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TNPSC Current Affairs April 2017

1The HIV and AIDS (Prevention and Control) Bill, 2017 passed in Parliament

Parliament has passed the HIV and AIDS (prevention and control) Bill 2014, to ensure equal rights to person affected by HIV and AIDS in getting treatment, admission in educational institutions and jobs..

Union health minister JP Nadda said that Indian Government will take care of the treatment  for the person having HIV and AIDS.

India has almost 21 lakh people living with HIV/AIDS, the third highest  after South Africa and Nigeria.

2.Union Government to launch SAMPADA scheme for food processing

Union Government going to launch Scheme for Agro-Marine Produce Processing and Development of Agro-Processing Clusters (SAMPADA) for Food Processing. It was said by Food Processing Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal . The Scheme aimed to  combine both current and new schemes  in reducing food wastage and double the income of farmers by 2022.

TNPSC Current affairs April 2017 12 for group 1 & group 2 mains

TNPSC Current Affairs April 2017

The HIV and AIDS (Prevention and Control) Bill, 2017 passed in Parliament

Parliament has passed the HIV and AIDS (prevention and control) Bill 2014, to ensure equal rights to person affected by HIV and AIDS in getting treatment, admission in educational institutions and jobs..

Union health minister JP Nadda said that Indian Government will take care of the treatment  for the person having HIV and AIDS.

India has almost 21 lakh people living with HIV/AIDS, the third highest  after South Africa and Nigeria.

  

About the Bill: 

• Nadda said that The bill aim to prevent and control the spread of HIV and AIDS. 
• It prohibits discrimination against person affected  with HIV and AIDS, provides for informed consent and confidentiality with regard to their treatment, places obligations on establishments to safeguard their rights, and creates mechanisms for redressing their complaints.  
• Bill also prohibits discrimination against denial, termination, discontinuation or unfair treatment in employment, educational institutions, healthcare services,  renting property, contesting for public or private office, and provision of insurance. 
• The bill also say, no HIV test, treatment, or research will be conducted on a person affected by HIV  without his informed consent and also no person should be compel to disclose the HIV status.

TNPSC Current affairs April 2017 12 for group 1 & group 2 mains

TNPSC Current Affairs April 2017

Union Government to launch SAMPADA scheme for food processing

Union Government going to launch Scheme for Agro-Marine Produce Processing and Development of Agro-Processing Clusters (SAMPADA) for Food Processing. It was said by Food Processing Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal . The Scheme aimed to  combine both current and new schemes  in reducing food wastage and double the income of farmers by 2022.

Importance of Scheme:

• The main objective of the scheme is to improving the entire food supply chain.
• It will create three schemes like Creation, Expansion of Food processing and Preservation Capacities, New Agro-Processing Clusters and Backward and Forward Linkages are on anvil.
• Scheme is also to bring down post harvest losses preferably to zero level, provide quality food to consumers at cheaper price and for doubling of farmers' income  by boosting Food processing sector.
• To improve Food Processing sector the union Government has  sanctioned 42 mega food parks and 234 cold chain projects with 139 lakh tonnes of preserving and processing capacity of agro-produce worth Rs 35,000 crore. 
• This Food Parks will prevent ,  post harvest losses estimated as 90,000 crore annually.

TNPSC Current affairs April 2017 12 for group 1 & group 2 mains(All)

TNPSC Current Affairs April 2017

1.The HIV and AIDS (Prevention and Control) Bill, 2017 passed in Parliament

Parliament has passed the HIV and AIDS (prevention and control) Bill 2014, to ensure equal rights to person affected by HIV and AIDS in getting treatment, admission in educational institutions and jobs..

Union health minister JP Nadda said that Indian Government will take care of the treatment  for the person having HIV and AIDS.

India has almost 21 lakh people living with HIV/AIDS, the third highest  after South Africa and Nigeria.

  

About the Bill: 

• Nadda said that The bill aim to prevent and control the spread of HIV and AIDS. 
• It prohibits discrimination against person affected  with HIV and AIDS, provides for informed consent and confidentiality with regard to their treatment, places obligations on establishments to safeguard their rights, and creates mechanisms for redressing their complaints.  
• Bill also prohibits discrimination against denial, termination, discontinuation or unfair treatment in employment, educational institutions, healthcare services,  renting property, contesting for public or private office, and provision of insurance. 
• The bill also say, no HIV test, treatment, or research will be conducted on a person affected by HIV  without his informed consent and also no person should be compel to disclose the HIV status.

  

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TNPSC Current Affairs April 2017 

1.Colson Whitehead wins Pulitzer Prize for ‘Underground Railroad’2017.

Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad, which describes the journey of a young woman escaping from slavery via a fantastical train system, has won the Pulitzer prize for fiction 2017.

2.Malala Yousafzai named youngest United nation’s Messenger of Peace

Malala Yousafzai has been made the youngest ever United Nation’s Messenger of Peace. She was the youngest recipient of Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 when she was just 17.

TNPSC Current Affairs April 2017 10 for Group 2, Group 4, VAO and others

TNPSC Current affairs April 2017

1.11^th Inter-State Council meet chaired by Home Minister.

The 11^th Inter-State Council‘s standing committee meeting Chaired by Home minister Rajnath Singh held on Sunday. The meeting has discussed the recommendation of the Punchhi Commission on Centre-State relations.

The committee has discussed the II and III rd volume of Punchii commission’s recommendation.

2.Lakh Sabha passed Constitution’s 123rd Amendment Bill, 2017

Lokh sabha has passed the 123^rd Constitution Amendment bill. The bill will give constitutional status to National commission for Backward class. Previously Backward Classes Commission has only statutory powers.

This amendment will insert new article 338B in Constitution and new clause 26C under Article 366 will define the term “ socially and Educationally backward class”.

TNPSC Current affairs April 2017 10 for group 1 & group 2 mains(All)

TNPSC Current affairs April 2017

1.11^th Inter-State Council meet chaired by Home Minister.

The 11^th Inter-State Council‘s standing committee meeting Chaired by Home minister Rajnath Singh held on Sunday. The meeting has discussed the recommendation of the Punchhi Commission on Centre-State relations.

The committee has discussed the II and III rd volume of Punchii commission’s recommendation.

About Punchii Commission:

Government of India constituted the commission on Inter-state relation under chairmanship of Justice Madan Mohan Punchhi, former Chief Justice of India on 2007. The commission has examined and reviewed the working of existing arrangements between Union and States and submitted its recommendation on March 2010.

Recommendation :

• It recommended 273 recommendation in its 7 volume report, they are
• History of Centre-State Relations in India;
• Constitutional Governance and Management of Centre-State Relations;
• Centre-State Financial Relations and Planning;
• Local Self-Governments and Decentralized governance;
• Internal Security, Criminal Justice and Centre State Co-operation;
• Environment, Natural Resources & Infrastructure;
• and Socio-Economic Development, Public Policy and Good Governance.

TNPSC Current affairs April 2017 10 for group 1 & group 2 mains

TNPSC Current affairs April 2017

11^th Inter-State Council meet chaired by Home Minister.

The 11^th Inter-State Council‘s standing committee meeting Chaired by Home minister Rajnath Singh held on Sunday. The meeting has discussed the recommendation of the Punchhi Commission on Centre-State relations.

The committee has discussed the II and III rd volume of Punchii commission’s recommendation.

About Punchii Commission:

Government of India constituted the commission on Inter-state relation under chairmanship of Justice Madan Mohan Punchhi, former Chief Justice of India on 2007. The commission has examined and reviewed the working of existing arrangements between Union and States and submitted its recommendation on March 2010.

Recommendation :

• It recommended 273 recommendation in its 7 volume report, they are
• History of Centre-State Relations in India;
• Constitutional Governance and Management of Centre-State Relations;
• Centre-State Financial Relations and Planning;
• Local Self-Governments and Decentralized governance;
• Internal Security, Criminal Justice and Centre State Co-operation;
• Environment, Natural Resources & Infrastructure;
• and Socio-Economic Development, Public Policy and Good Governance.

TNPSC Current affairs April 2017 10 for group 1 & group 2 mains

TNPSC Current affairs April 2017

Lakh Sabha passed Constitution’s 123rd Amendment Bill, 2017

Lokh sabha has passed the 123^rd Constitution Amendment bill. The bill will give constitutional status to National commission for Backward class. Previously Backward Classes Commission has only statutory powers.

This amendment will insert new article 338B in Constitution and new clause 26C under Article 366 will define the term “ socially and Educationally backward class”.

About Amendment: 

• The New Amendment will create National Commission for Socially and Educationally Backward Classes ( NSEBC as) under new article 338B in constitution.
• It will replace current National Commission for Backward classes act, 1993 and its rules framed under the act.
• It will insert provision to provide parliament’s approval for every inclusion into and exclusion from the central list of other backward classes under article 341,342 viz 342A.
• It also define the term “Socially and Educationally Backward classes”  inserting new clause (26C) under Article 366
• It will dissolute the commission constituted under act 1993 and will compose new commission “National commission for socially and Educationally Backward classes, with a chairperson, vice chairperson and 3 other members.