Quiz Current Affairs 2025-26 February 2025

Swavalambini program

• Swavalambini, in Assam, Meghalaya and Mizoram was launched by Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE), in partnership with NITI Aayog.
• It was a Women Entrepreneurship Program targeting to give power to female students in some Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in the northeast
• It will provide them the necessary entrepreneurial mind-set, resources as also the mentorship that would enable them to succeed in their entrepreneurial endeavor.

New Agri-Tech Programmes 2025

• The government has declared at least nine new missions or programmes that address exclusively the Agri sector.
• However, the total allocation in the Union Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare was reduced by 2.5 per cent.
• That is why convergence of the existing schemes will be used to implement the Prime Minister Dhan-Dhaanya Krishi Yojana with states.
• It will be used in 100 districts that have the low productivity, moderate crop intensity and low average parameters of credit.
• There will also be the Comprehensive programme of vegetables and fruits that will be implemented in collaboration with states.
• It also seeks to enhance production, cost-effective supplies, processing and sale of farm products at profitable farmer prices.
• Mission has assigned the amount of Rs 500 crore of 2025-26.
• The mission on high-yielding seeds will focus on the commercial supply of more than 100 kinds of high yielding, pest-resistant, climate resistant, and released seed varieties starting July 2024 onwards.
• In Bihar, a makhana board will be set up that would enhance production, processing, value addition and marketing of makhana (foxnut).
• It will also involve the launching of the initiative of Rural prosperity and resilience programme in collaboration with states to deal with the underemployment in the farming sector by skilling, investing, and using technology.
• it will target rural women, young farmers, young people in the rural areas, marginal and small farmers and landless families.
• To further enhance the supply of the urea, urea plant of 1.27 million tonnes per annum will be established at Namrup, Assam.

Mission for Aatmanirbhar in pulses 2025

• Aatmanirbhar Mission pulses is a long-term plan of six years with the funds of Rs 1,000 crore in the 2025-26 financial year.
• It is paying emphasis on toor (pigeon pea), urad (black gram) and masoor (red lentil).
• In this scheme, central agencies like NAFED and National Cooperative Consumers Federation will purchase the amount of these pulses as much they offer to these farmers who will register themselves and enter into agreement with these agencies in the next four years.

Mission 2025- nuclear energy

• The Nuclear Energy Mission would help speed up the establishment of nuclear power and India would be as a global leader in the sphere of advanced nuclear technology by the year 2047.
• Our energy transition strategy needs development of at least 100 GW of nuclear energy by 2047.
• To this effect, the amendment of the Atomic Energy Act and the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Act will be considered to ensure an active engagement with the private sector with a view of advancing this aim.
• A research and development unit on Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) to be named Nuclear Energy Mission will be established at an outlay of INR 20,000 crore.
• By 2033, 5 or more native-designed SMRs will be ready to be put to use.
• A ban is placed on the privately owned production of nuclear power in India according to the Atomic Energy Act of 1962.
• Only two government enterprises - NPCIL and Bharatiya Nabhikiya Vidyut Nigam Limited are legally competent to own and operate nuclear power plants in India.
• The Civil Liability Act of 2010 on Nuclear Damage puts the responsibility of any nuclear accident on the operator of the plant and places a cap on total liability on the operator.
• Yet it gives the operator legal rights to the supplier of reactor without a cap on the liability of supplier.
• India is already in process towards increasing its nuclear power capacity of the current 8180 MW to 22480 by 2031-2032.

Watershed yatra 2025

• The Rural Development Union Minister has initiated mass outreach campaign of Watershed Yatra at the national scale.
• It will be done to elicit the involvement of the people and also develop the awareness regarding the Watershed Development activities implemented under the Watershed Development Component of the Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana (WDC-PMKSY 2.0) in the project villages.
• Approximately 800 Gram Panchayats and over one lakh population have attended the rolled out program of Watershed Yatra.

Child road safety emergency

• The roadmap proposes national plans to reduce child and adolescent deaths on the road launched on February 4, through UNICEF and WHO Collaborating Centre for Injury Prevention and Safety at NIMHANS.
• It shows disturbing statistics of road traffic injuries (RTIs) in children.
• The non communicable disease RTIs has become the key cause of death in children and adolescents in India and they form 10 percent of the death related to the road crashes.
• As much as approximately 45 children below the age of 18 years are killed every day in road accidents within the country.