05.07.22 Daily [Telangana] TSPSC Current Affairs

Theschool educationquality inTelanganais Average, according to the recently-released Performance GradeIndex-Districts(PGI-D). Also, none of the 33 districts has managed to secure high grade, while Khammam managed 402 of 600 points in the latest 2019-20 gradation. Apart from Khammam, 11 other districts have been graded’Uttam’ districts, which have an average score between 61-70%.

ThePGI-D index, released by the Union ministry of Education, has graded 600 of the 733 districts and categorised them based on the marks scored as Daksh, Utkarsh, Ati Uttam, Uttam, Prachesta 1, Prachesta 2, Akanshi 1, Akanshi 2, Akanshi 3. Amongst these categories, Daksh is the highest grade for districts scoring above 90% and Akanshi 3 is the lowest grade for districts scoring up to 10%.

As per the PGI-D index of 2019-20, 12 districts in the state were of Uttam category, 20 of Prachesta 1 level, which implies they scored between 51and 60%. Narayanpet was put in the Prachesta 2 level for scoring between 41 and 50%.

Even in the ‘outcomes’ category, which includes scores for Learning outcomes, teacher availability, and access to education, Siddipet scored the highest grade with 190 out of 290 poionts.

Indians stands at 11%. In a research study published in ‘Scientific Reports’ journal ofNaturegroup, it was revealed that around 89% were willing to be vaccinated.

Various sections of people like those who are delaying taking the Covid-19 vaccine, those undecided and those who would reject the vaccine even if it is provided for free are included. Respondents for the vaccine study are mostly fromTelangana(7.1%),Karnataka(32%), Nadu(15.5%) andAndhra Pradesh(8.7%).

The study was aimed at identifying vaccine hesitancy behaviour among Indian Population. The researchers collected data from 1,006 participants. The study found a prevalence rate of vaccine hesitancy in the population.

Concerned over the countrys rising food subsidy bill, the Centre has asked states to reduce their statutory and overhead charges on the minimum support price (MSP) of foodgrains, which include mandi fees, arathia commission and development fees, to 2% or less.

WhilePunjaband Haryana add a maximum charge of 6% and 4% on theMSPrespectively, four other states Uttar Pradesh,Uttarakhand, Chhattisgarh and levy charges more than 2%.

According to the 2020-21 annual report of Food Corporation of India (Fci), it paid Rs 5,550 crore to the states. Making a detailed presentation before food ministers and secretaries from states, the food ministry has urged them to reduce such charges to help lower the subsidy burden.

The ministry urged the state governments to float tenders for getting short-term cash credit loans (CCl) to get a lower interest rate. It cited how the FCI has got short-term loans at an interest rate of less than 5%. The Centre has also asked states to transport paddy from mandis to mills directly and thereby avoiding storage expenses.

The pandemic seems to have put India’s national accounting system in disarray with the combined GSDP (gross state domestic product) at 2011-12 prices of 26 large states and UTs exceeding the national GDP by Rs 4.7 lakh crore, shows data collated from the RBI and state governments. And this is despite the fact that four north-eastern states and the smaller UTs are not part of the total.

For the financial year 2020-21, the combined total of GSDP (constant prices) of these 26 states and UTs, for which data is available, works out to Rs 140.3 lakh crore. But the country’s GDP for the same year at constant prices was Rs 135.6 lakh crore, according to estimates put out on May 31.

Analysis of data since 2011-12, the year from which state GSDP data for the base 2011-12 is available, shows that in the past, the combined GSDP of 26 large states and UTs ranged between 97% and 99% of the country’s GDP. In 2019-20, this increased to 99.9% of the national GDP but for 2020-21 it was 104% of India’s GDP. This means the aggregate of these state economies is larger than the economy of the country, clearly not possible.

Kerala seems to have suffered the most as the state’s economy shrunk by 9.2%. The figures were 7.6% for Maharashtra, the country’s largest state economy with nearly 14% of national GDP for 2020-21.

Other states whose economies shrunk by 6% or higher were Haryana, Delhi, HP, UP,Rajasthanand Punjab. Among smaller states, Meghalaya was the worst hit as its economy shrunk by 7.5%. The data for 2020-21 was not available for , AP, Chandigarh, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland and Puducherry.

The BTIA was proposed to encompass trade in goods, Services and investments

Recently,India and theEuropean Unionconcluded the first round of negotiations for India-EU Trade and Agreements in New Delhi.