National Mission on Natural Farming Web Portal: Agriculture launched a portal on National Mission on Natural Farming (NMNF) for the benefit of the farming community. The NMNF portal was launched in the first steering committee meeting of the National Natural Farming Mission. The portal contains all the information about the mission, implementation outline, resources, implementation progress, farmer registration, blog etc., which will be useful for the farmers. Also, this website will help in promoting natural farming in the country.Natural farming is being implemented in 1.48 lakh hectares on the banks of river Ganga in four states.
Naval Ship Aconit: French Navy Ship Aconit, one of the five La Fayette Class frigates of the French Navy was on a goodwill visit to Mumbai.The ship’s crew had professional and social interactions with personnel of Indian Navy. The visit culminated with an exercise at sea with a warship of the IN’s Western Fleet. The frigate had earlier visited Visakhapatnam in 2015.. With peace and stability in the region being of common interest, the two navies are committed to working together towards that goal.
Seminar on Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated fishing(IUU): A Seminar on IUU Fishing, under the aegis of Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA), was conducted by the Indian Navy at Goa. As the third largest ocean, the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) is a lifeline for nearly 35% of global population. IUU fishing activities was accordingly identified as an area of greater collaboration by the IORA Working Group on Maritime Safety and Security (WGMSS), established in September 2018. The WGMSS is presently chaired by Sri Lanka, and is advancing the IORA Action Plan 2017-21, adopted by IORA Member States. The Seminar was conducted by the Indian Navy on behalf of the Ministry of Defence, under the guidance of the Ministry of External Affairs and duly supported by the Department of Fisheries, functioning under the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying.
Performance Grading Index 2020-21:The Department of School Education and Literacy, Ministry of Education released the Performance Grading Index (PGI) for States/UTs for 2020-21, a unique index for evidence based comprehensive analysis of school education system across State/UTs. The Indian Education System is one of the largest in the world with about 14.9 lakh schools, 95 lakh teachers, and nearly 26.5 crore students from varied socio-economic backgrounds. So far, DoSE&L has released PGI report for the year 2017-18, 2018-19 and 2019-20. The present report is for the year 2020-21.The PGI structure comprises of 1000 points into 2 categories viz., Outcomes, Governance Management (GM) and ranked from label 1-10. No state, however, has been able to attain the highest level of L1 so far.
Joint Military Training(JMT) 2022: The 11th edition of the annual JMT between the Indian Air Force (lAF) and the Royal Singapore Air Force (RSAF) commenced at Air Force Station, Kalaikunda. The two Air Forces have resumed this training after a gap of two years. The RSAF is participating in JMT-2022 with F-16 aircraft, while the IAF would field the Su-30 MKI, Jaguar, MiG-29 and LCA Tejas aircraft.
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