Maiden meeting of NITI Aayog's
Governing Council
1) The Chief
Ministers at the maiden meeting of NITI Aayog’s Governing expressed their views
demanding greater freedom to frame their own development plans.
2) Promoting
cooperative federalism and giving States greater freedom in designing their
development plans were two of the key objectives behind the setting up of the
NITI Aayog.
3) The schemes
such as Jan Dhan Yojana or Beti Bachao were of little relevance to his State
which already boasted of superior metrics in both fields.
4) The essence
of the meeting was that there can be no
one-size-fits-all approach to development in a diverse country like India. And
no longer can development be orchestrated from the Centre alone.
5) The NITI
Aayog will stop with making recommendations; implementing them will be the
responsibility of the States.
6) An
important decision made at the meeting was to constitute a subgroup of Chief
Ministers who would study the 66 Centrally-sponsored schemes to assess whether
they should be continued, transferred to States or dropped altogether.
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Fallout of Delhi polls : Hold on
some key economic reforms
1) The Union
government is putting on hold its plans for some key economic reforms announced
in previous budget.
2) These are :
i.
decontrol of urea prices
ii.
fewer than 12 subsidised LPG cylinder per year
iii.
withdrawal of kerosene from PDS
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Double-action drugs
1) These are
those drugs whose side effects are not only harmless but prove helpful
elsewhere in the body for some other malfunction.
2) The
following are a few double-action drugs
a) Aspirin :
Aspirin is one such double-action drug. Introduced first as a pain-reliever, it
has also been found to help dissolve clotting of blood
b) ELQ 300 :
It is an anti-malarial, which acts
against the malaria parasite both in the liver stage and when the parasite has
already entered the bloodstream as well, making it a double-action drug
c) Peptide M5
: It is effective against TB and malaria.
d) Retiganine
: It is used to control convulsion in
epilepsy patients, acts also as an effective drug to reduce acute stroke in
mice.
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