03-07-21 Daily-Odisha-OPSC Current Affairs

The central allocation of Jal Jeevan mission to Orissa has been increased to Rs 3,323.42 crore for the year 2021-2020. The Centre is assisting Odisha in becoming a Har Ghar Jal’ state by March 2024, with a four-fold increase in allocation.

About Jal Jeevan Mission:

By 2024, it is hoped that all rural Indian households will have access to safe and sufficient drinking water via individual household tap connections.
It aims to provide 55 litres of water per person per day to every rural household by 2024 via Functional Household Tap Connections (FHTC).
It also includes a functional tap connection to schools, Anganwadi centres, Health centres, wellness centres, GP buildings and community buildings.
The programme will also include mandatory source sustainability measures such as recharge and reuse through grey water management, water conservation, and Rain Water Harvesting.
At the local level, JJM focuses on integrated demand-side and supply-side water management.
The Mission is founded on a community-based approach to water. It intends to establish a jan andolan for water, making it a top priority for everyone.
It encourages and ensures voluntary ownership among the local community through contributions in cash, kind, and/or labour, as well as voluntary labour.
Parent Ministry:Drinking Water and Sanitation Department, Ministry of Jal Shakti
Funding Pattern:The Centre and states split funds 90:10 for Himalayan and North-Eastern states, 50:50 for other states, and 100 percent for Union Territories.
Four-tiered scheme implementation and monitoring at the national, state, district, and village levels.

The BharatNet Project’s implementation strategy has been revised.

Highlights:

The Cabinet approved the revised BharatNet implementation strategy through Public Private PARTNERSHIP mode in 16 states across the country.

The programme will be expanded to include all inhabited villages outside of Gram Panchayats (GPs)

The revised strategy also includes the creation, upgrade, operation, maintenance, and utilisation of BharatNet by the concessionaire, who will be chosen through a competitive international bidding process.

The Cabinet has given in-principle approval to cover all inhabited villages in the remaining states/UTs of the country. The Department of Telecommunications will work out the details separately.

The first fintech cohort of the Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), AIM-iLEAP, has concluded.

About AIM iLEAP:

This programme under the Atal Innovation Mission gives AIM-backed start-ups access to , markets, and investors.

The fintech cohort was formed through a series of thematic virtual demo days organised by AIM in collaboration with Startup Rseau and Visa as part of the AIM-iLEAP (Innovative Leadership for entrepreneurial agility and profitability) initiative.

The AIM-iLEAP programme invites technology start-ups from a wide range of functions to present their solutions to the corporate leadership and innovation team in order to enable market access and industry partnerships.

The Revamped Distribution Sector Scheme was approved by the .

About the Revamped Distribution Sector Scheme:

It is a reform-based and results-oriented scheme to improve the operational efficiencies and financial sustainability of all DISCOMs/Power Departments, with the exception of Private Sector DISCOMs.

The scheme envisages providing conditional financial assistance to DISCOM to strengthen the supply Infrastructure.

Assistance will be based on meeting pre-qualification criteria and basic minimum benchmarks achieved by DISCOM. These will be evaluated according to an agreed evaluation framework related to financial improvement.

Rather than a “one-size-fits-all” approach, each state would develop its own action plan for implementing the scheme.

The scheme proposes to incorporate the ongoing schemes of IPDS, DDUGJY, and PMDP-2015 for the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.

The scheme will be available until 2025-26.

REC Limited and Power Finance Corporation (PFC) serve as nodal agencies for the scheme’s implementation.

The scheme focuses on improving farmers’ electricity supply and providing them with daytime electricity through solarization of agricultural feeders.

India has been ranked as the tenth excellent country in the world in the Global Cybersecurity Index (GCI) 2020, launched by ITU (International Telecommunication Union). The GCI 2020 is the 4th edition of the annual index and ranked 194 countries. The GCI measures the dedication of countries to cybersecurity at a global level. Countries have been ranked on the foundation of overall performance on five parameters, which includes: legal measures, technical measures, organisational measures, capacity development, and cooperation.

Index:
India ranked at the tenth position, with 97.5 factors to rank amongst the top ten high-quality countries in the world.
The United States has topped the GCI 2020.
The United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia is tied in the second position
Estonia was ranked third in the index.