Current Affairs Quiz - March 2022

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Road Transport and Highways Ministry notified ‘Compensation to Victims of Hit and Run Motor Accidents Scheme’. It shall come into force from April 1, 2022.
As per the scheme, the compensation to the kin of hit-and-run victims will be increased to Rs 2 lakh in case of death from April 1 (from 25000). The compensation to a person sustaining grievous injuries in a hit-and-run case will increase to Rs 50,000 from Rs 12,500.

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Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) is the flagship scheme of Ministry of Rural Development.
From the next financial year, the Centre will not give funds for MGNREGS to states that do not appoint ombudspersons in 80 per cent of their districts where the scheme has been applied. States are mandated to appoint Ombudsperson for each district to receive grievances and pass awards.

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February 27 has been observed as World NGO Day in several countries across the world. It aims to create awareness about the sector and encourage people across the world who work in the NGO sector.
The Baltic Sea NGO Forum of the Council of the Baltic Sea State officially recognised this day in 2010. It was adopted in the forum’s Final Statement Resolution two years later. In 2014, February 27 was declared as World NGO Day.

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The National Statistical Office (NSO), Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation has released the Second Advance Estimates (SAE) of National Income, 2021-22 as well as Quarterly Estimates of GDP for the quarter October-December (Q3) of 2021-22
The growth in GDP during 2021-22 is estimated at 8.9 percent as compared to a contraction of 6.6 percent in 2020-21.

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Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises is celebrating its ‘Iconic week’ under ‘Azadi ka Amrit Mahosav’ from 28.02.2022 to 06.03.2022.
Ministry of MSME will launch Phase II of its ‘National Level Awareness Programme – Sambhav’, through which more than one lakh students from 1300 colleges all across the country will be motivated to take up entrepreneurship. Phase I of the scheme was launched in 2021.

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As per the Union Budget 2022-23, the data exchange among all mode operators will be brought on the Unified Logistics Interface Platform (ULIP).
Recently, in the post-budget webinar on Gati Shakti, it was announced that about 24 Digital Systems of 6 Ministries are being integrated through ULIP. With involvement of private sector entities, the government is set to create a ‘National Single Window Logistics Portal’, to reduce logistics cost.

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Innovations for Defence Excellence (iDEX), was launched by the Union Minister of Defence in 2018. It provides a unified platform for various stakeholders in the defence and aerospace sector.
iDEX has launched Defence India Startup Challenges (DISC) and Open Challenges (OC). iDEX is set to showcase its startups and award its winner during its flagship event Manthan in the upcoming DefExpo 2022.

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Ukraine shares borders with four European Union (EU) member states namely Hungary, Poland, Slovakia (West) and Romania (South). It shares border with Russia to the east and north-east. Ukraine also shares borders with Belarus to the north; and Moldova to the south.
The European Parliament, after a debate in which the President of Ukraine addressed and received applause, recommended that Ukraine be made an official candidate for EU membership.

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Swiss and its parent company, the Lufthansa Group, have partnered with synthetic fuel group Synhelion to use its Solar Fuel.
This will make Swiss the first airline in the world to use “sun-to-liquid” fuel. Switzerland-based Synhelion, has developed a technology for manufacturing sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) from renewable energy sources.

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Union Minister for Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Parshottam Rupala inaugurated the ‘Sagar Parikrama’ in Gujarat.
It is organised along with National Fisheries Development Board, Department of Fisheries, Gujarat, Indian Coast Guard, Fishery Survey of India, Gujarat Maritime Board and fishermen representatives. It aims to understand the problems of Coastal Fisher folk.