Assam Current Affairs - January 1-7, 2019

Current Affairs Assam – January 1-7, 2019

( Covers all important Assam Current Affairs & GK topics for the week of January 1-7, 2019 )

January 1

The Lok Sabha passed the Indian Medical Council (Amendment) Bill, 2018 that aims to run the scam-tainted Medical Council of India (MCI) through a panel of eminent professionals.
The government is looking at regulating the medical education in India in a qualitative and transparent manner.
This bill supersedes MCI and the powers of the council have been vested in a Board of Governors. This board will continue to perform till a Council is constituted.
This bill has been issued so that medical education can be regulated in best manner, as MCI turned out to be massive failure.
The related National Medical Commission (NMC) Bill 2017 that seeks to replace MCI with a National Medical Commission and overhaul the medical education system in India is still pending in the Parliament.
The NMC will consist of 25 members and it will determine fees for up to 40% seats in private medical institutions and deemed universities.
Medical Advisory Council will be constituted, which will be the primary platform through which the states/union territories can put forth their views and concerns before the NMC.
The Bill allows practitioners of Ayurveda and other traditional Indian systems of medicine the licence to prescribe allopathic drugs after they have passed a ‘bridge course.’
The government has been pushing the NMC Bill amid resistance from Indian Medical Association (IMA) and other sections.

The second batch of Supplementary Demands for Grants for 2018-19 for gross additional expenditure of Rs 85,948.86 crore, which includes Rs 41,000 crore for recap of the Public Sector Banks (psbs), was passed by voice vote in the Lok Sabha on 31^st December.
The supplementary demand was tabled by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on December 20 seeking Parliament’s approval for additional expenditure of Rs 85,948.86 crore.
Responding to a debate over it, Jaitley said the government had enabled connecting villages by building roads and ensured that there wasn’t any villages left where there is no electricity.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced a yearly financial aid worth Rs 5,000 per acre for all the peasant family in the state.
WB CM also announced a life insurance coverage worth Rs 2 lakh for each of the state’s farmers within the age group of 18-60 years under a state-sponsored scheme, Krishak Bondhu, from 2019.
All the farmers within the age group of 18 to 60 years will be provided life insurance coverage of Rs 2 lakh by the state government. In case of their death, be it natural or unnatural, the families would be provided the money.

January 2

India is estimated to have welcomed 18 per cent of the total babies born globally on January 1, 2019,
According to the UNICEF, 69,944 babies were expected to be born on the New Year Day out of 3,95,072 babies likely to be born across the world.
Globally over half of these births are estimated to taken place in seven countries, along with India like China (44,940), Nigeria (25,685), Pakistan (15,112), Indonesia (13,256), the US (11,086), Democratic Republic of Congo (10,053), and Bangladesh (8,428).Sydney was set to greet an estimated 168 babies, followed by Tokyo (310), Beijing (605), Madrid (166) and finally, New York (317).
Fiji in the Pacific was likely to deliver 2019’s first baby and the US its last.

Justice Thottathil Bhaskaran Nair Radhakrishnan was sworn in as the first Chief justice of Telangana High Court. Telangana and Andhra Pradesh Governor E.S.L. Narasimhan administered oath to him at a ceremony held at Raj Bhavan.
Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao, judges, lawyers and senior officials attended the ceremony.
Justice Radhakrishnan had been serving as the Chief Justice of the High Court of Judicature at Hyderabad for both the states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh since July last year.
The gazette notification said January 1 would be the appointed day for the Andhra Pradesh High Court which will start functioning from Amaravati while the High Court of Judicature at Hyderabad will become the High Court for Telangana.

Assam Industries and Commerce Minister Chandra Mohan Patowary flagged off the export of mandarin fruits produced in Arunachal Pradesh and Assam to Dubai and Hong Kong.
Assam as well as the North Eastern Region is considered an organic hub.
With a view to creating a sustainable market for the producers of the region, Industries and Commerce Department has initiated efforts to encourage and provide logistic and infrastructural support for export of agri-horti produces of the state.

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