Inauguration of MITS Mega Food Park at Rayagada, Odisha.
i. The first Mega Food Park in the state of Odisha MITS Mega Food Park Pvt. Ltd. at Rayagada has been inaugurated by Smt. Harsimrat Kaur Badal, Minister of Food Processing Industries.
ii. To give a major boost to the food processing sector by adding value and reducing food wastage at each stage of the supply chain with particular focus on perishables, Ministry of Food Processing Industries is implementing Mega Food Park Scheme in the country.
Telangana launches T-Wallet for people with and without mobile phones
i. The Telangana Government has launched a digital wallet, named T-Wallet, which doesn’t charge transaction fee from consumers.
ii. T-Wallet is bi-directional in nature. While consumers use it for public and private transactions, the government can use it to make payments to various beneficiaries. It also can be used over the web version.
iii. One can top up the wallet using credit or debit cards, Internet banking or through cash at Mee Seva centres. It allows a maximum transaction of Rs1 lakh for e-KYC (know your customer) users. For non-KYC users, the limit is set to Rs20,000.
UN General Assembly elects Slovakia’s Miroslav Lajcak as next president
i. The UN General Assembly elected Slovak foreign minister Miroslav Lajcak to be the next president of the 193-member powerful body.
ii. Lajcak was elected by acclamation as President of the 72nd session of the UN General Assembly at a special session. The 72nd session of the United Nations General Assembly will commence from September 12, 2017.
Important Points to Remember:
- India’s First mega food park ‘Srini’ was opened at Chittoor in Andhra Pradesh.
- List of five important National Parks and WLS in Odisha
- Chilika Wildlife Sanctuary
- Kotagarh Wildlife Sanctuary
- Hadahgarh Wildlife Sanctuary
- Nandankanan Zoological Park
- Simlipal National Park.
- Telangana was formed on 2 June 2014 and its CM is Sri K.Chandrashekar Rao
- Governor of Telangana is Sri ESL Narasimhan.
- 9th Secretary-General of United Nations is Antonio Guterres and its headquarter is in New York City, USA.
