Prime Minister’s Farmers’ Financial Assistance Scheme:
- The Prime Minister’s Farmers’ Financial Assistance Scheme provides financial assistance of Rs 6,000 per year to all farmers.
- The Prime Minister’s Farmers’ Financial Assistance Scheme was launched by Prime Minister Modi in 2019 with the aim of improving the rural economy, reducing farmer debt and encouraging agricultural investment.
- Under this scheme, a total of Rs 6,000 is directly transferred to the bank accounts of farmers in 3 installments of Rs 2,000 each per year.
Constituency delimitation:
- Articles 82 and 170 of the Constitution of India insist on the delimitation of the boundaries of the Lok Sabha and state assembly constituencies after every census.
- An act enacted in 1952 stated that a committee called the Delimitation Commission should be constituted to re-delimit the Lok Sabha constituencies in this way.
- The constituency should be redrawn based on the census conducted once in 10 years.
- After this, the constituency redrawing was done in India three times based on the census conducted in 1951, 1961 and 1971.
- If the parliamentary redrawing is done all over India, it is said that the Lok Sabha constituencies in the southern Indian states will decrease and their representation will decrease.
March 12: Mauritius Day.
- Mauritius Day is celebrated every year on March 12.
March 12: No Smoking Day.
- To create awareness about the health effects of smoking, No Smoking Day is observed every year on the second Wednesday of March.
Important Facts:
- A target has been set to establish 200 cancer care centers across the country by 2025-26.
- AIIMS Hospital, Jhajjar, Haryana is the largest cancer treatment center in the country.
- Mauritius has conferred the country’s highest award ‘The Grand Commander of the Order of the Star and Key of the Indian Ocean’ on Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
- This is the 21st highest award that Prime Minister Modi has received from a foreign country.
- Mauritius President Dharambir Gokul.
- Mauritius Prime Minister Navin Chandra Ramgoolam.
- OCI card holders are given the rights to live, work and study in India without any time limit.
- Jaishree Venkatesan was awarded the Ramsar Award for his fight to protect water bodies and wetlands of Tamil Nadu.
- The ban imposed on the Indian Wrestling Federation has been lifted.