NATIONAL
- Dalhousie Road becomes Dara Shikoh Road
- New Delhi Municipal Council passed a proposal to change the name of Dalhousie Road to Dara Shikoh Road, after the eldest son of Mughal emperor Shah Jahan for “bringing Hindus and Muslims together”.
- Gujarat becomes the first State in the country for establishing Cashless System for distribution of food grains.
- The efforts of the State Government for installing Aadhaar Enabled Payment System in 17250 FPSs, much before the targeted date of 31st March, 2017.
- The beneficiaries under NFSA will need to carry only Aadhaar cards for getting their foodgrains in Gujarat.
- The Telangana government has launched India’s first social innovation centre — The ‘Kakatiya Hub For Social Innovation’ in Nizamabad.
- It will function like a rural incubator to encourage entrepreneurship at the grassroots level.
- ‘Pradhan Mantri Gramin Digital Saksharta Abhiyan’ (PMGDISHA) to make 6 crore rural households digitally literate
PMGDSHA
- PMGDISHA is expected to be one of the largest digital literacy programmes in the world.
- Under the scheme, 25 lakh candidates will be trained in the FY 2016-17; 275 lakh in the FY 2017-18; and 300 lakh in the FY 2018-19
- To ensure equitable geographical reach, each of the 250,000 Gram Panchayats would be expected to register an average of 200-300 candidates.
- RBI keeps repo rates unchanged
- The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has kept the repo rate unchanged at 6.25% in its monetary policy review and reverse repo rate at 5.75 per cent. keeping rates on hold.
- Central bank in its sixth bi-monthly policy review on Wednesday cited global uncertainty, rising commodity prices and a strong resurgence of demand in FY18 as the reasons for.
RAJASTHAN
- Indian birding fair – 20th edition is inaugurated at Man sagar lake, Jaipur.
- Indian Birding Fairs are organised by us as an annual event. Each Birding Fair has highlighted a critical conservation issue of the day and been dedicated to an endangered species or a threatened habitat.
- The venue for the Fairs – the historic and scenic Man Sagar Lake in Jaipur
- Sanganer police station becomes the 1st police station of State with zym equipmentation.