Vision Ias - Current Affairs - May 2020 - English Medium - Notesindia

Vision IAS Monthly Current Affairs (English Medium ) March 2020 is a monthly magazine which contains compilation of news for the month of April 2020 bearing relevance to Civil Service Examination. News and events from all domain i.e. National, Business, International etc. have been dealt in brief. The magazine is brought out monthly by renowned Delhi based IAS coaching institute

Table of Contents

1. POLITY & CONSTITUTION _______________4
1.1. 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

8.2. 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

10.35. 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

12.4. 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