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PM POSHAN Scheme
- 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
- 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
- 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’
- 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
- 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.
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