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23)Damodaran Committee - Reserve Bank of India has constituted a committee under thechairmanship of M. Damodaran, former chairman of SEBI, to look into banking services

rendered to retail and small customers, including pensioners.

24)The world bank has approved a loan of $300 million for the Scaling up Sustainable andResponsible Microfinance project. This funding for the microfinance project will be used

by Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) for on-lending to Indian

microfinance institutions and to support responsible finance initiatives such as the

establishment of a microfinance information platform and promotion of adherence to a

code of conduct for MFIs (microfinance institutions)

25)Green Hiker campaign is the name of a new compaign by World Wide Fund for Nature-India (WWF-India) launched on June 04, 2010 in New Delhi.

26)The state government of Punjab comes up with a decision to set up 3037 e-gram Suvidhacentres in the villages across the state at a cost of Rs. 90 crore. These e-grams centreswould ensure the delivery of basic people friendly services viz delivery of old-age

pension, registration of pension for handicapped and widows and disabled persons with

an easy access.

27)Rajiv Gandhi Jeevandayi Yojana is a new version of existing Jeevandayi Yojana.Jeevandayi Yojana is for BPL families only while the new scheme is for all families

whose annual income is up to Rs. one lakh. The scheme will be launched in August 2010

(probably on August 15) and will be launched in six districts, Dhule, Gadchiroli, Raigad,

Amravati, Solapur and Nanded. The scheme is a family mediclaim insurance scheme and

will benefit 2.4 crore families of the state.

28)The union Government has set up an expert committee under the ChandigarhAdministrator and Punjab Governor Shibvraj Patil , to preserve the architectural heritage

of Chandigarh.

29)State Government of Andhra Pradesh comes up with India's first Mobile Adalat.30)The Handicrafts Development Wing of the Union Textile Ministry has planned to

organize 6 "Bamboo Bazaars" in various parts of the country in this year. On June 4,2010, the first in this series was launched at Valluvar Kootam, Chennai by Union Textile

Minister Dayanidhi Maran.

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31)Ishita Vishnoi from Delhi has been decorated with the title of Young Environmentalistof the Year Award 2010.

32)National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), an institution devoted to environmentaleducation under the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests gave Environmentalist

of the Year Award (YEYA), at national level every year to the best-performing teenager

in the age group of 13 16 years.

33)Himachal Pradesh has become the first state in the country to pay for the procurementof plastic waste and use the same for construction activities like road mettling.

34)India Ranks 128 in Global Peace Index Institute of Economics and Peace.35)'AMIR' is the name of India's first art market review quarterly.36)On June 7, 2010, the Ministry of Finance, Government of India has announced the

constitution of a Technical Advisory Group for Unique Projects (TAGUP). The

Technical Advisory Group for Unique Projects (TAGUP) will help in establishment of an

effective tax administration and financial governance.

37)Chairman of TAGUP Mr. Nandan Nilekanni.38)In 1988, Government of India started a project Crop Acreage and Production Estimation

(CAPE) to collect the statistics of Agricultural Output. But to forecast of Crops at

sowing stage requires weather data and information of economic factors. So "Forecasting

Agricultural output using Space, Agro meteorological and Land based observations

(FASAL)" was designed. The main aim was to collect Monsoon data through remote

sensing, economic data and monitoring of crops when growing.