ID with date.
- Online screening of applications.
- Online receipt of documents.
- No loss of documents due to postal or human negligence.
- Curtailment of procedural delays.
- Minimized paper work.
- Time saving.
- The applicant can check the status of their applications with their ID.
- Online project approval, sanctions and release of funds.
- Online monitoring of projects.
- Reports on trained women, location of projects etc. available in public domain.
Implementation :
- The scheme will be implemented through Non -Governmental Organizations (NGOs), Civil Societies, Trust etc.
- And it provides one week training programmes followed by Handholding for one year.
- The training is provided on various Training modules cover issues relating to women viz. Leadership of Women through participation in decision making, Educational Programmes for women, Health and Hygiene, Legal rights of women, Financial Literacy, Digital Literacy, Swachch Bharat, Life Skills and Advocacy for Social and Behavioural change.
HP Government on 20 August 2015 launched the Rajiv Gandhi Illuminating Scheme for Hill Town Advancement (RISHTA) project, an efficient smart LED based street lighting project.
Himachal Pradesh became the first state in North India to do so.
- The scheme is also known as Centralized Control and Monitoring System (CCMS) Smart Street Lighting Scheme for Urban Local bodies which implements LED based street lighting project.
- This project is being implemented by collaboration of state Urban Development Department and EESL.
- EESL (Energy Efficient Services Limited) is a joint venture company formed by four power sectors i.e. National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC), Power Grid Corporation of India (PGCIL), Power Finance Corporation Ltd. (PFC) and Rural Electrification Corporation (REC).
www.vidyalakshmi.co.in , a web-based portal launched by Government for the students seeking educational loans.
- Finance minister in the Union Budget for 2015-16 had proposed to set a fully IT-based Student Financial Aid Authority in order to ensure that no student misses out on higher education due to lack of funds.
- In line with this proposal this portal was launched with an aim to administer and monitor scholarship as well as educational loan schemes under the Pradhan Mantri Vidya Lakshmi Karyakram (PMVLK).
- The launch of this portal also aims to bring all banks providing educational loans under one roof.
Ranil Wickremesinghe sworn in as the PM of Sri Lanka.
- He was administered the oath of office by President Maithripala Sirisena at the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo.
- Wickremesinghe, a lawmaker since 1977, had served the country as its Prime Minister on three occasions.
- He held the post from 1993-94, 2002-2004 and since January 2015.
- Apart from this, immediately after the swearing-in, the General Secretaries of the two main parties in the country, the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) and the United National Party (UNP) signed a Memorandum of Understanding to work together in the parliament and form a National Government.
- Earlier Wickremesinghe’s United National Party won 106 seats, seven short of a majority in the 225-member parliament. This agreement between the UNP and Sirisena’s SLFP will enable Wickremesighe to secure a majority in Parliament.
Rajasthan Govt signed an agreement with Future Consumer Enterprise Ltd. (FCEL) to modernize Public Distribution System(PDS) by providing multi-brand consumer goods at competitive prices to public through fair price shops.
- CM Vasundhara Raje launched the initiative, “Annapurna Bhandar Yojna”, a public private partnership (PPP) scheme touted as the first of its kind in the country after Rajasthan State Food and Civil Supplies Corporation and FCEL signed an agreement at the chief minister’s office here.
- Annapurna Bhandar Yojna would strengthen government’s effort in bringing about a positive change and bettering the daily lives of the people of Rajasthan.
Hotlines or secure lines of communication between PM Narendra Modi and US President Barack Obama and their national security advisers become operational, though it has not been put to use during its short lifespan so far.
- India becomes only the fourth country- after Russia, Great Britain and China – with which the US has a hotline.
- For India this is the first hotline at the level of head of state.
- The establishment of hotline or secure line of communication between leaders of the two largest democracies of the world is part of efforts of Obama and Modi to increase the frequency of level of communication and frequent discussion between them on key bilateral, regional and global issues.
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Video sharing YouTube partnered with Whistling Woods International to setup “YouTube Space” in Mumbai.
- The ‘YouTube Space’ at WWI will provide production facility for YouTube video creators as well as the students of WWI where they can learn video production.
- This facility at WWI will be set up at Filmcity which is a major film and television production hub in Mumbai and is expected to open at end of the year.
- You Tube had launched first You Tube Space in 2012 the facility at Mumbai is the seventh other six are in Tokyo, Los Angeles, London, New York, Brazil, and recently launched in Berlin.
