21-22-11-21 Daily-Haryana-HPSC Current Affairs

Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar congratulated the people of State and officers of the Department for making consistent efforts so as to ensure a clean and green Environment and urged them to aim for the first position in the next Survey. Union Minister for Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Hardeep Singh Puri felicitated officials who had come to receive the award on the behalf of the State in a ceremony in New Delhi. The State Govt had taken steps including establishment of a Plant for disposal of waste in Sonepat from which 8 MW of power is being generated per day et al. due to which the State has been able to accomplish this milestone. Besides this, under the new category, Prerak DAUUR Samman (which will categorize cities on the basis of six select indicators) Gurugram, Rohtak and Karnal were recognized under Anupam (Gold) Category, Panchkula, Faridabad and Nilokheri have been recognized under Ujjwal (Silver) Category and Ambala has been recognized under Aarohi (Aspiring) Category.

Tribal Affairs Ministry and Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) jointly launched online certificate course on Experiential Learning. This programme will be deployed for 350 educators across 6 states.

Experiential learning seeks to help teachers establish tribal students connect with their real-life experiences and own contexts.

Though, the tribal students studying in EMRS are first generation learners. But creativity is inherent amongst them.

Creativity, risk-taking and enterprise are some of the attributes which naturally get unleashed in their life-cycle.

The programme will be of great service for the development of tribal education, which is having exponential impact on the way EMRS schools emerge as model schools in near future.

Ministry of coal has constituted a Cell, in line with the commitment of clean energy.

The Sustainable Development Cell was constituted in the backdrop of Prime Ministers announcement on new Climate targets at COP26 under Panchamrit Strategy.

Ministry emphasised on to put major thrust on Sustainable Development in coal mining, by taking care of the environmental and social impact of the mining.

Ministry of coal has established a full-fledged Sustainable Development Cell (SDC) to mentor, advice, and plan action of minimising adverse impact of mining.

It will also formulate future policy framework for environmental mitigation in Coal sector as well as Lignite sector in India.

Coal India Ltd. (CIL) and its subsidiaries along with NLC India Ltd., & Singareni Coal Company Ltd. (SCCL) has already started the extensive work.

The Delhi government has also begun de-silting and repair of the sewage system.

Six Point Action Plan:

Arvind Kejriwal, the Delhi Chief Minister, recently committed to entirely clean the Yamuna River by 2025.

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The Indian Police Foundation (IPF) performed a civilian impression study. The Delhi Police was placed eighth among Indian states and union territories in the report.

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China launched a new satellite titled “Gaofen-11 03” from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre on 20 November.

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The Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre is in Shanxi’s northern region.

A Long March-4B rocket was used to launch the satellite.

It successfully entered the intended orbit.

The satellite was launched on the 397th launch of the Long March series carrier rockets.

Gaofen

Gaofen is a Chinese series of high-resolution Earth imaging satellites that are utilised for the government-sponsored China High-resolution Earth Observation System (CHEOS).

Gaofen 1, the first satellite of the Gaofen series, was launched in 2013. Gaofen-11 03 is a Chinese National Space Administration (CNSA) Earth observation satellite.

It was successfully separated in the Sun-synchronous orbit.