Jharkhand State PCS

• 20 Dec 2021

Udayan Mane becomes PGTI Order of Merit Champion

Why in News

• On December 19, 2021, Olympian Udayan Mane won the PGTI's Tata Steel Tour Championship to clinch the PGTI Order of Merit title for the 2020-21 season.

Key Points

• Two-time Asian Tour winner Rashid Khan finished runner-up in this championship.
• The championship was held from 16 to 19 December 2021 at Beldih and Golmuri Golf Courses in Jamshedpur.
• Mane received prize money of Rs 22,50,000 and surpassed Karandeep Kochhar and Chikkarangappa in the merit list based on season's earnings.
• Udayan had earlier also won the 2019 Tata Steel Tour Championship in Jamshedpur. They have won four titles during the 2020-21 season. This is his 12^th PGTI title.

Scotch Award

Why in News

• On December 18, 2021, Arun Kumar Singh, Additional Chief Secretary, Health, Medical Education and Family Welfare Department of Jharkhand was presented the Skoch Award for Public Service by the Skoch Foundation at a function in New Delhi.

Key Points

• Arun Kumar Singh has been given this award for the work done in the field of Industrial Development, Commercial Taxes, Tourism, Public Works Department, Agriculture, Water Resources, Urban Development, Food and Public Distribution, Health and Family Welfare.
• His exemplary and professional handling in Food and Civil Supplies including PDS and Supply Chain Management during the first wave of COVID and in the Department of Health, Medical Education and Family Welfare during the dreaded second wave of COVID was particularly noteworthy.
• The Skoch Awards are considered India's highest independent honor, and its recipients have been regulators, secretaries, union ministers and chief ministers over a twenty-year history.