Current Affairs 3rd February 2016

Current Affairs 3rd February 2016

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India, Brunei penned three MoUs

• India and Brunei have marked three Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) to participate in the fields of barrier, wellbeing and youth undertakings and games. These MoUs were marked the delegates of both the nations in vicinity of the meeting Vice President Mohd Hamid Ansari at capital Bandar Seri Begawan.
• 3 MoUs are MoU in Health Cooperation: Its goal is to build up collaboration in the field of wellbeing between the two nations by method for pooling specialized, exploratory, money related and HR and pharmaceutical administrative practices. It additionally tries to updates the social insurance, exploration and restorative training.
• MoU on Defense Cooperation: Its motivation is to improve and grow the extent of Defense Cooperation between the two nations in different fields. Safeguard ties in between India and Brunei goes back to numerous decades and right now exist as maritime boat visits, preparing of senior military officers in Staff schools and trade of experience.
• MoU on Cooperation in Youth and Sports Affairs: It tries to give a system to trades of games groups and games persons. It likewise tries to encourage the trading of skill in drilling, Sports Management and Administration, Sports ability distinguishing proof and trade of data in the field of youth Affairs.
• The key plan of Vice President’s visit was to settle on the specifics of protection collaboration, wellbeing area tie up and building up a gas-based urea producing unit by India in Brunei. He likewise met the Sultan of Brunei Hassanal Bolkiah who has consented to pay an official visit to India soon.

Major General Jai Shanker Menon chosen as UNDOF head

• Major General Jai Shanker Menon of India has been delegated as the Head of Mission and Force Commander of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF).
• He was selected by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and succeeds Lt Gen Purna Chandra Thapa of Nepal. In his new part, Maj Gen Menon brings his broad charge experience and learning of peacekeeping undertakings at the worldwide and national levels.
• Major General Jai Shanker Menon Prior to this arrangement, Maj. Gen. Menon was serving as Additional Director General (ADG) Equipment Management in the Indian Army. He has held number of charge positions in the Indian Army.
• Prior from 2012 to 2013, he had served as General Officer Commanding (GOC) of an Infantry Division. He likewise has served as Commandant of Regimental Training Center, Brigade Commander and Battalion Commander.
• At the worldwide level in the United Nations, he had served as a Military Observer in the UN Operation in Mozambique (ONUMOZ) in 1993 and UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) from 2007 to 2009.
• United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) The UNDOF was built up in 1974 by United Nations Security Council (UNSC) taking after the concurred separation of Syrian and Israeli powers in the Golan Heights. From that point forward, UNDOF has stayed in the zone to keep up the truce in the middle of Syrian and Israeli strengths and to manage the execution of the withdrawal assertion.

MGNREGA finishes 10 years of usage

• The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), 2005 finishes ten years of usage. On this event, Union Ministry of Rural Development had sorted out MGNREGA SAMMELAN in New Delhi to highlight accomplishments MGNREGA.
• Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley was Chief Guest in the Sammelan.
• Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), 2005 MGNREGA is a lead country work ensure plan that was reported by the then UPA government headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in February 2006.
• The plan goes for giving 100 days wage job to each family unit to guarantee employment security in country regions. It additionally went for reasonable advancement to address the reason for dry season, deforestation and soil disintegration. 33% (33 for each penny) proposed employments in the plan have been held for the ladies.
• Union Ministry of Rural Development is nodal organization for the usage of the plan. Status of Implementation Since its execution started the aggregate consumption on the plan has added up to more than 3 lakh crore rupees. Out of this, 71% has been spent on pay installments to specialists.
• The rate of Scheduled Caste (SC) laborers has reliably been around 20% and Scheduled Tribe (ST) specialists has been around 17%. Ladies interest has rose to 57% well over the statutory necessity of 33%. More than 1,980 crore individual days business have been produced in the project. More than 65% of the works taken under MGNREGA are connected to farming and unified exercises.