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05TH AUGUST 2020 – PIB SUMMARIES
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PIB SUMMARIES CONTENTS
1. FLUOROSIS.
2. GARIB KALYAN ROJGAR ABHIYAN.
3. ATAL TINKERING LAB MARATHON.
FLUOROSIS
Context:
Scientists from the Institute of Nano Science and Technology (INST), an autonomous institute
of the DST, have developed an equipment-free paper-strip based naked eye fluoride ion
detection and quantification kit in drinking water.
Details:
It can be operated by non-experts for household use to evade Fluorosis-based disorders.
What is Fluorosis?
Fluorosis is a crippling disease resulting from the deposition of fluorides in the hard and soft
tissues of the body due to excess intake of fluoride through drinking water/food
products/industrial pollutants over a long period.
It results in dental fluorosis, skeletal fluorosis, and non-skeletal fluorosis.
Dental fluorosis affects children and discolours and disfigures the teeth.
Skeletal fluorosis affects the bones and major joints of the body like neck, backbone, shoulder,
hip and knee joints resulting in severe pain, rigidity or stiffness in joints.
Severe forms of skeletal fluorosis result in marked disability.
Non-skeletal forms of fluorosis are earlier manifestations, which develop long before the onset
of typical changes in teeth and skeletal bones these are seen as gastrointestinal symptoms
and may overlap with other diseases leading to misdiagnosis.
It affects men, women and children of all age groups.
Easy detection of fluorides in water can help prevent public health hazards.
There is no treatment for severe cases of skeletal fluorosis, only efforts can be made towards
reducing the disability which has occurred.
However, the disease is easily preventable if diagnosed early and steps are taken to prevent
intake of excess fluoride through the provision of safe drinking water, promote nutrition and
avoid foods with high fluoride content.
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Dental and skeletal fluorosis is irreversible and no treatment exists, the only remedy is
prevention by keeping fluoride intake within safe limits.
GARIB KALYAN ROJGAR ABHIYAN
Context:
GKRA providing livelihood opportunities to migrant labourers of 116 districts in 6 States.
The 6 states are Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh.
The scheme led to the creation of a number of public infrastructure works such as water
conservation structures, rural houses, cattle sheds, farm ponds, community sanitary
complexes, etc.
Details:
Central and State governments have very meticulously mapped the skill sets of the migrant
workers who have returned in large numbers to the 116 districts in 6 States (Bihar, Jharkhand,
Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha and Rajasthan).
The first priority of the campaign is to meet the immediate requirement of work for those who
have gone back to their villages by providing them livelihood opportunities.
Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyan:
This massive rural public works scheme has been launched to boost opportunities for
livelihood in rural India.
The districts will join this programme through the Common Service Centres and Krishi Vikas
Kendras (KVKs).
The campaign will be spread across 125 days and aims to work in mission mode to help
migrant workers.
It will involve intensified and focused implementation of 25 different types of work to provide
jobs and create infrastructure in rural regions.
Combined outlay of the programme would be Rs. 50,000 crore.
Workers will be employed in rural housing, rural connectivity including the Pradhan Mantri
Gram Sadak Yojana, national highways, railway works, community sanitation complex, gram
panchayats, anganwadis, water conservation, digging of wells, plantation and horticulture.
The scheme will see coordination between 12 different Ministries/Departments.
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ATAL TINKERING LAB MARATHON
Context:
Winners of the Atal Tinkering Lab Marathon declared.
Details:
Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), NITI Aayog declared the results of its flagship national annual
innovation marathon challenge, ATL Tinkering Marathon 2019 held over 5000+ Atal Tinkering
Labs across the country.
150 winners were announced.
About the Atal Tinkering Lab Marathon:
Atal Tinkering Lab Marathon is organised by the Atal Tinkering Labs of Atal Innovation Mission
(AIM) and the NITI Aayog in an effort to identify India’s best student innovators.
It is a six-month-long nationwide challenge across six different thematic areas, namely, clean
energy, water resources, waste management, healthcare, smart mobility and agriculture-tech.
This is open to all students under the age of 18 years.
Students of top 30 innovations will be trained on business and entrepreneurship skills,
including intellectual property, effective communication, making an elevator pitch, etc.
These top 30 innovations have been identified from 20 different States/UTs from across India.
The winners are being awarded with several prizes including a three month-long ATL Student
Innovator Program (ATL SIP) in partnership with the industry and start-up incubators.
The goal of the student innovator program is to test the innovations in the community.
The ATL Student Innovator Program is an effort to institutionalize a mechanism, where high
school students can work with university incubators to pursue their innovative and
entrepreneurial ideas along with their education.
About the Atal Tinkering Labs:
Atal Tinkering Labs (ATLs) under the Atal Innovation Mission of NITI Aayog, is based on the
philosophy that incentives and prize awards are a great beginning to create an exponential
wave of innovation and entrepreneurship amongst school children.
ATLs are established in schools across the country.
The objective of this scheme is to foster curiosity, creativity and imagination in young minds;
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and inculcate skills such as design mindset, computational thinking, adaptive learning, physical
computing, etc.
ATL is a workspace where young minds can give shape to their ideas through hands-on do-it-
yourself mode, and learn innovation skills.
Young children will get a chance to work with tools and equipment to understand the
concepts of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math).
ATL would contain educational and learning ‘do it yourself’ kits and equipment on – science,
electronics, robotics, open source microcontroller boards, sensors and 3D printers and
computers.
About the Atal Innovation Mission (AIM):
The AIM was launched in 2016.
It is a flagship initiative set up by the NITI Aayog to promote innovation and entrepreneurship
across the length and breadth of the country.
AIM’s objectives are to create and promote an ecosystem of innovation and entrepreneurship
across the country at school, university, research institutions, MSME and industry levels.
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