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· Youth and eco-clubs made compulsory for all schools

It will now be mandatory for all schools, including government-run institutions, to form eco-clubsand youth clubs. In a directive to school managements, the government stated that the move was aimed at empowering students to explore environmental concepts and actions beyond the confines of a syllabus or curriculum.
The present academic year will see the clubs being used to create awareness about water conservation. They will organise activities and create awareness on the subject as part of the central government’s Jal Shakti Abhiyan.

Youth clubs in schools are an instrument to develop life skills, build self-esteem, develop self-confidence and resilience, and counter negative emotions of stress, shame and fear. Eco-clubs in schools will empower students to participate and take up meaningful environmental activities and projects. They are a forum through which students can reach out to influence and engage their parents and neighbourhood communities to promote sound environmental behaviour.

At the primary level, state-run schools get Rs 5,000 to operate youth and eco-clubs. At the government secondary and higher secondary level, they can claim between an amount of Rs 15,000 and Rs 25,000 as annual assistance.
Last year, the government had compiled a database of eco-clubs that were operational in schools across the state. Science teachers had also been trained to hold activities to spread awareness about solid waste management and other environmental issues.

Youth and eco-clubs in government schools are also expected to act as summer camps ‘where students can participate in debates, music, arts, sports, reading, physical activities after school hours and during vacation’.

INTERNATIONAL

World Literacy Day is celebrated on 8 September

On 8th September every year, International Literacy Day is celebrated to make people to know the importance of Literacy for people, communities and societies.

It aims to combat worldwide problems also to promote illiteracy. The theme for 2019 is Literacy and Multilingualism.

On 26th October in 1966, the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) declared 8th September as International Literacy Day.

The 7th RCEP is being held in Thailand

The 7th Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) ministerial meeting is being held from 8-10 September 2019 at Bangkok, Thailand.

In the meeting 10 members of ASEAN countries, their six free trade agreement (FTA) partners.

India will be represented by the Union Minister of Commerce & Industry and Railways Piyush Goyal. After RCEP, he will be holding bilateral meetings with his counterparts from Russia, Japan, China, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand.

Gk bit : RCEP

The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) was established in November 2012 at the ASEAN Summit in Cambodia. It is a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the 10 Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries and its 6 FTA partners.

10 ASEAN Countries:

Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines

6 FTA Partners:

India, China, Japan, Australia, South Korea, and New Zealand.

NATIONAL

PM inaugurated AURIC

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated Aurangabad Industrial City (AURIC), India’s first i ndustrial smart city, in Aurangabad, Maharashtra. The programme aims to boost the Government of India’s Smart Cities programme.

AURIC is India’s first greenfield smart city. Aurangabad has been planned to be the new benchmark of industrial progress. It is situated in the underdeveloped Marathwada region. The 10,000-acre big AURIC is a part of the under-construction Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC). The city is being promoted as a major industrial hub on the DMIC.

Ministry of Information and Broadcasting decides to discontinue single use plastic

The Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (I&B) has announced its plan to get rid of single-use plastic within the secretariat. The Ministry has encouraged the staffers to turn the recycled paper.

The reason aims to implement the ban as it plans to have a clean and green environment with collective responsibility and endless methods toward achieving the goal of plastic-free surroundings. All the Ministry officials are requested to discontinue the single-use of plastic folders, plastic water bottles, and different such things forthwith and instead start/encourage the utilization of recycled paper.

PM to launch a new initiative to control FMD

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is to launch a new initiative in the National disease management Programme for Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) and Brucellosis. Under this scheme, the Centre will allocate Rs.13,500 crore central scheme to control livestock diseases.

The scheme will be launched on 11 September from Mathura district in Uttar Pradesh. On this day, PM also will launch the National AI Programme throughout the event on 11 September in Mathura.

The aim of the Programme is to regulate Foot and Mouth sickness and Brucellosis by 2025 with vaccination and ultimate demolition of FMD by 2030.

PM Modi launches Mumbai Metro coach under the Make in India initiative

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a slew of metro projects in Maharashtra’s Mumbai and launched a metro coach-built indigenously under the Make in India program, in a visit that comes ahead of the assembly elections scheduled in October.
He inaugurated projects worth more than Rs 20,000 crore.

The Mumbai metro project will not only help to easing out commute for passengers but will also be a source of employment for a number of people as coaches of the new metro train will be made in India.

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