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HERCULEAN PROCESS
Census enumerators will visit each household and gather information on forms, which will be sent
to data processing centres in 15 cities. Data processing will be done using a software called
Intelligent Character Recognition Software (ICR), which will scan the forms at high speed and
extract data automatically.
The NPR list will be sent to the Unique Identity Authority of India for eliminating duplicates and
issuing Unique ID numbers for every person. The trimmed database along with the UID number
will then be sent to the Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner to form the National
Population Register. The first NPR cards would roll out by 2011-end.
WHOLE STORY
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Some stats
12,000 tonnes Paper to be used, 64 crore No. of census forms, 50 lakh No. of instruction, 2.5
million No. of census officials, 7,000 No. of towns they will visit, 600,000 No. of villages they will
visit.
If 35 kg of foodgrain a family and the Tendulkar committee estimate of 8.3 crore BPL households
could be the basis of the national food security Act, then the government’s bill adds up to a staggering
Rs 63,750 crore a year.
At 25 kg a BPL family, it is slightly less at Rs 54,200 crore, which is roughly the food subsidy
estimated in the 2010-11 budget by finance minister Pranab Mukherjee. But the budgeted figure is
provisional as last year the final bill came to Rs 72,200 crore due to rising cost of foodgrain and higher
procurement, a 65% hike over the previous fiscal.
It is now clear that the number of BPL families to be covered by NFSA and the quantum of foodgrain
is going to be increased after Sonia Gandhi wrote to PM Manmohan Singh pointing to demands to
make the proposed Act more inclusive. UPA-1’s farm loan waiver was initially budgeted at Rs 60,000
crore and finally added up to Rs 72,000 crore.
If BPL cards issued by states are taken into account, the number totals 11.5 crore while according to
Planning Commission, it is 6.52 crore families. As NFSA will be centrally funded, states are bound to
push for an increase in BPL numbers.
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The Thirteenth Finance Commission has provided for Rs 25,000 crore to states over five
years for the implementation of RTE.
Central govt has approved an outlay of Rs.15000 cr for 2010-11
Centre and state expenditure ratio would be 55:45
Private educational institutions would reserve 25% seats for children from weaker section of
society.
General Vijay Kumar Singh has been appointed as the new chief of
1.13-million strong Indian army force.
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To read the complete list of awardees, have a look on Padma awards press release
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Dantewada Massacre
The deadliest ever Maoist attack on security forces left 73 CRPF personnel and a local policeman dead
in the thick forests of Dantewada, Chhattisgarh. Home ministry says CRPF team may have been
trapped on basis of ‘wrong’ intelligence.
The inquiry will be conducted by one-member committee of retired IPS officer E N Rammohan. It
will submit its report in 15 days.
Repot “Shadows in the Cloud” reveals stealing sensitive data by China hackers
According to report ‘‘Shadows in the Cloud’’, conducted by researchers researchers based at the Munk
School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto who tracked the cyber-espionage, Chinese
hackers have stolen classified documents from India’s security, defence and diplomatic establishment,
ranging from assessments of Maoist movements and the security situation in the North-East to New
Delhi’s ties with Russia and the Middle East. Researchers said the breaches involved Indian embassy
computers in Kabul, Moscow, Dubai and United Arab Emirates, and at the High Commission of India
in Abuja, Nigeria. Also compromised were computers used by the Indian Military Engineer Services in
Bengdubi, Kolkata, Bangalore and Jalandhar; the 21 Mountain Artillery Brigade in Assam and three
air force bases; and computers at two military colleges.
The report says the documents stolen included “sensitive information taken from a member of the
National Security Council Secretariat concerning secret assessments of India’s security situation in the
states of Assam, Manipur, Nagaland and Tripura, as well as concerning the Naxalites and Maoists.’’
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National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to set up call centre for accidents
The ministry of road transport & highways to facilitate quick medical services for highway users is
planning to set up a call centre which will act as a medium between medical authorities and highway
users. Highways users can inform the call centre about any accident and even register their complaints
about the construction and maintenance of the roads. National Highways Authority of India (NHAI),
has set a stringent bidding process for the selection of the call centre operator. According to the NHAI
bidding document, a company having at least 2,500 employees should have the experience of running
call centres for at least three consecutive years preceding the bidding year, an average turnover of
minimum Rs 100 crore during the three financial years and Rs 25 crore of its revenue should be from
call centre operations. Initially, the around-the-clock call centre will have a capacity of 50 seats.
