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Yuvayana Current Affairs Digest – July 2015 www.yuvayana.org Implementation: The scheme will be implemented in phases. In first phase, 83 feeders have been identified covering 310 villages having minimum line losses between 25 to 70 per cent and have made payment of their electricity bills. Firstly the power supply will be increased to 15 hours in these villages instead of 12 hour power in present time. Later the power supply will be further increased to 21 hours on those feeders where the payment of bills would cross the mark of 90 per cent. Bijli Panchayat will be also organized in all villages falling under such feeders. The electricity department officers will join these Panchayats and will resolve the complaints of consumers on the spot. ► ‘One nation, One number’ plan : Nationwide mobile number portability (MNP) become operational from 3 July 2015 after major private mobile operators like Vodafone, RCom, Airtel, Uninor and Idea Cellular along with state-run BSNL and MTNL issued statements to launch MNP. Feature : Nationwide MNP will allow customers to keep their existing mobile phone numbers while shifting between States and circles by changing operators. Earlier, customers were only able to change their operator by retaining the same number only in the same state or telecom circle. In November 2014, Department of Telecommunications (DoT) had approved the national MNP recommendations of Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI). TRAI had set the deadline to rollout full MNP on May 2, 2015. However it was extended on the request Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) by two months till July. Note : MNP within a circle or state was first launched in Haryana in November 2010 and later was expanded to other circles. At present India is divided into 22 telecom service areas or circles. ► Four Indian-Americans conferred with prestigious Great Immigrants, The Pride of America award 2015. They are among 38 distinguished personalities from more than 30 countries around the world who have been honored with this year’s award. 4 Indian-Americans are Preet Bharara : US Attorney, Southern District of New York. www.edu.yuvayana.org www.test.yuvayana.org
Yuvayana Current Affairs Digest – July 2015 www.yuvayana.org Rakesh Khurana : Dean of Harvard College and Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership and Development. Madhulika Sikka : Vice President and Executive Editor of .Mic. Abraham Verghese : Physician, Professor and Author. The award is given by New York-based Carnegie Corporation on the occasion of Independence Day of United States i.e. 4th July. It should be noted that Carnegie Corporation’s founder Andrew Carnegie was one of pioneer American capitalist who had shaped the modern American industry and philanthropy. He was the son of impoverished immigrants who had settled in US. ► First eSign Service launched by eMudhra Limited as part of Digital India Vision. eMudhra is a leading certifying firm in the country for digital signatures. eSign are legally valid and secure under the Information Technology Act, 2000. eSign is an online electronic signature service and will facilitate an Aadhaar holder to digitally sign a document within seconds. It can pave the way for a digital transformation into a paperless environment by revolutionising the way of business and governance conducted in the country. eMudhra Limited also launched eMlocker which facilitates a person to store important documents such as Aadhaar cards, PAN cards, electricity bills or any other documents electronically. About eMudhra Limited : eMudhra was established in 2008 under the Information Technology (IT) Act, 2000 and is a statutory licensed Certifying Authority of India to issue digital signature certificates. eMudhra offers variety of other services including Tax filing Services, Digital Signing Solutions, PAN Card Online applications. Digital Signature is an electronic signature used to authenticate the identity of the sender and signer of a message or document. It ensures that original content of the message or document remains unchanged or tapered after it is send ► Uttarakhand became first Indian state to install a system to detect earthquakes and disseminate warnings. The first system has been installed in its capital Dehradun which will issue warnings 1-40 seconds before earthquakes of magnitude 5 or more occur. www.edu.yuvayana.org www.test.yuvayana.org
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