Current Affairs for SSC CGL Exams - 07 March 2021

SSC CGL Current Affairs

Current Affairs for SSC CGL Exams - 07 March 2021

::NATIONAL::

March 7 was celebrated as 'Jan Aushadhi Day'

MansukhMandaviya, the Union Minister of State for Chemicals & Fertilizers, Road Transport & Highways, and Shipping has announced that March 7, 2019, will be observed as the ‘JanaushadhiDiwas’ across the country.
On the occasion of the ‘JanaushadhiDiwas’, the Prime Minister NarendraModi will interact with owners of JanaushadhiKendras and beneficiaries of the PradhanMantriBhartiyaJanaushadhiPariyojana (PMBJP) across the country through video conference.
Various programmes would be organised at all PMBJP Kendras to increase awareness about the scheme. These programmes would witness participation of doctors, health experts, NGOs and beneficiaries.
The JanaushadhiDiwas aims to provide further impetus and create awareness about the use of generic medicines. The day also highlights the initiatives undertaken by the Government in the direction of making quality healthcare affordable for all, like Ayushman Bharat, PMBJP, etc.

::INTERNATIONAL::

Pope Francis and Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani meet in Najaf

Pope Francis has met with Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, one of the most senior leaders in Shia Islam, in Iraq’s holy city of Najaf to deliver a message of peaceful coexistence, urging Muslims to embrace Iraq’s long-beleaguered Christian minority.
The historic meeting on Saturday in al-Sistani’s humble home was months in the making, with every detail painstakingly discussed and negotiated between the ayatollah’s office and the Vatican.
After the meeting, al-Sistani office released a statement that said religious authorities have a role in protecting Iraq’s Christians and that the Shia leader “affirmed his concern that Christian citizens should live like all Iraqis in peace and security, and with their full constitutional rights”.
The Vatican said Francis thanked al-Sistani and the Shia people for having “raised his voice in defence of the weakest and most persecuted” during some of the most violent times in Iraq’s recent history.
He said al-Sistani’s message of peace affirmed “the sacredness of human life and the importance of the unity of the Iraqi people”.
The 84-year-old pontiff’s convoy, led by a bullet-proof vehicle, had pulled up for the meeting along Najaf’s narrow and column-lined Rasool Street, which culminates at the golden-domed Imam Ali Shrine, one of the most revered sites in the world for Shia Muslims. He then walked the few metres to al-Sistani’s modest home, which the Shia leader has rented for decades.

::ECONOMY::

AWS Survey on India's Digital Skilled Workforce

Digital skills are becoming an essential component for employees to perform their jobs proficiently. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated this digitisation journey to a certain extent for organisations as well as individuals.
India’s present workforce comprises only 12% digitally skilled employees, and the number of employees requiring digital skills in the country will need to increase nine-fold by 2025, according to a report commissioned by Amazon Web Services (AWS).
The research surveyed over 500 digital workers in India, and 3,196 workers in total across six countries in the APAC region, including Australia, India, Indonesia, Japan, Singapore and South Korea.
About 70% of workers in India applied advanced digital skills in their jobs, it noted. And the top five digital skills in-demand in India are cloud architecture design (34%); software operations support (31%); website, game, or software development (28%); large-scale data modelling (28%); and cybersecurity skills (27%). Transitioning organisations from on-premises to cloud environments has been the most frequently used digital skill in India. This is reflected in the crucial role digitally-skilled employees play in transforming non-technology sectors like manufacturing.

::SCIENCE AND TECH::

Women Technology Parks give wings to self-reliance dreams of rural women

Dr.NeeluAhuja, a Professor in Computer Science Department, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES), Dehradun is passionate about initiatives that would change lives of rural women and other marginalized sections of the society.
She is confident that science and technology could play a vital role in income generation of rural women of Uttarakhand, a state for which she has grown a deep attachment through her 20 years of professional life in it.
Having knocked on many a doors to realize her dreams, she chanced upon the Women Technology Park (WTP) programme under Science & Technology for Women Scheme of the Department of Science & Technology, Government of India.
Through this scheme she has been able to change the lives of 280 rural women of Dehradun by training them into skills to earn their livelihood by producing and selling various special items. They are the most enterprising among the 480 women trained under the project. Through the technological training, the women were able to utilize locally available natural resources like bamboo, jute, date palm leaves into jewelry items and decorative pieces. They also turned waste to wealth by making pencils out of newspaper and acquired the skill to cultivate medicinal plants.
“Regular earning has made them confident and now they want to explore more ways to increase their earning,” said Dr. Ahuja.
Far away in Andhra Pradesh another WTP has trained around 350 rural women to develop products ranging from herbal to food and cosmetics. Dr A Jyothi, a retired Professor from Sri PadmavatiMahilaVisvavidyalam, Tirupati who was part of the WTP team elaborated on how the team conducted door-to-door survey to find out enterprising rural women and also school and college going girls in the various districts of the state who could be trained to improve their knowledge, skills and earn more using science and technology.

::SPORTS::

Wrestling: BajrangPunia bags gold in MatteoPellicon World ranking series

In wrestling, World Championship bronze medallistBajrangPunia has clinched a gold medal by defeating his familiar rival TulgaTumurOchir of Mongolia in the MatteoPallicone World Ranking Series event in Rome.
Bajrang defeated Ochir 2-2 by criteria in the final of the 65kg freestyle
Bajrang, who was trailing Ochir 0-2 kept his composure and prevented Ochir from stretching his lead by showcasing quality defensive skills. The Indian wrestler walked away with a Gold medal after getting a 2-pointer in the last 30 seconds.
This is Bajrang's second consecutive gold medal at the MatteoPellicone event as he had finished on the top of the series in January 2020 as well.