Indian Government has approved a proposal to introduce an aptitude test in place of the existing preliminary examination.
In the new pattern, the UPSC Candidate will have to appear in two objective-type papers having special emphasis on testing their "aptitude for civil services" as well as on "ethical and moral dimension of decision making" under Civil Service Aptitude Test(CSAT). These two papers will replace the existing General Awareness or General Studies and one Optional paper which lays greater emphasis on subject knowledge.
Indian Constitution's 108 Amendment Bill.
Today, on
International Women's Day,
Vice President Hamid Ansari introduced the
Women's Reservation Bill in the
Rajya Sabha. This is the
Indian Constitution's 108 Amendment Bill. Now, it must be passed in Lok Sabha with 2/3rd majority and 14 States must retify it.
The Bill seeks to reserve "as nearly as may be" one third seats of the present strength of
Lok Sabha and
state Assemblies including
Delhi to women.
UPSC Mains Result 2009 Declared.
On Thursday, 4,March 2010.
UPSC declared the result of Mains Examination of 2009.
As many as 2,281 of the 13,837 candidates who took the test across the country have cleared the mains.
Personality Test of these candidates will commence from 22nd March, 2010.The final interview is conducted in two rounds. The list of candidates who will be taking part in the first round, to be held from March 22 to April 6, will be put up on the
UPSC website on March 16. On March 23, the list of candidates selected to take part in the second round of interview, to be held from April 7 onwards, will be put up on the website.
Personality Tests will be held in the Office of the Union Public Service Commission at Dholpur House, Shahjahan Road, New Delhi-110069.
Today, Sachin Tendulkar became the first batsman in the World to score 200 runs in ODI. He achieved this in 2nd ODI between India and South Africa played at Gwalior.
Moreover, this Double Century of Sachin Tendulkar was 46th Century of his One Day International career.
India will launch Cartosat 2B soon. According to the Chairman of ISRO, this is a high-resolution remote sensing satellite with 0.8 metre resolution that can even take pictures of a car on the ground. It will help in Infrastructre and Urban Planning in India. the launch vehicle for it will be PSLV rocket.
Previously, we have Cartosat-2 and Cartosat 2-A which have been launched January 2007 and April 2008 respectively.
Courtsey PTI.
Jawahar Lal Nehru National Solar Mission "Solar India"
On Monday 11, January, 2010, PM
Dr. Manmohan Singh Launched "Solar India" mission which aims at development and deployment of solar energy technologies in the country to achieve parity with grid power tariff by
2022.
The
objective of the
National Solar Mission is to establish
India as a global leader in
solar energy, by creating the policy conditions for its diffusion across the country as quickly as possible.
It is a 3-phase approach, spanning the remaining period of
the
11th Plan and first year of the
12th Plan (up to 2012-13) as Phase 1, the remaining 4 years of the 12th Plan (2013-17) as Phase 2 and the
13th Plan (2017-22) as Phase 3.
To achieve this, the Mission
targets are:
1. To create an enabling policy framework for the deployment of 20,000 MW of solar power by 2022.
2. To ramp up capacity of grid-connected solar power generation to 1000 MW
within three years – by 2013; an additional 3000 MW by 2017 through the
mandatory use of the renewable purchase obligation by utilities backed with a preferential tariff. This capacity can be more than doubled – reaching 10,000MW installed power by 2017 or more, based on the enhanced and enabled international finance and technology transfer. The ambitious target for 2022 of 20,000 MW or more, will be dependent on the ‘learning’ of the first two phases, which if successful, could lead to conditions of grid-competitive solar power. The transition could be appropriately up scaled, based on availability of international finance and technology.
3. To create favourable conditions for solar manufacturing capability, particularly solar thermal for indigenous production and market leadership.
4. To promote programmes for off grid applications, reaching 2000 MW by 2022 including 20 million solar lighting systems.
5. To achieve 20 million sq. solar thermal collector area by 2022.
The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) is the nodal Ministry of the Government of India for all matters relating to new and renewable energy. The broad aim of the Ministry is to develop and deploy new and renewable energy for supplementing the energy requirements of the country.
