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Further, the Correction window of 7 days shall now be available from 22.02.2025 to 28.02.2025.

https://upsconline.gov.in/upsc/OTRP/extended_notice_2.pdf

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China’s Mega-Dam Project

✅Capacity: 60 GW (14th Five-Year Plan, for 2021–2025); Three times the capacity of China’s current Three Gorges Dam;
✅ China aims to reduce its reliance on fossil fuels and achieve carbon neutrality by 2060.
🔸 Cost: About $137 Bn.
🔸 Location: At the Great Bend, where the Brahmaputra river takes a U-turn, in the Medog county of the Tibetan Autonomous Region.
✅ China has previously constructed significant dams like the Three Gorges Dam (Yangtze) and Zangmu Dam (Yarlung Zangbo).

📍Yarlung Tsangpo (Zangbo) River
✅ It originates in Tibet, and enters Arunachal Pradesh, where it is known as the Siang. 
✅ In Assam, it is joined by tributaries such as Dibang and Lohit, and is called the Brahmaputra. 
✅ The river then enters Bangladesh, and makes its way to the Bay of Bengal.
🔸 The main river does not flow through Bhutan, but 96% of the country’s area is within the basin.

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🔆 {MoAFW} AgriSURE

📍 Overview
✅ Announced on NABARD’s 43rd foundation day, the ‘Agri Fund for Start-Ups & Rural Enterprises’ (AgriSURE) is a ₹750 crore Category-II Alternative Investment Fund (AIF).
✅ Funding: NABARD and Agriculture Ministry will contribute ₹250 crore, with the rest from other institutions.
✅ Fund Manager: NABVENTURES, a wholly-owned subsidiary of NABARD.
✅ Duration: Designed for 10 years, extendable by 2 or more years.
✅ Objective: To support 85 start-ups with investment sizes of up to ₹25 crore each.
✅ Focuses on high-risk, high-impact activities in the agriculture value chain, offering equity and debt support.

📍 AgriSURE Greenathon 2024
✅ NABARD’s hackathon to tackle the high cost of advanced agriculture technologies under "Smart Agriculture on a Budget".
✅ Key themes:
"Turning Agri-Waste into Profitable Business Opportunities"
"Tech Solutions Making Regenerative Agriculture Remunerative"

📍 National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD)
✅ Established in 1982 under an Act of Parliament as a wholly owned entity of the Government of India on the recommendation of the B. Sivaraman Committee.
✅ Transferred Functions:
RBI’s agricultural credit functions.
Refinance functions of the Agricultural Refinance and Development Corporation (ARDC).
✅ Mission: To promote sustainable and equitable agriculture and rural development through financial and non-financial interventions, innovation, and institutional development.


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🔆 Clean Plant Programme (CPP)

📍 Context
✅ The Union Cabinet launched the Clean Plant Programme (CPP) under the Mission for Integrated Development of Horticulture (MIDH) with a budget of ₹1,766 crore.

📍 About Clean Plant Programme (CPP)
✅ Objective: Enhance horticulture quality by ensuring high-quality, virus-free planting material.
✅ Under MIDH: Supports farmers & horticulture sector by increasing crop yield, health, and quality.
✅ Implementation: Led by National Horticulture Board (NHB) in collaboration with ICAR.
✅ Core Components:
Clean Plant Centers (CPCs): Establish 9 state-of-the-art CPCs in Pune, Srinagar, Bengaluru, etc.
Certification & Legal Framework: Quality control under Seeds Act, 1966.
Infrastructure Support: Large nurseries to propagate virus-free planting material.

📍 About MIDH (Mission for Integrated Development of Horticulture)
✅ Launch: 2014-15, under the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare.
✅ Objective: Holistic growth of fruits, vegetables, spices, flowers, aromatic plants, coconut, cashew, and cocoa.
✅ Key Components:
National Horticulture Mission (NHM): Launched in 2005 for horticulture development.
Horticulture Mission for Northeast & Himalayan States (HMNEH): Special focus on NE & Himalayan regions.
National Bamboo Mission (NBM): Supports bamboo cultivation.
Coconut Development Board (CDB): Promotes the coconut sector, HQ in Kochi, Kerala.
Central Institute of Horticulture (CIH): Provides training in Nagaland, primarily for NE farmers.

📍 Additional Info
✅ NHB: Established in 1984, HQ in Gurugram.
✅ Father of Indian Horticulture: M.H. Marigowda.


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