Current Affairs For SSC CGL Exam - 27 July, 2014

Current Affairs For SSC CGL Exam

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched an online platform mygov.nic.in to engage citizens in the task of “good governance” (surajya) as he completed 60 days in office. MyGov is a technology-driven platform that would provide people with the opportunity to contribute towards good governance.
Groups and corners are an important part of MyGov. The platform has been divided into various groups namely Clean Ganga, Girl Child Education, Clean India, Skilled India, Digital India, Job Creation. Each group allows for online and on-ground tasks to be undertaken by contributors.
In a video address posted on the Prime Minister’s website, Mr. Modi pointed out there was a widespread belief in the country that after a government is elected, a gap develops between the people and the executive.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi had his second monthly meeting on the setting of targets and monitoring of progress in the implementation of key projects with the Secretaries of infrastructure ministries including roads, power, telecom and railways.
Mr. Modi has introduced a system of monthly setting of targets and weekly monitoring of progress on them for infrastructure projects.
Infrastructure sector is a focus area for the Modi government and a key to its agenda for the economy’s revival.

The Reserve Bank of India, imposed a monetary penalty on 12 banks for violating central bank rules in the case of Deccan Chronicle Holdings.
The RBI said that it “came to the conclusion that some of the violations were substantiated and warranted imposition of monetary penalty.’’
Based on the findings of the scrutiny, the RBI issued show-cause notices to these banks in March, to which the individual banks submitted written replies.
After considering the facts of each case and the individual bank’s reply, as also, the personal submissions and the like by some of the banks, RBI came to the conclusion that some of the violations were substantiated and warranted imposition of monetary penalty.