150,000 people die every year in road accidents In a huge country like India. A report reveals that every minute in the country is facing a serious road accident and every four minutes a person dies in a road accident. Two-wheeler account for 25% of total road deaths in India.

The Modi Government introduced the Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill in Parliament in 2016 in a direction to control the destruction on roads and highways. It introduced strict fines for traffic crimes.

Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill Proposals

• Formulation of a National Transportation Policy.
• Setting up a Motor Vehicle Accident Fund.
• Scheme to provide cashless medical treatment to the injured within the first hour of a road accident.
• Deaths in hit-and-run cases: Compensation of Rs 2 lakh or more to victim’s family.
• Offences by juveniles: Guardian shall be deemed guilty; fine of Rs 25,000 with 3 years imprisonment; juvenile to be tried under the JJ Act.
• Protection of Good Samaritans

Indian Traffic Rules And Fines 2018

Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill Provisions

• Aadhaar mandatory for getting a driving licence and vehicle registration.
• New categories to issue driving licenses.
• Licence valid for 10 years if received between the ages of 30 and 50.
• If the licence is issued between 50 and 55 years, it will be valid until the person turns 60.
• Above 55 years, licences to carry a five-year validity.
• Time limit for renewal of driving licence increased from one month to one year before and after the expiry date.
• Mandatory to alter vehicles to make them suitable for specially-abled people.

Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 History

• The act came into force from 1 July 1989.
• The act replaces Motor Vehicles Act, 1939.
• Motor Vehicles Act, 1939 replaces the Motor Vehicles Act, 1914.
• Amended several times to keep it up to date.
• Act amended four times, in 1994, 2000, 2001 and 2015
• Act again amended in 2016.
• Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill, 2016 introduced in Lok Sabha on August 9, 2016.
• Passed in Lok Sabha on April 10, 2017.
• Bill renamed as the Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill, 2017.
• Bill referred to Rajya Sabha Select Committee on August 8, 2017.
• Select Committee tabled its report on December 22, 2017.

Road Accidents Statics In India

Sc Committee Report On Road Safety

• 2017 saw a 3% decline in road accident deaths.
• The decline in figures in Punjab, West Bengal and Gujarat.
• Rise in figures in Bihar, U.P., Odisha and M.P.

Cause Of Raod Mishaps

• Overspeeding
• Distractions to driver
• Red light jumping
• Avoiding safety gears
• Drunken driving
• Driving without a helmet
• Non-use of seat-belts
• Allowing children to drive
• Driving under influence of alcohol
• Use of mobile while driving
• Overloading in vehicles
• Driving despite exhaustion

Road Safety Worldwide Figure

• International Road Federation: Road accidents claim 12 Lakh lives every year.
• Accidents directly impact 50 lakh people.
• Property worth over $12 lakh crore destroyed in accidents.
• WHO: By 2030 road accidents will become a fifth biggest reason for deaths globally.
• By 2020, road accidents will because of over 19 lakh deaths every year.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA is launched its new mission Insight Mars Lander on Mars, NASA is sending a robotic geologist with this mission, which will be able to excavate the highest depth and send the information related to Mars’s temperature to Earth.

Mars InSight mission for current affairs it is the latest effort of the space agency to explore the Red planet about 814 million dollar project will attempt to increase human knowledge of Mars interior conditions. Mars formation had been at the same time of earth’s formation 4.5 billion years ago.

This mission name is INSIGHT, the full form of Insight is Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport. The Solar and battery powered Mars Lander is designed to operate for 26 months on the Mars. The Mars Insight mission has been launched from the Vandenberg Air Force base in California but in the past days, U.S.A launches its most of the rocket from the Kennedy Space Center this is the first time when America launched a space mission from the Vandenberg air force.

Insight Mars Mission Overview & Brief information

Insight will find tectonically current activity on the Red Planet, including where seismic activities are happening and how frequently meteorites slam into its surface of Mars. The Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure will detect seismic waves from meteorite impacts, magma movements inside the planet or marsquakes. This InSight will collect the information of Rotation and Interior Structure of Mars.

