·       The schemes aids in weather and climate forecasting.

The Sub-scheme under the umbrella scheme ACROSS are:

·       Monsoon Convection, Clouds, and Climate Change (MC4),

·       High Performance Computing System (HPCS),

·       Monsoon Mission (MM-II),

·       Atmospheric Observations Network,

·       Weather & Climate Services,

·       Upgradation of Forecast System and

·       Commissioning of Polarimetric Doppler Weather Radars (DWRs)

·       India Meteorological Department (IMD)

·       National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (NCMRWF)

·       Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM)

·       Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS)

·       It extends northward from the latitude of southern Denmark almost to the Arctic Circle and separates the Scandinavian Peninsula from the rest of continental Europe.

·       The Baltic Sea connects to the Atlantic Ocean through the Danish Straits.

·       It is the largest expanse of brackish water in the world. Its water salinity levels are lower than that of the World Oceans due to the inflow of fresh water from the surrounding land and the sea’s shallowness.

·       Bordering Countries: Denmark, Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Russia, Finland and Sweden.

·       Major gulfs: The Gulf of Bothnia to the north, the Gulf of Finland to the east, and the Gulf of Riga slightly to the south of that.

·       National Creche Scheme has been revised and subsumed as Palna scheme.

·       It aims to provide for quality and affordable day-care facilities for the children (6 months to 6 years) of working women.

·       The Palna component has been included under Mission Shakti.

·       This scheme has dual role of encouraging women’s participation in work force and improve nutrition and health status of children.

·       The scheme is launched by Minister of Women and Child Development.

·       It enables more women to take up gainful employment amongst all socio-economic groups both in the organized and unorganized sector, irrespective of their employment status.

·       Parliamentary privileges are special rights, immunities and exemptions enjoyed by the two Houses of Parliament, their committees and their members.

·       Parliamentary Privileges can be enjoyed by the parliamentary committees.

·       The Constitution has also extended the parliamentary privileges to those persons who are entitled to speak and take part in the proceedings of a House of Parliament or any of its committees.

·       These include the attorney general of India and Union ministers.

·       The parliamentary privileges do not extend to the president who is also an integral part of the Parliament.

·       The breach of Parliamentary Privileges is punishable by the respective Houses of the Parliament.

·       Parliamentary privileges can be classified into 2 broad categories:

·       Collective Privileges – Those that are enjoyed by each House of Parliament collectively.

·       Individual Privileges – Those that are enjoyed by the members individually.

·       The Article 105 of the constitution mentions two parliamentary privileges that is freedom of speech in Parliament and right of publication of its proceedings.

·       It is the world’s largest health insurance/ assurance scheme fully financed by the government.

·       The households included are based on the deprivation and occupational criteria of Socio-Economic Caste Census 2011 (SECC 2011) for rural and urban areas respectively.

·       It provides a cover of Rs. 5 lakhs per family per year for secondary and tertiary care hospitalization across public and private empanelled hospitals in India.

·       It provides cashless access to health care services for the beneficiary at the point of service, that is, the hospital.

·       There is no restriction on the family size, age or gender.

·       Benefits of the scheme are portable across the country i.e.; a beneficiary can visit any empanelled public or private hospital in India to avail cashless treatment.

·       The scheme being implemented by the National Health Authority.