NATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE PIPELINE: Background: During his address outlining the 2019–2020 budget, the Finance Minister said that over the next five years, 100 billion rupees would be spent on infrastructure projects. What is it? NIP is a groundbreaking initiative to improve the nation’s infrastructure and everyone’s […]
DOUBLING FARMERS’ INCOME: Current situation: In the year when the nation of India celebrates its 75th anniversary of independence and enters Amrit Kaal, the government is seeking to quadruple farmer income. It would be a good idea to go back on that dream now that […]
BIO COMPUTERS: Context: Researchers from Johns Hopkins University recently unveiled their goals for “organoid intelligence,” or OI, a potentially ground-breaking new field of study that seeks to develop “biocomputers” (JHU). About biocomputers: We can use actual human brain cells to make computing “more brain-like” by […]
SWAMIH Investment Funds: #GS III #Indian Economy Topic Indian Economy Context: In order to provide priority debt financing for the completion of stressed, brownfield, and residential projects that are approved by the Real Estate Regulatory Authority (RERA) and fall under the affordable, middle-income housing category, […]
About the Olive Ridley Turtles: #GS III #Environmental Conservation Topic Environmental Conservation Context: A new record was achieved for the seashore in Ganjam district of Odisha when 6.37 lakh Olive Ridley sea turtles arrived there this year for mass nesting. According to Berhampur Divisional Forest […]
Details of the Blue Economy: #GS III #Indian Economy Topic Indian Economy Context: Bengaluru recently hosted a meeting of the G20 Environmental and Climate Sustainability Working Group. The three topics that came up the most during the Indian presidency were land degradation, the blue economy, […]
About MGNREGA: #GS II #Government Policies and Interventions Topic Government Policies and Interventions Context: If the Centre-State dispute over the breach of the regulations in the scheme’s execution is not resolved, money from the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) would likely be […]