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Quiz Current Affairs 2025-26 February 2025

September 07, 2025
Female Labour Force Participation Rate (FLFPR) had been increasing steadily within the last seven years.
  • It was observed that the FLFPR of the last seven years, ie, 23.3 percent in 2017-18 had grown to 41.7 percent in 2023-24.
  • The women performed a greater role in economic activities in both rural and urban.
  • Presently 21 States have a FLFPR of 30-40%.
  • A total of seven States or Union Territories with FLFPR above 40 percent; the highest being that of Sikkim which has FLFPR of 56.9 percent.
  • Whereas, in 2017-18, 20 States/UTs had a FLFPR less than 20 per cent, in 2023-24 it includes three states.
  • The major aspect of increment in the total number of women in the workforce also came in the form of rural FLFPR, which increased by a significant margin of 24.6 per cent in 2017-18 to 47.6 per cent by 2023-24.
  • By October 31, 2024, 73,151 start-ups that had at least one-woman director were identified under Startup India Initiative.

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    State symbol of Home Ministry

     

    • Union Home Ministry has requested the State governments to block the misuse and misrepresentation of the State Emblem of India.
    • It is underlining that the Lion Capital Logo cannot be deduced without the motto which is Satyamev Jayate, written in Devanagari script.
    • The application is obligated by the design as given in the Appendix I & Il of the Schedule of the State Emblem of India (Prohibition of Improper Use) Act, 2005.
    • The Emblem contains the profile view of the Lion Capital that reveals the Three Lions ride on the abacus, a Dharma Chakra in the Centre, a bull on the right, a running horse on the left and a sketch of the Dharma Chakra at the extreme right and the extreme left.
    • Also the motto of Satyameva Jayate - in the Devanagari script under the profile of the Lion Capital.

     

    Gyan Bharatam Mission 2025

     

    • The Union Budget 2025 also allowed the Gyan Bharatam Mission (at the level of the National Manuscripts Mission (NMM)).
    • The survey, documentation and conservation of the manuscript heritage of India is a special mission.
    • The ‘Gyan Bharatam Mission’ is to take up the process of the “survey, documentation and conservation” of the manuscript heritage of India of the academic institutions, museums, libraries, and the individual collectors.
    • NMM is currently a constituent of the Indira Gandhi National Centre of arts.
    • It was established in 2003.

     

    Bharatiya Bhasha Pustak scheme

     

    • Bharatiya Bhasha Pustak Scheme was announced by the Union Budget 2025.
    • It is

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