Assam Current Affairs – April 01 – 07, 2020

Current Affairs Assam – April 1 - 7, 2020

( Covers all important Assam Current Affairs & GK topics for the week of April 1 – 7, 2020 )

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April 01, 2020


Assam’s first COVID-19 case in Karimganj
  • A 52-year-old man from Karimganj with hitherto undisclosed travel history has tested positive for coronavirus which is Assam’s first COVID-19 patient.
  • The patient is undergoing treatment at the Silchar Medical College and Hospital. The sample of the patient was sent to the National Institute of Virology, Pune which confirmed the infection.
  • Assam became the third State in the North East region to report positive coronavirus case after manipur and Mizoram.

BHU women scientists developed corona testing kit
  • Women researchers at the Banaras Hindu University (BHU) have developed a new testing method for COVID-19. The team has already patented the method.
  • a group of women scientists at the Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University, have developed a novel test method-based on RT PCR (Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction) for COVID-19 with 100 per cent accuracy.
  • Geeta Rai, the doctor who leads the research team comprising Doli Das, KhushbuPriya and Hiral Thacker.
  • This RT PCR (qualitative)-based detection method for coronavirus guarantees accuracy, low cost, rapid detection and no requirement for a probe or high cost machines.
  • The union government had given a call to startups, incubators and scientists to accelerate their efforts at finding solutions to the Covid-19 crisis that has met with overwhelming response.

Govt hikes MGNREGS Wages by Rs 20
  • The Department of Rural Development in collaboration with the state governments has increased the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) wages by Rs 20.
  • The focus of Mahatma Gandhi NREGS may be on individual beneficiary-oriented works which directly benefit SCs, STs and women headed households as well as small and marginal farmers and other poor households.
  • However, close consultation and guidance of the states as well as district authorities would be necessary to ensure that lockdown conditions are not violated and norms of social distancing are scrupulously followed.
  • An amount of Rs 4,431 crore has been released this week to various states and Union Territories to liquidate these liabilities of the current fiscal year.
  • The remaining liabilities along with the first tranche for 2020-21 will be released before April 15, 2020.

Jharkhand CM Soren inaugurates CM kitchen in Ranchi to feed poor
  • Inaugurating a CM Kitchen in the state capital, Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren said that state government was committed to ensure that no one went without food during the ongoing 21-day nationwide lockdown due to coronavirus scare.
  • Set up with the help of Roundtable India and Ranchi district administration, the ”MukhyamantriRasoi” aims to feed around 5,000 persons in Ranchi and adjoining areas who have been rendered without work due to the lockdown.
  • Directions have been issued, including to police stations, to set up similar CM kitchens and community kitchens across the state to feed the needy.
  • The Chief Minister flagged off mobile vans which will distribute food prepared at the kitchen in MorhabadiMaidan in Ranchi.


April 02, 2020

COVID-19 most challenging global crisis since World War II
  • According to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, Coronavirus pandemic is the most challenging crisis the world has faced since World War II, one that is killing people and will also lead to an economic recession. Thus the current coronavirus pandemic was much more than a health crisis, it is a human crisis.
  • According to the Johns Hopkins University estimate, there are more than 850,500 confirmed coronavirus cases in the world, and over 41,000 deaths with the US having highest number of cases in the world at 184,183 and more than 4,000 deaths.
  • The combination of the two facts, on one hand, of a disease that represents a threat to everybody in the world and, second, because it has an economic impact that will bring a recession that probably has no parallel in the recent past, and the risk that it contributes to enhanced instability, enhanced unrest, and enhanced conflict, makes it the most challenging crisis the world has faced since the Second World War.

Centre to create portal for verifying facts
  • The Centre announced creation of a web portal where people can verify facts and unverified news promptly, and also advised the states and Union Territories (UTs) to create a similar mechanism.
  • The states and the UTs were asked to submit an action taken report to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) so it can be informed to the Supreme Court that took on the Centre in a hearing of a plea over the panic created by fake news leading to mass movement of migrant labourers, their plight and untold suffering following lockdown.
  • The states were also told that the apex court however has expressed satisfaction with the proactive and timely actions taken by the Central government for preventing the spread of novel coronavirus or COVID-19, but had taken serious note of the panic created by fake news leading to mass movement of migrant labourers.
  • The apex court has also given observations and directions regarding provision of relief camps, shelters for the migrant labourers and the basic amenities such as food and medicines to be provided in line with MHA and National Disaster Management Act directives and other welfare activities to be taken by the state governments.


