National Doctors Day: 1 July 2017 

• National Doctors day in India is a big awareness campaign offering great opportunities to all to get aware about the roles, importance and responsibilities of the doctors as well as promote medical professionals to come closer and follow the responsibilities of their profession very dedicatedly. 
• This day is celebrated in the memory of Dr Bidhan Chandra Roy in order to pay honour to the entire medical profession.
• Doctor’s Day in India was established by the Government of India in 1991 to be recognised and celebrated every year on 1st of July as National Doctors day. 
• It is celebrated on 1st of July on the birth and death anniversary of the most famous physician of India Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy 

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National Legal Services Authority (NALSA) has launched a Web Application for free Legal Services to Prisoners and the Legal Services Management System developed through the NIC.

Key facts:

• Through Web Application the State Legal Services Authorities and District Legal Services Authorities shall feed the data for each individual prison inmate in the jails within their jurisdiction, with regard to their being represented through a counsel in the court.
• The software will be able to generate reports showing total number of inmates, number of inmates unrepresented, number of inmates represented by legal services lawyers and number of inmates represented by private lawyers.
• All the above information can be generated State wise, District wise and also in respect of each jail. The reports can also be generated by the period of incarceration, which will in turn generate information with regard to prisoners eligible for bail under Section 436-A Cr.P.C.

Significance of this move:

The application shall make the legal services system more transparent; this application will be universally useful for all the relevant authorities to monitor the grant of legal aid to the prisoners in order to ensure that absolutely no prisoner goes unrepresented right from the first day of his production in the court.

About NALSA:

NALSA has been constituted under the Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987, to provide free legal services to weaker sections of society. The aim is to ensure that opportunities for securing justice are not denied to any citizen by reasons of economic or other disabilities.

Important functions performed by NALSA:

• NALSA organises Lok Adalats for amicable settlement of disputes.
• NALSA identifies specific categories of the marginalised and excluded groups and formulates various schemes for the implementation of preventive and strategic legal service programmes.
• Services provided by the agency include free legal aid in civil and criminal matters for the poor and marginalised people who cannot afford the services of a lawyer in any court or tribunal.
• Free legal services include provision of aid and advice to beneficiaries to access the benefits under the welfare statutes and schemes and to ensure access to justice in any other manner.

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New training programme ‘COMMIT’ for State Government officials

A new training programme Comprehensive Online Modified Modules on Induction Training (COMMIT) for State Government officials has been launched. The objective of this training programme is to improve the public service delivery mechanism and provide citizen centric administration through capacity building of officials who interact with the citizens on day-to-day basis.

What you need to know about COMMIT?

The COMMIT programme, developed by DoPT in collaboration with United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), will supplement the existing 12-Day ITP launched in 2014-15 for newly recruited state Government officials to develop in them Generic & Domain specific competencies.

• The programme will cover approximately 74,000 State Government officials in the financial year 2017-18.
• It will be of 28 hours duration which will include e-Modules for 20 hours and face-to-face training for 8 hours. The 20 hours e-training would be imparted through specifically developed 12 Generic and 3 Domain specific e-Modules.
• The modules on soft skills will be delivered as e-Modules & through face-to-face training and the domain modules will be covered through e-Modules only. The programme will be implemented through State Administrative Training Institutes (ATIs).
• COMMIT will be launched in 6 States of Assam, Haryana, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Telangana and West Bengal initially on pilot basis during the current financial year 2017-18 and within next year it is expected to cover all India level.

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PM Modi in The Netherlands-
In the final leg of his three-nation tour, PM Modi arrived in Amsterdam, the capital of Netherlands, after concluding his visit to the US. PM Modi described the Netherlands as India’s “natural partner” in its economic development. India and Netherlands also signed three MOUs on water management, cultural cooperation and on amending social security arrangement. Mr. Modi also interacted with the CEOs of Dutch companies inviting them to utilize the vast opportunities provided by his ‘Make in India’ initiative.

So the visit in the Netherland was broadly focused on the Environmental and Economic Development of the Nation.

About The Netherlands-

• The Capital of Netherland is Amsterdam.
• Mr. Mark Rutte is the Prime Minister of the Netherlands.
• The Currency of Netherland is Euro.

PM Modi in The USA-

In the second leg of his three-nation tour PM arrived in US capital Washington D.C. India and the United States agreed to enhance cooperation in fighting the menace of terrorism, extremism and radicalisation. According to the PM, the two countries will enhance intelligence exchange in respect of terrorist organizations.

So the PM visit to the USA was more focused towards combating Terrorism.

About The USA-

• Washington D.C. is the Capital of USA.
• Mr. Donald Trump is the 45th President of the USA.
• The Currency of the USA is American Dollar.  

. PM Modi in Portugal-

The Journey of PM started on 24th June. In the first leg of his tour, he reached Portuguese capital, Lisbon. Over there, India and Portugal have signed eleven MOUs for cooperation in areas including double taxation avoidance, science and technology, trade and investment, nanotechnology, space research, administrative reforms and culture.

So the visit of Portugal was more oriented and focused towards development in the areas of Space, Science and Technology. 

About Portugal-

• Lisbon is the capital of Portugal.
• The Prime Minister of Portugal is Antonio Costa.
• The currency of Portugal is Euro.

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Some Important Committees -

1. to revisit civil services examination pattern - B S Baswan committee

2. review the existing agricultural tenancy laws of states, including hilly states and schedule areas - T Haque Expert Group on Land Leasing 

3. restructuring water agencies- Mihir Shah Committee 

4. assess situation in FTII by Union Government - SM Khan-headed team 

5. to review PPP Cell functioning - Ministry of Railways constituted Ajay Shankar Committee 

6. to reinvestigate 1984 anti-Sikh riot cases - The SIT was constituted on recommendation of Mathur Committee 

7. to classify Caste Census data, 2011 - Panagariya Committtee 

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