Vision Ias Monthly Current affair May 2020
Table of Contents
- POLITY & CONSTITUTION _______________4
1. One Nation, One Ration Card ___________4
1.2. Government Advertisements on Social Media
Platforms _______________________________5
2. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS ____________7
2.1. India- China Border Dispute_____________7
2.2. India -Taiwan ________________________9
2.3. Indo-Nepal Territorial Dispute__________11
2.4. Gilgit Baltistan Issue__________________12
2.5. Non-Aligned Movement ______________13
2.6. World Health Assembly (WHA) _________14
2.7. New Security Law In Hong Kong ________15
2.8. Open Skies Treaty ___________________16
3. ECONOMY _________________________ 16
3.1. Atmanirbhar Bharat: What, Why and How?
______________________________________17
3.2. Status Paper on Government Debt ______18
3.3. SARFAESI Act _______________________21
3.4. TRIPS Flexibilities ____________________22
3.5. Labour Law Reforms _________________24
3.6. Impact of Energy Efficiency Measures for the
Year 2018-19 Report _____________________25
3.7. Energy Transition Index Report _________28
3.8. Sugar Industry in India ________________29
3.9. Draft National Fisheries Policy 2020 _____32
3.10. Rice Export Promotion Forum _________33
4. SECURITY__________________________ 35
4.1. Border Infrastructure and Shekatkar
Committee Recommendations_____________35
4.2. Indian Army Proposes Tour of Duty _____36
4.3. Integrated Battle Groups ______________37
5. ENVIRONMENT _____________________ 39
5.1. Locust Attack _______________________39
5.2. Super Year for Biodiversity ____________41
5.3. UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration ___44
5.4. Gas Leak at Vizag ____________________46
5.5. State of the World’s Forests Report 2020 _48
5.6. India’s First Dolphin Observatory _______50
5.7. Cyclone Management in India __________51
5.8. Climate Adaptation and Resilience for South
Asia (CARE) Project ______________________53
6. SOCIAL ISSUES______________________ 54
6.1. COVID 19 and Mental Health___________54
6.2. E-Learning__________________________56
6.3. Global Nutrition Report 2020 (GNR) _____58
7. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY___________ 60
7.1. Blockchain Bill of Rights _______________60
7.2. Security issues with Aarogya Setu App ___61
7.3. Private Sector in Space Activities _______62
8. CULTURE __________________________ 64
8.1. World War 2 ________________________64
- 2. Purandara Dasa _____________________64
8.3. Geographical Indication (GI) tag ________65
9. ETHICS _____________________________66
9.1. Social Media Platforms as Arbiters of Truth
______________________________________66
10. NEWS IN SHORT ____________________68
10.1. Diamer-Basha Dam ___________________ 68
10.2. United Nations Relief and Works Agency
(UNRWA) _______________________________ 68
10.3. Provisioning of Loans__________________ 68
10.4. CHAMPIONS Portal ___________________ 68
10.5. For the first time, India has more rural net users
than urban ______________________________ 68
10.6. Unified Mobile Application for New-age
Governance (UMANG) _____________________ 69
10.7. Industry Status to Sports _______________ 69
10.8. Amery Ice Shelf (AIS) __________________ 69
10.9. Sample Registration System (SRS) Bulletin
Released ________________________________ 69
10.10. Under-5 Mortality Rate (U5MR) Halved from
2000 to 2017_____________________________ 69
10.11. “Lost at Home” Report Published by UN
Children’s Fund (UNICEF) ___________________ 70
10.12. 600 Universities, 25,000 Colleges are not
Accredited in India ________________________ 70
10.13. National Migrant Information System (NMIS)
_______________________________________ 70
10.14. Suraksha Store Initiative ______________ 71
10.15. GOAL (Going Online as Leaders) Programme
_______________________________________ 71
10.16. Khudol (gift) Initiative in Manipur _______ 71
10.17. Defence Testing Infrastructure Scheme __ 71
10.18. Operation Samudra Setu (Sea Bridge)____ 71
10.19. Vande Bharat Mission ________________ 71
10.20. Earth’s Magnetic field between Africa and
South America is Weakening ________________ 72
10.21. New Simulation Code Helps Study Electric Field
Structure in Earth’s Magnetosphere __________ 72
10.22. Venusian Atmosphere Rotates Faster than the
Planet Itself______________________________ 72
10.23. Artemis Accords” for Responsible Space
Exploration ______________________________ 73
10.24. National Biomedical Resource Indigenization
Consortium (NBRIC) _______________________ 73
10.25. Project CARD _______________________ 73
10.26. Government Response Stringency Index__ 73
10.27. COBAS 6800 Testing Machine __________ 73
10.28. Operation Warp Speed _______________ 74
10.29. African Swine Fever (ASF) _____________ 74
10.30. National Payment Corporation of India (NPCI)
Launches Pai _____________________________ 74
10.31. National Artificial Intelligence Portal
(www.ai.gov.in) __________________________ 74
10.32. EventBot Mobile Banking Trojan________ 74
10.33. GARUD (Government Authorisation for Relief
Using Drones) Portal_______________________ 74
10.34. Rht14 and Rht18 ____________________ 74
- 35. Thrissur Poorama ____________________74
10.36. Florence Nightingale __________________74
10.37. Iran’s New Currency __________________75
11. GOVERNMENT SCHEMES IN NEWS ____ 76
11.1. Atal Pension Yojana ___________________76
11.2. Prime Minister’s Employment Generation
Programme (PMEGP) _______________________76
12. APPENDIX: ATMANIRBHAR BHARAT ___ 77
12.1. Measures taken for Health and Education in
the package ____________________________77
12.2. Measures announced for Migrants and
Urban Poor ____________________________78
12.3. Measures Announced for Rural
Development, Agriculture and Allied Sectors _79
12.3.1. Steps taken so far____________________79
12.3.2. Significant Measures Announced in the
Package _________________________________79
12.3.3 Other Initiatives Announced in the Package82
- 4. Industrial Sectoral reforms announced in
the package ____________________________82
12.4.1. Significant Measures Announced _______ 83
12.4.2. Policy Reforms Announced for Other Sectors
_______________________________________ 85
12.5. Measures Announced for Businesses in
General (including MSMEs)________________86
12.5.1. Significant Measures Announced _______ 86
12.5.2. Reforms and Enablers Announced for Ease of
Doing Business ___________________________ 86
12.6. Measures Announced Exclusively for MSME
Sector_________________________________87
12.6.1. Significant Measures Announced _______ 87
12.7. General Policy Reforms Announced as Part
of the Economic Package _________________89
12.7.1. Significant Measures Announced _______ 89
12.7.2. Other Policy Measures _______________ 90