20 November 2023 PIB
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Digital Government Senior Leaders Program 2. Missile Cum Ammunition Barge Project 3. Prelims Facts
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1. Digital Government Senior Leaders Program
Syllabus: GS-3, IT
Prelims: Digital Government Senior Leaders Program, National e-Governance Division
Context:
NeGD organizes the Digital Government Senior Leaders Program under Digital India.
Details:
- The program is being conducted in collaboration with IIM-Bangalore from November 20-25, 2023.
- The six-day intensive workshop is intended to equip the participants with the knowledge and skills necessary to lead and navigate the complexities of digital transformation in the government sector.
- It is organised by the National e-Governance Division, Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology.
National e-Governance Division:
- The NeGD was created in 2009 as an independent business division under the Digital India Corporation.
- The division supports the ministry in Programme Management and implementation of the e-Governance Projects and provides technical and advisory support.
- NeGD’s major operational areas include programme management, project development, technology management, capacity building, awareness and communications-related activities under the flagship Digital India Programme.Â
- It has developed DigiLocker, Umang, Poshan Tracker, Academic Bank of Credits, National AI Portal, MyScheme, India Stack Global, etc.
Also read: National e-Governance Plan
2. Missile Cum Ammunition Barge Project
Syllabus: GS-3, Security & Defence
Prelims: Missile Cum Ammunition Barge Project
Context:
The launch of ‘Missile Cum Ammunition Barge, LSAM 10 (Yard 78)’, the fourth Barge of 08 x Missile Cum Ammunition Barge project.
Details:
- LSAM 10 was built by MSME Shipyard, M/s SECON Engineering Projects Pvt Ltd (SEPPL), Visakhapatnam for the Indian Navy.
- The availability of these barges would provide impetus to operational commitments of the Navy by facilitating the transportation, embarkation and disembarkation of articles/ammunition to Indian Navy Ships both alongside jetties and at outer harbours.
- These barges are indigenously designed and built under relevant Naval Rules and Regulation of the Indian Register of Shipping (IRS).
- Barges are flat-bottomed inland waterway vessel which does not have its own means of mechanical propulsion.
Santali Language
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- Santali is the language of the Santali tribe in India.
- Speakers of Santali are found in Assam, Bihar, Jharkhand, Mizoram, Odisha, Tripura and West Bengal. It also has speakers in Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan.
- It belongs to the Munda subfamily of the Austroasiatic languages.
- It is one of the Eighth Schedule languages of India.
- It is widely written in the Ol Chiki script which was developed in 1925 by Santali writer Raghunath Murmu. Prior to that, the language was primarily oral.
- It is also written in other scripts such as the Bengali, Odia and Roman scripts.
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Related Links | |||
Digital India | Santhal Rebellion | ||
Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) | National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) | ||
National Food Security Act (NFSA) | APEDA |
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