🔆 CENTRAL VIGILANCE COMMISSION (CVC) :
✅ Established - 1964 (Executive Resolution)
✅ Statutory Status - 2003
✅ Recommended - By The Santhanam Committee on Prevention of Corruption (1962 - 1964).
✅ Works Under - The Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 
✅ Organization - Central Vigilance Commissioner (Chairperson) , Two Vigilance Commissioners (Members)
✅ Consist - Secretariat, Chief Technical Examiners' Wing (CTE) and a wing of Commissioners for Departmental Inquiries (CDI) .
✅ Appointment Committee - The Prime Minister (Chairperson), The Minister of Home Affairs (Member) and The Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha.
✅ Only Advisory Body .

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🔆Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana :

✅PMMSY is designed to address critical gaps in fish production and productivity, quality, technology, post-harvest infrastructure and management, modernization and strengthening of value chain, traceability, establishing a robust fisheries management framework and fishers’ welfare.
✅Target: Enhance fish production by an additional 70 lakh tonne by 2024-25, increasing fisheries export earnings to Rs.1 lakh crores by 2024-25, doubling of incomes of fishers and fish farmers, reducing post-harvest losses from 20-25% to about 10% and generation of additional 55 lakhs direct and indirect gainful employment opportunities in fisheries sector and allied activities.
✅ Approach: ‘Cluster or Area based approaches’ and creation of Fisheries clusters through backward and forward linkages.
✅Nature of Scheme: PMMSY is an umbrella scheme with two separate Components namely (a) Central Sector Scheme (CS) and (b) Centrally Sponsored Scheme (CSS).
✅ Funding Pattern: Central Sector Component: 100% funding by Centre; Centrally sponsored component: 60: 40 (in case of North Eastern and Himalayan States: 90:10).
✅Nodal Ministry : Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying.

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🔆INDUSTRY: organisation involved in production & supply of goods & services.
Classifies as Primary, secondary, tertiary.
✅Primary sector: goods produced using natural resources.
🔸Acts as base of all other sectors.
Ex. Agriculture, Dairy etc.
✅ Secondary Sector: Natural produced turned into other forms by manufacturing Also called as Industrial sector
Ex. Making sugar from sugarcane
✅ Tertiary sector: Does not produce any goods & services.
🔸Provide services to other sectors.
Ex. Banking, transportation etc.

Factors affecting location for Industries:

✅ Availability of raw material
✅ Nature of industry
✅ Transportation facility
✅ Skilled and cheap labour availability
✅ Capital, entrepreneurship
✅ Electricity & fuel availability
✅ Market

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🔆 NOBLE PRIZE :
✅ Origin - Alfred Nobel , 1895
✅ 1st NOBLE prize - 1901
✅ Award Ceremony - December 10 [Nobel Day] , Stockholm Concert Hall in Sweden.
✅ Nobel Prize in Peace - Oslo , Norway (Same Day)
✅ Fields - Physics, Chemistry, Physiology/Medicine, Literature, Peace and Economic Sciences
✅ 1st India Noble Laureate - Rabindra Nath Tagore (Geetanjali)
✅ 1st Indian Women - Mother Teresa (Peace) , 1979
✅ The Prize can be shared by up to three individuals, or in the case of the peace prize, it can also be awarded to an organization

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🔆 GALLANTARY AWARDS :
✅ The awards are typically announced biannually – On Republic Day & Independence Day.
✅ Types -
1. War time gallantry awards : [ only awarded to the members of armed forces ]
🔸 Param vir chakra
🔸 Maha vir chakra
🔸 Vir Chakra
2. Peacetime Gallantry awards : [ awarded to both the members of armed forces and civilians ]
🔸Ashok chakra
🔸 Kirti chakra
🔸 Shaurya chakra
✅ Recommends (Twice in year)- Armed forces and Ministry of Home Affairs (for civilians) to The Ministry of Defence
✅ Announcement - Official gazette of Government of India
✅ Presented By - President
✅ The awards can be awarded posthumously.
✅ Other Gallantary Awards - Sena Medal, Nao Sena Medal, Vayusena Medal , Sarvottam Yudh Seva Medal , Param Vishisht Seva Medal etc.

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Irula Tribe:

✅ Irulas are one of India’s oldest indigenous communities.
They are a Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group (PVTG).
✅ They live primarily in the northern districts of Tamil Nadu, as well as in parts of Kerala and Karnataka.
✅ Language: Their language, Irula, is related to Tamil and Kannada, which are southern Dravidian languages.

Religious Beliefs:
✅The Irula people don’t have a definite god for them. They are pantheists who make provision for the presence of spirits in humans and objects.
✅Their main deity is a virgin goddess called Kanniamma, who is deeply associated with the cobra.

✅Irula houses are built together in small settlements or villages called mottas. The mottas are usually situated on the edges of steep hills and are surrounded by a few dry fields, gardens and forests or plantations.
✅Traditionally, they have been skilled hunters, gatherers and honey collectors, relying on the forest for their sustenance and livelihood.
They are specialists in traditional herbal medicine and healing practices.
✅ Irulas' knowledge of snakes and snake venom is legendary. Their expertise is often sought after in snake rescue and rehabilitation projects.
✅ The Irula Snake Catchers' Industrial Cooperative Society is a major producer of anti-snake venom (ASV) in the country. It supplies almost 80 percent of the venom that goes into making anti-venom in India.
✅ They use traditional knowledge and skills to catch snakes, extract venom, and release the snakes back into the wild without harming them.

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🔆 Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs) :

✅ Initially - Primitive Tribal Groups (PTGs) , 1973
✅ Renamed (2006) - PTGs as PVTGs by GOI
✅ Characteristics :
1. Preservation of pre-agricultural practices,
2. Economic Backwardness,
3. Decreasing or stagnant population growth
4. Relatively low levels of literacy in contrast to other tribal groups.
✅ Recognition - 75 tribal communities (across 18 states and UT of Andaman & Nicobar Island )
✅ Highest No. - Odisha (13), followed by Andhra Pradesh (12), Gujarat (8) and Tamil Nadu (6), while no PVTGs are found in the states of Punjab and Haryana.
✅ Tribal Welfare Initiatives : PM Janjati Adivasi Nyaya Maha Abhiyan (PM JANMAN), Pradhan Mantri PVTG Development Mission etc.

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