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Daily Current Affairs, 21st January 2020
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1) 12th National Tribal Youth Exchange Programme begins in Puducherry
•The programme has been jointly organized by the Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan (NYKS) and Puducherry Government with a view to ensuring development and empowerment of the tribal youths. They will be visiting many places to know about the language, customs, culture, arts, dressing patterns, food pattern and other aspects of Puducherry.
2) Integrated Check-Post (ICP), Biratnagar inaugurated at India-Nepal border
•The ICP Biratnagar at Jogbani-Biratnagar border of India and Nepal, is furnished with the some modern facilities such as electronic weighbridges, fire safety, warehousing facilities including the refrigerated cargo, 24×7 monitoring through CCTV and public announcement systems. The post has also the capability of handling around 500 trucks per day.
3) 50th Annual Meeting of WEF begins in Davos
The Programme for the Annual Meeting will prioritize six key areas: ecology, economy, society, industry, technology, and geopolitics.
•Ecology: How to mobilize business to respond to the risks of climate change and ensure that measures to protect biodiversity reach forest floors and ocean beds.
•Economy: How to remove the long-term debt burden and keep the economy working at a pace that allows higher inclusion.
•Technology: How to create a global consensus on deployment of Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies and avoid a ‘technology war’.
•Society: How to reskill and upskill a billion people in the next decade.
•Geopolitics: How the ‘spirit of Davos’ can create bridges to resolve conflicts in global hotspots. Informal meetings to set kickstart conciliation.
•Industry: How to help business create the models necessary to drive enterprise in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. How to navigate an enterprise in a world exposed to political tensions and driven by exponential technological change as well as increasing expectations from all stakeholders.
These initiatives aim to plant more than one trillion trees over the next decade and to equip one billion people with the necessary skills in the age of the 4th Industrial Revolution.
The welcome message was followed by the annual crystal awards and this year’s recipients included celebrity film star Deepika Padukone. She has been given the award for her leadership in raising mental health awareness. These awards are given to those cultural leaders, who are improving the state of the world through their contributions to inclusive and sustainable change.
4) 1st squadron of Sukhoi-30 MKI aircraft inducted by IAF
•The Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat and the Chief of Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Rakesh Kumar Bhadauria inducted the squadron. The newly reinstated 222-squadron, also known as the Tigersharks, would serve as a lethal weapons platform capable of carrying both aerial and maritime roles in the Indian Ocean Region.
5) Union Sports Minister flag off ‘Fit India Cyclothon’ in Panaji
6) 2nd edition of NIC Tech Conclave-2020 begins today
7) Global Social Mobility Index 2020: An index to measure social mobility
•As per the Index, India ranked has 76th position with a score of 42.7, while Denmark topped the list. India is among the 5 countries namely: The United States(US), Japan and Germany, China which stands to gain most from boosting social mobility score.
•Social protection and fair wage distribution are the areas in which India needs improvement. It ranks 79th in both social protection and the fair wage distribution. India ranks 41st in lifelong learning while it ranks 53rd in working conditions. It has the second-highest level of workers in vulnerable employment behind Saudi Arabia.
8) Zomato acquires Uber Eats business in India
The HINDU Notes – 21st January 2020
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📰 IMF lowers India’s growth forecast
Slowdown to impact global economy
•The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Monday lowered India’s economic growth estimate for the current fiscal to 4.8% and listed the country’s much lower-than-expected GDP numbers as the single biggest drag on its global growth forecast for two years.
•In October, the IMF had pegged India’s economic growth at 6.1% for 2019.
Decline in rural demand
•Listing decline in rural demand growth and an overall credit sluggishness for the lowering of India forecasts, IMF Chief Economist Gita Gopinath, however, said the growth momentum should improve next year due to factors like the positive impact of corporate tax rate reduction.
•“Global growth, estimated at 2.9% in 2019, is projected to increase to 3.3% in 2020 and inch up further to 3.4% in 2021,” the IMF said, while releasing an update to its World Economic Outlook (WEO).
•Compared to the October WEO forecast, the estimate for 2019 and the projection for 2020 represent 0.1 percentage point reduction for each year while that for 2021 is 0.2 percentage point lower.
•“A more subdued growth forecast for India... accounts for the lion’s share of the downward revisions,” the IMF said ahead of the start of the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual summit here.
•Ms. Gopinath said growth in India slowed sharply owing to stress in the non-bank financial sector and weak rural income growth.
•The country’s growth is estimated at 4.8% in 2019, projected to improve to 5.8% in 2020 and 6.5% in 2021 (1.2 and 0.9 percentage point lower than in the October WEO), supported by monetary and fiscal stimulus as well as subdued oil prices, it added.
•2019 refers to fiscal year 2019-20.
•India’s economy grew just 4.5% in July-September 2019 period — the weakest pace in nearly six years. The Indian government has been taking various measures to bolster growth.
📰 Supreme Court declines to stay poll bond scheme
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The HINDU Notes – 20th January 2020
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📰 Centre for tougher law against sexual harassment at work
GoM finalises recommendations, which will be put up for public comments
•The Group of Ministers (GoM) headed by Home Minister Amit Shah, which was constituted to strengthen the legal framework to prevent sexual harassment at the workplace, has finalised its recommendations, a senior official said.
•The recommendations, which include addition of new provisions to the Indian Penal Code, will be put up for comments from the public, the official said.
•The GoM was constituted first in October 2018 in the aftermath of the #MeToo movement after many women shared their ordeal on social media. It was reconstituted in July 2019 under Mr. Shah.
•The other members are Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Human Resource Development (HRD)Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal and Women and Child Development Minister Smriti Irani.
•Another official said changes to the existing laws on sexual harassment at the workplace would be incorporated when the overhaul of the IPC was complete.
Another project
•The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) is working on another project to reboot the IPC. Several retired judges, legal luminaries and State governments are being consulted by the Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPR&D).
•“When changes are made to the IPC, the various sections on crime against women will also be amended. The laws need to change with time, and sexual harassment of women at the workplace will be addressed through the IPC amendments also,” the official said.
•The Women and Child Development Ministry had steered the Sexual Harassment of Women and Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act in 2013, which was applicable to government offices, the private sector, NGOs and the unorganised sector.
•The official said the proposed amendments would be largely based on the Vishaka Guidelines laid down by the Supreme Court in 1997, on which the 2013 Act was based.
•It made the employer responsible to prevent or deter acts of sexual harassment at the workplace.
•“When changes are made to the IPC, the various sections on crime against women will also be amended. The laws need to change with time, and sexual harassment of women at the workplace will be addressed through the IPC amendments also,” the official said.
•The Women and Child Development Ministry had steered the Sexual Harassment of Women and Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act in 2013, which was applicable to government offices, the private sector, NGOs and the unorganised sector. The official said the proposed amendments would be largely based on the Vishaka Guidelines laid down by the Supreme Court in 1997, on which the 2013 Act was based. It made the employer responsible to prevent or deter acts of sexual harassment at the workplace.
•The 2013 Act had shortcomings like giving the powers of a civil court to the internal complaints committee without specifying if the members need to have a legal background. It only imposed a fine of Rs. 50,000 on employers for non-compliance. The Act said the employer shall provide assistance to the woman if she chooses to file a complaint under the IPC “against the perpetrator after the conclusion of the enquiry”.