DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS-16th August 2023

Mission LiFE 

 Syllabus: GS Paper-2-Polity 

 Why in News? 

Prime Minister of India says as the world grapples with crises, we have shown the way and launched the Mission LiFE initiative Mission 

LiFE:

· LiFE stands for the Lifestyle for the Environment. 

 · It was proposed by the Prime Minister of India at COP26 in Glasgow in the year 2021. 

 · This movement seeks ideas from around the world to foster climate-friendly behaviours in people, households and communities. 

 · It was inaugurated at the Statue of Unity in Gujarat.

 · This mission seeks to translate the vision of LiFE into measurable impact. 

 · Its main aim is to mobilise at least one billion Indians and other global citizens to take individual and collective action for conserving the environment in the period 2022-28.

· It is piloted by NITI Aayog and is implemented by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change.

Phases: 

 · Mission LiFE has 3 phases. They are: 

 · Phase-I-It mentions about the change in demand. · It wants the individuals across the world to practice simple yet effective environment-friendly actions in their daily lives. 

 · Phase-II mentions about the change in supply. · This phase wants changes in large-scale individual demand that are expected to gradually nudge industries and markets to respond and procurement as per the revised demands.

 · Phase-III deals with the change in Policy. · It mentions that by influencing the demand and supply dynamics of Indian and the world, the long term vision of the Mission LiFE is to trigger the shifts in large-scale industrial and government policies which can support both sustainable consumption and production. 

 Examples set by India: 

 · Ujjwala scheme has increased the households with LPG connections from 62% in 2015 to 99.8% in the year 2021. 

 · Swachh Bharat Mission has led to the use of about 100 million toilets in rural India in a span of 7 years.

PM-USHA

Syllabus: GS Paper-2-Polity 

 Why in News?

14 states and Union Territories have not signed a crucial Memorandum of Understanding to implement the National Educational Policy as part of the PM-USHA Scheme.

PM-USHA: 

 · It stands for Pradhan Mantri Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan 

 · The scheme RUSA (Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan) has been launched as the PM-USHA in the year 2023 in the light of National Education Policy.

 · RUSA is a centrally sponsored scheme and so the PM-USHA Scheme. 

 · RUSA was launched in the year 2013. 

 · RUSA was established to provide strategic funding to the higher educational institutions.

 Objectives:

 · To provide equity access and inclusion in the higher education

 · It aims to develop quality Teaching and learning processes 

 · It provides ICT based Digital Infrastructure

 · It increases the employment

 · It aims to improve the overall quality of existing state higher educational institutions

 · It ensures governance, academic and examination reforms in the State higher educational institutions. 

 Advantages: 

 · It provides establishment of new Model Degree Colleges. 

 · It promotes grants to strengthen universities

 · It focusses on remote and aspirational areas

 · It supports Gender equality