Gk Quiz On InSight Mars Mission In Hindi Part -1

Red planet (Mars) is the fourth planet in our solar system and it comes after Earth. Mars named comes from the Roman God of War.it is the most visible planet in the night sky sometimes it came to very close to the Earth. according to NASA, the distance to Mars from Earth is 225 million kilometres NASA, however, the distance is constantly changing the minimum distance is about 54.6 million kilometres the farthest is about 401 million kilometre. After the invention of Telescope (Take a quick look at Telescope Invention) by Galileo, the scenario of discovery related to cosmos totally changed. In the begging of cosmology, many curious people think that earth is the centre of our galaxy but Johannes Kepler proved that the sun is situated in the centre of our solar system in 1611.Invention Of Telescope Overview

• German-Dutch lensmaker Hans Lippershey designed a telescope in 1608
• Galileo improved on it & used it for astronomical observation in 1609
• Johannes Kepler invented an improved version of Galileo’s design in 1611

Human is all curious to know about solar system but Interest in the Mars is as old as the history of Civilization with its surface patterns and curious geological formation marks are being a subject of immense fascination. However, it was in the 15 century the people started attempts to create many tools like a telescope. Mission to Mars has started from 1960, Russia first mission to Mars had launched in 1960 but spacecraft did not reach Earth orbit.

Some Unique Information About Mars

After the Mars Insight mission launched 5 may 2018, there is a high probability of questions being asked in the UPSC, SSC, BSSC & Bank as current affairs question in Prelims examination. Olympus Mons is the largest volcano of our solar system and Valles Marineris consider as one of the largest canyons of our solar system both are situated on the Red Planet.

About The Heat Flow and Physical Properties Probe (HP3)

 What is Hp3 Or The Heat Flow and Physical Properties Probe? This technology will conduct the first extraterrestrial heat flow measurement since Apollo moon mission. This new science will use in inSight mars lander mission 2018 for conductivity, temperature and temperature thermal, surface brightness measurements to determine the Mars’ heat flux.

A Brief Infomation Of Planet Mars Or Red Planet

• Olympus Mons, largest volcano and the second-highest mountain of our solar system is situated on the Mars.
• One of the largest canyons Valles Marineris is on the Mars.
• Rotational period of the Mars and seasonal cycles similar to the Earth.
• Mars Can be seen from Earth’s surface with naked eyes.
• Mars is approximately half the diameter of Earth.
• Less dense than Earth
• Large and heavier than Mercury
• Average distance from the Sun to Mars is 230 million kilometres.
• The Mars’ orbital period is 687 Earth days.
• One spin on axis – 1 day
• Number of moons – 02

Purpose And Benefits Of InSight Mars Mission Current affairs 2018

Here we discuss the main purpose of inSight mars mission for our upcoming competitive examination 2018 like Upsc, ssc & and Bank in perspective of current affairs. The purpose which makes this mission different from previous Mars mission is InSight mission 2018 will examine the interior of Mars including seismic activity, magma movements, marsquakes, Mars Surface components for collection these type of information The Heat Flow and Physical Properties Probe (HP3) will burrow about 5 meters into the surface of Red Plante.

A Brief History Of Mars Mission

Mars history starts with Mariner 4 space mission which was launched by NASA in 1965 and after Russia’s first mission to Mars in 1960, a new chapter has begun of Mars mission between the superpowers of the world USSR and U.S.A. Mars Express was the first Mars mission of European Space Agency to the Red planet in 2003. In 2014 a dark horse(India) come out in the space race, India Fourth country to send a mission to Mars and First Asian country to send such -a mission. India had succeeded in the first attempt while America had taken 6 attempts to reach Mars orbit.

