12th March Daily Current Affairs – English

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:

1. A target has been set to establish 200 cancer care centers across the country by 2025-26.
2. AIIMS Hospital, Jhajjar, Haryana is the largest cancer treatment center in the country.
3. 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.
4. This is the 21st highest award that Prime Minister Modi has received from a foreign country.
5. Mauritius President Dharambir Gokul.
6. Mauritius Prime Minister Navin Chandra Ramgoolam.
7. OCI card holders are given the rights to live, work and study in India without any time limit.
8. Jaishree Venkatesan was awarded the Ramsar Award for his fight to protect water bodies and wetlands of Tamil Nadu.
9. The ban imposed on the Indian Wrestling Federation has been lifted.