Current Affairs 30 August 2022 – IAS Current Affairs
Current Affairs 30 August 2022 focuses on Prelims-Mains perspective. Major events are :
Boosting Electronic Production by 2026
Source : PIB
GS III : Indian Economy
What is discussed under Boosting Electronic Production by 2026?
- About the report
- About ICEA
Why in News ?
Minister of State for Electronics & Information Technology and Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, launched a report titled as ‘Globalise to Localise: Exporting at Scale and Deepening the Ecosystem are Vital to Higher Domestic Value Addition’.
Key Facts
- The report prepared by India Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER), in collaboration with India Cellular and
Source : PIB Electronics Association (ICEA) explores how India can achieve electronics production target of US$300 billion and exports of US$120 by 2025-26.
- The Government is laser focused on achieving the target of 300 billion USD electronic production by 2026.
- Always emphasised on strengthening our domestic manufacturing ecosystem to make India more resilient to supply chain disruptions.
- Aim is to emerge as a reliable and trusted partner in Global value chains.
Electronics as a sector has jumped to the 6th largest export from India this year. Mobile phones constitute the single largest component of electronics exports from India.
Globalise to Localise
- Report examines the empirical relationship between exports and the share of domestic value addition in successful exporting nations.
- It finds that the two variables are negatively correlated in the short-run, but exhibit positive correlation in the medium-term.
- Comparison : China and Vietnam have adopted the mantra of ‘first globalise, then localize’, which means in the initial years they were determined to achieve global scale in exports, and then shifted their emphasis to greater use of local contents.
- Recommendation
- Immediate goal should be to export at scale to global markets (globalise), and the subsequent objective should be to increase the share of local content (localise).
- Policies such as Gati Shakti will also help increase India’s competitiveness.
- Create a competitive domestic ecosystem of ancillary suppliers through
- Technology upgradation programmes
- Holding sourcing fairs
- Introducing supporting industry development programmes.
About India Cellular and Electronics Association (ICEA)
- ICEA is the apex industry body for the mobile and electronics industry comprising manufacturers, brand owners, technology providers, VAS application & solution providers, distributors, and retail chains of mobile handsets and electronics.
- ICEA is committed to carrying forward its vision of building Indian manufacturing and design in verticals other than mobile handsets while consolidating the gains made in the mobile handset and components industry.
- ICEA is entirely devoted to improving the competitiveness and growth of the industry by closely working with the Government’s ministries to create a robust, legal, and ethical electronics industry, thereby creating an innovative market environment in the country.
Performance Assessment, Review and Analysis of Knowledge for Holistic Development
Source : Indian Express
GS II : Human Resource, Education
What is discussed under PARAKH?
- About the PARAKH
- How it helps?
Why in News ?
PARAKH (Performance Assessment, Review and Analysis of Knowledge for Holistic Development) is being set up to oversee the process and conduct periodic tests like the National Achievement Survey (NAS) and State Achievement Surveys.
Key Facts
- It will seek to put an end to the emphasis on rote learning, as envisaged by the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020.
Source : AICTE - It will be “setting norms, standards and guidelines for student assessment and evaluation for all recognised school boards of India, encouraging and helping school boards to shift their assessment patterns towards meeting the skill requirements of the 21st century”.
- PARAKH team will consist of leading assessment experts with a deep understanding of the education system in India and internationally.
- It will eventually become the national single-window source for all assessment-related information and expertise, with a mandate to support learning assessment in all forms, both nationally and where applicable, internationally.
- Significance :It will help tackle the problem of students of some state boards being at a disadvantage during college admissions as compared to their peers in CBSE schools.
- It will develop and implement “technical standards for the design, conduct, analysis and reporting” of tests at all levels of school education.
Scheme for Economic Empowerment of Denotified/Nomadic/SemiNomadic (SEED)
Source : Indian Express
GS II : Important International institutions, agencies and fora- their structure, mandate
What is discussed under Scheme for Economic Empowerment of Denotified/Nomadic/SemiNomadic (SEED)?
- About the Order
- How it helps
Why in News ?
The Union Social Justice Ministry has so far received 402 online applications from across the country to avail benefits under SEED, a scheme meant for the upliftment of Denotified, Nomadic and Semi-Nomadic Tribes (DNTs/NTs/SNTs).
Key Facts
- More than 10 crore Indians from 1,400 communities belong to these groups, as per the latest estimates available with the government.
Photo by Kyle Glenn on Unsplash
What is SEED?
- The Scheme for Economic Empowerment of Denotified/Nomadic/SemiNomadic (SEED) communities was launched in February 2022 by the Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment.
- It aims to provide free competitive exam coaching to these students, to provide health insurance to families, to uplift clusters of these communities through livelihood initiatives, and to provide financial assistance for housing.
De-Notified, Nomadic and Semi-Nomadic Tribes
- These are communities that are the most vulnerable and deprived.
- DNTs are communities that were ‘notified’ as being ‘born criminals’ during the British regime under a series of laws starting with the Criminal Tribes Act of 1871.
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