Australian researchers begin testing COVID-19 vaccines
  • Researchers from Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) announced that they have begun testing vaccines for the novel coronavirus.
  • The CSIRO said that it has commenced the first stage of testing at the Australian Animal Health Laboratory (AAHL) in Geelong, 75 km southwest of Melbourne.
  • The trials are expected to take three months and will be conducted on ferrets to determine if either of the two vaccines were safe and effective.
  • Beginning vaccine candidate testing at CSIRO is a critical milestone in the fight against COVID-19, made possible by collaboration both within Australia and across the globe.
  • Even if the vaccines were found to be effective and safe, it could take 12 to 18 months for them to be rolled out around the world.

 

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April 03, 2020

Arunachal Pradesh reports first COVID-19 case
  • Arunachal Pradesh on April 1st reported its first novel coronavirus case with a 31-year-old man from Lohit district testing positive for the dreaded COVID-19.
  • The patient, who had travelled to the national capital last month to participate in the Tablighi Jamaat congregation at Nizamuddin Markaz in Delhi, has currently been kept in isolation at the Zonal General Hospital, Tezu in Lohit district.
  • The swab sample of the man was sent for test to the Regional Viral Research and Diagnostic Laboratory, ICMR-RMRC, at Dibrugarh in Assam and he tested positive on April 1.

FACTFILE – ICMR- Regional Medical Research Centre, NE, Dibrugarh

  • ICMR- Regional Medical Research Centre, NE, Dibrugarh is one of the 26 permanent institutes of Indian Council of Medical Research.
  • It was established on 12th day of July in the year 1982.
  • It covers the most remote and less developed eight states of the north-eastern region of India and is responsible for carrying out Biomedical Research in the region and runs with intramural grant from ICMR and extramural adhoc projects from different funding agencies.
  • Its primary focus of research are (i) Mosquito borne diseases (ii) HIV and drug abuse (iii) Trematode infection (iv) Haemoglobinopathies.
  • The secondary focus of research are (i) Cancer nasopharynx, oesophagus, stomach (ii) Cardiovascular diseases (iii) Medicinal plants of NE India (iv) Nutrition.

IIT, AIIMS alumni invents UV robot to disinfect hospitals
  • As a preventive measure against new coronavirus, a duo from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur and All India Institute Of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) has developed a device titled ‘Minus Corona UV Bot’ to disinfect hospitals.
  • The company PerSapien has developed the device which is an ultraviolet light (UV C-254nm) based robot that will enable sterilization of hospital corridors, wards, Intensive Care Unit (ICUs) and patient rooms without exposing anybody to the contaminated environment.
  • It comprises a UV-C lamp mounted on a wheeled robotic platform that is operated (front-back, left-right) with a remote control which is also equipped with a camera that gives the perspective from the driver’s seat onto a digital screen to remotely control the UV robot and avoid any obstacles.
  • Ultraviolet (UV) sterilization technology has been proven to be extremely effective in killing viruses and micro-organisms of any kind which may remain on surfaces even after the minimum number of standard cleaning.

DRDO develops bio suit to keep health professionals safe
  • The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has developed a bio suit to keep the medical, paramedical and other personnel engaged in combating COVID-19 safe from the deadly virus.
  • Scientists at various DRDO laboratories have prepared the suit with the help of the industry and subjected to rigorous testing for textile parameters as well as protection against synthetic blood.
  • DRDO used nanotechnology to develop the Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) having specific type of fabric with coating.
  • The DRDO is making all efforts to ensure that these suits are produced in large numbers and serve as robust line of defence for the medics, paramedics and other personnel in the frontline of combating COVID-19.
  • Kusumgarh Industries is producing the raw material, coating material, with the complete suit being manufactured with the help of another vendor. The current production capacity is 7,000 suits per day.
  • Another vendor is being brought in with experience in garment technology and efforts are on to ramp up the capacity to 15,000 suits per day.

