The Daily Brief – 12th September 2019

Union Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports (MYAS) derecognised the Paralympic Committee of India (PCI) for violating the National Sports Development Code of India, 2011. It was after the removal of Rao Inderjit Singh as PCI’s President that the government found that PCI is failing the good governance practices and also held them accountable for violating its own constitution as well. PCI was founded in 1992 as the Physically Handicapped Sports Federation of India.

In a step to promote Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s initiative to junk single use plastic, Indian Railways announced to help recharge phones of passengers if they use plastic bottle crushing machines installed at the stations. Indian Railways will be installing 400 bottle-crushing machines at selected stations. At present, there are 160 bottle-crushing machines available at 128 stations.

The first batch of the newest central government services, ‘Indian Skill Development Services’ (ISDS) commenced their training program at the Administrative Training Institute (ATI), Mysore, Karnataka. This is the first batch of young minds from IES to be included in the Union Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE). The aim behind it is to attract young and talented administrators towards institutionalizing the skill development environment in the country.

Officer on Special Duty (OSD) in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), P.K. Sinha has been appointed as the Principal Advisor to Prime Minister Narendra Modi by Appointments Committee of Cabinet (ACC) with effect from 11^th September, 2019. The 1977 batch IAS officer from Uttar Pradesh cadre has also served as the Cabinet Secretary from 13^th June 2015 to 30^th August 2019.

Union Government has constituted a three-member committee chaired by former Defence Secretary Sanjay Mitra to look into the distribution of assets and liabilities of Jammu & Kashmir between the two successor Union Territories that will come into existence on October 31^st, 2019. The other members are retired IAS officer Arun Goyal and retired Indian Civil Accounts Service (ICAS) officer Giriraj Prasad Gupta.

Union Minister of State for Agriculture & Farmers Welfare Parshottam Rupala launched a multilingual mobile app called ‘CHC Farm Machinery’ for the farmers, during a conference on National Conference on Crop Residue Management held in New Delhi. This will allow farmers to avail the services of Custom Hiring Service Centres (CHCs) located in a radius of 50 km.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch Kisan Maan Dhan Yojana (KMDY), which seeks to secure the lives of five crore small and marginal farmers by providing a minimum pension on 12^th September, 2019 at Ranchi in Jharkhand. The scheme has an outlay of Rs. 10,774 crores for the next three years i.e. 2019-2022.