Addapedia Odisha | Daily Current Affairs | 21 September 2023 | Download PDF

• Central government passed the women’s reservation Bill in the Lok Sabha to reserve one-third of the seats in the Lower House and In the legislative Assemblies for women.

Key points

• It is tabled as the Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty Eighth) Amendment Bill, 2023.
• It would be implemented only after the 2026 delimitation exercise using data from the Census to be conducted. 
• The reservation in the Lok Sabha can hence be implemented only in the Lok Sabha election in 2029 and not in 2024.
• The women participation will then go to 181 from the current participation of 82 members.

Did you know?

• It was first introduced in the parliament in 1996 by Deve Gowda government 

The 128th Constitutional Amendment Bill, 2023 will be implemented after the 2026 delimitation.

Key points

• Delimitation deals with adjusting  the boundaries of constituencies according to the population. 
• Article 82 and Article 170 of the Constitution empowers the Parliament to readjust the allocation of seats in the Lok Sabha and the Legislative Assemblies of States respectively, after every census.

About Delimitation Commission 

• It is a high-powered committee entrusted with the task of drawing and redrawing boundaries of different constituencies for state assembly and Lok Sabha election.
• It is appointed by the President and works in collaboration with the Election Commission.
• The Commission consists of – A retired or working Supreme Court Judge (chairperson) , 

Election Commissioner and Concerned State Election Commissioners

Did you know?

• The Commission’s orders cannot be called in question before any court.

• The Hoysala temples at Belur, Halebid, and Somanathapura in Karnataka were declared UNESCO World Heritage Sites. 

Key points

• The Chennakeshava temple at Belur and the Hoysaleswara temple at Halebid — both in Hassan district — and the Keshava temple at Somanathapura in Mysuru district are given this tag.
• The Hoysala temples are known for their unique temple i.e Stellate plan on raised platform .
• The material used in temple construction is soapstone  

Chennakeshava Temple, Belur:

• • Construction commenced in 1117 AD and took 103 years to complete.
  • The temple is dedicated to Lord Vishnu
• Theme on the temple narrates scenes from life of Vishnu and his incarnation and epics of Ramayana and mahabharata and some of shiva 

Hoysaleshwara Temple, Halebidu:

• Built in 1121CE during the reign of  Vishnuvardhana Hoysaleshwara.
• The temple is dedicated to Shiva,
•  was  built by wealthy citizens and merchants of Dwarasamudra.
• Halebid has a walled complex containing three Jaina Basadi (temples) of the Hoysala period as well as a stepped well.

Keshava Temple, Somanathapura:

• It is a beautiful Trikuta Temple dedicated to Lord Krishna.  

• The Union government is set to institute the Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar — 56 prizes to felicitate scientists, technologists and innovators. 

Key points

• these awards will bestow a certificate and a medallion on the awardee
• The Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar to have three Vigyan Ratna, 25 Vigyan Shri, 25 Vigyan Yuva-Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar and three Vigyan Team awards;
•  the awards  will be announced every year on May 11 which is National Technology Day

Did you know?

• These prizes will be awarded annually for 13 categories  

World Health Organization (WHO) released its first-ever report on hypertension. 

Key facts:

• According to report four of every five people with hypertension are not adequately treated
•  Hypertension is the most important risk factor for death and disability in India

• The WHO report states that hypertension affects one in three adults worldwide. 
• This  condition leads to stroke, heart attack, heart failure, kidney damage and many other health problems. 
• The number of people living with hypertension doubled between 1990 and 2019, from 650 million to 1.3 billion. 
•  More than three-quarters of adults with hypertension live in low- and middle-income countries.

Did you know?

• FSSAI  has launched an awareness campaign called Heart Attack rewind to educate people.

To mark the International Coastal Clean-up Day, National Service Scheme (NSS) students of Fakir Mohan University in association with National Centre for Coastal Research, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India carried out a cleanliness drive at Chandipur beach

Key points

Chandipur beach

• Chandipur is located in Balasore district. 
• This beach is unique in the whole world no where on earth you can find a beach where the sea water retreats inside the sea from 1km to 5Km every day and it again comes back to the shore slowly during high tide. This happens twice every day.
• It is also known as Odisha’s Hide and Seek Beach. 

Four veteran Odia artistes were conferred with the Sangeet Natak Akademi Amrit Award-2022

Key points

The awardees are:-

1) Chhau dancer Siba Prasad Das, 

2) theatre director Anant Mahapatra, 

3) folk musician (Brahma veena player) Ananda Bag and 

4) Gotipua dancer Gobinda Chandra Pal. 

They were honoured for their contribution to the field of performing arts.

The award carries a cash reward of `1 lakh, a tamrapatra and an angavastram.

Aditya Aluminium a state-of-the-art aluminium smelter equipped with cutting-edge global technologies, has been honoured with the prestigious Pollution Control Excellence Award 2023 from State Pollution Control Board, Odisha

Key points

• The recognition celebrates the facility’s exceptional dedication to implementing robustpollution control measures and sustainable environmental management practices.
• The 30 MW solar power at Aditya is the first in world integrated with an aluminium smelter, thereby making our aluminium greener.

Efforts of the city-based Amulya Jeevan Foundation in helping people in need, both during and post-COVID-19 pandemic, were lauded by the intelligentsia at the foundation’s annual event

Key points

• The foundation during the first wave of COVID-19 fed as many as 70,000 migrant workers who were forced to walk hundreds of kilometres after being rendered jobless due to the lockdown. 
• During the second wave, the trust fed COVID-19 patients under home isolation.

Odisha government, which did not accept the big cat estimation report of the Centre, will launch its own tiger estimation exercise

Key points

• The state government has decided to launch the exercise after the latest AITE 2022 revealed that the state’s tiger count has reported a further drop from 28 in 2018 to 20 in 2022. 
• Besides, 16 of these tigers were found in Similipal Tiger Reserve which implies tiger population has been wiped out from most of the other forests in the state.
• The Satkosia landscape, where country’s first big-cat translocation project had been launched, was also found to be tiger-less in the AITE exercise carried out by the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA).

National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA):

• It is a statutory body under the Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change (MoEFCC).
• It was established in 2006 under Wildlife (Protection) Act 1972.

Objectives:

• Providing statutory authority to Project Tiger 
• Fostering accountability of Center-State in management of Tiger Reserves 
• Providing for an oversight by Parliament.
• Addressing livelihood interests of local people in areas surrounding Tiger Reserves.
• NTCA Members:
• Minister in charge of MoEFCC (as Chairperson),
• Minister of State in MoEFCC (as Vice-Chairperson), three members of Parliament, the Secretary (MoEFCC), and other members.

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