National Pharmaceutical Pricing Policy, 2012

The National Pharmaceutical Pricing Policy-2012 has been notified on 07.12.2012. The salient features of National Pharmaceutical Pricing Policy, 2012 (NPPP-2012) are as under:

National Policy For Electronics 2012

India is one of the fastest growing markets of electronics in the world. There is potential to develop the Electronic System and Design and Manufacturing (ESDM) sector to meet our domestic demand as well as to use the capabilities so created to successfully export ESDM products from the country.

India’s National Policy on Information Technology 2012

The Cabinet has recently approved the National Policy on Information Technology 2012. The Policy aims to leverage Information & Communication Technology (ICT) to address the ountry’s economic and developmental challenges. The policy is rooted in the conviction that ICT has the power to transform the lives of people.

NATIONAL WATER POLICY (2012)

SALIENT FEATURES 

1.             Emphasis on the need for a national water framework law, comprehensive legislation for optimum development of inter-State rivers and river valleys, amendment of Irrigation Acts, Indian Easements Act, 1882, etc.

Service Allocation (CSE - 2012) : Closing Ranks

THE PROTECTION OF WOMEN AGAINST SEXUAL HARASSMENT AT WORK PLACE BILL

Timeline
Introduced in Lok Sabha Dec 07, 2010
Passed by Lok Sabha 2012-13
Passed by Rajya Sabha Feb 26, 2013

Bill Text download here

Vultures : bringing them back from extinction

Population of vultures declined due to following reasons:

• Eating dead animals which have been treated by pain killers "diclofenac"
• Use of pesticide organochlorides
• DDT

Issue of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs)

Definition

• non-infectious and non-transmissible among people 

Leads to

• morbidity(diseased state of individual) and premature deaths 
• most common in low and middle income countries

AgustaWestland choppers issue

Background:

• Earlier Mi-17 cargo helicopters were used for VVIP deployment.
• Indian Air Force has sought the AgustaWestland choppers as a replacement
• The Comptroller and Auditor General "it was a waste of resources"

Rashtriya Bal Swaasthya Karyakram

BACKGROUND:

• Also known as Child Health Screening and Early Intervention Services
• Under The Ministry of Health & Family Welfare 
• Part of the National Rural Health Mission(NRHM)

AIMS:

Solar Fencing

• Non-Lethal Solar Powered Perimeter Security System. 
• Operate as Psychological and Physical Barrier. 
• The System will alert any kind of intrusion through an audio alarm system that can be in the vicinity of more than 500 meters, within a second. 

Direct Benefits Transfer (DBT)

What is DBT??
direct benefits transfer is a government scheme that aims :
entitlements and benefits to the people can be transferred directly to them through biometric based Aadhaar linked Bank Account.

India - Ukraine

Delegation-level talks between the visiting Ukrainian President and Indian PM in december 2012

• Defence cooperation
• R&D joint production model

POLIO

• caused by virus
• mainly affects child below age of 5 yrs
• virus enters through mouth

Political Partis & Elections

The Election Commission [Art 324]

• Chief Election commissioner & two election commissioners
• Appointment by the President
• Hold office for a term of 6years or attain age of 65 years ,whiever is earlier

The Foreigners (Protected Areas) Order 1958

Following areas are declared Protected Areas by this order:

• All the areas of Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland and Sikkim
• Parts of Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Jammu & Kashmir, Rajasthan

Judicial Reforms in India

Need:

1. time-taking process
2. costly
3. large pendency of cases
4. lower faith in subordinate courts, High Court (appeal to higher courts)

Fourteenth Finance Commission Constituted

• Article 280
• Chairman
  Dr. Y.V.Reddy (former Governor Reserve Bank of India)

Science, Technology and Innovation Policy 2013

AIM

1. To position India among the top five global scientific powers by 2020 
2. Focus on faster, sustainable and inclusive development 
3. National development and sustainable and more inclusive growth

SRISHTI

Science, Research and Innovation System for High Technology led path for India