21st September Current Affairs

• Increase in honorarium for Anganwadi and Asha
  • The Union Cabinet has approved an increase in the honorarium for Anganwadi and Asha workers which will become effective October.

  

  
  

  • Anganwadi workers receiving Rs 3,000 per month will now get Rs 4,500. Similarly, those at mini-Anganwadi centres receiving Rs 2,200 per month will now get Rs 3,500.
  • The honorarium for Anganwadi helpers has also been increased from Rs 1,500 to Rs 2,250 per month.
• CCEA approves rail line fom Budni to Indore
  • Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved a 205.5 km new rail line connecting Budni to Indore in Madhya Pradesh.

  

  
  

  • The main purpose of this project is the development of backward areas and reduction in travel time from Indore to Jabalpur as well as from Indore to Mumbai.
  • The project which is expected to be completed by 2024-2025.
• RBI trims Rana Kapoor’s term as Yes Bank CEO
  • The Reserve Bank has curtailed the term of Yes Bank’s founding CEO Rana Kapoor and asked the bank to look for his replacement by January 2019.
  • Kapoor, who has been managing director and CEO since the bank’s inception in 2004, had sought a three-year extension till August 31, 2021.
  • Kapoor was part of the founding team of Yes Bank, along with Ashok Kapur who died in 2008.
• Health Ministry introduces budget dashboard
  • Ministry of Health has introduced ‘budget dashboard’, an internal web portal comprising information on budget, expenditure and bill payment positions.

  

  
  

  • The dashboard incorporates features for Ministry of AYUSH and Department of Health Research.
  • The dashboard also has unique features for bill position of all India pay and accounts offices and reflects the reason for the return of bills.
• Filing of NRC claims from September 25
  • The Supreme Court ordered the submission of claims and objections on the inclusion of names in Assam’s National Register of Citizens (NRC) draft from September 25.
  • The claims backed by 10 identity documents allowed by the court will continue for 60 days from the said date.

  

  
  

  • The final draft NRC list was published on July 30 in which 40,70,707 people failed to make it to the list
• Dip in child mortality rate
  • According to The UN’s Levels and Trends in Child Mortality Report 2018, India has shown a dip in under-five mortality (U5M).
  • India’s under-five mortality (U5M) is the same as the world’s average, which is 39 children out of 1,000.
  • Also India’s infant mortality rate – that is, deaths between birth and the age of one – had dropped to 32 for every 1,000 live births in 2017 from 34 in 2016.