GOA

• At 43%, Goa’s unaccounted water is way over permissible limit

 

• An analysis of water supplied in four major water treatment plants in the state shows that unaccounted water ranges from 35% to nearly 43%. Unaccounted water is water that is lost during its supply from the water treatment plants to the consumer.
• Leakages in transmission lines and underground reservoirs, illegal connections, non-metered supply and non-working or faulty water meters are among the major reasons for this loss of water.

 

• The percentage of unaccounted water in Goa is way higher than the 15% limit set by the manual of the Union ministry of urban development.

 

• The overall unaccounted water of 35% under all the seven water supply schemes was above the permissible limit of 15%. Considering the rates applicable to various categories of consumers, the revenue loss for unaccounted water, excluding the permissible limit of 15%, worked out to over Rs 77 crore per annum.

INTERNATIONAL

 

• Pakistan appoints Its First Ever Female Hindu Civil Judge

 

• Suman Kumari becomes the first Hindu woman to have been appointed as a civil judge in Pakistan after passing an examination for induction of judicial officers.
• Kumari, who hails from Qambar-Shahdadkot, will serve in her native district.

 

• India Replaces Japan To Become Second-Largest Crude Steel Producer

 

• India replaced Japan as the world’s 2nd largest steel producing country, while China is the largest producer of crude steel, accounting for more than 51% of production, according to the World Steel Association.

 

• The global steel body, in its latest report, stated that China’s crude steel output jumped 6.6% to 928.3 million tonnes in 2018 from 870.9 MT in 2017.

 

• China’s share increased from 50.3 percent in 2017 to 51.3% in 2018.

 

• India’s crude steel production in 2018 was at 106.5 MT, up 4.9% from 101.5 MT in 2017.

 

• The International Year of the Periodic Table

 

• The United Nations announced 2019 as the International Year of the Periodic Table of the Chemical Elements to highlight its first publication in 1869.

 

• The periodic table as we know it today was first designed by the Russian scientist Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev.

 

• The announcement by the United Nations will help to raise the profile of how chemistry can provide solutions to global challenges in agriculture, education, energy and health.

 

 

 

 

NATIONAL

 

 

• PM Modi dedicates National Salt Satyagraha Memorial to the nation

 

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi dedicated National Salt Satyagraha Memorial to the nation at Dandi village in South Gujarat.

 

• At the memorial site, he also unveiled statues of Mahatma Gandhi and 80 Satyagrahis who had marched with him during the historic Dandi Salt March in 1930.

 

• The memorial also has 24-narrative murals depicting various events and stories from the historic 1930 Salt March.

 

• The Salt Satyagraha March, well known as the Dandi March of 1930 has been a landmark event in the history of India’s freedom struggle.

 

• On this day, Satyagrahis led by Mahatma Gandhi marched 241-miles from Sabarmati Ashram to the coastal village of Dandi and made salt from seawater breaking the Salt Law

 

• IAI announced agreement with Indian Navy and Cochin Shipyard

 

• Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI)announced entering into agreements worth $93 million for providing Naval Medium Range Surface-to-Air Missile (MRSAM) systems to India. The contracts for the air defence system were entered with the Indian Navy and the Cochin Shipyard.
• Under the contracts, IAI will provide complementary systems for the air defense system. They involve follow up orders for a range of maintenance and other services for various sub-systems of IAI’s advanced MSRAM ADS.

 

·         India’s unemployment rate hit 4 decade high of 6.1%in 2017-18 ; says NSSO Survey

 

• As per National Sample Survey Office (NSSO’s) periodic labour force survey (PLFS) India’s unemployment rate hit a 45 year high of 6.1%in 2017-18.
• It is the first comprehensive survey on employment conducted by a government agency after demonetization.
• Unemployment is higher in urban areas which is 7.8%  as compared to 5.3% in rural areas of the country.
• The unemployment rate is at its highest level as in 1972-73.
• Unemployment rate among youth reached a record high level in 2017-18 as compared to that in the overall population.
• Youth’s moving away from the Agriculture sector as it is becoming less remunerative and moving to urban areas.

 

·         Mizoram govt bans import of pigs and piglets

 

• The Mizoram Government issued an order to ban the import of pigs and piglets because there is a possibility of an outbreak of Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS).
• The PRRS disease is also called as Swine Flu, the virus of this disease generally transmitted from pigs and affects both pigs and humankind
• Basically, the pigs imported from Myanmar are in suspect point, pigs imported from other countries too have been banned as a move to prevent the outbreak of the PRRS in the state.