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Assam Current Affairs 2020

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* Digitising project undertaken by Asam Sahitya Sabha. Assam’s century-old literary and cultural body, will now become digitise its rich archive. A plethora of material will be available in an online archive accessible to the publics. Among all the texts digitised will be the contents of the Hastividyarnava sanchipaat way back to 1734 AD. 

* Assam is going to set up Rs 10-crore project 'Indo-Israeli Centre of Excellence for Vegetables Protected Cultivation' with Israel support to boost the agriculture in the land. The Centre of Excellence will provide tge farmers of the state with all latest Israeli technologies and help them to maximize their income. 

* As per the Health and Family Welfare Statistics (HFWS) data says that in India, Assam is the highest alcohol consuming state. In between the 15 to 54 age group, with 59.4 percent of men of Assam were found to be the highest consumer of alcohol in whole India. 

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* The Assam government is now ready to build a total of 119 Model High Schools at the tea garden areas of the state at a cost of Rs 142 crore only. 

* Assam Government recently decided that all the process of recruitment exams in the state would be now conducted by the Universities of the state - Assam University, Dibrugarh University & Tezpur University. 

* Jadav Payeng's four-decade-long feat of single-handedly raising a 550-acre forest of barren sandbar will be included in the curriculum of sixth grade Bristol Connecticut school. 

* A rare variety of Assam tea 'Manohari Gold Tea' produced by the Manohari Tea Estate in Dibrugarh district, was sold at a record price of Rs 75,000 per kg at the Guwahati Tea Auction Centre (GTAC). 

* "Manohari Gold Tea of Manohari Tea Estate in Dibrugarh district" has fetched a record price of Rs 75,000 per kg in sale no 44 at Guwahati Tea Auction Centre (GTAC). Manohari Gold Tea has equalled the record created by nearby Dikom tea estate’s Golden Butterfly Tea last year, fetching an all-time high price of Rs 75,000 per kg.  

* Assam has become the first state in the country to add a ‘Transgender’ option in the Gender category of the civil service examination form. For that this year a grand total of 42 transgender persons have applied for the APSC Combined Competitive (Preliminary) Examination 2020

* Jishnu Barua, the senior IAS officer of Assam has been appointed as the new Chief Secretary of Assam by replacing Kumar Sanjay Krishna. 

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* Jishnu Baruah who is a IAS officer of 1988 batch. Before being appointed as the Chief Secretary of the state, he who already served the land as the additional Chief Secretary of the government of Assam. 

* Jogighopa Multi Modal Logistics Park is now become the India's first Multi-Modal Logistics Park. Jogighopa Multimodal Logistics Park (MMLP) of India will be established in Bongaigaon district of Assam and set to become India's first multi-modal logistics park. 

* The Jogighopa Multi-Modal Logistics Park in Assam will be constructed at an estimated cost of Rs. 694 crore only, under the ambitious Bharatmala Pariyojna. The park will provide direct connectivity through air, road, rail and waterways to the people.

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Assam Current Affairs 2020

* Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Shri Nitin Gadkari will virtually lay the foundation stone for the first-ever multi-modal logistic park of India in Assam on 21st October. 

* Bharatmala Pariyojna - It is a brand new umbrella programme for the highways sector which mainly focuses on optimizing the efficiency of freight and passenger movement across the nation by bridging critical infrastructure gaps through effective interventions like development of Economic Corridors, Inter Corridors and Feeder Routes, National Corridor Efficiency Improvement, Border and International connectivity roads, Coastal and Port connectivity roads and Green-field expressways. 

* Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal launched a website of Sri Sri Anirudhadeva Sports University. While launching the web-site, Sonowal said the sports university has made a good beginning and would be successful in promoting sports as well as sports related activities in the State. He hoped that the university would be able to develop competitive and scientific environment for the growth of sports in Assam.

* Assam government will set up Six brand new planetarium-cum-district science centres at Majuli, Diphu, Kaliabar, Silchar, Amingaon, and Bongaigaon. The State Govt has already sanctioned Rs 129.26 crores for this huge project. 

* The National Hydroelectrical Power Corporation (NHPC), engaged in the construction of the Lower Subansiri Hydroelectrical Power Plant at Gerukamukh, launched a website for its brand SAAR Subansiri Handloom. 

* The website was launched by Arvind Bhat, Executive Director, LSHEP, at Gerukamukh. The inaugural function was attended by Vipin Gupta, General Manager (I/c), LSHEP, and the women weavers who are also the Board of Directors of SAAR Handloom Producers Company Limited. The website has been developed to promote, brand and market the traditional weaving styles of Assamese women. 

* A state-of-the-art Robotics and Data Analytics Laboratory for start-ups in the agriculture sector has been established at the North East Agriculture Technology Entrepreneurs Hub (NEATEHUB) – Atal Incubation Centre – at the Assam Agricultural University campus. 

* The laboratory, in the long run, could create agri-tech solutions to myriads of agri and allied sector problems. The lab was among a handful of facilities in the north-eastern region. It may be mentioned here that NEATHUB established last year in the AAU campus, is first of its kind in the north-eastern region, and among the 28 such hubs established for agri entrepreneurs across the country.

* The instiute was established as a Section 8 non-profit company with funding from the NITI Ayog and from the Department of Agriculture Cooperation and Farmers Welfare’s flagship scheme: Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana – Remunerative Approaches for Agriculture and Allied Sectors Rejuvination (RKVY- RAFTAAR). 

* London-based Assamese Management Counsellor and journalist Hiramani Sarma’a short film 'You Are Limitless' based on a real story that deals with the challenges of a disabled person (dwarf) both physically and emotionally, has bagged the prestigious ‘Reading Film Makers’ Award’ of the United Kingdom. 

* The story successfully depicts the struggles and daily setbacks in a dwarf’s life because of his physical appearance and leaves the message: be comfortable in who you are, believing in your strength and become relentless in discovering yourself from within.

* The Munin Barkotoki Literary Award 2020 has been conferred on young writer Abhijit Bora for his manuscript titled Deuka Konai Jay. The award carries a cash prize of Rs 50,000, with a citation and a plaque. 

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