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National (Current Affairs)

♦KVIC opens first silk processing plant in Gujarat to boost Patola saree production

• Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) on 3^rd January inaugurated the first silk processing plant at Surendranagar in Gujarat. This would help cut down the cost of production of silk yarn drastically and increase the sale and availability of raw material for Gujarati ‘Patola’ sarees locally.
• The plant has been set up by a khadi institution at a cost of Rs 75 lakh, in which KVIC has contributed Rs 60 lakh.

Note: About Gujarat

• Capital: Gandhinagar
• Cultural Capital: Vadodara
• Governor: Acharya Devvrat
• Chief minister: Vijay Rupani

♦CM Jagan Mohan Reddy to inaugurate YSR Aarogyasri scheme

• Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy will inaugurate YSR Aarogyasri scheme at Eluru in West Godavari district on 3^rd January . The scheme will be inaugurated in each district by respective mandal and district officials. Over one crore individuals will be benefited under this new health scheme.
• A total of 2,059 medical ailments have been covered under the scheme. In all, 16,37,230 Aarogyasri cards will be distributed across the State.
• The chief minister has also announced to compensate for wage loss incurred during the post-operative period. With monthly cap of Rs 5,000 Dr YSR Aarogyasri Health Care Trust will pay Rs 225 per day for the prescribed recovery period.

Note: About Andhra Pradesh

• Capitals: Amaravati
• Literacy rate: 67.41% (2011)
• Governor: Biswabhusan Harichandan
• Chief minister: Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy

Banking and Financial

♦India extends USD 75 mn line of credit for solar parks in Cuba

• India has extended a line of credit of USD 75 million (over Rs 500 crore) to Cuba for financing solar parks. An agreement signed between Export-Import Bank of India (Exim Bank) and Banco Exterior De Cuba in July last year came into effect from December 12.
• Under the LoC, the terminal utilisation period is 60 months after the scheduled completion date of the project.

Note: About Cuba

• Capital: Havana
• President: Miguel Díaz-Canel
• Currency: Cuban peso

♦RevFin, PNB MetLife tie up to offer life cover to customers

• RevFin, India’s leading digital lending start up, has partnered with PNB MetLife India Insurance Company Limited (PNB MetLife) to provide protection to the customers through life insurance on their loans.
• Aims: This partnership will support financial inclusion by helping to secure the families of the borrowers against loan repayment burden in the event of the unfortunate demise of the borrower during the loan term.

♦CSC inks pact with Paytm Payments Bank for sale of FASTags

• In a move aimed at realising the government’s vision of cashless and smooth transit at all toll plazas across country, the Common Service Centre has signed a MoU with Paytm for sale of FASTAgs through the last mile network of 3.6 lakh CSCs.
• As per the MoU, CSC and Paytm will jointly aim to sell FASTags. For this, CSC will integrate its platform with Paytm Payments Bank to carry out seamless transactions. The village level entrepreneurs would be trained on conducting paperless and cashless sales.

Award

♦Dubai-based Indian Teen Wins Global Child Prodigy Award for Twin World Records in Singing

• A 13-year-old Indian girl in Dubai has won the 100 Global Child Prodigy Award for singing in most languages during one concert and the longest live singing concert by a child, according to a media report on 3^rd
• Sucheta Satish, a student in Dubai Indian High School, can sing in 120 languages.

Important Day

♦4^th January: World Braille Day

• The day is marked remembering the birth anniversary of Louis Braille, the inventor of Braille – for people with visual disabilities. Louis Braille was born on 4th January 1809 in the town of Coupvray in northern France.
• Braille brings written language to the forefront as a critical prerequisite for promoting fundamental freedoms. The system relies on touch to recognize alphabetic and numerical symbols, using six dots to represent each letter and number and even musical, mathematical and scientific symbols.

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