Gs Paper-2
Syllabus: Issues related to the development of the social sector(Education)
Context:
- Union Education Secretary addressed an online workshop on “Leveraging Satellite communication, Geo-informatics, and Geospatial technology for urban planning and to promote multimodal logistics” organized by NITIE Mumbai in association with the Ministry of Education and Bhaskaracharya National Institute for Space Applications and Geo-informatics (BISAG-N).
- He emphasized on leveraging the capabilities of the Gati Shakti platform by all the state governments to scale up their efficiency and economy.
Some of the action points that emerged at the workshop:
- Educational Institutions need to contribute to the training of students and industry professionals.
- The institutions should be encouraged to use the platform developed by BISAG-N and carry out research work, projects, internships etc.
- To strengthen the platform for applications including infrastructure development.
- To encourage research in Logistics and Supply chain networks.
- Workable and pragmatic coordination and integration to synchronize NEP 2020 and PM Gati Shakti mission
- The institutes emphasized the introduction of syllabus through Interdisciplinary courses in Logistics and Supply Chain and integration of emerging technologies to remove silos among the different departments.
PM Gati Shakti Mission
- Integrated planning: It will ensure integrated planning and implementation of infrastructure projects in the next four years, with a focus on expediting works on the ground, saving costs and creating jobs.
- Subsuming NIP: The Gati Shakti scheme will subsume the Rs 110 lakh crore National Infrastructure Pipeline(NIP) that was launched in 2019.
- Creation of Corridors: It also aims to have 11 industrial corridors and two new defence corridors – one in Tamil Nadu and the other in Uttar Pradesh.
- Connectivity: Extending 4G connectivity to all villages is another aim. Adding 17,000 km to the gas pipeline network is being planned.
- Integrated Approach: It intends to bring together 16 infrastructure-related Ministries.
- Gati Shakti Digital Platform: It involves the creation of a common umbrella platform through which infrastructure projects can be planned and implemented in an efficacious manner by way of coordination between various ministries/departments on a real-time basis.
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Practice Questions:
Q. Critically analyze the provisions of New Educational Policy(NEP) 2020.
Q. With reference to PM Gati Shakti’s mission, consider the following statements:
- It aims to have 11 industrial corridors and five new defence corridors.
- It will subsume the National Infrastructure Pipeline(NIP).
Which of the statements given above is/are not correct?
a. 1 only
b. 2 only
c. Both 1 and 2
d. Neither 1 nor 2
Ans: (a)
Justification:
The Gati Shakti scheme
- It will subsume the Rs 110 lakh crore National Infrastructure Pipeline that was launched in 2019.
- It also aims to have 11 industrial corridors and two new defence corridors – one in Tamil Nadu and the other in Uttar Pradesh.
- Extending 4G connectivity to all villages is another aim. Adding 17,000 km to the gas pipeline network is being planned.
