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Posted 05 Sep 2024

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Pharmacopoeia Commission for Indian Medicine & Homoeopathy (PCIM&H)

The PCIM&H has achieved the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) Integrated Management System (IMS) Certifications.

About PCIM&H

  • Subordinate office under Ministry of AYUSH.
  • Institution for establishing and maintaining standards for Indian medicine and homoeopathy.
  • Act as Central Drug Testing cum Appellate Laboratory for IM&H.
  • Imparts capacity building training to drug regulatory authorities engaged in quality control pertaining to IM&H.
  • Maintains an authentic Reference Raw Materials (RRM) Repository for IM&H.

Note: Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission (IPC) is a separate Autonomous Institution of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, responsible to set standards of drugs in the country.

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  • Pharmacopoeia Commission for Indian Medicine & Homoeopathy (PCIM&H)
  • Central Drug Testing cum Appellate Laboratory

Centralised Pension Payment System

Ministry of Labor and Employment approved CPPS for Employees’ Pension Scheme. 

About CPPS

  • It establishes a national-level centralized system enabling pensioners to receive their pensions from any bank, any branch, anywhere in the country. 
    • Existing pension disbursement system is decentralized, with each zonal/regional office of EPFO maintaining separate agreements with only 3-4 banks.
  • It will be launched as part of EPFO’s Centralized IT Enabled System (CITES 2.01) from 1st January 2025.
  • In the next phase, CPPS will enable a smooth transition to Aadhaar-based payment system (ABPS).
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  • Centralised Pension Payment System
  • Centralized IT Enabled System (CITES 2.01)
  • EPFO
  • EPS

Poshan Tracker initiative

The Ministry of Women and Child Development has been awarded a National Award for e-Governance 2024 for their Poshan Tracker initiative.

Poshan Tracker initiative

  • It is a tech tool to monitor Mission Poshan 2.0's progress, including growth measurements, Aadhar verification, and real-time tracking of nutrition services.

Benefits

  • Tracks last-mile service delivery through 1.3 Million Anganwadi Workers 
  • Provides nutritional services to 101 Million beneficiaries
  • Technology under Poshan Tracker is being leveraged for dynamic identification of stunting, wasting, under-weight prevalence among children.
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  • POSHAN Abhiyaan
  • Mission Poshan 2.0
  • Poshan Tracker initiative

Phrynarachne decipiens

Phrynarachne decipiens has been recorded for the first time in the country from Assam’s Kamrup district and Kokrajhar district. 

About Phrynarachne decipiens

  • Popularaly known as the bird dung or bird-dropping crab spider. 
    • Spiders of the genus Phrynarachne resemble a blob of bird dropping, and even smell like feces or urine. 
    • This may help it attract and ambush prey, and avoid the notice of predators
  • Generally found in Malaysia and Indonesia’s Java and Sumatra
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  • Phrynarachne decipiens
  • Crab spider

Quantum gravity

Indian Researchers have moved a step forward towards the unification of classical & quantum gravity. 

  • They have obtained an uncertainty relation induced from the noise of gravitons. 
    • A graviton is a hypothetical particle that is believed to mediate the gravitational interaction.

About Quantum gravity (QG) 

  • QG is a field of theoretical physics that seeks to describe gravity according to the principles of quantum mechanics.
  • It deals with environments in which neither gravitational nor quantum effects can be ignored, such as in the vicinity of black holes or neutron stars. 
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  • Black Hole
  • Gravity
  • Quantum Mechanics
  • Quantum gravity
  • Neutron stars

Houssehold savings

RBI Deputy governor said that Household savings will remain top net lenders to the economy in the coming decades. 

  • He noted that household savings are increasing from 10.6% during 2011-2017 to 11.5% during 2017-2023. 

Household savings 

  • Household savings rate is expressed as ratio of household savings to GDP. 
  • household savings are categorized into 
    • Financial savings: currency, deposits, life insurance funds, etc.
      • Decline in financial savings poses challenges for banking sector in maintaining liquidity and managing credit risk.
    • Physical savings: physical assets along with savings made in gold and silver. 
  • In India, household sector typically generates surplus savings relative to its investments, lending the excess to other sectors. 
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  • Household Savings Rate
  • Household Savings

India Graphene Engineering and Innovation Centre (IGEIC)

Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) launched IGEIC under the Graphene Aurora program (GAP). 

  • GAP was launched in 2023 to nurture the deep/emerging Graphene technology & innovation ecosystem. 
  • It is implemented by Digital University Kerala. 

About IGEIC

  • Incorporated as not for profit, section 8 company in Trivandrum, Kerala.
  • Aims to create a hub of excellence in graphene technology commercialization
  • It shall fill the gap between R&D and commercialization by providing a complete facility to startup and industry.
  • Earlier MeitY had launched India's first graphene centre-the India Innovation Centre for Graphene (IICG) in Kerala 
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  • Graphene Aurora program
  • IGEIC
  • MeitY
  • Graphene

Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC)

ONDC awarded Gold Award under category "Application of Emerging Technologies for Providing Citizen-Centric Services" in National Awards for e-Governance  by Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances. 

About ONDC

  • Aims at promoting open networks for all aspects of exchange of goods and services over digital or electronic networks.
  • Expected to make e-Commerce more inclusive and accessible for consumers.
  • It is an initiative of the Department of Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade.
  • ONDC was incorporated as a Section 8 (not for profit) company with the Quality Council of India and Protean eGov Technologies Limited as Founding Members.
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  • E-commerce
  • Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC)
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