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- Unpublic service awards for three Indian projects
- The projects are Mass Contact Programme of Kerala, Swavalamban of District Administration of Dhanbad in Jharkhand and Graamin Haat programme of Department of Cottage and Rural Industries in Madhya Pradesh.
- The Kerala government’s Mass Contact Programme, initiated by the Chief Minister’s Office, was launched in 2011, with the main aim of combating red tape and bureaucracy in administration. It enables interaction between the people and the government by encouraging them to approach the government directly to get their concerns addressed without delay or corrupt practices.
- The Swavalamban initiative of Dhanbad administration has improved disbursement of pensions in the district. Before the implementation of the initiative, the largely manual process of disbursement in the payment of pensions, particularly registration of new pensioners, was very cumbersome, tedious, involved lot of paper work, inefficient, non-transparent, and provided unreliable information. A pensioner had to wait days, weeks or months and sometimes had to pay bribes to get entitlements.
- The Madhya Pradesh government’s Graamin Haat has helped in women’s empowerment.Although women comprise almost 50 per cent of the population of Madhya Pradesh, their participation in the decision-making process at all levels is very limited. Women also have no control over resources and their contribution to the family and society remained largely unrecognised
INTERNATIONAL
- Robot – astraunaut to take off next month
- The world’s first space conversation experiment between a robot and humans is ready to be launched.
- The experiment is collaboration between advertising and PR company Dentsu Inc.; the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology; the University of Tokyo; Robo Garage; and Toyota Motor Corp.
- Because Kirobo does not need to perform physical activities, it is smaller than most robots that go into space. Kirobo is about 34 cm and weighs about one kg. Its land-based counterpart Mirata looks identical and has the ability to learn through the conversations it has.
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