Challenge Day 2 - 11/11/2018

Day Remaining - 203

Today's Target
- The hindu Coverage
- The Insights CA Coverage
- The Insights Quiz Coverage
- Revise Test 19 solutions and make notes
- Cover Salient Features Of Indian Society and Mains Questions on Topic(2013-2018)
- Complete Economy And IR section from Vision Sept. Notes
- Completing Insights Test 2 course which I have left

Today's the Hindu Short Notes - 11/11/2018

Air Pollution and Child health: Prescribing Clean air

- WHO report

- states that 98% of child under 5 exposed to toxic air in countries like India

-  Killing around 16% of under five death of 5.56 million in 2016

- another report Fighting for breath by Save the children - Pneumonia kill 2 children per minute in under 5 more than malaria + diarrhoea + measles

- 80% of children having death is severely malnutrition unable to fight infection

- To realise SDGs need focus on most disadvantaged children including born in poverty, live in hardest place to reach and facing discrimination

-  IAEA report Energy Access Outlook - 63% of households in india use biomass for cooking, major cause of indoor air pollution 

Calimere Wildlife sanctuary

- Nagapattinam, TN

- A protected area and a Ramsar Site

Ecological sensitive zone - Read EPA section 3(2) and section 5

-  https://www.gktoday.in/gk/eco-sensitive-zones/

Central ground Water Board

- constituted under section 3 of EPA, 1986

- to regulate and control, development and management of ground water resources

- powers and functions - Issue directions and taking measures + Resort to penal provisions + regulate and control, development and management of Ground water resources 

Atala Masjid, Jama Masjid and Lal Darwaza

- Jaunpur

- Sharqi architecture  Mosques

- Main feature - Huge rectangular pylon with arches

Land Acquisition Act

- https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/policy/five-years-on-has-land-acquisition-act-fulfilled-its-aim/articleshow/65639336.cms

Missoin venus -  isro + 2023

Advisory committee on space sciences

Tipu Jayanti 

EPCA -  SC empowered EPCA, constituted by MoEFCC + Protecting and controlling the quality of environment + controlling environment pollution in NCR + assist apex court in various environment related issues + to enforce GRAP in NCR as per pollution levels 

PIB

Inspire-2018

- International Symposium to promote innovation and research in energy efficiency

- Second Edition by EESL and WB

-  Enhance Grib Mobility, e-mobility, financial instruments and technologies for energy efficiency

- #innovatetoinspire challenge organised by EESL and WRI - Invited participants to submit sustainable and scalable solutions for above 4 categories

- To support investment for them - EESL and ADB signed an agreement for a GEF grant to Enstablish energy efficiency evolving fund - To expand and sustain energy efficiency market in India + build market diversification + scale up existing technologies

EESL 

- Under Ministry of Power

- Mainstreming Energy Efficiency and Build world’s largest energy efficiency portfolio

- Driven by Mission of Enabling More - More Transparency + More Efficiency + More Transformation + More Innovation

- To create market for efficient and future ready transformative solutions

World Bank

- Not only a bank but unique partnership to reduce poverty and support development

 - 2 goals by 2030 - End Extreme poverty + promote shared prosperity

- Comprise of 5 institutions  - IBRD + IDA + IFC + MIGA + ICSID

- India is a member except ICSID

- IBRD

   — Loan and Other Assistance to Middle Income and Poor  but Credit Worthy + Lower rate of interest + Long term Maturity

   — in 1944 to help Europe rebuild after world war 2

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International Development Bank

- To help the world’s Poorest countries

https://www.civilsdaily.com/international-org-part-6-bretton-woods-institutions-world-bank-group/