Daily Current Affairs Quiz 3 February 2023

d) Ahmedabad

The 30th National Child Science Congress kicked off in Ahmedabad’s Science City. In the virtual presence of Education Minister Kuber Dindor, Secretary of Gujarat Science and Technology Department Vijay Nahera opened the Congress. The five-day congress is being hosted by the Gujarat Council on Science and Technology (GUJCOST), Gujarat Council of Science City, and SAL Education and will finish on January 31, 2023.

a) National Statistical Office

According to data released by the National Statistical Office (NSO) in its latest Twenty Point Programme (TPP) progress report, only 9,753 km of roads could be constructed Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) in the first six months of FY23.
Performance of a programme is considered ‘poor’ by the NSO if the level of targets achieved is below 80 per cent.

b) Increased

The Ministry of Education has recently released All India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE) 2020-2021.
The Ministry has been conducting AISHE since 2011, which collects detailed information on parameters such as student enrolment, teacher’s data, infrastructural information, financial information. The total enrolment in higher education has increased to nearly 4.14 crore in 2020-21 from 3.85 crore in 2019-20. The Female enrolment has increased to 2.01 crore and the Gross Enrolment Ratio increased to 27.3 from 25.6 in 2019-20.

a) 1 only

The Centre today established three Grievance Appellate Committees based on the recently amended Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 (“IT Rules 2021”). The IT rules 2021 provide for creating avenues for grievance redressal apart from Courts and ensure that the Constitutional rights of Indian citizens are not contravened by any Big-tech Platform by ensuring new accountability standards for SSMIs. Hence, statement 1 is correct.

The GAC will be a virtual Digital platform that will operate only online and digitally – wherein the entire appeal process, from filing of appeal to the decision thereof, shall be conducted digitally. Users will have the option to appeal against decision of the grievance officer of the social media intermediaries and other online intermediaries before this new appellate body. The Committee will endeavour to address the user’s appeal within a period of 30 days. Hence, statement 2 is incorrect.

Three Grievance Appellate Committees (GACs) Notified on the recently amended “IT Rules 2021”.

d) Maharashtra

According to a study by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), Maharashtra, Karnataka and Gujarat received the top GST compensation, during the five-year transition period from July 2017 to June 2022.
Tamil Nadu was the fourth highest compensation receiving State, which is followed by Punjab. At least 10 States may fall short of the expected 14% GST growth, says the study. Puducherry, Punjab, Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Goa and Uttarakhand are likely to be most affected by the end of the compensation regime.