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POINT<br />
OUT<br />
NatioNal PaNoRaMa<br />
isro gets gandhi peaCe prize for 2014<br />
The Gandhi Peace Prize for the year 2014, has been awarded to Indian<br />
Space Research Organisation (ISRO). The Jury for the Prize met under<br />
the Chairmanship of the Prime Minister, Shri. Narendra Modi. The other<br />
members of the Jury were Justice H.L Dattu, Chief Justice of India, Shri<br />
Mallikarjun Kharge, Leader of the single largest Opposition Party in the Lok<br />
Sabha, Shri. L.K. Advani, Member of Parliament (L.S) and Shri Gopalkrishna<br />
Gandhi. Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), an organisation of<br />
Government of India, is engaged in making space technology a catalyst<br />
of development to bring about societal transformation. The Indian Space<br />
Research Organisation (ISRO)’s mission is to provide the nation with<br />
space based services and to develop the technologies to achieve the<br />
same. Through the years, ISRO has upheld its mission of bringing space<br />
to the service of the common man and in the service of the nation. In<br />
the process it has become one of the six largest space agencies of the<br />
world. ISRO contributes to the nation’s development through satellite<br />
based education, health care and connectivity to community activities for<br />
sustainable economic development.<br />
18 Central<br />
varsities introduCe<br />
ChoiCe-based<br />
Credit systeM<br />
As many as 18<br />
UGC-funded central<br />
universities have<br />
introduced Choice<br />
Based Credit<br />
System (CBCS) at<br />
both undergraduate<br />
and postgraduate<br />
levels to bring<br />
about qualitative<br />
improvement in<br />
higher education<br />
in the country.<br />
Minister of State<br />
for HRD Ram<br />
Shankar Katheria<br />
said that UGC has been constantly persuading<br />
the universities to introduce academic reforms<br />
like introduction of semester system, CBCS and<br />
grading system. “Other central universities are in<br />
different stages of implementation of CBCS," he<br />
added. Under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, central<br />
funds were released to the state governments<br />
and UT administrations, who decide the degree of<br />
devolution of funds to the local bodies, including<br />
the sector of elementary education.<br />
india, egypt to Cooperate on<br />
environMental issues<br />
Ahead of the UN climate<br />
conference in Paris later this year,<br />
India and Egypt have decided to<br />
form a 'joint working group' for<br />
"cooperation in environment and<br />
climate change". Environment<br />
minister Prakash Javadekar<br />
attended the Fifteenth Session of<br />
African Ministerial Conference on<br />
Environment held from March 4<br />
to 6 in Cairo. The joint working<br />
group will discuss and fi nalize<br />
the areas of cooperation in the<br />
fi elds of climate change, urban<br />
waste management, hazardous waste management, environmental education<br />
and all other facets of environmental governance in the two countries.<br />
CoMplete Mid-Career training to avail<br />
proMotion: govt to ias offiCers<br />
All IAS officers have been asked by the Centre to complete the mandatory midcareer<br />
training, failing which they may lose promotions and other benefits.<br />
The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) has written to states and<br />
central government ministries to ensure that eligible IAS officers undergo<br />
the training. "I may also point out that mid-career training is a mandatory<br />
training programme launched with the objective of improving their next level<br />
competencies at specified stages of their careers," the DoPT letter said.<br />
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