TNPSC Current Affairs July 2017
1.Prime Minister launched Deep Sea fishing project
in Rameswaram.
Prime Minister has launched Deep Sea fishing
project in Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu, to find a permanent solution to the annoying
Fishermen issue. As per the new scheme over 2000 trawlers will switch over to construct
tuna longliner trawlers under the ‘Blue Revolution’ scheme.
The
project will replace the trawlers with 2000 deep-sea fishing boats with long
lines and gill nets in 3 years. The production of deep-sea fishing boats takes
9 months but as per project, it planned to compress the period into 6 months.
It also end the Indian fishermen trespass the Sri Lankan
water while fishing in Palk straight and get arrested by Sri Lankan Navy.
As
per the project, Centre would sponsor the beneficiary with 50 per cent and
State government with 20 Per cent. Then
Beneficiary has to contribute 10 per cent and beneficiaries would be helped to
raise 20 Per cent institutional finance.
Why
Deep Sea fishing project?
- The deep sea Fishing project aims to end the bottom trawling by Indian Fisherman.
- The project will train the fisherman in deep sea fishing and capacity building and the Fisheries College and Research Institute, Thoothukudi, has come forward to open a training centre for deep-sea fishing in Kanniyakumari district
- The deep sea voyage duration is around 15 to 28 days, it can yield 8-10 tonnes of fish and get profit around Rs 7- 8 lakhs.
Bottom Trawling and its
impact:
- Bottom Trawling is the main issue between Indian and Srilankan Fisherman.
- Bottom Trawling is a trawling along the sea floor using heavily weighted nets, which is considered very bad in fishing circles as it wipes out everything in their path including coral reefs, sea grasses or rock gardens which fish hide from predators.
- Bottom trawling will end up many creatures mistakenly including endangered fish and even vulnerable corals which can live for several years.
- It also destroys large areas of seafloor habitat which give food and shelter to marine species and this will leave the marine ecosystem permanently damaged
2.Carbon dating confirms Keezhadi Excavation is
from sangam era..
The 2 samples sent by Archaeological survey of
India for Carbon dating from Keezhadi site has confirmed by USA’s Beta Analitc
Inc ,that it belongs to Sangam era which is more than 2,200 years old.
Carbon Dating has confirmed that 2 samples are belonging
to 3rd Century BC and now it will help to reconstruct the ancient Tamil
society.
About
Carbon Dating: (source:NCERT)
- Radiocarbon or carbon 14(C14) is a radioactive isotope of carbon which is present in all living objects. It decays like all radio-active substancs, at a uniform rate.
- When an object is living, the process of the decay of C14 is neutralized by absorption of C14 through air and food.
- However when an object ceases to be alive, its C14 content continues to decay at uniform rate but it ceases to absorb from C14 air and food.
- By measuring the loss of C14 content in an ancient object, its age can be determined.
- The decay of C14 takes place at a uniform rate. It is known that the half-life C14 of is 5568 years.
3.Gethsie
Shanmugam, Sri Lankan teacher wins
Ramon Magasaysay award.
Sri
Lankan teacher Gethsie Shanmugam , has won the one among the six recipient of Ramson
Magasaysay award for counselled war widows and orphans to overcome
their nightmares.
The
other 5 winners are
2.Yoshiaki
Ishizawa, Japanese historian for helping Cambodians to preserve Angkor temples.
3.Abdon Nababan, an Indonesian working for the
return of large tracts of forest land to indigenous communities,
4.Tony Tay, Singapore businessman who leads the
cooking of 6,000 meals a day for the destitute,
5. The Philippine Educational Theater
Association, a theater group which stood up to a dictatorship and Lilia de
Lima,
6. Filipino who oversaw the opening of
job-generating export processing zones(source dailymirror).
About
Ramon Magasaysay award:
Ramon
Magsaysay award is an annual award to perpetuate former Philippines president
Ramon Magsaysay, which is estabished on 1957 for courageous service to the people,
and pragmatic idealism within a democratic society by the trustee of Rockfeller
brothers fund based on US. This award is considered as Asia's Nobel Prize.
4.11th Foundation Day of Ministry of Earth
Sciences.
The 11th foundation day of Ministry
of Earth Sciences has celebrated in New Delhi and it has launched two
Mobile Apps on its 11th
foundation day celebration.
‘India
Quake’ for dissemination of earthquake parameters
‘Sagar
Vani’ to disseminate ocean information and alerts to the user community in
timely manner.
5.PM inaugurates Abdul Kalam’s memorial
Prime Minister NArendra Modi has unaugurated the
Dr.APJ Abdul Kalam’s memorial in Peikarumbu, Rameshwaram , Tamil Nadu.
6.Hillary Clinton released her new book “What
Happened “
Hillary Clinton has released her new book “What
Happened” in US.
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