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Dated 23.01.2020

TODAY’S IMPORTANT CURRENT AFFAIRS

UPSC-IAS|IPS|IFS (PRELIMS + MAINS FOCUS)

IN NEWS SC : Welfare schemes for religious minorities

EXAM POINT OF VIEW: GS Prelims –Polity and GS-II- Vulnerable section

In news:

The Supreme Court asked the UP government to respond to a

petition alleging that the government is discriminating against

Hindus by providing religious minorities with welfare schemes

worth thousands of crores.

National Commission for Minorities

Statutory body set up under the National Commission for Minorities Act, 1992.

Unlike other bodies like NCSC and NCST, NCM has no constitutional backing or status.

Works under the Ministry of Minority Affairs.

It looks into complaints from members of five religious communities notified as a minority

community in 2014.( Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists and Zoroastrians (Parsis) Jain

community)

Who are minorities? Constitution speaks of minorities ‘based on religion or language’ and rights of minorities have

been spelt out in Constitution in detail.


Six religious communities, viz. Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists, Zoroastrians (Parsis) and

Jains have been notified in Gazette of India as minority communities by Union Government all

over India.

Source: The Hindu & http://www.himcoste.hp.gov.in/Default.aspx

TODAY’S IMPORTANT CURRENT AFFAIRS

TNPSC|SSC|RRB|BANK

Challa Sreenivasulu Setty as the MD of the SBI

The government appointed Challa Sreenivasulu

Setty as the Managing Director (MD) of the State

Bank of India (SBI) on 20 January 2020. He is

appointed for a period of three years. The proposal of

the Department of the Financial Services for the

appointment of Setty was approved by the

Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC). His

appointment will be with effect from the date of his

taking over the charge of the post or until further orders.

Challa Sreenivasulu Setty:

Challa Sreenivasulu Setty is currently serving as the deputy managing director (DMD)

of the SBI. He was responsible for resolving the stressed assets portfolio across India

in different sectors such as Power, Oil, Infra, Auto, and Telecom. In 1988, he joined as

Probationary Officer in SBI's Ahmedabad Circle


Priya Prakash won the Global Citizen Prize: Cisco Youth Leadership

Award for 2019. She is the founder and CEO of India-based

HealthSetGo. The award recognizes her school health

program that aimed to provided 360-degree healthcare

support to children.

Global Citizen Prize: Cisco Youth Leadership Award: The award honours individuals aged between 18 to 30 who are bringing about a

positive change in the world by solving some of its biggest global challenges. The award

includes a cash prize of $250,000 to the individual's organization to which the individual

contributes. The cash prize aims to further promote the mission of the organization to

accelerate global problem-solving.

India ranked 51st in the Democracy Index 2019.

It has dropped 10 places in the Democracy Index’s global

ranking. The survey described the erosion of civil liberties

in India as the primary cause of democratic regression.

Report Highlights:

♦ The index is based on the functioning of government, electoral process and pluralism,

civil liberties, political participation, and political culture.

♦ The report A year of democratic setbacks and popular protest was prepared by

The Economist Intelligence Unit.

♦ It provided a snapshot of the state of democracy worldwide in 165 independent states

and two territories.


Subhash Chandra Bose Jayanti is celebrated on 23 January

The day marks the 124th birth anniversary of Bose.

Subhash Chandra Bose's birth anniversary

commemorates his contribution to India's struggle for

independence.

Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose:

Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose was born in Cuttack,

Odisha on 23 January 1897. He ranked second in the

matriculation examination and fourth in the Indian Civil Services (ICS)

examination. He quit his ICS job and came back to India from England in 1921. He

joined India's freedom struggle movement. He was a member of the Indian National

Congress (INC). He introduced the famous slogan 'Jai Hind'. He revamped the Indian

National Army (INA).

India joins Reskilling Revolution scheme at the WEF annual meet India joined the World Economic Forum's (WEF) Reskilling Revolution on 22 January

which is being held in Davos, Switzerland. The 50th WEF Annual Meeting is being

held from 21-24 January 2020.

Aim:

The Reskilling Revolution scheme aims to train workers from technological change and

help economies by providing new skills for the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

WEF's Reskilling Revolution:

♦ The scheme will act as a public-private platform to generate new employment

opportunities.

♦ The initiative plans to provide one billion people with better education, skills, and

jobs by 2030.

♦ WEF released a report titled Jobs of Tomorrow: Mapping Opportunity in the New

Economy.

♦ LinkedIn will act as a data partner for the Reskilling Revolution scheme.


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