20 Nov 2023: PIB Summary for UPSC

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Digital Government Senior Leaders Program
2. Missile Cum Ammunition Barge Project
3. Prelims Facts

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. 
• 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.

3. Prelims Facts

Santali Language

• • 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.

Read the previous PIB articles here.