Swiggy launches new initiative to feed the needy
  • Swiggy has partnered with various commercial kitchens, NGOs and state governments to provide daily meals to thousands of underprivileged, daily wagers and stranded migrant labourers during the 21-day lockdown period.
  • Having served over 2,50,000 meals so far, Swiggy said it is in the process of crowdsourcing funds from corporates and individuals in order to scale the initiative to other parts of the country.
  • Swiggy launched the ”Hope, Not Hunger” initiative launched last week to support the Delhi government”s programme to feed the needy.
  • It helped organise the preparation and distribution of nutritious meals twice a day across relief camps in Delhi with the support of partners such as Compass Kitchens, Lite Bite Foods and SmartQ.
  • The relief effort was quickly scaled to Mumbai with the help of NGOs Pratham, HelpAge India and Yuva, and Elior India acting as the food supply partner.
  • Each meal served for lunch and dinner includes adequate portions of rice, dal and vegetables to ensure the nutritional needs of the individual are met.
  • Thousands of Swiggy customers have already contributed to the aHope, Not Hunger” initiative through the Swiggy app.
  • Swiggy has also set up a platform on Milaap for individual donations.


April 04, 2020


Global economy could shrink by almost 1% in 2020 due to COVID-19 pandemic, says UN
  • the UN has said that the global economy could shrink by up to one per cent in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, a reversal from the previous forecast of 2.5 per cent growth.
  • The analysis by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) said the COVID-19 pandemic is disrupting global supply chains and international trade.
  • Millions of workers in these countries are facing the bleak prospect of losing their jobs. Governments are considering and rolling out large stimulus packages to avert a sharp downturn of their economies which could potentially plunge the global economy into a deep recession.
  • In the worst-case scenario, the world economy could contract by 0.9 per cent in 2020. The world economy had also contracted by 1.7 per cent during the global financial crisis in 2009.
  • This contraction could be even higher if governments fail to provide income support and help boost consumer spending.
  • Before the outbreak of the COVID-19, world output was expected to expand at a modest pace of 2.5 per cent in 2020, as reported in the World Economic Situation and Prospects 2020.
  • The severity of the economic impact will largely depend on two factors – the duration of restrictions on the movement of people and economic activities in major economies; and the actual size and efficacy of fiscal responses to the crisis. A well-designed fiscal stimulus package, prioritising health spending to contain the spread of the virus and providing income support to households most affected by the pandemic would help to minimise the effect of the economic recession.

Delhi approves for food grains to non PDS beneficiaries
  • The Delhi government approved for food grains to the non PDS beneficiaries during the coronavirus lockdown.
  • The government said the food grains can be distributed from next week to the non-public distribution system (PDS) beneficiaries.
  • It says the distribution of food grain to the non PDS beneficiaries will be done from distribution centres or schools by the authorised officials.
  • Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had said the government will be giving ration to about 10 lakh poor in the city who were not having ration cards.

IIT Hyderabad-incubated startup develops low-cost ventilator
  • Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad-incubated startupAerobiosys Innovations has developed a low-cost, portable, emergency-use ventilator
  • Jeevan Lite, the device developed by the Center for Healthcare Entrepreneurship (CfHE) at the institute offers protection to healthcare providers as well as it is Internet of Things-enabled and can be operated through a phone app.
  • It can also be battery-operated, enabling its deployment in areas without assured power supply.
  • Aerobiosys Innovations aims to produce at least 50 to 70 units per day through collaboration with an industrial partner.
  • Aerobiosys Innovations plans to provide Jeevan Lite at a price of Rs. 1 lakh which is significantly economical compared with existing products in the market.
  • To cut down the cost and facilitate remote electronic access to the device, Aerobiosys has developed a mobile app that communicates with the unit and seamlessly controls the functional features of the ventilator.
  • Jeevan Lite can perform both the invasive and non-invasive ventilation across a comprehensive set of modes and settings.
  • It can be used for pediatric and adult patients and will work on rechargeable lithium-ion batteries in an uninterrupted manner for five hours without power supply.

