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DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS 01ST MARCH 2021
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ISRO puts Brazil’s Amazonia-1, 18 other satellites into orbit
ABOUT:
1. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) recently successfully launched Brazil’s optical
earth observation satellite, Amazonia-1, and 18 co-passenger satellites— five from India and
13 from the U.S. — from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota.
2. The satellites were carried on board the PSLV-C51, the 53rd flight of ISRO’s launch vehicle
and the first dedicated mission of its commercial arm, NewSpace India Ltd.
3. The mission was undertaken under a commercial arrangement with Spaceflight Inc., U.S.
MORE DETAILS:
1. The PSLV-C51, equipped with two solid strap-on boosters, the third such launch of the PSLV-
DL variant, lifted off from the first launch pad at Sriharikota.
2. Of the 13 satellites from the U.S., one is a technology demonstration satellite and the
remaining are for two-way communications and data relay.
3. The satellites from India are the Satish Dhawan SAT (SDSAT) built by Space Kidz India, a nano-
satellite intended to study the radiation levels, space weather and demonstrate long-range
communication technologies; the UNITYsat, a combination of three satellites for providing
radio relay services; and another satellite belonging to the DRDO.
4. The SDSAT has an engraving of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the top panel to
show solidarity for the aatmanirbhar initiative and space privatisation,SpaceKidz said.
5. The Bhagavad Gita was also sent on board an SD card to give the scripture, which teaches
oneness as the highest form of humanity, the highest honour.
6. Roughly 16 minutes after lift-off, the PS-4 engine was cut-off and the Amazonia-1, weighing
637 kg, belonging to the Brazilian National Institute for Space Research (INPE), was separated a
minute later.
NEW REFORMS:
1. The satellite will further strengthen the existing structure by providing remote sensing data to
users for monitoring deforestation in the Amazon region, according to ISRO.
2. The Amazonia-1 was injected into its precise orbit of 758 km in a sun-synchronous polar orbit.
3. Thereafter the other 18 customer satellites were placed into their intended orbits. The entire
operation took about 1 hour and 55 minutes to completion.
4. “This particular mission is special because these five Indian satellites are coming under the
new space reformannounced by the Government of India.
5. ISRO has 14 missions planned this year, including the first unmanned mission around the end of
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the year.
CSIR lab helped develop key molecule for Covaxin
ABOUT:
The Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT), a Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
(CSIR) lab here, played a role in the development of Covaxin, the indigenous vaccine developed by
the city-based Bharat Biotech International Limited.
MOLECULE:
1. The vaccine is a highly purified, whole virion, inactivated SARS-Cov-2.
2. The vaccine has been formulated with ‘Algel-IMDG’, which contains chemically absorbed
TLR7/8 as an agonist or an adjuvant onto aluminium hydroxide gel to generate the requisite
type of immune responses without damaging the body.
3. The firm had approached the IICT to develop the synthetic route for the adjuvant molecule
TLR 7/8with indigenous chemicals at an affordable price and with highest purity.
4. This indigenously developed molecule aided Bharat Biotech to scale up the production of the
adjuvant.
SWIFT PROCESS:
1. Senior scientists completed the chemical process in a record four months for
the development of analytical method for testing TLR7/8 adjuvant molecule and also got
the method validation procedures through National Accreditation Board for Testing and
Calibration Laboratories (NABL) accredited lab.
2. The process technology developed by CSIR-IICT for the molecule is playing an important role
in the production of adjuvant for COVAXIN.
3. CSIR-IICT team rose to the occasion in making the process affordable and enabling
development of the moleculein record time.
4. This is another instance of the CSIR’s commitment towards ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’ or self-
reliant India.
5. CSIR labs, apart from helping the pharma industry launch repurposed drugs through process
development and conducting clinical trials, have extensively contributed towards launching
of diagnostic kits including ‘Feluda’ and dry swab direct RT-PCR method for the screening of
SARS-CoV-2.
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PM calls for water conservation drive
ABOUT:
1. Prime Minister recently said there was a need to start conserving water right away and that
the Jal Shakti Ministry would be launching a 100-day “catch the rain” campaign
2. PM said there was a need to have collective responsibility on water conservation.
3. In most parts of India, rainfall begins in May-June. In a few days from now, Jal Shakti Abhiyan
100 days ‘catch the rain’ is being initiated by the Jal Shakti Ministry for the sake of cleaning up
the water sources around us and conserving rainwater.
‘SELF-RELIANT INDIA’:
1. When we talk of science, many a time people restrict it to physics, chemistry or labs, but the
spread of science is much more than that.
