04-03-22 Daily-Haryana-HPSC Current Affairs

Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Saturday launched the Mukhyamantri Shato Udyami Sarathi Yojana to help youth become self-employed.

Under the scheme, five experienced persons of the Society will be appointed as guides for 100 families and will make them aware of the benefits and take them forward. The guides with the spirit of social work will be known as sarthis (mentors). People wishing to serve the society will have to register themselves on the Samarpan portal, the CM said while addressing a gathering at the Mukhyamantri Antyodaya Parivar Utthan Mela on the premises of the SDM office in Gharaunda.

Khattar further said no person in the state would live below the monthly income of Rs 15,000 and for this, melas were being organised in all districts. He said 11 lakh such families were identified whose annual income is less than Rs 1.80 lakh and 160 such melas were organised in December last year. So far, 3.5 lakh people had benefitted from the scheme so far. Now, the second phase of these melas has started from March 2. At least, 250 melas will be organised till March 17.

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Wednesday said that a modern land measurement system would be adopted, which will replace the age-old chain (jarib) based measurement. This will bring more accuracy and reliability in land measurement and reduce the scope for disputes, he added.

Presiding over a meeting with senior officials regarding the SVAMITVA Yojana, he said that 300 new rovers will be purchased to complete the work related to large-scale mapping of every district and tehsil in a time-bound manner.

Khattar said that Sonipat and Karnal districts have been selected as pilot projects in the first phase and large-scale mapping will be completed on agricultural land and revenue land falling under areas outside the Lal Dore area of these districts. Apart from this, every property will also be linked with the Parivar Pehchan Patra and the work would be completed in these districts by April 15, 2023, he added.

The Ministry of Women and Child Development (MoWCD) on Wednesday launched the Stree Manoraksha Project in collaboration with NIMHANS Bengaluru with an aim to improve the mental Health of women in India.

The project would focus on building on capacity building of OSC (One-Stop Center) functionaries on the tools and techniques as to how to handle the cases of women approaching the One-Stop Centres, particularly the women who have suffered violence and distress with due sensitivity and care.

The project which has been outlined meticulously by NIMHANS based on the requirements projected by the Ministry will be imparted in two formats. One format will focus on basic training for all OSC functionaries including the security guards, cooks, helpers, caseworkers, counsellors, centre administrators, paramedical staff etc.

Indians believe Women make better political leaders and share an egalitarian vision of womens place in Society, but an overwhelming majority agrees that when there are few jobs available, men should have more rights to a job than women. These are the findings of the latest Pew Research Centre survey of nearly 30,000 adults throughout India interviewed on gender roles in families and societies.

According to the report, while 55% of Indians believed that men and women make equally good political leaders, nine-in-ten Indians agree with the notion that a wife must always obey her husband. Indian women were only slightly less likely than Indian men to agree with this sentiment (61% versus 67%). Although most Indians expressed egalitarian views on gender roles, with 62% saying that both men and women should be responsible for child care, traditional norms still held sway, with 34% convinced that child care should be handled primarily by women.

Similarly, while a slim majority (54%) says that both men and women should be responsible for earning , as many as 43% believed that earning an income is mainly the obligation of men. Also, 80% of Indians agreed with the idea that when there are few jobs, men should have more rights to a job than women.

The survey also found that Indians with a college degree were less likely to hold traditional views on gender roles, although this did not extend to all gender-related issues. So for instance, 80% of the college-educated (as compared with 88% of those with less Education) still agreed with the notion that wives must always obey their husbands.

National Safety Day is celebrated every year. The day aims to highlight the importance of following safety regulations and measures in order to avoid workplace mishaps. The motive behind celebrations of this day is to create awareness and commitment to working safely.

The National Safety Council declared the holiday to raise public awareness of all safety principles. These also include road safety, workplace safety, human Health and environmental safety.

The National Safety Council is a non-profit and self-financing organization running at the national level.

With the bang of a gavel made of recycled plastic and a standing ovation, representatives of 175 nations agreed on Wednesday to begin writing a global treaty that would restrict the explosive Growth of plastic pollution.

Theagreement commits nationsto work on a broad and legally binding treaty that would not only aim to improve recycling and clean up the worlds plastic waste, but would encompass curbs on plastics production itself. That could put measures like a ban on single-use plastics, a major driver of waste, on the table.

Under the new rules of the Canadian government, a 3% digital Services tax will be imposed on the companies with total annual revenue of at least850millionandprofitsof16 million or more from providing digital services in Canada.

It is to tax large multinational corporations (MNCs) such as Facebook, Apple, and Google which do business in Canada but pay most taxes in USA or tax-havens.

USTR has argued that this tax goes against the spirit and the text of the Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) agreement, where it was agreed that the signatories would not impose new unilateral taxes that work against the spirit of the BEPS agreement.

A day after the virtual Quad summit in which PM Narendra Modi called on the four-nation grouping to focus on its core principles, the MEA reiterated the same message on Friday. The agenda leaders signed up to is Indo-Pacific being at the core of the Quad agenda.

It is something they want to push ahead. The message is clear that all four countries are trying to take forward the agenda