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Posted 12 Mar 2024

Updated 27 Mar 2024

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Jal Shakti Abhiyan: Catch the Rain (JSA: CTR) 2024 Campaign

Ministry of Jal Shakti Launched 5th edition of the annual JSA: CTR 2024 Campaign.
About JSA: CTR 2024
- Background: It was first launched in 2019 as a “Jan Andolan” and since 2021, it has become an annual feature covering all blocks of all districts across country.
- Aim: To initiate and accelerate water conservation at the grassroots level through citizen participation.
- Launched under: National Water Mission (NWM).
  - NWM is one of the eight National Missions under National Action Plan on Climate Change.
- 2024 Theme: Nari Shakti se Jal Shakti
- Focused interventions: Water conservation and rainwater harvesting, geo-tagging & making inventory of all water bodies, etc.

Karnataka has banned the use of artificial colours In gobi manchurian and Cotton Candy.
About Colour Chemicals
- Tartrazine and Sunset Yellow can cause cause allergic or pseudo-allergic reaction
- Carmoisine can cause skin rashes and respiratory allergies
- Rhodamine B is a chemical colouring agent used in textile dyeing and the paper industry and is considered carcinogenic in nature.

Agreement for transfer of technology for TRCPT between CSIR and L&T Construction.
About TRCPT
- It is a non-conventional construction material consisting of fine grained cementitious binder and non-metallic textile reinforcement.
- It is a precast technology and can help in economical mass production of TRC products.
  - Completely avoids the conventional way of concrete construction, which makes use of moulds ,
  - Less fabrication cost with increased production rate
  - It is corrosion-free.
  - It has a minimum life of 50 years.
  - Uses: street furniture, canopy structure partition walls, noise barriers, etc.

Through the 2024 regulation, SEBI has mandated registration of index providers managing “significant indices” based on securities listed in India.
- ‘Index Provider’ means a person who controls the creation, operation and administration of a Benchmark or an Index
This will foster transparency in the governance index in the securities market.
About Index
- An index measures the price performance of a basket of securities using a standardized metric and methodology.
- Indexes in financial markets are often used as benchmarks to evaluate an investment's performance against.
- Nifty 50 and the Nifty PSU Bank, etc. are some important indexes in Indian markets.

Ministers of Health from African countries signed the Yaounde Declaration to end malaria deaths.
Signed at the Yaoundé conference co-hosted by the World Health Organization (WHO) & Cameroon.
11 African nations, which account for the majority of global malaria infections and fatalities, signed it.
It includes the commitment to allocate 15 percent of annual budgets for the health sector.
It's aligned with the “High burden to high impact” WHO approach, founded on 4 pillars:
- The political will to reduce malaria deaths;
- Strategic information to drive impact;
- Better guidance, policies, and strategies;
- Coordinated national malaria response.