Daily Current Affairs For UPSC IAS Prelims, 15 March 2023 Current Affairs For Civil Services

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ATL Sarthi was Launched by Atal Innovation Mission

ATL Sarthi in News

Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) – NITI Aayog has recently launched ATL Sarthi initiative. Atal Tinkering Laboratories (ATLs) has been established across India to foster curiosity, creativity, and imagination in young minds; and inculcate skills such as design thinking mindset, computational thinking, adaptive learning, physical computing etc.

ATL Sarthi of AIM

Atal Tinkering Laboratories (ATL) Sarthi is a comprehensive self-monitoring framework to strengthen the ever-growing ecosystem of Atal Tinkering Labs (ATL). To strengthen innovation and creative ecosystem within India, Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) continuously developing tools and frameworks to enhance the performance of ATLs and achieve the desired objectives. ATL Sarthi is one such initiative of AIM-NITI Aayog in this direction.

• The meaning of the word ‘Sarthi’ is a charioteer. Similarly, ATL Sarthi will act as an enabler for the ATLs to be efficient and effective.

ATL Sarthi Pillars

The ATL Sarthi initiative has four pillars ensuring the performance enhancement of ATLs through regular process improvements like-

• MyATL Dashboard’- A self-reporting dashboard
• Compliance SOPsfor schools to ensure financial and non-financial compliances,
• On-ground enablement of ATLs in collaboration with relevant local authorities through Cluster-based Approachand
• Performance-Enablement (PE) Matrix– Used for Providing ownership to schools to analyze their performance.

World Consumer Rights Day, 2023

World Consumer Rights Day, 2023 in News

The World Consumer Rights Day, 2023 is being celebrated by the Department of Consumer Affairs on Wednesday, 15th March 2023. In this context, the Additional Secretary, Department of Consumer Affairs, Mrs. Nidhi Khare interacted with media persons and informed the theme of the World Consumer Rights Day, 2023.

World Consumer Rights Day, 2023

World Consumer Rights Day, 2023 celebration is organized to ensure consumer awareness about their consumer rights. Extensive consumer awareness drives conducted under World Consumer Rights Day aims to ensure that consumers are not subjected to market exploitation or injustice that may jeopardize their rights.

World Consumer Rights Day, 2023 theme

World Consumer Rights Day, 2023 is being organized on the theme of “Empowering consumers through clean energy transitions”. Through this, World Consumer Rights Day 2023 aims to raise awareness of consumer empowerment and their role to push for a faster clean energy transition. 

B20 Conference 2023

B20 Conference 2023 in News

The third B20 Conferences being organized by Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) in Gangtok, Sikkim from 14^th March till 17th March 2023. At the third B20 Conferences, vibrant organic farming of Sikkim will be prominently showcased to the world. The Business 20 (B20) Conference will also highlight opportunities for Multilateral Business Partnerships in Tourism, Hospitality & Pharmaceuticals.

What is Business 20 (B20)?

• About: Business 20 (B20), formed in 2010, is the official G20 dialogue forum with the global business community.
• Mandate: B20 aims to deliver concrete actionable policy recommendations on the priorities by each rotating presidency to spur economic growth and development.

B20 India Secretariat

The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) works as the B20 India Secretariat for B20 Summit 2023. CII works to create and sustain an environment conducive to the development of India, partnering Industry, Government and civil society, through advisory and consultative processes.

• Natarajan Chandrasekaran is the B20 India Chairman for B20 Summit India 2023.
• B20 Chairman Natarajan Chandrasekaran is Chairman of the Board of Tata Sons, the holding company and promoter of more than 100 Tata operating companies with aggregate annual revenues of more than US $100 billion.

B20 Theme 2023

The theme for the B20 India is R.A.I.S.E. This stands for Responsible, Accelerated, Innovative, Sustainable, Equitable Businesses.

Daily Current Affairs FAQs

1. When is the World Consumer Rights Day celebrated?

Ans. World Consumer Rights Day is celebrated annually on 15^th March.

2. What is the theme of the World Consumer Rights Day 2023?

Ans. The theme of the World Consumer Rights Day 2023 is “Empowering consumers through clean energy transitions”.

3. What is ATL Sarthi?

Ans. Atal Tinkering Laboratories (ATL) Sarthi is a comprehensive self-monitoring framework to strengthen the ever-growing ecosystem of Atal Tinkering Labs (ATL).

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