DRDO develops portable backpack for sanitisation equipment
  • Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has developed portable backpack for area sanitisation equipment. The Centre for Fire Explosive and Environment Safety (CFEES), Delhi, has developed two configurations of sanitising equipment. These are spinoffs from technologies developed for fire suppression application.
  • The CFEES, Delhi, with the help of its industry partner has developed portable sanitisation equipment for spraying decontamination solution consisting of one per cent Hypochlorite (HYPO) solution for sanitisation of suspected area.
  • The portable system can be mounted as a backpack and can be carried by the operations personnel.
  • This system incorporates low pressure twin fluid, air and disinfectant liquid, technology to generate very fine mist.
  • The application areas can include hospital reception, doctor chambers, office spaces dealing with general public, corridors, pathways, metro and railway stations and bus stations, etc.
  • The Centre with the help of its industry partner has also developed a higher capacity which is carried on a trolley.
  • The system incorporates low pressure single fluid, disinfectant liquid, technology generating very fine mist. It is capable of disinfecting upto 3,000 square metre area.
  • Two of these systems are being provided to Delhi Police for immediate use. These can be made available to other agencies with the help of industry partners.

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April 05, 2020


32 Coronavirus cases in Northeast, Assam alone has 27
  • Of the 32 positive cases in five Northeastern states — Assam (27), Manipur (2), Mizoram (1), Arunachal Pradesh (1) and Tripura (1) — 28 took part in the Tablighi Jamaat congregation in Delhi last month.
  • Besides, four persons from Assam and eight people from Tripura, who had attended the Jamaat congregation, have tested positive for Covid-19 and are under treatment in hospitals in Delhi.
  • The 23-year-old Manipur woman who had returned from the UK and became the first positive coronavirus case in the entire northeastern region, was declared completely free of the dreaded virus.

Testing & treatment of corona at private hospitals come under Ayushman ambit
  • The Centre has decided to make the testing and treatment for COVID-19 available under Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan ArogyaYojana (AB-PM JAY).
  • The testing and treatment of COVID -19 is already available for free in the public facilities.
  • Now, more than 50 crore citizens, eligible under the government”s health assurance scheme will be able to avail free testing through private labs and treatment for COVID -19 in empanelled hospitals as well.
  • These tests would be carried out as per Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) guidelines and by private labs either approved or registered by the ICMR.
  • Treatment of COVID-19 by private hospitals will also be covered under the scheme.
  • Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Jan ArogyaYojana (AB-PM JAY) is the flagship scheme of the Centre that provides cashless and paperless access to medical services.

Hyderabad engineers develop low-cost portable ventilator
  • A team of engineers in Hyderabad has designed a low-cost ventilator system, which can help Covid-19 patients with respiratory assistance.
  • The developers said this can be helpful in meeting an emergency in the event of shortage of regular ventilators.
  • Krishna Ganji, Founder and CEO of NextByte Innovations Private Limited, said that the electromechanical device was used to operate manual ”Ambo bag” thus assisting the patient in respiration.
  • He said as the regular ventilators were available for not even one per cent of the population in the country, the team developed a portable low-cost ventilator system.
  • This is not equal to regular ventilator, but will be helpful if the situation gets worse.
  • The device can be made available for Rs 4,000. The regular India-made ventilator costs around Rs six lakh.

IIITM Kerala develops analogue circuit to study coronavirus
  • State owned Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management-Kerala (IIITM-K), in a joint research project with German institutes, has made a breakthrough in developing Analogue Integrated Circuits for implementing Generative Adversarial Network (GAN).
  • This can possibly be used to analyse and interpret 2019-nCoV data for a possible solution to the global pandemic.
  • The research institute said that this has been achieved by joint research conducted in collaboration with Analogue Circuits and Image Sensors Lab, Seigen University and Fraunhofer, Germany, and Centre for Excellence in Artificial General Intelligence and Neuromorphic Systems (neuroAGI), IIITM-K.
  • GAN are neural networks that can be trained to produce or generate new content. These are popularly used for generating fake images, fake audio, fake text and fake videos.
  • The experts point out that the GANs have recently succeeded in generating new molecular structures that can bind with the 3C-like protease, which is one of the most important COVID-19 protein targets, and inhibit virus functioning.
  • In a new study, energy and area-efficient analogue circuit implementation of such GAN architecture was demonstrated to generate realistic looking images.


