THEHINDU and PIB facts for PRELIMS-28/10/17

1.3P India---a new body to reboot the earlier PPP(public private partnership) route

2.NGT has ban paddy burning in

-Punjab,Haryana, Rajasthan, UP and Delhi

3.Law and Order comes under---State list

4.Taalam---rythm in carnatic music, using hand along with singing

5.Ahom--Assam

6.Child Adoption Resource Authority(CARA)-----nodal body for adoption in India

7.WTO's highest decision making body---Ministerial Conference

8.WTO's Ministerial Conference meeting at Buenos Aires,Argentina

9.Main crop of punjab---Wheat and Paddy

10.Melting of Arctic Sea has an impact in El Nino

11.Salty Snow--formed when brine is expelled upward from the ice surface

12.Artist raja ravi verma---was from kerala

13.In 15th century a chinese explorer Zheng he made several voyages to Kerala

14.Vikram---Coast Guard's offshore patrol vessel ---built by L&T

--1st of the series of 7 Offshore Patrol Vessel(OPVs)

--OPV--long range, surface ship, capable of offshore and coastal patrolling, limited warfare role

--to be inducted into the Indian Coast Guard

----Draught(distance btw surface of eater and lowest pnt of vessel)--3.6 m

----Range--(distance covered by ship w/o stopping for refueling)--5000 NM

----Displacement tonnage--(weigt if ship measured indirectly by measuring water displaced by the hull if ship up to waterline)--2140 tinnes

----Speed--26 knots(1.852 km/hr)

15.Malabar exercise incl--India, US and Japan

16.Rafale jet from France

17.Indra---1st trilateral exercise between India and Russia

18.VARUNA---naval exercise between India and France

19.PFMS---public finance management system

For--mandatory for All central govt scheme---

Provide--real time availability , flow of fund

Roll out by--Controller general of accounts(CGA) on behest of Finance ministry

Covered-Central sector scheme, centrally sponsored schmes and other expenditure incl financial Commission grant

Benefit

1.Tracking and monitoring of flow of fund to the implementation agencies.

2.help in accessing actual utilisation of funds by implementation agencies

3.just in time release of fund--thus reduce flow of govt

4.reduce interest cost of borrowing by govt

5.less paper work

6.minimising delay and pending payment

7.increases accountability, transparency and good governance

---it may soon progressed towards Government wide integrated financial management system(GIFMS)---a comprehensive payment, receipt and accounting system

20.Kala Azar

--or Visceral Leismaniasis---scientific name

--Parasite infection

-Epidemic in Indian subcontinet

--people get effected when they get bitten by insect called sandfly, which harbour the disease causing parasite