📝 PM POSHAN Scheme[1][2][3]
🚀 The material cost for providing midday meals to schoolchildren under the PM-POSHAN scheme has been enhanced by 9.5%.
👉🏽 PM POSHAN: A centrally sponsored scheme under which hot cooked meals are served to over eleven crore students studying in Balvatika and classes 1 to 8 in government and government-aided schools ⇒ Approved from 2021-22 to 2025-26 ⇒ Earlier known as National Programme for Mid-Day Meal in Schools.
🤔 When was the Mid-Day Meal programme launched?
💡Poshan Abhiyaan: Launched by PM Modi in 2018 ⇒ Focuses on the nutritional status of adolescent girls, pregnant women, lactating mothers and children from 0-6 years of age.
📝 Jyotiba Phule[4]
🚀 Co-founded India’s 1st girls’ school (1848) with wife Savitribai Phule and set up night schools (1855) for workers, farmers, and working women in Pune.
👉🏽 Advocated compulsory primary education up to age 12.
🚀 Founded Satyashodhak Samaj in 1873 as a reformist and anti-caste organisation ⇒ Opposed brahminical orthodoxy.
🚀 Viewed the revolt of 1857 as a reassertion of upper-caste dominance, not a revolution for Dalits.
🚀 Opposed nationalists like Tilak and Chiplunkar, and supported working with the British for Dalit upliftment.
👉🏽 Helped release Tilak and Gopal Ganesh Agarkar from jail despite ideological differences.
🚀 Writings: Gulamgiri (Slavery), A Statement to the Education Commission, Satsar (The Essence of Truth), Shetkaryanche Asud (Farmer’s Whip), Sarvajanik Satya Dharma Pustak.
📝 Narender Mann[5]
🚀 Appointed by the Central government as special public prosecutor for conducting trial on behalf of the National Investigation Agency in the Tahawwur Rana case.
👉🏽 Tahawwur Rana: Key conspirator in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks ⇒ Recently extradited from the U.S. to India.
📝 LRGB ‘Gaurav’[6]
🚀 DRDO has successfully conducted the release trials of Long-Range Glide Bomb (LRGB) ‘Gaurav’ from the Su-30 MKI aircraft ⇒ Demonstrated a range close to 100 kilometres.
👉🏽 1000 kg class glide bomb, designed/developed indigenously by Research Centre Imarat (Hyderabad), Armament Research and Development Establishment (Pune) and Integrated Test Range (Chandipur, Balasore).
📝 Miscellaneous [7][8]
🚀 Ayushman Bharat-Gopabandhu Jan Arogya Yojana: A unified health insurance scheme by the Odisha govt.
🚀 India’s goods and services exports have crossed a record USD 820 billion in FY 2024-25 ⇒ Approx 6% increase over FY 2023-24.