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India Clean Air Summit 2023 advocates for environmentally sound management of wastes


✅️Can Sound Management of Wastes improve air quality?

👉Indore, according to the cleanliness survey conducted by the Central Pollution Control Board, is ranked first among cities in terms of air quality.

👉It topped the Swachh Vayu Sarvekshan ranking under National Clean Air Programme (NCAP) implemented in the non-attainment cities - securing 187 points out of 200.

👉It is important to note that Indore is the cleanest city in India that achieved the milestone through its model of  waste management.

👉 The model is centred around segregation of waste on the basis of its kind- dry and wet.

🔵Since 2016, Indore’s municipal corporation (IMC) has eliminated garbage dumps, ensured 100% household-waste segregation and converted waste to usable products, such as compost and fuel. It partnered with non governmental organisations for an awareness campaign to change the behaviour of its citizens, contracted private companies to run some waste management operations, used technology, and improved municipal capacity to ensure the implementation of its waste management plan.

🅾️ As a result, it is today, also number one when it comes to quality air.

🔰According to the Basel Convention, ESM or Environmentally sound management is defined as taking all practicable steps to ensure that hazardous wastes or other wastes are managed in a manner that will protect human health and the environment against the adverse effects which may result from such wastes.

🔵Effects of waste on air quality

👉Solid waste management is a major challenge in cities with high population density. Solid waste creates several noxious gases such as suspended Sulphur Dioxide (SO2), oxides of Nitrogen (NOX), Carbon Monoxide (CO), Respirable Suspended Particulate Matter (RSPM) and Suspended Particulate Matter (SPM).

👉 The dust released from various sources can produce a group of diseases ranging from a simple cold to dangerous diseases like cancer.

👉Similarly, other waste types like chemical etc, also have an adverse impact on the air quality, which in turns affects the human and environment health.

🅾️ Importance

👉Environmentally sound management can act as a guiding tool for the decision makers including stakeholder engagement, waste management planning and economics, waste collection and transportation, prevention, minimization, and recycling, etc on how to reduce the impact of wastes through proper and guided waste treatment.

👉 It helps in understanding the environmental impacts of  improper waste disposal and treatment, opens scope for sustainable operations, and heals the environment in the long run. 

🅾️ This also aligns with the Sustainable Development goals.

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BRICS Levels Up: Historic Expansion As 6 New Members Join Club

🌐 Why Expansion is Happening Now
🆕 New Members
✅ Criteria for Selection
🌟 Importance of Each New Member
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
🇮🇷 Iran
🇦🇪 UAE
🇪🇬 Egypt
🇪🇹 Ethiopia
🇦🇷 Argentina
🌀 Implications

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👆Visual Map Representation

#UPSCColourfulNotes is doing good job for making concepts easier with colouful maps...You can check their site too ✅️

And we have also covered it then only ✅️

#IndiaGreece

🎶🎵🎷Example of Konstantinos from Greece✅️

👆Look at which states grows what?

#Whats the difference between Jute and Mesta crop?

👆Find it out ✅️

#EcononicSurvey2023

❇️Thats the wrap of today's # pib✅️

23August-----will be now known as National Space Day ✅️

#AmritMahotsav #NationalSpaceDay #Chandrayaan3 #MainBharatHoon

🔵Yojana August :

#AzadiKaAmritMahotsav

🅾️This edition takes us to the journey of growth of each sector since independence, so, we will be covering it side by side (like 1-2 article ) along with other #Yojana editions

👉This means that....on this channel, we will be covering two #Yojana editions side-by-side....✅️

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👉As nation progress and evolve, their economies play a crucial role in shaping their trajectories. The journey of the #IndianEconomy reflects the resilience, challenges, and opportunities that define
India's 🇮🇳 youthful, dynamic, and progressive nature.

🔵Over time, the Indian Economy has experienced various highs and lows, navigating through obstacles and capitalising on opportunities to establish itself as the World's 5th largest economy

💢Above Yojana articles can be read as newspaper to have a glimpse of our Economic tajectory-

👉right from LPG Reforms in 1990s (turning point in Indian Economy) to new millenium of liberalised #FDI in early 2000s.

👉Boost to IT sector with New Telecom Policy ; then the policy of disinvestmet and privatisation

👉Coming of The Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management (FRBM) Act, 2003 to address fiscal deficit

👉Along side, bad debts accumulated during economic resurgence following 1991 reforms, was supported through deregulation of interest rates and enactment of #SARFAESI Act, 2002

🔵These structural reforms strengthened the macro-economic foundation of Indian Economy for high growth period......

🟩Sustained momentum in domestic economic activity, improved corporate performance, a healthy investment climate, and favourable global liquidity conditions and interest rates resulted in substantial capital inflows to India from 2004-2008

🟫 The unsustainable credit boom in millennium's first decade increased banks' #NPAs (Non-performing Assets).....

👉This triggered a prolonged period of repairing financial and non-financial sector balance sheets for which the govt. and the RBI implemented several policies

👉Amendment to #SARFAESIACT2002 happened with the implementation of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code(IBC) ; introduction of 'Asset Quality Review' ; adoption of Prompt Corrective Action Framework of RBI ; recapitalisation of PSBs ; and the mergers✅️

🟪 New Age reforms since 2014 repaired the balance sheet in the millennium 's second decade that dampened India's growth potential and dynamism

🔷Simplification of IBC Code is there with The Real Estate Act(RERA) to enhance the ease of doing business

🟡 Reforms in taxation ecosystem like GST, removal of Dividend Distribution Tax etc

🔵Infrastructure modernization through Bharatmala(road connectivity), Sagarmala(port infrastructure ), electrification of railways, airports /air routes (UDAN)

👉The National Logistics Policy, 2022, The National Infrastructure Pipeline (NIP), PLI Scheme, 💯FDI under automatic route, New Public Sector Enterprise Policy to Emergency Credit Line Guarantee Scheme(ECLGS), revision in defination of MSMEs etc....

🇮🇳Recent Digital initiatives like 👉Open Network for Digital Commer(ONDC) and the Account Aggregtor Framework....


🔵Read the Way Forward given above in the yojana article✅️