Important Fact For Prelims (7th March 2019)

The Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers has decided to celebrate 7^th March 2019 as ‘Janaushadhi Diwas’ across India to provide further impetus & create awareness about use of generic medicines.
To provide quality healthcare affordable for all, the Government has taken important steps to make affordable and quality generic medicines popular among the people through Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Janaushadhi Pariyojana (PMBJP).
Apart from providing affordable quality health products, the PMBJP is also providing a good source of self-employment with self-sustainable and regular earnings. E.g.:
- Average sales per store per month has grown to Rs 1.50 lakhs as per a survey conducted by the Bureau of Pharma PSUs of India (BPPI).

New Delhi Municipal Council area was given the ‘Cleanest Small City’ award.
Uttarakhand’s Gauchar was adjudged the ‘Best Ganga Town’ in the central government survey.
The ‘Cleanest Big City’ award has been bagged by Ahmedabad.
Raipur is the ‘Fastest Moving Big City’.
Ujjain has been the adjudged the ‘Cleanest Medium City’.
Mathura-Vrindavan bagged the tag of the ‘Fastest Moving Medium Cities’.

Swachh Survekshan awards(Urban)

The Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) started ‘Swachh Survekshan-2016’ survey for the rating of 73 cities in January 2016.
- It was followed by ‘Swachh Survekshan-2017’ conducted in January ranking 434 cities.
- Swachh Survekshan 2018 for ranking 4,203 Cities.
In a bid to scale up the coverage of the ranking exercise and encourage towns and cities to actively implement mission initiatives in a timely and innovative manner, the 2019 survey included all cities, making it the largest such cleanliness survey in the world.
The Quality Council of India (QCI) has been commissioned the responsibility of carrying out the assessment.
Top-ranked cities received a statue of Mahatma Gandhi as a memento for their work towards cleanliness.

Google has recently launched a new app called Bolo. It will help students in India read in Hindi and English and work as a tutor of sorts.
The Bolo app comes after a pilot project that Google ran in Uttar Pradesh with ASER centre.
The annual ASER 2018 report showed that of all students enrolled in grade 5 in rural India, only about half of them can confidently read a grade 2 level textbook.
- The Google Bolo app will hope to plug that gap with its tutor-based approach in helping children read.
The app includes an Assistant called Diya as well, which encourages children with their reading, understanding skills.
The app relies on Google’s speech recognition and text-to-speech technology and currently limited to two languages, Hindi and English.

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