EMPLOYEE CORNERS: Current Affairs-July 1 -The Hindu

TIRUCHI AIRPORT RANKED FIFTH AMONG NON-METRO AIRPORTS :

Tiruchi airport has been ranked 5th among non-metro airports in the country.
It is conducted by Airport Authority of India in the southern region by an agency selected by them.
1. Raipur 2. Udaipr 3.Amirstar 4. Dehradn 5. Tiruchi
Lat year it was 6th position, except Chennai,Bengaluru,Kochi and Hyderabad, the other airports in the southern region were non-metro airports.
Parameters : Cleaniness, Toilet facilities, Car parking, Troey facility, Speed of immigration authorities and customs.

CENTRE TO LAUNCH UNDERWATER ROBOTS TO FIND LOST CITIES OF DWARAKA & PUHAR

Dept of science & Tech (DST) is looking to send robotic vehicles into the sea near Dwaraka gujarat and Puhar,Tamilnadu.
NIOT and NIO,Goa has been involved and NIOT has indigenousy built vehicles capable of pumbing 5000 mts under water.
NIO has previous experience in marine archaeology.
Exacavations at Dwaraka, a coastal town in jamnagar district of Gujarat, a port city and a rich city that sank into the sea.
Puhar as being the port capita of the chola dynasty.
Geologists said there is existence of saraswati river mentioned in rig veda and in hindu mythology.
Study commissioned by water resources ministry and led by professor valdiya. Remnants of defunct rivers - sarsuti-markanda rivulets in haryana were the water courses of the eastern branch of himalayan river and the ghaggar -patidi channels were the western branches.

EDITORIAL

FOR A MORE REPRESENTATIVE HOUSE

Between the 1950s and 1960s the ok sabhs used to meet for an average of 120 days in a year. In the last decade it has met for an average of 70 days a year. Its productivity in the 2016 winter session was 14% and Rajya sabha was 20%.
In U.K. British House of Commons - 150 days a year, U.S. House of representatives - 140 days.
National commission to review the working of the constitution recommending 120 and 100 days for the Lok sabha dn Rajya sabha.
India ranked 20th from the bottom in terms of representation of women in parliament. While 73rd and 74th constittional amendments enabed the reservation of 33% of seats in loca government,politica representation by women candidates continues to subdued.
Beginning with the passage of the women's reservation bill-108th amendment reserving 33% of all seats in parliament & state legislature for women.
Private member bill only the second half of every friday, during a parliamentary session, in devoted to debating private member bills. To date only 14 private member bills have been passed.

NATIONAL

The GST council chaired by finance minister slashed the tax rate on fertiizers from 12% - 5% and tractor parts from 28%-18%

CHINA-INDIA ROAD INFRASTRUCTURE

China has massive road infrastructure along the border. But india is lagging behind china.
61 India-China border roads (ICBC) inclded in the border roads development board (BRDB) programme were planned to completed by 2012.
only 15 roads completed by 2012 , in the remaining 46, only 7 roads completed by 2016. And extending the planned date of competion (PDC) of baance roads to 2021.

CHINA CLOSING NATHU LA PASS

Face off between india and chinese troops along the India-china border, the kailash mansarovar yatra through the Nathu La pass in sikkim has been cancelled.

NATHU LA PASS

Nathu-Listening ears, La-Pass in a mountain pass in the himalayas. It connects the indian gate of sikkim with China's tibet autonomos region.
On indian side the pass is 54 east of gangtok, only citizen of india can visit the pass and then after obtaining a permit in gangtok.
Nathu La is one of the three open trading border posts between china and india. The others are Shipkila in Himachal pradesh and Lipulekh at the trisection point of Uttarkhand - India,Nepal and China.
Nathu-La is sealed by india after the 1962 sino-india war and reopened in 2006 for trade.
Pilgrims travelling throgh the Lipuekh pass in uttarkhand will continue.
Through the Nathu La it leads to manasarovar shortens the entire distance, The Lipulekh route involves a treacheous trek about 200km. while the Nathu La rote for treking only 35km.

FUNDS FOR GST

Once the GST implemented will subsume almost all the cesses levied at the moment including Swachh bharat and Krishi kalyan.
Edu cess on imported goods and the cess on crude oil will remain under GST.
Government need extra revenue to compensate the states and so the GST council decided to impose additiona cess for 5 years on certain goods over and above the highest tax bracket of 28%.
These goods on which cess will be levied icude tobacco products,coal,moto vehicles, which include all types of cars, personal aircraft and yachts.

ECONOMICS

TRAI PITCHES FOR LOWER GST

TRAI has pitched for a reduction in the GST rate for telecom services to 5% from 18% decided by the GST council. And recommended a cut in levies such as license fee and spectrm usage charges.
TRAI may consider actively taking up with Ministry of Finance the issue of reduction in GST rate from 18-5% . By declaring the telecom sector as core infrastructure industry and economy enables in India.

INFRASTRCTURE OTPUT GROWS 3.6%

Infrastructure for the month may grows to 3.6% and in apri 2.8%
There are eight core industries namely - coal,crude oil, natural gas, refinery, fertilisers, steel, cement and electricity
In this ony 5 sector shows growth and the coal, fertilisers and steel witnessed no improvement.

MISC

If you are in pakistan, right to file mercy petition to the army chief and the president of pakistan,
Chhatrapati Shivaji railway station renamed as Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaja terminus. Its first name was Victoria termins.
Gulmarg and Kongdoori longest ropeway in the country-5 km.
17 corps, which is india's first dedicated strike corps for mountain operations.
Biannual Financial Stability Report (FSR) released by RBI.
Base year for new GDP series has been fixed at 2017-2018, previous 2011-2012.

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