10-12-22 Daily-Haryana-HPSC Current Affairs

The gram panchayats should pass proposals for the development of villages and send them to the department. Even if the development works ranging from Re one to Rs 100 crore in villages are done through e-tender, all of them will be under the supervision of the sarpanches, said Babli, adding that the gram panchayats should come forward to make the villages neat and clean.

The Minister said that the Women have been given 50 percent reservation in the panchayats of the state, which is an example of women Empowerment given by the Haryana Government. Educated panchayats have been formed in the state under the State Governments far-reaching vision in which a lot of participation of the youth has come to the fore, added Babli.

He said that the is also determined for the cleanliness of the villages. Lights and CCTV cameras will be installed on the phirni of the villages. In the first phase, out of three lakh kilometres of phirni across the state, work will be done on one lakh kilometres, he said, adding that the Government has also started the work under the greywater management to tackle the problem of waterlogging in 1,000 villages out of the 3,500 identified waterlogged villages.

An amount of Rs 18,000 crore will be spent by the Government to overcome the problem of water-logging.

In the Independence Day speech on August 15, 2021,thePrime Minister announced the launch of National Hydrogen Mission. The Ministry of New and has accordingly prepared a draft Mission document which inter-alia proposes to support production and deployment of Green Hydrogen.

Green Hydrogen can potentially be used to replace fossil fuels and fossil fuel based feedstocks in a number of sectors inter alia including fertilizer production, petroleum refining, steel production and transport applications.

Aam Aadmi Party(AAP) led by Arvind Kejriwal is all set to become the latest political outfit to get the status of ‘national party’ as the counting of votes is underway in recently concluded Gujarat Assembly . For AAP to get the status of the national party it will require atleast 6% vote share and needs to win atleast two seats.

To earn a national party status, a political party needs to be recognized in at least four states, and to be recognised as a state party, it needs to win at least two seats and 6 per cent of votes polled in the Assembly election. In other words, AAP needs to win just two seats and secure 6 per cent of votes

The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) will launch India’s first-ever surety Insurance product on December 19 to boost liquidity in the Infrastructure sector.

While surety bonds refer to the performance or delivery obligation to complete the insured project, the corporate bonds refer to financial obligation to repay the debts or loans.

The European Union has given Croatia the green Light to begin using the euro and join theSchengen zone from next year.

The country will join 19 other EU member states that use the currency.

It will adopt the currency from 1 January 2023, making Croatia the latest nation to join the eurozone since Lithuania in 2015.

From next year, it will mean that just seven EU countries still use their own currency.

By adopting the euro, the eastern European nation hopes to gain more financial security and improve the living standards of its citizens.

Croatia will also benefit economically from closer financial links with the single currency areas other members and the European Central Bank.

As Croatia becomes the 20th EU nation to adopt the euro, there are still a number of members that havent taken this step.

In total, seven EU countries dont use the euro: Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Hungary,Poland, Romania, and Sweden.