·       It is also called as Krishna Gandaki in Nepal.

·       This Gandaki River is one of the major rivers of Nepal and a left-bank tributary of the Ganges in India.

·       It is formed by the union of the Kali & Trisuli Rivers and both of these rivers rise in the Great Himalaya Range in Nepal.

The 5 main tributaries of the Kali Gandaki River are:

Daraudi

Seti

Madi

Marsyandi

Budhi Gandaki

·       According to Section 173 of Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), a charge sheet is a report generated by police officers after investigating a case.

·       It contains all the stringent records right from the commencement of investigation procedure of lodging an FIR to till the completion of investigation and preparation of final report.

·       It contains the names of the people brought in the custody, the charges they are brought in for and the identity of the accusers.

·       Once the charge sheet has been submitted to a court of law, prosecution proceedings against the accused begin.

·       Time limit for filing a Charge Sheet:

·       It is to be filed within 60 days from the date of arrest of the accused in cases triable by lower courts and 90 days in cases triable by Court of Sessions.

·       If the charge sheet is not filed within the prescribed time mentioned above, the accused has a right to default bail.

·       IRS is a combination of facilities, equipment, personnel, procedure and communications operating within a common organizational structure, with responsibility for the management of assigned resources to effectively accomplish stated objectives pertaining to an incident.

Functions:

·       In line with administrative structure and DM Act 2005, Responsible Officer (RO) is designated at the State and District level as overall in charge of the incident response management.

·       RO may delegate responsibilities to the Incident Commander (IC), who in turn will lead/manage the incident through Incident Response Teams (IRTs).

·       IRS functions through Incident Response Teams (IRTs) in the field. An IRT is a team comprising all positions of IRS organization; headed by Incident Commander (IC).

·       On receipt of Early Warning, RO activates IRTs. In case of a disaster without any warning, local IRT will respond and contact RO for further support, if required.

·       IRTs pre-designated at all levels, i.e. State, District, Sub-Division and Tehsil/Block.

·       IRT’s lowest administrative unit (Sub-Division / Tehsil / Block) will be the ‘first responder’.

·       If the incident becomes complex and beyond the control of local IRT, higher level IRT will be informed / take over the response management. In such cases the lower level IRT will merge with the higher level IRT.

·       When lower level of IRT merges with a higher level, IC of lower level may play the role of Deputy IC or Operations Sections Chief (OSC) or any other duty that the IC of higher authority assigns.

Key Facts about National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA):

·       Parent body: Ministry of Home Affairs.

·       Primary Objective: To coordinate response to natural or man-made disasters and for capacity-building in disaster resiliency and crisis response.

·       It is responsible for framing policies, laying down guidelines and best-practices and coordinating with the State Disaster Management Authorities (SDMAs) to ensure a holistic and distributed approach to disaster management.

·       Origin: NDMA was established through the Disaster Management Act enacted by the Government of India in 2005.

Organisation setup:

·       The Prime Minister is the ex-officio chairperson of the NDMA, who chairs a 9-member board.

·       The remainder of the board consists of members nominated based on their expertise in areas such as, planning, infrastructure management, communications, meteorology etc.

·       The RPF was set up as a consequence of The Railway Protection Force Act, 1957.

·       The RPF guards proves its mettle and worthiness 24×7, all the 365 days of the year.

·       The survey has its genesis in the establishment of the Zoological Section of the Indian Museum at Calcutta in 1875.

Primary Objectives of ZSI includes:

·       Taxonomic studies of all faunal components collected.

·       Periodic review of the Status of Threatened and Endemic

·       Publication of results including Fauna of India and Fauna of States.

Secondary Objectives of ZSI includes:

·       Chromosomal Mapping and DNA finger printing.

·       Environmental Impact Studies.

·       ‘75 Endemic Birds of India’ is a publication released by ZSI.