27-28-06-21 Daily-Odisha-OPSC Current Affairs

Odishais expected to receive Rs 374 crore under the Centres special assistance scheme for the current financial year. The amount is meant for (Investment in Infrastructure) to help in high economic Growth.

The Centre had launched the scheme in the 2020-21 financial year under which financial assistance was provided to state governments in the form of 50-year interest-free loan.
The Centre had earmarked Rs 12,000 crore under the scheme of which Odisha had received around Rs 472 crore. Four major engineering departments of the State Government housing and urban development, pancyayati raj and drinking water, <a href="https://exam.pscnotes.com/water-Resources“>Water Resources and works had received the grant last year.

Nearly Rs 10,000 crore has been earmarked under the special assistance scheme for various states in the 2021-22 fiscal. The amount has been allocated in proportion to the states share of central taxes as per the recommendation of the15th Finance Commission.

Invest India has been awarded the worlds most innovative Promotion Agency 2021 via OCO Global. OCO Global is the main authority on foreign investment and provides a range of financial development Services, products, and unique employer assessment tools.

Invest India, established in 2009. It is a non-profit venture under the Dept. for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India.

It is the national funding merchandising and facilitation agency.

Invest India focuses on sector-specific investor targeting & the new partnerships improvements to enable sustainable Investments in India.

In addition to a core crew that focuses on sustainable investments, Invest India also partners with large funding promotion groups and multilateral organizations.

Invest India actively works with countless Indian states to build capacity as well as convey global best practices in investment targeting, advertising and facilitation areas.

Ranthambore Tiger Reserve (RTR) in Sawai

Madhopur, Sariska Tiger Reserve (STR) in Alwar, and

Mukundra Hills Tiger Reserve (MHTR) in Kota.

The Ramgarh Vishdhari wildlife sanctuary was approved by the ‘s (NTCA) technical committee to become Rajasthan’s fourth Tiger reserve.

The NTCA was established in 2005 in response to the Tiger Task Force’s recommendations.

It is a statutory body of the Ministry of Environment, Forests, and <a href="https://exam.pscnotes.com/Climate-change”>Climate Change with an overarching supervisory/coordination role, performing functions as specified in the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972.
Protection Status of Tiger:

Indian Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972: Schedule I

IUCN Red List: Endangered.

CITES: Appendix I.

The Central Advisory Board on Culture (CABC) was established to provide policy advice to the Ministry of Culture on developing programmes that would focus attention on creativity at various levels of <a href="https://exam.pscnotes.com/indian-Society“>Indian Society and in different regions, which had previously been neglected or not sustained through existing institutional mechanisms.

Identifying human repositories in various sub-fields, advising on strategies to ensure continuity of transmission, and recommending to the government programmes that will integrate the creativity of these long traditions with development processes.

To investigate the extent and manner in which various aspects of Indian culture are addressed by relevant agencies.

To provide inputs for the development of new, need-based cultural programmes;

To guide the work of the Ministry of Culture’s National Missions.
The Board is presided over by the Minister of Culture of the Government of India.

The UNESCO World Heritage Committee recommends that Australia’s Great Barrier Reef be included in the list of in danger .
It was suggested that it be added to the list due to the impact of <a href="https://exam.pscnotes.com/Climate-change”>Climate Change.

It is the world’s most extensive and spectacular coral reef ecosystem, with over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands.

The coral reef is located in the Coral Sea (Northeast Coast) off the coast of Queensland, Australia.

It can be seen from outer space and is the world’s largest single structure composed of living organisms.

This coral reef structure is made up of billions of tiny organisms called coral polyps.

Polyps are microscopic, soft-bodied organisms.

Coral reefs have a hard, protective limestone skeleton called a calicle at their base, which forms the structure of the reef.

There are tiny algae called zooxanthellae in the Tissues of these polyps. Corals and algae have a reciprocal (symbiotic) relationship.

In 1981, it was designated as UNESCO’s World Heritage Site.