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Quiz Current Affairs 2025-26 February 2025

September 07, 2025
  • In part A (100 percent women-specific schemes), 1,05,535.40 crore (23.50 percent of total GBS) was allocated.
  • Part B (allocation between 30 to 99 percent of money to women) had 3,26,672.00 crore (72.75 percent of total GBS).
  • Part C (Less than 30 percent of women allocation) was allocated 16, 821.28 crore (3.75 percent of the total GBS).
  • There have also been allocations of 49 Ministries/ Departments and 5 UTs this year as compared to 38 Ministries/ Departments and 5 UTs in FY 2024-25.
  • Top 3 Ministries/Departments who too have reported over 30 percent of their allocations under the Gender Budget of FY 2025-26 are

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    • Ministry of Women & Child Development (81.79).
    • Department of Rural Development (65.76 percent).
    • Department of Food & Public Distribution (50.92 %).

     

    • PMAY-G dismal implementing - only 23 percent of the houses women got allotted.

     

    SC/ST Act- intellectual property

     

    • The Supreme Court confirm the judgment of the Bombay High Court on the intellectual property loss compensation under the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 and its rules of the year 1995.
    • Petitioners went to Bombay High Court in the form of a petition to give fair evaluation of the compensation to be paid under Section 15A (11) (d) of the Atrocities Act (read with Rule 12(1) of the 1995 Rules) after harming the property.
    • Bombay High Court held the word property must be understood widely in such a way that it also seized intellectual property which may consist of data, electronic material and intellectual rights, tangible or otherwise.
    • Although intangible in nature, Patents, copyrights, and designs, form part of the property, and can be valued in order to be compensated under SC/ST Act, 1989.
    • It is important to note that Section 8 introduces a reverse burden of proof making the accused shoulders the burden to prove their innocence.

     

    GARBH-INi-Drishti

     

    • The IIT Madras and Translational Health Science and Technology Institute; Faridabad, have partnered to train an Indian specific model of artificial intelligence; Garbhini-GA2.
    • It is a data dashboard which gives an in-depth multidimensional picture of one of the largest pregnancy cohort data in South Asia.
    • GARBH-Ini GA-2 is genetic algorithm based.
    • This is an evolution and natural selection based genetic algorithm which is an optimisation technique.
    • The project is under the GARBH-Ini programme and it aims at correcting the dire lack of accuracy in antenatal care.

     

    Increase in Female Labour Participation 2024

     

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