Mars Mission Full History For Examination Overview List

Gk Quiz On Mars Mission In Hindi Part – 2

Humanitarian Efforts – Discovering The Universe

Copernicus said the Earth is not in the centre of the universe In the 16th century and Galileo Galilei made his first telescope in 1609 and found there are stars beyond stars in the sky while Italian philosopher Giordano Bruno claimed the sky is infinite. Astronomers knew the size, weight and distance of many stars in the 19th century and Edmund Fornier of Ireland declared that many galaxies exist in the galaxy.

It will very helpful to students if they try to write something about Mars because many questions will be asked in your up-coming competitive examination mainly for UPSC paper. Some questions are asked below these questions are from NCERT books comment your answer.

1. How is our atmosphere different from the atmospheres on Venus
and Mars?
2. How does the atmosphere act as a blanket?
3. Asteroids are found between the orbits of
(i) Saturn and Jupiter (ii) Mars and Jupiter (iii) The Earth and Mars

Mca21 is a portal and its main purpose of this scheme is to convert the Ministry’s mode of operating from traditional paper to paperless. .The Ministry of Corporate Affairs was met with the difficulty of providing services to nearly 7.5 lakh corporate entities In the year 2002. Huge numbers of paperwork were to be processed then government decided to fix this problem to fight this problem that time Congress government created Mca21.

Mca21 is a plan executed by the ministry of company affairs, the government of India ( Earlier Department of company affairs, the ministry of finance, and government of India. Mca21 is envisioned to accommodate anytime and anywhere assistance to business by the ministry of company affairs.

Enabling the change

• Public-Private Partnership (PPP).
• BOOT model (Build Own Operate and Transfer).
• With total service and outcome orientation.
• Service level agreements.
• Project monitoring by external auditors/reviewers.

The Challenges Faced & Surmounted

• Pioneering first of its kind project with no references/templates.
• The short time span for implementation.
• Change Management of the Ministry employees/stakeholders.
• The absence of strong ‘End-User organization/body.

MCA21 – Key Features

• Anywhere, anytime e-filing.
• Re-engineered forms adopted for e-filing.
• Multiple payment options – including electronic payments.
• Digital signatures for authentication of documents.
• Unique Identification for Companies & Directors.
• Migration of past paper records into the proposed electronic storage.
• Electronic workflow-driven paperless Back Office in MCA.

Goals

• Ensuring speed and certainty in service fulfilment.
• Ease in conducting business.
• Online availability of MCA on a 24x7x365 basis.
• Enabled to offer efficient services to corporates.
• Easy registration and verification of charges.
• Effective compliance management & transparency.
• Efficiency, accountability & effectiveness in Service Delivery.

MCA21- Special Features

• Robust, Open, Scalable and Interoperable Standards.
• International Standards of Security.
• MCA Gateway for Access, Security & Governance.

MCA21 Achievements

• One of the most popular portals in India with a peak portal hit of 14 million on a single day.
• One of the largest digital signature implementation in the Government of India.

Information about Nation Waterway 1

For centuries the rivers have been used for transporting goods and people from one place to another place, even today, transport of heavy goods through waterways is inexpensive and less polluting than road or rail. Until a century ago, the Ganges river was also a busy waterway, with the development of the railway it was almost in unused, but now the situation is changing.

However, about 1620 kilometres from Tirthraj Prayag to Haldia was declared a National Waterway in 1986, but no specific progress has been made towards its development, but after the arrival of the present government, efforts are being made to develop this water route. In the first phase under the water route development project, 1390 km of the national waterway from Varanasi to Haldia is being developed with the technical and economic support of the World Bank. The cost of this project is Rs. 5369 crores.

Through the multi-model terminal in the natural resources-rich state of Jharkhand, new entrances will be opened in the direction of development and employment. This model will cost Rs 467.9 crores. This project will connect Jharkhand to the world through the Bay of Bengal. From here raw material of Rajmahal and Charita can be sent out to other nation.

Multi-Model terminal development in Sahibganj region is a new hope because 1.5 lakh new jobs will be created locally. After being thoroughly prepared in 2022, National Waterway 1 will bring a new identity to the river Ganga.A complete list of Nation Waterways In India with full specification.