Here are 3 Back2Basics collections from today’s news items

Unnat Bharat Abhiyan

This is an HRD Ministry initiative launched in 2014 with the two-fold aim to provide rural India with professional resource support from institutes of higher education in the field of STEM
And Building institutional capacity in Institutes of higher education in research & training relevant to the needs of rural India
This programme will be launched in collaboration with the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT), Indian Institutes of Science Education & Research (IISERs) and the National Institutes of Technology (NITs) throughout the country
Each IIT/NIT/IISER will identify 10 villages in its neighborhood and work out technologies to solve the most pressing issues of the region
Various teams from these institutes will visit the villages, identify problems and then aim to find financially-viable schemes.

National framework for Malaria Elimination (NFME)

NFME outlines the strategies for eradication of the disease by 2030
It classifies districts or states/UTs depending upon their Annual Parasite Incidence (API) or malaria
endemicity into categories 0,1,2,3
API number gives the number of cases affected by malaria per 1000 population per annum
The milestones and targets are set for 2016, 2020, 2022, 2024, 2027 and 2030 by when the entire country has sustained zero indigenous cases and deaths due to malaria for 3 years and initiated the processes for certification of malaria elimination status to the country
The objectives of the NFME are to:

Eliminate malaria from all low (Category 1) and moderate (Category 2) endemic states/UTs (26) by 2022
Reduce the incidence of malaria to less than 1 case per 1000 population in all States/UTs and the districts and malaria elimination in 31 states/UTs by 2024
Interrupt indigenous transmission of malaria in all States/ UTs (Category 3) by 2027;
Prevent re-establishment of local transmission of malaria in areas where it has been eliminated and to maintain the malaria-free status of the country by 2030

Press Freedom Index

The Press Freedom Index is an annual ranking of countries compiled and published by Reporters Without Borders based upon the organization’s own assessment of the countries’ press freedom records in the previous year
It intends to reflect the degree of freedom that journalists, news organizations, and netizens have in each country, and the efforts made by authorities to respect this freedom
A smaller score on the report corresponds to greater freedom of the press as reported by the organization
The index only deals with press freedom and does not measure the quality of journalism nor does it look at human rights violations in general
The report is partly based on a questionnaire which asks questions about pluralism, media independence, environment and self-censorship, legislative framework, transparency, and infrastructure
Violence against journalists, netizens, and media assistants, including abuses attributable to the state, armed militias, clandestine organizations or pressure groups, are monitored by RSF staff during the year and are also part of the final score

As a part of revision for Prelims 2018, Here’s a Factoid to brush up your concepts

Name : HySIS (Hyperspectral Imaging Satellite)

Details : Earth observation satellite, using a critical chip it has developed called “optical imaging detector array”

[Prelims Spotlight] Unnat Bharat Abhiyan, National framework for Malaria Elimination , NFME), Press Freedom Index, HySIS (Hyperspectral Imaging Satellite)

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