April 06, 2020


India tightens export ban norms for anti-malarial drug Hydroxycloroquine
  • The government has tightened the export ban norms on anti-malarial drug hydroxycloroquine by including Special Economic Zones (SEZs) under its prohibition ambit to ensure there is no shortfall during Covid-19 crisis.
  • The drug is also not allowed to be shipped by export oriented units (EOUs) or under any export promotion scheme.
  • Under advance authorisation (AA) scheme, firms are allowed to import raw material at zero duty but with the condition of export obligation within a certified time frame.
  • SEZs are treated as foreign territory in terms of customs laws. Normally export ban or restrictions imposed by the government does not apply on these zones as well as EOUs, which are specially meant to promote outbound shipments from the country.
  • This step is taken after the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) had recommended the use of hydroxychloroquine for treating healthcare workers handling suspected or confirmed coronavirus cases and also the asymptomatic household contacts of the lab-confirmed cases.
  • Recently, India has banned exports of host of medical devices, including sanitiser, all types of ventilators and surgical masks.

Assam may suffer loss of 3,571 MT horticulture items
  • Assam is likely to suffer a loss of an estimated 3,571 metric tons of fruits and vegetables in 16 districts due to the lockdown. Which is around 0.06 per cent of total horticulture production and includes products such as tomato, brinjal, cabbage, cauliflower, banana and strawberry.
  • Fake news spreading through social media platforms about transmission of COVID-19 through vegetables has also badly affected the farmers of Assam. Such rumours had developed apprehension among the common people across the State which ultimately was having a worsening impact on the markets.
  • All agriculture and allied sectors have been suffering a lot during this medical emergency situation. The government today issued directions to start functioning of 14 animal feed mills across Assam.
32 Coronavirus cases in Northeast, Assam alone has 27
  • Of the 32 positive cases in five Northeastern states — Assam (27), Manipur (2), Mizoram (1), Arunachal Pradesh (1) and Tripura (1) — 28 took part in the Tablighi Jamaat congregation in Delhi last month.
  • Besides, four persons from Assam and eight people from Tripura, who had attended the Jamaat congregation, have tested positive for Covid-19 and are under treatment in hospitals in Delhi.
  • The 23-year-old Manipur woman who had returned from the UK and became the first positive coronavirus case in the entire northeastern region, was declared completely free of the dreaded virus.


Railways PPE kit passes DRDO test
  • The railways has passed the test conducted by DRDO for the Personal Protection Equipment manufactured by Jagadhari workshop to fight Covid-19.
  • Deepak Kumar, CPRO Northern Railways, said Northern Railway Jagadhari Workshop becomes the first workshop whose two PPEs/ Coverall sample passed the DRDO test. This will be helpful in fighting the war against Covid-19.
  • The railways can now contribute to mitigating the shortfall in PPEs to the extent possible by manufacturing it in-house.
  • There are reports of shortage of PPE and many videos have hone viral where doctors are facing lack of PPE.
  • The Delhi government has given the nod for procurement of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) kits by city hospitals from local manufacturers and suppliers at market rate not exceeding Rs 1,087.47, amid an increasing demand.

Telangana to use CMRF money to procure PPEs
  • The government of Telangana has decided to use the funds donated for the Chief Minister”s Relief Fund (CMRF) for the protective equipment and masks for doctors and other healthcare workers involved in dealing with coronavirus cases.
  • Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao directed the officials to utilise the donations to procure Personal Protection Equipments (PPEs), masks and medicines.
  • At a high-level meeting to review the coronavirus situation, he instructed the officials concerned to take all the protective measures for the medical and health employees.
  • Health Minister EatalaRajender said that the government has procured five lakh N-95 masks, five lakh viral transmission kits, 500 ventilators, four lakh coronavirus testing kits, 20 lakh surgical masks and 25 lakh hand gloves.

