Vision Ias - Current Affairs - July 2020 - English Medium - Notesindia
Table of Contents
1. POLITY AND GOVERNANCE _____________4
1.1. India’s Second Voluntary National Review
(VNR) __________________________________4
1.2. The Consumer Protection Act,2019_______6
1.3. Issue of Local Reservation in Private Sector
Jobs ___________________________________8
2. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS __________ 10
2.1. India-E.U. Relations __________________10
2.2. Chabahar - Zahedan Railway Line _______11
2.3. United Nations Convention on the Law of the
Sea (UNCLOS) __________________________13
3. ECONOMY _________________________ 16
3.1. Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) 2020
______________________________________16
3.2. Private Participation in Railways________18
3.3. Privatising Discoms __________________19
3.4. Affordable Housing __________________21
3.5. Special Liquidity Scheme for NBFCs and HFCs
______________________________________23
3.6. Financing of MSME Sector _____________26
3.7. Unified Gas Price System ______________27
3.8. Bundling Scheme for Round-the-clock (RTC)
Power Supply___________________________28
3.9. Model Concession Agreement for BOT Model
______________________________________29
3.10. National Land Management Corporation 30
4. SECURITY__________________________ 32
4.1. Militarization of Andaman and Nicobar
Islands ________________________________32
4.2. Non-Personal Data ___________________33
4.3. Space Warfare ______________________35
5. ENVIRONMENT _____________________ 38
5.1. Draft Environment Impact Assessment (EIA),
2020 __________________________________38
5.2. COVID-19 and Its Impact on Environment and
Climate Change Efforts ___________________40
5.3. Decarbonising Transport ______________42
5.4. Agricultural Emissions in India__________44
5.5. Methane Emissions __________________46
5.6. E-waste ____________________________48
5.7. Marine Plastic Pollution_______________49
5.8. Sustainable Ocean Economy for 2050 Report
______________________________________51
5.9. Cooling Emissions and Policy Synthesis
Report ________________________________53
5.10. Virtual Water ______________________54
5.11. Watershed Development_____________55
5.12. Hydropower Projects in Northeast _____56
5.13. Tiger Status Report 2018 _____________58
6. SOCIAL ISSUES ______________________60
6.1. New Education Policy 2020 ____________60
6.1.1. School Education ____________________ 60
6.1.2. Higher Education ____________________ 63
6.1.3. Other Major Provisions________________ 65
6.1.4. Analysis of New Education Policy-2020 ___ 65
6.2. Role of ASHAs During Pandemic ________67
6.3. Lancet Study on Population Trends______69
6.4. State of Food Security and Nutrition in the
World 2020 ____________________________70
7. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY____________72
7.1. Nano Technology in Agriculture ________72
7.2. Accelerate Vigyan____________________73
8. CULTURE ___________________________74
8.1. Gurjara-Pratiharas ___________________74
9. ETHICS _____________________________75
9.1. Social and Emotional Learning__________75
10. SCHEMES IN NEWS __________________78
10.1. Schemes for Medical Devices _________78
11. NEWS IN SHORT ____________________79
11.1. States to be Ranked on Financial Management
Index (FMI) for Rural Development ___________ 79
11.2. AIM iCREST _________________________ 79
11.3. Capital Procurement Powers to Armed Forces
_______________________________________ 79
11.4. Operation Samudra Setu _______________ 79
11.5. Fish Cryobanks_______________________ 79
11.6. Central Zoo Authority Reconstituted______ 80
11.7. Protected Areas – Dehing Patkai _________ 80
11.8. KAZI 106F___________________________ 80
11.9. Black Panther________________________ 81
11.10. Germany to Become First Major Economy to
Phase Out Coal, Nuclear Power ______________ 81
11.11. Pied Cuckoo to be Tracked in Migration,
Climate Change Study ______________________81
11.12. New Human Fingerprint on Global Drought
Patterns _________________________________81
11.13. Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) Launches
KRCNet and Mobile App "Mausam” ___________82
11.14. Initiatives for Energy Efficiency & Promoting e
mobility Launched _________________________82
11.15. Subhash Chandra Bose Aapda Prabandhan
Puraskar _________________________________82
11.16. YuWaah____________________________82
11.17. Aatamanirbhar Skilled Employee-Employer
Mapping (ASEEM) Portal ____________________82
11.18. Himachal Pradesh: First State with 100% LPG
Connections ______________________________82
11.19. Lead Poisoning in children _____________82
11.20. Human Growth Hormone (hGH)_________83
11.21. Winter Diesel _______________________83
11.22. BlackRock Android Malware ____________83
11.23. Latent Viral Infection (LVI)_____________ 83
11.24. BelYo _____________________________ 83
11.25. Yellow Fever _______________________ 83
11.26. Mars Missions ______________________ 84
11.27. Asteroid 2020 ND ___________________ 84
11.28. India’s First In-orbit Space Debris Monitoring
and Tracking System_______________________ 84
11.29. Siddi Community ____________________ 84
11.30. Kashmir Saffron gets Geographical Indication
(GI) Certificate ___________________________ 85
11.31. Indigenous Mango Heritage Area _______ 85
11.32. Hagia Sophia, Turkey _________________ 85
11.33. Gandhi-King Scholarly Exchange Initiative Bill
_______________________________________ 85
11.34. Mahalanobis Award__________________ 85
12. APPENDIX _________________________86
12.1. Status Report________________________ 86
12.2. Good Practices in Localising SDGs ________ 97
