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■ The 7 th edition of Swachh Survekshan-2022 report was released by the Union Ministry of housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) . This year’s Survekshan was participated by 4,355 cities. President Droupadi Murmu felicitated the awardees of the cleanest States and cities at the award ceremony of Azadi@75 Swachh Survekshan 2022 hosted as part of Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban 2.0 at Talkatora Stadium, New Delhi.  India celebrated 8 years of Swachh Bharat Mission and the first anniversary of Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) -Urban 2.0 . ■ Swachh Survekshan 2022 National Rankings   • For the sixth consecutive year, Indore has emerged as India’s Cleanest City , in the ‘more than 1 lakh population category. • Overall National Level Ranking in the population category of more than 1 lakh, India’s Top 3 Cleanest Cities are:

  ■ Monthly Current Affairs ■ Bihar’s Mithila Makhana gets a Geographical Indication (GI) tag. Mithila Makhana, simply known as 'Makhan' with its botanical name ‘ Euryale Ferox Salisb ’ is a variety of aquatic fox nut, famously consumed during Kojagara Puja by Maithil Brahmins. It’s cultivated in the Mithila region of Bihar and in some parts of Nepal. It's a unique aquatic cash fruit crop in the state mainly grown in agro-climatic Zone-I and Zone-II of Bihar . 

■ Monthly Current Affairs ■ On 12 July 2022 PM Narendra Modi unveiled the Centenary Memorial Pillar ( Shatabdi Smriti Stambh ) in front of the Bihar legislative Assembly, to commemorate 100 years of Bihar Vidhan Sabha. He also laid the foundation stone of the Vidhan Sabha Museum. About Centenary Memorial Pillar / Shatabdi Smriti Stambh :

■ Monthly Current Affairs ■ On 7 June 2022 , Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari and CM Nitish Kumar inaugurated and laid foundation stones of 15 national highway projects worth ₹13,585 crores in Bihar. This also included superstructure replacement of the eastern flank of Mahatma Gandhi Setu. Earlier on July 2020, the western flank was inaugurated.  About Mahatma Gandhi Setu

■ Monthly Current Affairs ■The trial of Bihar government’s ambitious project  Ganga Udvah Pariyojana  ( गंगा _ उदवह _ परियोजना )  of transporting the water of river Ganga from  Mokama 's  Hathidah  to  Nawada  through  190 km   pipeline was successful. With the completion of this project, all the people in the cities of  Gaya, Bodh Gaya, Rajgir and Nawada  will get pure drinking water. Purification of water will be done at treatment plants at  Ghora Katora   in  Rajgir ,  Motnaje  in  Nawada  and  Manpur  in  Gaya .

  ■ Monthly Current Affairs ■ Bihar’s first Floating Solar Power Plant came up in the Kadirabad locality of Darbhanga district. The unit, commissioned to Avaada Energy , a private firm, has an installed capacity of 2 MW DC spread across 6 Acre with 4,004 solar modules. Each module is installed in the pond and is capable of generating 505 megawatt peak ( MWp ) electricity. Avaada will transmit power from the plant to the Bihar Renewable Energy Development Agency ( BREDA ), a government agency that works for expansion of clean renewable energy.

  ■ Monthly Current Affairs ■ Bihar government is all set to implement an online Works Accounts Management Information System ( WAMIS ) from April 1 in the nine departments for effective monitoring of the physical and financial progress of infrastructure projects . Bihar is the fifth state after Jharkhand, Tripura, Odisha and Maharashtra to implement the system. About WAMIS

■ Monthly Current Affairs ■ NITI Aayog released the Delta Rankings of Champions of Change , October 2021. In this, four districts of Bihar viz. ( Muzaffarpur (2 nd ), Aurangabad (3 rd ), Banka (4 th ) and Sheikhpura (5 th )  have been figured among the top 5 Aspirational Districts in the country for the improved performance in the Education sector . Dumka in Jharkhand has topped the list.

■ Current Events P ractice Set Previous Year Question & Answer

■  Reports & Indices ★ • World Development Report  → IBRD, (World Bank) ★• Global Economic Prospects  →  World Bank ★  • Doing Business Report  →  Ease of Doing Business (EoDB) index →  World Bank ★ •  Human Capital Index  (HCI) →  World Bank HCI -2020: India's rank :  116 Top: Singapore  ★ •  Remittance Report  → World Bank •  Global Financial Development Report    →  World Bank •  Women, Business and the Law (WBL)   →  World Bank •  Logistics Performance Index  → World Bank ★ •  High-Performance health financing Universal Health Coverage  → World Bank Group

■ Monthly Current Affairs   ■ Shri Ram Nath Kovind felicitated the awardees of the cleanest cities of India at the ‘ Swachh Amrit Mahotsav ’ hosted as part of Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban 2.0 by the  Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs (MoHUA) at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi. Swachh Survekshan, 2021 For the fifth consecutive year, Indore was awarded the title of India’s Cleanest City under Swachh Survekshan, while Surat and Vijayawada bagged the second and third spots respectively in the ‘ more than 1 lakh population ’ category. Bihar

■ Monthly Current Affairs ■  CM Nitish Kumar has inaugurated Bihar’s second ropeway at Mandar hills in Banka , developed by the state tourism for worth over ₹9 crores . The travel length of the Mandar ropeway is 377.36 metres .

  ■  Monthly Current Affairs ■ Guruji, Ramlakhan singh , the principal of Kala Kendra at Bhagalpur has developed a unique indigenous painting art known as Andaj Shaeli the symbolisation of Zero or ‘shunya’.

■  Monthly Current Affairs   ■ A rare black stone Sun idol has been found during excavation on the premises of Baba Mateshwar Dham Temple at Katho panchayat in Saharsa district. The three-foot-tall idol carries lotus flowers in both hands. According to researchers, the Sun idol belongs to the Pala dynasty.

■  Monthly Current Affairs ■ CM Nitish Kumar announced one-third reservation for girl students in Engineering & Medical colleges of the state. •By this, Bihar will become the first state in the country to provide 33.3% quota to girls in the technical colleges .

  ■  Monthly Current Affairs ■ The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has selected 21 institutions, including

■ Monthly Current Affairs ■ CM Nitish Kumar launched the Bal Hriday Yojana (BHY) .