Daily Current Affairs For IBPS- 20 September 2015

PM Modi launched 3 urban development scheme- AMRUT smart cities mission and housing for all (Urban) in New Delhi. During the occasion the PM MOdi also released logos and taglines for AMRUT.

Smart cities mission: it is aimed at developing 100 smart cities across the country. (48000 crore) (2015-16 and 2019-20).

Housing for all (URBAN) :- providing the housing facilities to all eligible people in urban area 2022.

MID DAY MEAL SCHEME

Union Govt :- (union Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh has written a letter to this state.)Requested to the state BIHAR, RAJASTHAN, TAMIL NADU for free milk in the mid day meal to school children.

Currently 2 States KARNATAKA (Under project Ksheerabhagya started in 2012-13) and MP provide free milk products to school children.

2nd airport at jewar in NCR

Acquired 2378 acres of land for the project.

Right of first Refusal (ROFR) for any airport that is built within a 150 KM radius of the existing airport in delhi.

Airport was proposed by the erstwhile MAYAWATI LED govt in UP and United progressive alliance (UPA) govt had formed a group of ministers (GoM) to decide on the issue.

WORLD BIGGEST EMPLOYERS

Indian army and Indian railway, are among the world;s biggest employers together AROUND 2.7 MILLION PEOPLE AS PER THE RESEARCH PUBLISHED BY THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM

WORLD BIGGEST EMPLOYER LIST, INDIAN RAILWAY was ranked at 8th place with 1.4 million staff and Indian ARMAY ranked at 9th place with 1.3 million staff.

WORLD BIGGEST EMPLOYER LIST,US Department of defense is the world biggest employer which claims 3.2 million staff

2nd CHINese Military ,WALMART is at 3rd, MCDonald is at 4th, UK;s national health services at 5th, China national petroleum corporation at 6th

BANNED TRADE

India ban on trade with the Islamic state for Iraq and Syria Feb 2015.

National Skill Development Mission

Union Cabinet approved institutional framework for national skill development mission 2015.

eMigrate System

Foreign employer (FEs) , will have to register in eMigrate System to recruit Indian workers including Nurses

Mobile Number Portability

National MNP has become operational now. ONE NATION ONE NUMBER PLAN.

VODAPHONE, RCom, Airtel, Uninor IDEA along with STATE Run BSNL AND MTNL. MNP is divided into 22 telecom services areas or circles (MAY 2 2015).