Current Affairs Quiz - March 2022

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Assam Cabinet has approved the proposal to replace paper ballots with Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) in the Guwahati Municipal Corporation polls.
The decision has been taken to ensure transparency and efficiency in elections. The cabinet also approved ‘Assam Occupational Safety, Healthy and Working Conditions Rules, 2022’.

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India’s first ‘Women-owned Industrial Park’ has begun operations with 25 Green Projects in Hyderabad.
The ‘FLO Industrial Park’ is promoted by FICCI Ladies Organization (FLO) in partnership with the Telangana government. The 25 women-owned and operated units represent 16 Green Category Industries at the Park. FLO has also brought in 250 crores of investment for the Industrial Park.

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Chairman Chiefs of Staff Committee (COSC) and Chief of Army Staff General MM Naravane awarded the USI MacGregor Memorial Medal to two Indian Army personnel and one each from Indian Navy and Indian Air force.
MacGregor Memorial Medal commemorates the memory of Major General Charles Metcalfe MacGregor, an officer of British Indian Army and founder of United Service Institution (USI). It recognises operational reconnaissance and extreme adventure sports.

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The inaugural session of National round of third edition of National Youth Parliament Festival (NYPF) 2022 was recently held. Sports and Youth Affairs Minister Anurag Thakur addressed the session.
Theme of this year’s National Youth Parliament Festival is ‘be the voice of New India and find solutions and contribute to Policy’. The event is organised to hear the voice of the youth, who will join various careers in upcoming years.

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The Ministry of Tourism publishes the draft of the National Digital Tourism Mission (NDTM) for stakeholder comments and feedback.
As per the draft, the autonomous body will be at the aegis of the Ministry of Tourism, with a CEO and Board of Directors. The vision of National Digital Tourism Mission is to bridge the existing information gap among different stakeholders of tourism ecosystem through digitisation.

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Karnataka Government recently launched Women@Work (W@W) programme with an aim to provide five lakh jobs to women within 2026, with necessary employable skills.
At present women constituted 35 per cent of the workforce of the state and the programme aims to raise its workforce strength to 50 per cent.

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Union Minister for Labour and Employment Bhupender Yadav released a book titled ‘Role of Labour in India’s Development’.
The Book contains 12 articles written by eminent academicians on the contribution of labour in India’s development journey. It was published by V V Giri National Labour Institute, which is an autonomous training institute under the Ministry of Labour.

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The World Bank’s chief economist, Carmen Reinhart, warned recently that Russia and its ally Belarus were “mightily close” to default.
Amid sanctions imposed by the west after Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, Russia is close to being unable to pay its debts. Russia has to make a USD 117m (£89m) payment on some of its debts denominated in US dollars.

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The Supreme Court appointed its ex-judge AK Sikri as chairperson of the High Powered Committee (HPC), which would consider the impact of the Chardham project.
Professor Ravi Chopra resigned as Chairperson of the committee. Sikri has already been appointed by the court as chairperson of the oversight committee to look after environmental concerns and other issues related to the Chardham project.

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Capital Employer Inititative is a scheme under Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DDU-GKY). It is a nation-wide placement-linked skill training program funded by the Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD).
‘Captive Employer’ initiative assures post-training placement of candidates for a minimum of six months with a minimum CTC of Rs 10,000.