NF Railway ramps up in-house production of masks sanitisers
  • The Northeast Frontier Railways (NFR) has ramped up in-house production of masks and sanitisers as part of its effort to make these items available to all its staff members in the time of the global coronavirus pandemic.
  • Indian Railways is making all-out efforts to supplement the healthcare initiatives of the Government of India.
  • In this direction, Indian Railways is producing masks and hand sanitisers in-house in its all zonal railways, production units and PSUs as these items are of great necessity during the current period.
  • This is in addition to the various other measures taken to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
  • Masks are being made by staff who are working from their respective homes due to the lockdown and hand sanitisers are being produced in various depots.

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April 07, 2020


Assam Cabinet to cut the salaries of the ministers and MLAs by 30% for one year
  • Assam Cabinet also decided to cut the salaries of the ministers and MLAs by 30% for one year to manage the situation arising out of the COVID19 pandemic.
  • The Assam cabinet also decided that the state government would not pass any directives regarding lockdown and the Centre directives on lockdown would continue in the state
  • The cabinet also decided to bring employees of all departments engaged in the frontline against coronavirus outbreak under the insurance scheme of Rs 50 lakh.
  • Earlier decision to dispense Rs 1000 one-time relief to the poor beneficiaries who don’t have cards under National Food Security Act has been slightly modified to allot Rs 1000 to 150 families instead of 100 families in each Village Panchayat inhabited by 5 thousand or fewer people, Rs 1000 to 200 families instead of 150 families in each Village Panchayat inhabited by 5000 to 10000 people, Rs 1000 to 250 families instead of 200 families in each Village Panchayat inhabited by 10000 people or more, Rs 1000 each to 300 families in each Village Panchayat areas inhabited by 10000 to 15000 people, Rs 1000 each to 350 families inhabited by 15000 to 25000 people.

Union Cabinet approves 30% salary cut for MPs, MPLADS suspended for 2 years
  • The Union Cabinet approved an ordinance amending the Salary, Allowances and Pension of Members of Parliament Act, 1954 to reduce allowances and pension by 30 per cent with effect from April 1, for a year.
  • The President, Vice President, and Governors have also voluntarily decided to take a pay cut as a social responsibility. The money will go to the Consolidated Fund of India.
  • The Cabinet has approved a move to suspend the Members of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme (MPLADS) for two years (2020-21 and 2021-22). That amount will go to the Consolidated Fund of India.

India-Australia ready to share COVID-19 research efforts
  • India and Australia agreed to share “collaborative research efforts” in the context of the health crisis.
  • Both the countries agreed on the “importance of bilateral experience sharing” amid the novel coronavirus or COVID-19 crisis in a telephonic conversation between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Australian counterpart Scott Morrison.
  • The two leaders discussed the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the domestic response strategies being adopted by their respective governments.
  • They agreed on the importance of bilateral experience-sharing in the context of this health crisis, including through collaborative research efforts.
  • PM Modi conveyed that the government of India stands ready to provide necessary facilitation and support to any Australian citizens stranded in India due to travel restrictions.
  • Both leaders agreed to remain attentive to the wider significance of the India-Australia partnership, including in the Indo-Pacific region, even as they focus on solving the present health crisis.

ABB India partners NASSCOM to help industry hire IoT professionals
  • ABB India announced a partnership with Nasscom to develop standardised qualification criterion for two IoT-related job roles — IoT network communications and IoT cybersecurity.
  • The Qualification Packs (QPs) define the competency standards that will provide a framework for academic institutions to design their course curriculum to better conform to industry hiring standards for these highly-skilled jobs.
  • The standardised format will help the industry develop a quality pool to help companies across sectors.
  • The qualification packs for the two job roles have been approved by National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC), National Skill Development Agency (NSDA), and National Skills Qualifications Committee (NSQC).
  • The IT industry”s apex body has been at the forefront of an industry-driven effort in India to develop ”Future Skills Competency Standards” that define the skills required to do jobs in technologies like IoT, AI, Big Data Analytics (BDA), Cloud computing and others.

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