Digitization Current Affairs, GK & News
Periodic Labour Force Survey: Decline in Self-Employed households
The National Statistical Office recently released the Periodic Labour force Survey. According to the survey, the percentage of self-employed households in rural India declined from 52.2% to 51.7% in the year 2019. Highlights The Survey says that in Urban India the self-employed households declined from 32.4% to 31.8%. The decline in rural India is mainly ..
Month: Current Affairs - June, 2020
Category: Reports & Indexes Current Affairs
Topics: Digitization • Employment • employment generation • Formalisation of employment • Periodic Labour Force Survey • rural areas • Unemployment • Urban Services
Govt sets 100% Digitization target of all Waqf properties in 100 days
Centre government has set a target to achieve 100% Digitization of Waqf properties across country in its 1st 100 days. The announcement in this regard was made by Union Minister of Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi Minister while addressing National Conference of State and Union Territories Waqf Boards in New Delhi. Minister also gave away ..
Month: Current Affairs - July, 2019
Topics: Central Wakf Council • Digitization • Geographic information system • National Conference of State and Union Territories Waqf Boards • Union Minister of Minority Affairs • Wakf Act 1954 • Waqf Boards • Waqf Properties
The National Cultural Audiovisual Archives (NCAA) project of India becomes world’s first trusted digital repository
The National Cultural Audiovisual Archives (NCAA) project of the Ministry of Culture has become the world’s first Trusted Digital Repository as per ISO 16363:2012 standard, which is granted by Primary Trustworthy Digital Repository Authorisation Body Ltd. (PTAB), United Kingdom (UK). The NCAA is implemented by Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA). The primary ..
Topics: Archival science • Digital preservation • Digitization • Documents • Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts • Information • Information science • Institutional repository • Knowledge • Ministry of Culture • Records management • Repository
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Dates for digitization of cable services in India
The Presidential ordinance to digitize analogue cable systems received presidential nod recently. Television viewing is likely to see a sea change in the next six months with the digitization of cable services. This will mean wider choice of TV channels, better quality of transmission, increased value added services for consumers and greater consolidation, reduced dependence ..
Month: Current Affairs - December, 2011
Topics: Cable television • Cable television in the United States • Data transmission • Digital preservation • Digitization • Information and communications technology • Set-top box • Television • Terminology