UPSC EXAM QUIZ 24.09.2024

Explanation:

• Financial Action Task Force (FATF) released its Mutual Evaluation Report on India, highlighting the country's significant progress in combating illicit finance.
• The FATF Plenary held in Singapore in June 2024 adopted the Mutual Evaluation Report for India, stating that it has achieved a "high level of technical compliance" with the global money laundering watchdog's requirements.
• The FATF has placed India in the "regular compliance" category, the highest rating category given by the FATF, making India the only major economy with a federal structure to receive this status.Apart from India, the UK, France and Italy are the only G-20 countries to be placed in this category.

Explanation:

• Union Cabinet has approved the Pradhan Mantri Janjati Unnat Gram Abhiyan (PM-JUGA), a comprehensive mission aimed at improving the socio-economic conditions of tribal communities in India.
• A total outlay of Rs 79,156 crore will be incurred for this ambitious initiative, which will be implemented over a period of five years.
• The DAPST is a strategy for tribal development in India. The Ministry of Tribal Affairs and 41 other ministries and departments allocate funds to tribal development projects under DAPST.
• These projects include education, health, agriculture, irrigation, roads, housing, electrification, and employment.

Key Facts About the PMJUGA

• It is a centrally sponsored scheme for the welfare of tribal families in tribal-majority villages and aspirational districts.
• Target Areas and Coverage: It will cover 549 districts and 2,740 blocks spread across all tribal majority villages across 30 States/UTs.
• It will cover around 63,000 villages benefitting more than 5 crore tribal people.

• According to the 2011 Census, India has a Scheduled Tribe (ST) population of 10.42 crore (8.6%), consisting of over 705 tribal communities.

Explanation:

• Union Minister Amit Shah introduced “White Revolution 2.0” to further strengthen India’s dairy sector.
• This initiative builds upon the success of Operation Flood, which started in 1970 and transformed the dairy industry through cooperative societies.
• Operation Flood made India one of the largest milk producers in the world.

Objectives of White Revolution 2.0

• The primary goal of White Revolution 2.0 is to increase milk collection across the country by 50% over the next five years. The aim is to boost daily milk procurement from 660 lakh kilograms to 1,007 lakh kilograms by 2028-29. This will also give dairy farmers better access to markets by expanding the cooperative network.
• Cooperatives were the backbone of Operation Flood, and they remain central to White Revolution 2.0. Currently, there are about 1.7 lakh dairy cooperative societies across India, covering 30% of the villages. These cooperatives handle about 10% of the national milk production, but the coverage is uneven across regions.

Explanation:

• Jordan became the first country to eliminate leprosy.
• Jordan has received official verification from the World Health Organisation (WHO) of completely eliminating leprosy.
• This milestone reflects Jordan's commitment to eradicate this disease.
• Leprosy is a chronic infectious disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium leprae.
• It affects the skin, nerves, and respiratory tract. It has long carried a social stigma.
• The Jordanian Ministry of Health in partnership with the WHO and other international organizations has worked to provide multi-drug therapy (MDT) and spread awareness about leprosy.
• WHO’s verification process is rigorous and requires meeting specific criteria.

Explanation:

• Biometric authentic solution for Card Payments has been launched by PayU.
• Flash Pay is the biometric authentic solution for card payments.
• It was unveiled by PayU at the Global FinTech Festival (GFF) 2024.
• Flash Pay is designed to improve security and to make the payment experience simple. It is also designed to increase transaction success rates.
• Advanced device-based biometric technologies, such fingerprint or face recognition, are used by Flash Pay to quickly and securely authenticate payments.
• Customers are no longer dependent on conventional OTP-based authentication because transactions are processed in less than ten seconds.
• This eliminates the need to wait for the delivery of the OTP, lowers the possibility of manual errors, and removes the possibility of fraud related to OTP sharing.
• Across all major card networks, Flash Pay offers merchants a single point of contact for card payment authentication.
• Advanced security features like device binding and jailbreak detection are also included in Flash Pay.
• At GFF 2024, FlashPay was effectively demonstrated in collaboration with South Indian Bank.
• PayU is one of India's leading digital financial services providers with Prosus as an investor.