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Thursday, December 02, 2021
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Wednesday, December 01, 2021
The HINDU Notes – 01st December 2021
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11:57
📰 6 lakh Indians renounced citizenship
10,645 foreigners applied for Indian citizenship from 2016 to 2020, says Centre
•More than six lakh Indians renounced citizenship in the past five years, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) informed the Lok Sabha on Tuesday. This year, till September 30, 1,11,287 Indians gave up their citizenship.
•The reason for a large number of Indians surrendering their citizenship was not stated in the reply. Though, in 2018, the MHA revised Form XXII under Citizenship Rules for declaration of renunciation of citizenship, which, for the first time, included a column on “circumstances/reasons due to which applicant intends to acquire foreign citizenship and renounce Indian citizenship”. Recently, the MHA had simplified the process and provisions were made for the applicants to upload documents online and an upper limit of 60 days was fixed for the renunciation process to be completed.
•Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai, in a written reply, said that in 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020, the number of Indians who gave up citizenship stood at 1,33,049, 1,34,561, 1,44,017 and 85,248, respectively.
•According to a Global Wealth Migration Review report, in 2019, India came second only to China when it came to high net worth individuals (HNIs) leaving the country. As many as 7,000 HNIs left India in 2019.
•In October, Amit Mitra, former Finance Minister of West Bengal, quoting a Morgan Stanley report, tweeted that “35,000 Indian Entrepreneurs of High Net Worth LEFT India between 2014-2020, as NRI/Immigrants. India RANKED No 1 IN EXODUS IN THE WORLD”.
•Mr. Rai added that in the period 2016-20, 10,645 foreigners applied for Indian citizenship, of which more than 7,782 were from Pakistan and 452 were stateless. During the same period, 4,177 persons were granted Indian citizenship but the country-wise breakup was not provided. A total number of 1,33,83,718 Indian nationals were living in foreign countries, the reply stated.
•The Minister said the persons covered under the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) might apply after the rules were notified.
•“Till now, the Government has not taken any decision to prepare the National Register of Indian Citizens (NRIC) at the national level,” the reply said.
📰 Protect, don’t pander: On suppression of free speech
Daily Current Affairs, 01st December 2021
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10:17
1) Venkaiah Naidu released a Book “‘Democracy, Politics and Governance’
•The First Edition of the Indian Young Water Professionals Programme was launched virtually. The programme was launched in the presence of the Indian High Commissioner to Australia, Manpreet Vohra; Australian High Commissioner to India, Barry O’ Farrell and Additional Secretary of Ministry of Jal Shakti, Debashree Mukherjee. The program was taken up under National Hydrology Project.
2) White-label ATMs : India1 Payments installed 10,000 white-label ATMs
•India1 Payments has crossed a milestone on deploying 10000 white-label ATMs, which was called as “India1ATMs”. India1 Payments is IPO-bound and is promoted by the Banktech Group of Australia. It was formerly known as BTI Payments. India1 ATM has become the second-largest white label ATM brand on semi-urban and rural areas. With the deployment of 10000 ATMs, India1 Payments has become the largest player in this segment.
3) All India Radio launches youth programme AIRNxt
•All India Radio has decided to begin a new programme called AIRNxt to offer youth a platform to air their voices as part of the ongoing Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav celebrations. AIR stations will allow youngsters from local colleges, universities to take part in programming, allowing them to discuss and curate youth-centric shows.
4) Barbados becomes the World’s newest republic
•Barbados has become the World’s newest republic, around 400 years after it became a British colony. Barbados is said to have been made a ‘slave society by the British. It first became an English colony in 1625. It gained its independence in 1966. Barbados, the Caribbean Island nation, removed Queen Elizabeth II as the head of the state.
•Dame Sandra Prunella Mason took over as the President of Barbados. He was selected to become the first president of Barbados in October 2021. He was selected as President of Barbados, at a joint meeting of both the Houses of Parliament of Barbados. His name was announced by Speaker of the House of Assembly, Arthur Holder.
5) Venkaiah Naidu released a Book “‘Democracy, Politics and Governance’
•Vice President of India, Venkaiah Naidu on the 72nd anniversary of the adoption of the ‘Constitution of India’ released a book titled “Democracy, Politics and Governance” in English and ‘Loktantr, Rajniti and Dharm’ in Hindi at an event in the Central Hall of Parliament, New Delhi. The book was authored by Dr A. Surya Prakash.
•This book is a collection of articles about the social, political, and economic issues that impacted India’s politics and governance. Dr A. Surya Prakash is a Vice Chairman, Executive Council of Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, and also a veteran journalist.
Monday, November 29, 2021
The HINDU Notes – 29th November 2021
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11:47
📰 Cooperative model best suited for development of India: Amit Shah
‘It will ensure inclusive development’
•Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah on Sunday described the cooperative model as the best suited model to achieve an all-encompassing and inclusive development in a huge country like India with a population of 130 crore.
•Mr. Shah said the cooperative model had the capacity to bring prosperity for all and there was a need to increase the number of successful cooperative models like the Amul dairy cooperatives and bring them under one umbrella.
•He said this while inaugurating a milk powder factory, a poly film manufacturing plant and other projects of the Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF) set up with an investment of ₹415 crore at Gandhinagar; the Union Minister’s parliamentary constituency.
•“It is a very difficult job to take development to all and get everyone to participate in the process of development in a country with a population of 130 crore,” Mr. Shah said, adding many pundits failed to figure out which economic model would fit the requirements of this country in the past after Independence.
•Mr. Shah credited Prime Minister Narendra Modi with recognising the Amul model as the best suited for economic development in villages. “Seventy-five years after the country saw many governments, the country’s Prime Minister tested the model and realised as the then Chief Minister of Gujarat, that if there is any economic model for an all-encompassing, all-inclusive economic development of a country of 130 crore population, then that is only the cooperative.”
Organic farming
•Mr. Shah asked the management of Amul to work out a similar model for organic farming to encourage more farmers to adopt the practice, as overuse of fertilizers were causing soil degradation and diseases like cancer. He added that Amul should ask its farmers to adopt natural and organic farm practices and promised support from the Centre.
•Calling the Amul model the most successful model for women empowerment, he suggested that the NGOs working for women empowerment instead run women cooperative societies to achieve empowerment of rural women.
•“Amul is an example of what 36 lakh women dairy farmers can achieve if they work together with transparency,” he said.
•According to a press statement issued by the GCMMF, the new milk powder plant set up at AmulFed Dairy, a unit of the GCMMF, is Asia’s largest fully automated dairy with a milk handling capacity of 50 lakh litres per day.
•The GCMMF is the largest dairy cooperative network in India with its 18 district-level member unions, 18,563 village-level dairy cooperative societies and 36 lakh farmer members in Gujarat.
•Together, the GCMMF group — which sells its dairy products under the brand name of Amul with an annual turnover of more than ₹50,000 crore — has 87 dairy manufacturing plants with a handling capacity of 39 million litres of milk per day.
•Besides its extensive network in Gujarat, the group also sources milk from 13 other States across the country.
📰 Questionable criterion: On EWS quota income limit
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