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PRAGYATA guidelines
These guidelines have been developed from the perspective of learners, with a focus on online/blended/digital education for students who are presently at home due to lockdown.
It provides a roadmap or pointers for carrying forward online education to enhance the quality of education.
The guidelines will be relevant and useful for a diverse set of stakeholders including school heads, teachers, parents, teacher educators and students.
It stresses upon the use of an alternative academic calendar of NCERT, for both, learners having access to digital devices and learners having limited or no access.

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India VNR 2020:

India’s VNR this year has undertaken a paradigm shift in terms of embodying a whole-of-society approach in letter and spirit.
NITI Aayog engaged with sub-national and local governments, civil society organizations, local communities, people in vulnerable situations and the private sector.
Goal-wise account with best practices: In line with the theme of “Taking SDGs from Global to Local”, the goal-wise account of progress on the SDGs along with a range of diverse good practices and success stories of interventions from the States, especially Aspirational Districts.
Enabling environment: The report discusses at length the policy and enabling environment, India’s approach to localising SDGs, and strengthening means of implementation.
Two levers of strengthening means of implementation: Leveraging science, technology and innovation for SDGs, and costing and financing of SDGs.
NITI Aayog prepared and presented India’s first VNR in 2017 on the theme: ‘Eradicating poverty and promoting prosperity in a changing world’
The India VNR 2020 report is titled – Decade of Action: Taking SDGs from Global to Local

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About GIDF
The GIDF focuses on digitizing the economy and building India-first products and services.
The plan is in line with big-tech’s bullish outlook on India. Earlier this year, Amazon said it would invest an additional $1 billion in India.
This was followed by a marquee investment announcement of $5.7 billion by Facebook in the country’s largest telecom company Reliance Jio.
Last month, Microsoft’s venture fund M12 said it would open an office in India to pursue investment opportunities focusing on B2B software startups.
Focus areas
The investment will focus on four areas important to digitization including:
Enabling affordable access and information for every Indian in their own language,
Building products and services that are deeply relevant to India’s unique needs,
Empowering businesses in their digital transformation journey and
Leveraging technology and AI for social good, in areas like health, education, and agriculture.

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About the agreement
The APTTA is a bilateral trade agreement signed in 2010 by Pakistan and Afghanistan.
It calls for greater facilitation in the movement of goods amongst the two countries.
The 2010 agreement supersedes the 1965 Afghanistan Transit Trade Agreement, which granted Afghanistan the right to import duty-free goods through Pakistani seaports, mostly notably from Karachi.
Features of the agreement
Trade-in goods smuggled into Pakistan once constituted a major source of revenue for Afghanistan.
The 2010 APTTA allows for both countries to use each other’s airports, railways, roads, and ports for transit trade along designated transit corridors.
The agreement does not cover road transport vehicles from any third country, be it from India or any Central Asia country.
However, the signed Agreement permits Afghanistan trucks access to the Wagah border with India, where Afghan goods will be offloaded onto Indian trucks.
This agreement does not permit Indian goods to be loaded onto trucks for transit back to Afghanistan.
Instead, Afghan trucks offloaded at Wagah may return to Afghanistan loaded only with Pakistani, rather than Indian goods in an attempt to prevent the formation of a black market for Indian goods in Pakistan.

Kodaikanal Lake, also known as Kodai Lake is a manmade lake located in the Kodaikanal city in Dindigul district in Tamil Nadu, India. Sir Vere Henry Levinge,the then Collector of Madurai, was instrumental in creating the lake in 1863, amidst the Kodaikanal town which was developed by the British and early missionaries from USA.The lake is said to be Kodaikanal’s most popular geographic landmark and tourist attraction.