No proposal to grant constitutional status to National Commission for Minorities:
- “The 53rd report of the Parliamentary Standing Committee has recommended that the National Commission for Minorities be given constitutional status.
- However, the Central Government has informed the Lok Sabha that there is no proposal to grant constitutional status to the National Commission for Minorities.
- The National Commission for Minorities is a body set up by the Government of India for the protection of the minority community.
- This Commission was passed in 1992 under the Act of the same name.
- According to this, six communities namely Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains and Parsis are called minorities.
- This Commission was formed in response to the United Nations resolution that “a State shall protect all its religious, ethnic and linguistic minorities in the areas where they live and facilitate the development of their identity.”
India Launches Tamil Teaching Programme In Fiji:
- A project to teach Tamil to children of Tamils living in Fiji for generations has been launched with central government funding.
- The new project was formally launched by the Indian Ambassador to Fiji P.S Karthigeyan.
- The scheme has been introduced at a school run by an Indian-origin organisation called “Sangam” in the Rokiraki area.
- The Fiji Education Department and the Tamil-origin organisation called “Sangam” are implementing the scheme.
- Accordingly, two Tamil teachers will be brought from India and Tamil language will be taught in a school in Rakiraki and a primary school of the Sangam organisation in the Labasa area.
- The Government of India is providing financial assistance for this.
‘Pradhan Mantri Vishwakarma Yojana’ scheme:
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the ‘Pradhan Mantri Vishwakarma Yojana’ scheme on 17 September 2023.
- This scheme, which will be implemented for five years from the financial year 2023-24 to the financial year 2027-28, will provide assistance to handicrafts across the country It was brought for the workers.
- It includes training the artisans to improve their craft skills, training them on how to handle the relevant tools, providing the artisans with the necessary tools, recognition by issuing Vishwakarma certificate and identity card after training, basic training for 5 to 7 days and vocational training for 15 days or more and providing Rs. 500 per day as an assistance during the training period.
PRASHAD Scheme:
- The full form of the PRASHAD Scheme is the Pilgrimage Revitalization and Spiritual Development Movement.
- Under this scheme, the government aims to develop 120 pilgrimage sites in India in four phases by 2021.
- The Government of India launched the Prasad Scheme in 2014-2015 under the Ministry of Tourism.
- The full form of the PRASHAD Scheme is the ‘Pilgrimage Revitalization and Spiritual Development Movement’.
- The project focuses on developing and identifying pilgrimage sites across India to enrich the religious tourism experience.
- It aims to integrate pilgrimage sites in a prioritized, planned, and sustainable manner to provide a holistic religious tourism experience
Important Facts:
- The Army has decided to allow tourists to visit the Siachen Glacier, Galwan Valley and Kargil battlefields.
- Army Chief Upendra Dwivedi.
- Siachen Glacier is the highest and coldest battlefield in the world.
- The All India DGPs Conference will be held in Odisha for 3 days.
- The storm that has formed in the Bay of Bengal has been named Fengal.
- At the World Cadets Chess Championship held in Italy, India’s Divith Reddy and Sattwik Swain won the championship in the under-8 category and under-10 category.
- India’s D. Gukesh defeated China’s Ding Liren in the World Chess Championship.