Current Affairs 20,21.10.2022

 

Current Affairs 20,21.10.2022

1. Madhya Pradesh Wildlife Board approves Panna Tiger Reserve for creation of new tiger reserve, one-fourth of which will be submerged due to linking of Ken-Betwa rivers. The new tiger reserve will be called the Durgavati Tiger Reserve. It covers the districts of Narsinghpur, Damoh and Sagar.

A green corridor connecting Panna Tiger Reserve with Durgavati will be developed for natural migration of tigers to the new reserve. Madhya Pradesh Wildlife Board was chaired by Shivraj Singh Chauhan. He approved the notification of 1,414 square kilometers as core area and 925 square kilometers as buffer area in the new tiger reserve.

The new tiger reserves are a part of the Panna Wildlife Management Plan for the Ken-Betwa River Linking Project. The two state governments along with the Center are implementing the ₹44,605 ​​crore river linking project to end the water crisis in the Bundelkhand region.

2. Mission Schools of Excellence launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi is an ambitious project proposed to reform the curriculum in Gujarat government schools. It was launched by the state government for quality education in Gandhinagar.

Mission Schools of Excellence have a budget of Rs 10,000 crore.

It is designed to improve the educational infrastructure of the state by building new and smart classrooms, computer labs and other improvements.

5,567 crore worth of infrastructure upgrades of schools in the first phase. are conducted with Smart classrooms in government schools - 1.5 lakhs. Classrooms - 50,000, Computer Labs - 20,000, Atal Tinkering Labs - 5,000 will be constructed.

Shri Modi inaugurated School Monitoring Center at Gandhinagar. He appealed to all the states to set up such state-of-the-art facilities to raise the standards of teaching in the classrooms. According to the Prime Minister, the recently introduced 5G services will fundamentally change the country's education system.

The power of virtual reality and the Internet of Things are available to our children in the classroom. With mission schools of excellence, Gujarat will develop as a leader in the country.

3. Indian Space Research Organization appointed Dr. Shankarasubramanian K as Principal Scientist for Aditya-L1 mission.It is solar mission from India. Shankarasubramanian contributed to ISRO's Astrosat and Chandrayaan-1 and Chandrayaan-2 missions.

It will be placed in a halo orbit around the first Lagrange point L1 of the Sun-Earth system. The main purpose of having a satellite around this L1 point is to continuously observe the Sun. This position offers the greatest advantage of constant observation of solar activity.

Aditya-L1 will carry seven payloads. It is capable of observing the photosphere, chromosphere and outer layers of the Sun's corona using electromagnetic and particle detectors.

All four payloads have a direct view of the Sun from L1's unique vantage point. The remaining three payloads will carry out in situ studies of particles and fields at the Lagrange point L1.

Dr. Shankarasubramanian is a Senior Solar Scientist working at UR Rao Satellite Center Bangalore. He received his PhD in Physics from the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore, from Bangalore University.

Dr. Shankarasubramanian's areas of research interest are in solar magnetic field, optics and instrumentation. He contributed to the Chandrayaan-1 and Chandrayaan-2 missions in several capacities. Currently heading the Space Astronomy Group of URSC. SAG is engaged in developing scientific payloads for the upcoming missions of Aditya-L1, EXPOSAT and science payload on the Chandrayaan-3 propulsion module.

Dr. Shankarasubramanian was also the Principal Investigator for one of the X-ray payloads on Aditya-L1. K also heads the Aditya-L1 Science Working Group, which includes members from various institutions in India engaged in solar science research.