Mrunal's Daily Current Affairs:Mar-17-2021:Illegal Shrimp Farming,Vulture conservation,Microplastics

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Time Codes
00:00 - Winners
01:10 - Economy PPP
07:49 - Illegal Shrimp Farming
09:16 - Tiger Conservation
14:39 - Vulture conservation
16:18 - Microplastics
17:26 - F4R Movement
18:58 - 10th Schedule

⏩ Economy💳
→ PPP/Asset monetization: Government planning to sell/lease assets including roads, Railway wagons, Railway station, electricity transmission, oil and gas pipelines, telecom towers, Jawaharlal Nehru sports stadium. Nature of PPP- 1) Toll operate transfer 2) InvITS 3) Operation and maintenance contract 4) Operation management development agreement (ODMA) Target ₹2.5 lakh crore. NITI tasked to prepare National MONETISATION pipeline
→ PPP/Privatisation: Airport Bundling- AAI to privatise airports in a pairs of profit making airport with loss making airport(s) e.g. 1) Varanasi Airport with (Kushinagar and Gaya airport) 2) Amritsar airport with Kangra 3) Raipur Airport with Jalgaon. 4) Indore with Jabalpur etc So, investor will have to compulsorily buy Loss making airport if he wants to buy profit making airport. This will unburden AAI from Loss making airport.
→ Secured overnight financing rate (SOFR): Refer to Mrunal's Win21 Series Pillar1C
→ National Bank for Financing Infrastructure and Development Bill, 2021: (NaBFID)- This Development Finance institution (DFI) To be set up by government,Original 100% shareholding by the govt (20,000cr), in future to be reduced to 26%. It will have a 10 years tax holiday, Target loan 3-5lcr to Infrastructure. Previous DFIs like ICICI & IDBI were converted into commercial banks. Refer to Mrunal's Win21 Series Pillar1B2
→ Internet imperialism: Earlier Google charged 30% Commission on the developers for App Store sales. To be ⏬ to 15% from July 1st.
⏩ IR/Defense🔫
→ ⚾️📻⚾️🎓✋ British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to visit India in April.
⏩ Ethics GSM4☯️
→ Environmental ethics versus Economic Desperation: Gujarat: Surat Navsari region insufficient rainfall= fodder⏬: Agriculture and animal husbandry difficult. Villagers cannot engage in Diamond polishing business because Businessmen hire cheaper labour from Odisha. So, started illegal liquor brewing trade → Police crackdown → villagers started illegal shrimp farming in govt land & river by blocking water flow & damaging coastal ecology → Booked under Gujarat Land Grabbing prohibition Act which has minimum imprisonment of 10 years. MLA starts Dharna "How are these people going to survive, They have no other alternative means of livelihood, Gujarat already has a provision for 85% local reservation but industries are flouting it!" Environment-NGOs start counter-Dharna "Illegal shrimp farm damaging coastal ecology", & They even got Greta Thunberg & Rihanna to tweet about it, thus bringing International pressure. So, as DM(IAS) How will you address this?
→ Man-eater Avni tigress's cub killed by another tigress. Social media outcry about how the forest department failed to protect this.
→ Communication: Guj MLAs in habit of raising complaints about their constituency to the government through Facebook / Twitter / Whatsapp to various ministers, Secretaries (IAS) and District collectors (IAS)-
→ Banaras Hindu University (BHU) Social science department sends a proposal to make any of following women visiting professor for "Women Study Centre" [1) Nita Ambani wife of Industrialist Mukesh Ambani [2) Priti Adani wife of Industrialist Gautam Adani [3) Usha Mittal wife of Industrialist Lakshmi Mittal.
⏩ Environment🌿
→ Vulture Conservation
→ Microplastic: tiny particles of less than five millimetres- move through water bodies, air and farm soil to enter in human digestive and respiratory systems. Only 9% of all the plastic ever produced is recycled.
⏩ Polity⚖️
→ United Nation F4R Movement: Faith for rights :
→ Tenth schedule (1985): Anti defection: If a nominated member joins a political party after the expiry of 6 months from his oath taking then he shall be disqualified.
⏩ Science🧪
→ Thrombosis: formation of clots within blood vessels. Astrazeneca Oxford vaccine allegedly having this side effect so some European countries paused its usage
⏩ PIN-GK🏋️
→ Sports: International tent pegging Federation World Cup Championship- Horse tournament involving lance /sword that pick up rings from ground.

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