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  • Current Affairs 12th August 2019

    Updated : 12-Aug-2019

    Current Affairs 12th August 2019 - Important Points

    • President Ram Nath Kovind gives approval to Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill on - 9th August 2019
    • Shillong Declaration on e-Governance adopted at - NCeG 2019
    • 4th edition of National Entrepreneurship Awards 2019 declared by - Union Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship
    • 4th edition of Women Transforming India Awards launched by - NITI Aayog

    Current Affairs 12th August 2019 - Details

    President Ram Nath Kovind gives approval to Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill on - 9th August 2019

    President Ram Nath Kovind gave his approval to the Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Act, 2019 on August 9th, 2019. The Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill, 2019 was approved by the Rajya Sabha on July 31st, 2019. The bill was approved in the upper house with 3 key modifications so it had to be forward back to the Lok Sabha for approval.
    The initiated modifications goals to improve road safety and assist residents in their dealings with transport departments. The modifications also goal to fortify rural transport, public transport and last mile connectivity via automation, computerization and online services.
    Important Features of the Bill

    • The Motor Vehicle (amendment) Bill 2019 modifies the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 to tackle issues like regulation of taxi aggregators, third party insurance and road safety.
    • This Bill seeks maximum accountability for third party insurance in case of a vehicle accident at Rs
      10 lakh in case of death and Rs. 5 Lakh in case of grievous injury.
    • This bill also defines guidelines for cabs that will be finalized by central government.
    • Motor Vehicle (amendment) Bill promotes the digitalization of some specific services. For example
      services including Issue of licenses/permits, application filing procedure, receipt of money including fines, and modification of address.
    • The Bill authorized state governments to ensure the electronic monitoring and enforcement of road
      safety on national highways, state highways, and urban roads.
      The Bill also modifies the compensation and insurance provisions in case of motor vehicle accidents.

    Shillong Declaration on e-Governance adopted at - NCeG 2019

    The 22nd National Conference on e-Governance-2019 effectively concluded at Shillong, capital of Meghalaya with the adoption of ‘Shillong Declaration’ on e-Governance.
    More about Conference

    • It was held by Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances, Ministry of Personnel and Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, in association with Government of Meghalaya held from 8th-9th August 2019.
    • Its theme was ‘Digital India: Success to Excellence’. On side-lines of this conference, a display was also held during the programme to showcase India’s accomplishments in the field of e-Governance.
      Shillong Declaration
    • Civilizing resident’s experience with Government services by encouraging timely execution of India
      Enterprise Architecture and executing single sign-on for interoperability.
    • Integration among e-Government applications throughout the nation.
    • Combining plethora of effective State level e-Governance projects and domain-based projects with
      aim to replicate them as common application software.
    • Taking steps to further advance connectivity in North-Eastern states of India by highlighting
      concerns of telecommunications connectivity at ground level and formulating as well as executing
      comprehensive telecom expansion plan.
    • Taking steps for enhancing activities of Electronics Sector Skill Council in North-Eastern States and explore opportunity for opening an electronics skill centre in Shillong.
    • Inspiring usage of e-Office and moving towards less paper state secretariats in North-Eastern States and in District level offices.
    • Improving quality of delivery of e-Services in North-East to accomplish vision of improved resident experience.
    • Emerging India as worldwide cloud hub and simplify development of Government applications and databases on Cloud by default.

    4th edition of National Entrepreneurship Awards 2019 declared by - Union Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship

    Union Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship declared 4th edition of National Entrepreneurship Awards 2019 with motives to honour outstanding young first-generation tycoons as well as ecosystem builders for their exceptional involvement in entrepreneurship development. They will reward the most innovative, inspirational and talented micro tycoons to scale up their business.
    More about National Entrepreneurship Awards

    • These yearly awards have been introduced by Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship to honour outstanding young 1st-generation tycoons and ecosystem builders for their exceptional
      involvement in entrepreneurship development.
    • The awards pursue to instil and establish entrepreneurial attitude among the future generations and the Youth of India.

    Categories

    •  There are sum of 45 specially intended awards to be awarded 39 Enterprise Awards and 6 Awards for Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Builders.
      Eligibility
      To be qualified for these awards, the entrepreneur must be
      (i) Under the age of 40 years
      (ii) 1st-generation entrepreneurs
      (iii) Hold 51 percent/above equity and ownership of business and women applicants
      exclusively/collectively owning 75 percent/above of the enterprise.

    Winners will be bestowed with Trophy, Certificate and Cash Prize of Rupees 5 lakh enterprises or
    individuals and Rs 10 lakh organizations or institutes.

    4th edition of Women Transforming India Awards launched by - NITI Aayog

    NITI Aayog initiated 4th edition of Women Transforming India Awards. Recommendations for the awards will be opened instantly following the launch. The theme for present year’s award is “Women and Entrepreneurship”, in continuation of the theme for Women Transforming India Awards 2018. WhatsApp has cooperated with NITI Aayog for Women Transforming India Awards 2019 and will be providing support amounting to USD 100000 to award winners. Recommendations for the awards will be opened instantly following the launch.
    More about Women Transforming India Award

    • It is being held yearly by NITI Aayog in association with UN to identify women businesspersons
      from across India.
    • It has been released under Women Entrepreneurship Platform.
    • It goals to recognise and celebrate stories of exemplary females all across India.
      Women Entrepreneurship Platform
    • It is initiative of NITI Aayog to encourage and support ambitious as well as established women
      tycoons in India.
    • It goals to assist and handhold these female tycoons in their journey starting to scaling up and expanding their endeavours.
      Objectives
      (i) To transmute the entrepreneurial ecosystem for female entrepreneurs in the nation.
      (ii) To become single-stop resource centre for Indian female entrepreneurs.
      (iii) Deliver single platform for meeting and working in association for various shareholders in the
      entrepreneurial space.
      Partner Organisations of Women Entrepreneurship Platform

    It has above 5000 female business tycoons recorded on its platform, above 30 partners and, has
    dedicated funding of above USD 10 for these start-ups. Google, United Nations India Business
    Forum, SIDBI, NIC, NASSCOM, CRISIL, WEE Foundation, SEWA bank, MannDeshi Foundation
    and many more are the associates.