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🛑e-Office🛑 What is an e-Office Initiative? ✅ E-Office is a Mission-Mode project as part of e-Governance Initiatives. ✅ The e-office initiative goes back to 2009, but the towering piles of paperwork were and still are a hurdle too high to cross. ✅ Aim - To significantly improve the operational efficiency of Government Ministries and Departments.   - Through improvement in the workflow mechanism and office procedure manuals. Join-Share @IASfact for more. Examples:-. • Idukki in Kerala became paperless in 2012 and Hyderabad in 2016. • Saharsa became the first district in Bihar to be declared paperless (e-office) ✓ Aim -  To end the Great Indian Red Tape 👉https://indianexpress.com/article/governance/in-a-first-in-bihar-district-office-goes-paperless-8131301/

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Saksham App 👉 The Election Commission of India has developed Saksham App to enable participation of Persons with Disabilities (PwDs) in election process. Join-Share @IASfact for more

India' s priority Issues as UNSC President: "Five S" approach - ✓ Samman(Respect) ✓ Samvad(Dialogue) ✓ Sahyog(Cooperation) ✓ Shanti(Peace) ✓ Samriddhi(Prosperity) 👉 Join-Share @IASfact for more....

India produces sufficient food, feed and fibre to sustain about 18% of the world’s population (as of 2020). Agriculture contributes about 16.5% to India’s GDP and employs 42.3% of the workforce (2019-20). #gs3 Join-Share @IASfact for more

🔆Hydrogen: Hydrogen is one of the most abundant elements on earth for a cleaner alternative fuel option. Type of hydrogen depend up on the process of its formation: 1. Black hydrogen is produced by use of fossil fuel, whereas pink hydrogen is produced through electrolysis, but using energy from nuclear power sources. 2. Brown hydrogen is produced using coal where the emissions are released to the air. 3. Grey hydrogen is produced from natural gas where the associated emissions are released to the air. 4. Blue hydrogen is produced from natural gas, where the emissions are captured using carbon capture and storage. 5. Green hydrogen is produced by electrolysis of water using renewable energy (like Solar, Wind) and has a lower carbon footprint. Electricity splits water into hydrogen and oxygen. By Products: Water, Water Vapor. 6. ‘Green hydrogen’, the emerging novel concept, is a zero-carbon fuel made by  electrolysis using renewable power from wind and solar to split water into hydrogen and oxygen.  7. India consumes about six million tonnes of hydrogen every year for the production of ammonia and methanol in industrial sectors, including fertilisers and refineries. 8. This could increase to 28 million tonnes by 2050, principally due to the rising demand from the industry, but also due to the expansion of transport and power sectors. Join-Share for more @IASfact

Sedition cases up in India but convictions dip: 1. According to the data from the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), uploaded on its website, cases of sedition and under the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act  showed a rise in 2019, but only 3% of the sedition cases resulted in convictions. 2. The year 2019 saw a 25% increase in the number of sedition cases and a 41% increase in arrests over the previous year. 3. A total of 93 cases of sedition were reported in 2019, with 96 arrests and charge sheets filed in 76 cases, as against 70 cases, 56 arrests and 27 charge sheets the previous year. 4. The ministry of home affairs, in a written reply informed the Rajya Sabha that out of the 96 people arrested for sedition in 2019, only two were convicted for the crime, while 29 were  acquitted. #gs2 Must join @IASfact for more....

Navy Day in India is observed annually on December 4 to recognise the contributions and accomplishments of Indian Naval forces. The Operation Trident launch against Pakistan in 1971’s Indo-Pakistan War is also remembered on this day. During Operation Trident, the Indian Navy played a critical role and sank 4 Pakistani vessels including PNS Khaibar. Join-Share: @PrepUPSCofficial

The National Pollution Control Day or National Pollution Prevention Day is observed in India on December 2 every year. The main objective of this day is to raise awareness about pollution control measures and the prevention of industrial disasters. The day is especially observed in the memory of people who lost their lives in the Bhopal gas tragedy of 1984. What gas was responsible for Bhopal Gas Tragedy? 🤔 Join-Share @PrepUPSCofficial

In 2020-21, over 58,000 children were rescued across India from work, rehabilitated and mainstreamed under the National Child Labour Project, according to figures tabled in Lok Sabha by Minister for Labour and Employment. #social_issues Join-Share for more: @IASfact

Polio Programme – India successfully implemented the “Polio Elimination Programme” with a coverage of 99% or even higher.  #gs3 #health Join-Share for more: @IASfact

Bihar has been known to be India’s most flood prone State.  Flood Management improvement Support Centre ( FMISC),  76% of the population in north Bihar faces the recurring threat of flood devastation . Join-Share for more: @IASfact

The National Pollution Control Day or National Pollution Prevention Day is observed in India on December 2 every year. The main objective of this day is to raise awareness about pollution control measures and the prevention of industrial disasters. The day is especially observed in the memory of people who lost their lives in the Bhopal gas tragedy of 1984. What gas was responsible for Bhopal Gas Tragedy? 🤔 Join-Share @PrepUPSCofficial

According to NCRB reports, on average, every hour a woman succumbs to dowry deaths in India with the annual figure rising upwards to 7000. Source - yojana magazine #social #indiansociety Join-Share for more: @IASfact

According to the WHO, there were around 37.7 million living with HIV as of 2020. Of the people living with HIV, over two thirds are in Africa. Any success in containing the HIV pandemic would mean drastically cutting the rates of transmission there. #health #aidsday

According to the International Monetary Fund, India’s debt-to-GDP ratio rose from 74% to 90% during the pandemic, but it is expected to drop to 80% gradually. #gs3 Join-Share for more: @IASfact