2. And there is a lot of contribution of the power of science to the Atmanirbhar Bharat campaign.
3. PM said we have to move science forward with the mantra of ‘Lab to Land’.
4. For making India more self-reliant, it was not just “bigger things”, such as missiles, aircraft, tanks
and Metro trains, that would achieve the goal. PM cited the example of a farmer in Uttar
Pradesh who has started growing chia seeds.
CHIA SEEDS:
1. Chia seeds has been in the news for some time now. People connected to health
awareness give a lot of importance to Chia seeds and it has a lot of demand too in the world.
2. In India, it is mostly sourced from abroad, but now people are taking up the challenge to
be self-reliant in chia seeds, too.
3. Similarly, a farmer in Uttar Pradesh has begun farming of chia seeds. Cultivation of chia seeds
will also increase his income and will help in the self-reliant India campaign too.
Rural engg. colleges to lose 1,200 teachers
ABOUT:
1. A World Bank-funded project to take graduates from elite institutions to rural and remote
engineering colleges in poorer States is coming to an end in March, leaving more than 1,200
assistant professors out of a job and some rural colleges bereft of half their faculty.
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2. The Centre is preparing its own MERITE project with some similar objectives to improve
technical education, but that may be too late for the faculty employed under the current
project.
EXAMPLE:
1. Tanmay Rath holds a Ph.D. in polymer chemistry from IIT, Kharagpur, with post-doctoral
experience in nanomaterials research in eastern Asia.
2. However, for the past three years, he has been engaged in a project teaching chemistry to
undergraduate engineering students in Motihari, a small town in East Champaran district of
Bihar.
3. Tanmay was hired under the TEQIP project along with other NIT and IIT graduates and
recruited to teach in some of the poorest and most remote areas.
4. In Motihari Engineering College, there are 52 faculty but 20 are from TEQIP.
5. Students have transformed the teaching system here. There were no practical lab classes
being conducted at all until students under TEQIP came and now they don’t know how they
will manage to teach the classes once our contract ends on March 31.
6. In the Chemistry Department, the only other faculty is also retiring at the end of the month.
7. STudents have been appealing to the State and Central governments, but no one is willing to
take the responsibility for the fate of these faculty or the students.
PHASES:
1. Three phases of the Rs 3,600-crore TEQIP project have been completed since it was launched
in December 2002.
2. The third phase focused on improving quality and equity in engineering institutions in seven
low-income, eight northeastern and three hilly States.
3. Among the initiatives was a bid to recruit more than 1,500 faculty from top institutions and send
them to colleges that could never have afforded them. T
4. hey were paid salaries in accordance with the Seventh Pay Commission. Now, neither the
States nor the Centre is willing to commit to funding.
5. What is the government talking about a new National Education Policy when it cannot even
sustain the gains of an existing project,” asked a computer science faculty hired under TEQIP
at the University College of Engineering and Technology in Hazaribagh, Jharkhand.
6. About 300 faculty have already quit TEQIP for other jobs, but 250 of those remaining have
filed cases in the Delhi High Court. The next hearing is on March 15.
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The third edition of Rashtriya Sanskriti Mahotsav begins with great
enthusiasm at Murshidabad
ABOUT:
1. The third and final edition of the Rashtriya Sanskriti Mahotsav 2021 in West Bengal
organized by the Ministry of Culture, Government of India began on 27th February 2021 at
Murshidabad, West Bengal.
2. The Mahotsav started with colourful performances by the local artists, which included ‘Baul
Gaan’, ‘Alkup Gaan’, ‘Leto gaan’, ‘Jhumuriya’ and Ranpa folk dances.
3. Besides the performances of the artists, 70 stalls of handicrafts, paintings, embroidery, and jute
crafts etc. also attracted the people.
RASHTRIYA SANSKRITI MAHOTSAV:
1. Rashtriya Sanskriti Mahotsav, the flagship festival of Culture Ministry has been organized since
2015 with the active participation of Seven Zonal Culture Centres and has been playing a
pivotal role to take the vibrant culture of India out to the masses instead of confining to
auditoria and galleries.
2. It has been instrumental in showcasing, folk and tribal art, dance, music, cuisines & culture of
one state in other states reinforcing the cherished goal of “Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat” and
at the same time providing an effective platform to the artists and artisans to support their
livelihood.
3. Earlier Rashtriya Sanskritik Mahotsavs have been held till date since November, 2015in
various states and cities such as Delhi, Varanasi, Bengaluru, Tawang, Gujarat, Karnataka, Tehri
and Madhya Pradesh.
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