04082020 Quiz KEY +Notes

 1.Sashidhar Jagdishan

Sashidhar Jagdishan will be the  next HDFC Bank CEO. He will replace outgoing CEO Aditya Puri, who will step down in October 2020, after a 26-year stint at the bank

2. M Phil 

MPhil has been discontinued as part of the National Education Policy

Other NEP, 2020 Highlights:

National Education Policy is shifting from decades-old 10+2 format to 5+3+3+4, corresponding to age groups 3-8, 8-11, 11-14 and 14-18 years respectively.

NEP 2020 lays special emphasis on Early Child Care Education (ECCE) 

Ministry of Human Resource Development to be called the Ministry of Education.

K Kasturirangan (ex ISRO Chief) had submitted  NEP draftto Union HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ''Nishank''

replaces the 34-year-old National Policy on Education framed in 1986.

3. 24

W.e.f. 1st August 2020, now a total of 24 States/UTs are connected under One Nation One Ration Card.

4. Jaideep Bhatnagar

Shri Jaideep Bhatnagar takes over as Director General,All India Radio News, from Ms. Ira Joshi

5. eVIN

Electronic Vaccine Intelligence Network (eVIN), ensured essential immunization services during the COVID pandemic.

6. AICTE

Smart India Hackathon (Software) 2020 was organized by the HRD ministry’s All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), Persistent Systems and i4c.

7. Vidyarthi Vigyan Manthan(VVM)

VVM is an initiative of Vijnana Bharati (VIBHA), in collaboration with Vigyan Prasar, Government of India and National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), for popularizing science among school students of Class 6th to 11th.

8. Digitally Accessible Information System -DAISY 

DAISY is developed by NIOS(National Institute of Open Schooling) for differently-abled students.

9. Education 

 Swayam Prabha TV Channel

10.Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD)

Ministry of Human Resource Development to be called the Ministry of Education.

11. Vivo

12. Ebrahim Alkazi

Ebrahim Alkazi (18 October 1925 – 4 August 2020) was an Indian theatre director and drama teacher. 

13. Kiren Rijiju

Union Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju chaired the first General Council meeting of the Khelo India Scheme (04 August,2020)

14. KISCE - Khelo India State Centre of Excellence

State-owned sports facilities in eight states including Karnataka, Odisha, Kerala, Telangana, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Mizoram and Nagaland which will be upgraded into KISCE

15. Pixel