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 ✅Birth Rate • Number of live births per 1000 of population per year.  ✅Death rate (DR) • Number of deaths per 1000 people per year.  ✅Sex ratio at birth (SRB) • Number of male births per female births.  ✅Total fertility rate (TFR) • Total number of children born or likely to be born to a woman in her life time.  ✅Neonatal mortality rate • Probability of dying between birth and 28 days of age, expressed per 1,000 live births.  ✅Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) • Number of maternal deaths per 1,00,000 live births.  ✅Infant mortality rate (IMR) • Number of deaths under 1 year of age occurring for 1000 live births in a given year.  ✅Under-five mortality rate (U5MR) • Probability of dying between birth and exactly 5 years of age, expressed per 1,000 live births.

National Program and Project Management Policy Framework’  (NPMPF)  □  Launched by :  NITI Aayog and Quality Council of India (QCI).  □  The framework envisages to bring radical reforms in the way infrastructure projects are executed in India. □  Key Points :  ◇ Adopt a program and project management approach to infra development.  ◇ Institutionalize and promote the profession of program and project management and build a workforce of such professionals. ◇ Enhance institutional capacity and capability of professionals. 

 Manjusha Painting  🔶This art form belongs to Bhagalpur region of Bihar. 🔶 It is also known as Angika art, where ‘ang’ refers to one of the Mahajan Pada.  🔶Since snake motifs are always present, it is also called snake painting.  🔶These paintings are generally executed on boxes of jute and paper.

 Amended Technology Up-gradation Fund Scheme (ATUFS) ✅ Union Minister of Textiles reviewed the ATUFS. ♻️ About ATUFS: ✅ The Ministry of Textiles had introduced the Technology Upgradation Fund Scheme (TUFS) in 1999 as a credit-linked subsidy scheme intended for modernization and technology up-gradation of the Indian textile industry, promoting ease of doing business, generating employment and promoting exports. ✅ Since then, the scheme has been implemented in different versions. ✅ The ongoing ATUFS has been approved in 2016 and is being implemented through a web-based iTUFS platform. ✅ Under this, Capital Investment Subsidy is provided to benchmarked machinery installed by the industry after physical verification. ✅ This is a credit-linked subsidy scheme for capital investment in the manufacturing and textiles sector under the Make in India as well as Zero Defect and Zero Effect initiative of the Government of India.  ✅ The scheme is being administered with a two-stage monitori...

 Chambal River ✅The Chambal River is a tributary of the Yamuna River in central India, and thus forms part of the greater Gangetic drainage system.  ✅The river flows north-northeast through Madhya Pradesh, running for a time through Rajasthan then forming the boundary between Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh before turning southeast to join the Yamuna in Uttar Pradesh state ✅The perennial Chambal originates at Janapav, south of Mhow town, near Manpur, Indore, on the south slope of the Vindhya Range in Madhya Pradesh. ✅ It ends a confluence of five rivers, including the Chambal, Kwari, Yamuna, Sind, Pahuj, at Pachnada near Bhareh in Uttar Pradesh state, at the border of Bhind and Etawah districts. ✅The Chambal River is considered pollution free, and hosts an amazing riverine faunal assemblage including 2 species of crocodilians – the mugger and gharial, 8 species of freshwater turtles, smooth-coated otters, gangetic river dolphins, skimmers, black-bellied terns, sarus cranes and bl...

✅ CounterMEASURE programme  🅾️ Purpose : The CounterMEASURE project works to identify sources and pathways of plastic pollution in river systems in Asia, particularly the Mekong and the Ganges 🅾️CounterMEASURE is managed by the UN Environment Programme’s Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific. 🅾️National Productivity Council and The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) from India are partners to this programme. 

  INDIAN COUNCIL ACT 1909  #Historicalbackground This Act is also known as Morley-Minto Reforms (Lord Morley was the then Secretary of State for India and Lord Minto was the then Viceroy of India). □ The features of this Act were as follows :- ◇ It considerably increased the size of the legislative councils, both Central and provincial. The number of members in the Central legislative council was raised from 16 to 60. The number of members in the provincial legislative councils was not uniform. ◇ It retained official majority in the Central legislative council, but allowed the provincial legislative councils to have non official majority. ◇ It enlarged the deliberative functions of the legislative councils at both the levels. For example, members were allowed to ask supplementary questions, move resolutions on the budget and so on.  ◇ It provided (for the first time) for the association of Indians with the executive councils of the Viceroy and Governors. ◇ Satyendr...