Prelims Facts 3 October 2020 is an extra read for UPSC IAS Prelims exam.

India-Bangladesh Bilateral Exercise Bongosagar

Why in News ?

The second edition of Indian Navy (IN) – Bangladesh Navy (BN) Bilateral Exercise Bongosagar is scheduled to commence in Northern Bay of Bengal. India-Bangladesh Bilateral Exercise Bongosagar.

Exercise Bongosagar

• First edition was held in 2019, is aimed at developing inter-operability and joint operational skills through conduct of a wide spectrum of maritime exercises and operations.
• In the upcoming edition of Exercise Bongosagar, ships from both navies will participate in surface warfare drills, seamanship evolutions and helicopter operations.
• IN and BN units will undertake joint patrolling along the International Maritime Boundary Line (IMBL).
  • Strengthened understanding between both the navies and instituted measures to stop conduct of unlawful activities.

Source : PIB

Lal Bahadur Shastri Jayanti

Why in News ?

Lal Bahadur Shastri was the former Prime Minister and Freedom Fighter.

History of Life

• Lal Bahadur Shastri was born on October 2, 1904 at Mughalsarai, a small railway town seven miles from Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh.
• Lal Bahadur Shastri became more interested in the country’s struggle for freedom from British colonialist rulers.
• Lal Bahadur Shastri at the age of  sixteen join the Non-Cooperation Movement 1922.
• Shastri was the bachelor’s degree awarded to him by the Vidya Peeth.
• After 1951 held several portfolios in the Union Cabinet as Minister for Railways; Minister for Transport and Communications, Minister for Commerce and Industry, Home Minister and during Nehru’s illness Minister without portfolio.
  • He was minister in the Union Cabinet and he resigned taking responsibility for the railway accident.
• Jawaharlal Nehru died in office on 27 May 1964 and Congress Party president K. Kamaraj  making Shastri Prime Minister on 9 June.
• Lal Bahadur Shastri’s slogan Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan still have importance through out the country.
• Shastri continued Nehru’s policy of non-alignment but also built closer relations with the Soviet Union.
• 10 January 1966, Shastri and Ayub Khan signed the Tashkent Declaration.
  • The declaration stated that[1] Indian and Pakistani forces would pull back to their pre-conflict positions, pre-August lines.

Data Governance Quality Index Report

Why in News ?

Data Governance Quality Index Report, a Survey conducted by Development Monitoring and Evaluation Office (DMEO), NITI Ayog to assess different Ministries /Departments’ performance on the implementation of Central Sector Schemes (CS) and Centrally Sponsored Schemes (CSS).

Data Governance Quality Index Report

• DGQI exercise
  • Self-assessment based review of data preparedness levels across Ministries / Departments to produce a DGQI score card.
  • The objective is to assessing data preparedness of Ministries / Departments on a standardized framework to drive healthy competition among them and promote cooperative peer learning from best practices.
  • An online questionnaire was prepared under six major themes of DGQI:
    • Data Generation
    • Data Quality
    • Use of Technology
    • Data Analysis, Use and Dissemination
    • Data Security and HR Capacity
    • Case Studies.
  • Weightages were assigned to the themes and sub-weightages to each question within every theme to arrive at final DGQI scores ranging between 0 to 5 for every scheme.
  • Ministries / Departments were classified in six categories : Administrative, Strategic, Infrastructure, Social, Economic and Scientific.
  • Inputs have been collected from 65 Ministries / Departments implementing 250 CS / CSS schemes and their scores were accordingly calculated.
• Department of Fertilizers under the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers has been ranked 2nd amongst the 16 Economic Ministries / Departments and 3rd out of the 65 Ministries / Departments with a score 4.11 on a scale of 5 on Data Governance Quality Index (DGQI).

Source : PIB

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Current Affairs Compilation : 3 october 2020