PIB Analysis 11-10-22
Tele-MANAS
- Tele Mental Health Assistance and Networking Across States (Tele-MANAS) initiative was launched on occasion of World Mental Health Day.
- Tele-MANAS is an initiative of Union Ministry of Health & Family Welfare.
Quantum Entanglement
- Experiments on the quantum entanglement (where several particles behave like a single unit even when they are separated), which received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2022 has seen a major achievement by Indian scientists, who have found a simpler way to quantify the amount of entanglement in higher dimensional systems.
- The study could help potentially enable better assessment of the efficacy of an entangled state for technological applications like quantum teleportation (a technique for transferring quantum information from a sender at one location to a receiver some distance away) where the success and accuracy of the process depends on the amount of entanglement as well as other quantum communication protocols.
- Entangled state is a crucial state of quantum mechanics and can be used as a resource for quantum communication, quantum computation and information processing tasks that are impossible for classical systems.
- Higher dimensional systems (dimension greater than two) are proven to have advantages in both quantum computing and quantum communications.
- Thus, experimentally realising higher-dimensional entangled states along with the studies of quantification of the entanglement are of critical importance.
- So far, all the relevant investigations towards quantifying entanglement mainly focused on providing bounds (maximum/minimum) on entanglement measures.
- The existing method of characterising quantum state is Quantum State Tomography (QST), which can then be used to quantify entanglement.
- It requires determination of an increasingly large number of parameters as the dimension of the system grows.
- A method for empirical estimation of entanglement for any arbitrary dimensional entangled state was not available.
Betiyan Bane Kushal
- Ministry of Women and Child Development (MWCD) to organize National Conference on Skilling in Non- Traditional Livelihood for Girls “Betiyan Bane Kushal” under the banner of Beti Bachao Beti Padhao on the occasion of the International Day of the Girl Child.
- Conference emphasizes skilling, new age skills and non-traditional livelihood for girls.
Other key highlights of the event include:
- Launch of the BBBP operational manual which lays out operational guidelines and avenues for convergence.
- Announcement of commitments with MoSDE and MoMA on 21st-century skills focusing on life and employability skills, entrepreneurship skills, digital literacy and financial literacy skills.
- Best practices on skilling from the ground, showcased by selected districts
- Case studies on sustainable inclusion of girls and women in NTL, with examples from industry, NGOs and CSOs.
