India 2018

674 India 2018
• Furthering the agenda for cooperative federalism, NITI Aayog has launched
SATH, a programme providing 'Sustainable Action for Transforming
Human capital' with the state governments.
• The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare launches the Intensified
Diarrhoea Control Fortnight (IDCF) in order to intensify efforts to reduce
child deaths due to diarrhoea.
• India's spice exports rises 12 per cent to record all-time high in value and
volume in 2016-17.
• Minister for Science and Technology Dr. Harshvardhan launches a Mobile
App "Celebrating Yoga" developed by Department of Science and
Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology.
• Shri Ram Nath Kovind elected the 14 th President of India.
• ISRO's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle PSLV-C38 successfully launched the
712 kg Cartosat-2 Series Satellite along with 30 co-passenger satellites from
Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR, Sriharikota. This is the thirty ninth
consecutively successful mission of PSLV.
July, 2017
• Goods and Services Tax (GST) launched.
• "JIGYASA" - Student-Scientist connect programme launched .
• The Union Cabinet has approved the establishment of the International
Rice Research Institute (IRRI), South Asia Regional Center (ISARC) at the
campus of National Seed Research and Training Center (NSRTC) in
Varanasi.
• The Union Cabinet has given its ex-post facto approval for the promulgation
of the Central Goods and Services Tax (Extension to Jammu & Kashmir)
Ordinance, 2017 and replacement of the Ordinance by the Central Goods
and Services Tax (Amendment) Bill, 2017.
• The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has approved the proposal of
Department of Rural Development for revision of cost of Socio Economic
and Caste Census 2011 (SECC 2011).
August, 2017
• The Loan and Project Agreements for Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
(AIIB) lending of US$ 329 million for Gujarat Rural Roads Project have
been signed between the Government of India/ Government of Gujarat
and the AIIB.
• The Union Cabinet has approved the creation of a non-lapsable pool in the
public account for secondary and higher, education known as "Madhyamik
and Uchchtar Shiksha Kosh" (MUSK) into which all proceeds of "Secondary
and Higher Education Cess" will be credited.