Current Affairs Quiz - March 2022

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Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Pushkar Singh Dhami took oath as the chief minister of Uttarakhand for his second consecutive term.
Along with him, eight cabinet ministers were also administered the oath. Dhami became the 12th chief minister of the hill state-Uttarakhand.

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The Union Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia announced that the Central Government has planned to set up as many as 220 new airports by 2025.
The Minister also announced that the Cargo flights for perishable food items will be increased to 30 per cent with 133 new flights in the coming years.

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Indian Ed-tech company BYJU’S has been named as an official sponsor of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022.
The 2022 FIFA World Cup is scheduled to take place in Qatar from 21 November to 18 December, 2022. It will also create creative content with educational messages as part of sponsorship.

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RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das inaugurated the Reserve Bank Innovation Hub (RBIH) in Bengaluru. It has been set up to encourage and nurture financial innovation, with an initial capital contribution of Rs 100 crore.
Senapathy (Kris) Gopalakrishnan is the first Chairperson while it has eminent persons from industry and academia as members.

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The country has over 50,000 ODF plus villages, the government recently announced. An ODF plus village is one that sustains its open-defecation-free status, ensures solid and liquid waste management and is visually clean.
The top-performing states include Telangana with 13,960 ODF Plus villages; Tamil Nadu with 11,477; Madhya Pradesh with 3,849.

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Bulgaria has recently abolished its controversial “Golden passports” scheme, which offers citizenship of the EU member state in return for substantial investment.
The scheme made it possible for foreigners to acquire residency when they invested a minimum of 500,000 euros in Bulgaria, and citizenship when they invested one million euros. The European Commission has called for the abolition of such schemes as they provide ways for money laundering.

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The Department of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare released the Final Estimates of 2020-21 and First Advance Estimates of 2021-22 of Area and Production of various Horticultural Crops.
Total Horticulture production in 2020-21 is estimated to a record 334.60 Million Tonne, an increase of about 4.4% over that achieved in 2019-20. Production of Fruits and Vegetables is estimated to be 102.48 Million Tonne and 200.45 Million Tonne respectively. Total Horticulture production in 2021-22 is estimated to be 333.3 Million Tonne, (decrease of 0.4%) over 2020-21.

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Surat has become the first in India to get a road that is made out of steel waste. It is seen as an example of sustainable development.
The road is built by Arcelor Mittal Nippon Steel India with CSIR India (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research) & CRRI (Central Road Research Institute) with support from Ministry of Steel and Government think tank NITI Aayog.

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The Union Government has appointed CS Rajan as Chairman and Managing Director of Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services (IL&FS) for a period of six months.
Till March-end, the company has resolved debt amounting to Rs 55,000 crore. Out of which, Rs 21,000 crore has been discharged by way of monetisation of assets and debt repayment. The resolved debt amounts to 90% of the total debt that was expected to be resolved.

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The Ministry of Rural Development has notified fresh wage rates under rural job guarantee programme NREGS for financial year 2022-23.
Only 10 states got more than 5 per cent hike while three states had no change. The MGNREGA wage rates are fixed according to changes in the CPI-AL (Consumer Price Index-Agriculture Labour). The maximum rise is recorded in Goa where the new wage is Rs 315 per day in 2022-23.