According to latest data from the National Crime Records Bureau, over 1.14 lakh people lost their lives
on the national highways in 2007, against 1.05 lakh in 2006.
The government has already approved a draft Bill to set up the National Road Safety and Traffic
Management Board for improving safety provisions on the national highways. The Centre has also
decided to create a National Road Safety Fund to give the board financial freedom to carry out its
functions.
By 2020 tobacco will be responsible for 13 per cent of all deaths in India
Tobacco smoking is killing one million Indians every year. But a simple rise in excise tax on bidis and
cigarettes could reverse this deadly trend. According to report — Economics of Tobacco and Tobacco
Taxation in India — released by two of its authors, Dr Govinda Rao of the National Institute for Public
Finance and Policy and Dr Prabhat Jha of the Centre for Global Health Research, on Thursday
concluded that without strong action, over 51 million Indians alive today would die prematurely from
tobacco consumption. The report points out that by 2020 more than 38.4 million beedi smokers and
13.2 million cigarette smokers are likely to die prematurely due to smoking. Raising taxes on
cigarettes and bidis to internationally recommended levels would generate more than Rs 18,000 crore
annually in new government revenues that could be used to support efforts to reduce tobacco use and
help bidi workers.
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RBI relaxes rules for asset classification, reduces banks’ bad loans
RBI has eased asset classification infrastructure and project loan guidelines, which in turn will lower
the amount of bad loans in the books of banks. Till now, a bank had to classify a project loan as a ‘sub-
standard’ asset if commercial operations did not start within six months of the completion of the
project, even if the company regularly serviced its loan. Similarly, in case of infrastructure loans, a
bank had to classify it as substandard if commercial operations did not start within two years of the
completion of the project even if it is being repaid.
RBI has increased the grace period for classifying them as standard assets provided the borrower
continue to pay.
For infrastructure projects, RBI has increased the grace period to a total of four years and for project
loans, RBI has extended the grace period to one year from six months from the original date of
commencement of commercial operations (DCCO).
The central bank has also increased the provisioning requirement on standard assets if banks choose
to extend the grace period in case of project and infrastructure loans. If the grace period is six months
from DCCO, the bank will have to provide standard provision of 0.40%, but if it gives a grace period of
one year, the standard provision would be 1%. In case of infrastructure loans, if the grace period is two
years, standard provision would be 0.40% and beyond two years is 1%.
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APPOInTMenTS
Srinija Srinivasan
President Obama has appointed Chandigarhborn Srinija Srinivasan, 40, one of the three co-founders
of Yahoo! as a member of the White House Commission on Presidential Scholars.
BOOkS
1. Songs of Blood and Sword – by Fatima Bhutto, niece of late Pakistani Prime Minister
Benazir Bhutto
2. The Immortals of Meluha – By Amish Tripathi
3. Becoming Indian – By Pavan K. Varma
4. The Museum Of Innocence – By Orhan Pamuk
5. India’s Foreign Policy : The democracy Dimension – By S D muni
6. On the Brink - By Hank Paulson
7. Solo –By Rana Dasgupta,
8. Maruti Story - How a Public Sector Company Put India on Wheels - By R C
Bhargava
9. The Difficulty of Being Good: On the Subtle Art of Dharma – By Gurcharan Das
10. Nixon, Indira and India – By Kalyani Shankar
11. The Veiled Suite - By Agha Shahid Ali
12. Empire of the Moghul: Brothers at War - By Alex Rutherford,
13. The Last Sunset – By Amarinder Singh
14. Victoria and Abdul – By : Shrabani Basu
15. Reforming Vaishno Devi – By Jagmohan
16. The Temple-Goers - By Aatish Taseer
17. The Palace of Illusions - By Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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SPOrTS newS
Golf
Grand Prix
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Abbreviations
NUEPA - National University for Educational Planning and Administration
AFSPA - Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act
NAAC - National Assessment and Accreditation Council
ICHR - Indian Council of Historical Research
Important Days
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