21-22.11.21 Daily [Uttar Pradesh] UPPSC Current Affairs

Lucknow won the award for Best State Capital In Citizens Feedback. Overall, it secured 12th rank and retained its previous years ranking to become top-tanked UP city in Population of 10 lakh and above category. Among other seven UP cities in top 30 were Ghaziabad (18th), Kanpur (21st), Agra (24th), Prayagraj (26th), Meerut (27th) and Varanasi (30th).

Three of these Ghaziabad, Kanpur and Meerut have improved their rankings while three others — Varanasi, Prayagraj and Agra have slipped a bit, but have retained their position in the top 30. Last year, six UP cities were in the top 30. This year, the number has risen to seven. Urban development minister Tandon and additional chief secretary, urban development, Rajnish Dubey, have congratulated the officials and representatives of award-winning municipal bodies for their good work.

Patiali won the Best City in Maximum Citizens Participation award in the category of cities with less than 1 lakh population. Hasanpur won the Fastest Mover City in the category of 50,000 to 1 lakh population while Awagarh and Gajraula won the Best City in Citizens Feedback award in their respective categories.

Tribal Affairs Ministry and Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) jointly launched online certificate course on Experiential Learning. This programme will be deployed for 350 educators across 6 states.

Experiential learning seeks to help teachers establish tribal students connect with their real-life experiences and own contexts.

Though, the tribal students studying in EMRS are first generation learners. But creativity is inherent amongst them.

Creativity, risk-taking and enterprise are some of the attributes which naturally get unleashed in their life-cycle.

The programme will be of great service for the development of tribal education, which is having exponential impact on the way EMRS schools emerge as model schools in near future.

Ministry of coal has constituted a Cell, in line with the commitment of clean energy.

The Sustainable Development Cell was constituted in the backdrop of Prime Ministers announcement on new Climate targets at COP26 under Panchamrit Strategy.

Ministry emphasised on to put major thrust on Sustainable Development in coal mining, by taking care of the environmental and social impact of the mining.

Ministry of coal has established a full-fledged Sustainable Development Cell (SDC) to mentor, advice, and plan action of minimising adverse impact of mining.

It will also formulate future policy framework for environmental mitigation in Coal sector as well as Lignite sector in India.

Coal India Ltd. (CIL) and its subsidiaries along with NLC India Ltd., & Singareni Coal Company Ltd. (SCCL) has already started the extensive work.

The Delhi government has also begun de-silting and repair of the sewage system.

Six Point Action Plan:

Arvind Kejriwal, the Delhi Chief Minister, recently committed to entirely clean the Yamuna River by 2025.

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The Indian Police Foundation (IPF) performed a civilian impression study. The Delhi Police was placed eighth among Indian states and union territories in the report.

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China launched a new satellite titled “Gaofen-11 03” from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre on 20 November.

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The Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre is in Shanxi’s northern region.

A Long March-4B rocket was used to launch the satellite.

It successfully entered the intended orbit.

The satellite was launched on the 397th launch of the Long March series carrier rockets.

Gaofen

Gaofen is a Chinese series of high-resolution Earth imaging satellites that are utilised for the government-sponsored China High-resolution Earth Observation System (CHEOS).

Gaofen 1, the first satellite of the Gaofen series, was launched in 2013. Gaofen-11 03 is a Chinese National Space Administration (CNSA) Earth observation satellite.

It was successfully separated in the Sun-synchronous orbit.