Current Affairs – 3rd September2023

DAILY ENRICHMENT PROGRAMME (DEP_ 0050)

Today’s Topics List:

1. Mangri Orang – Assam’s unsung hero

2. Governor Vs Government: The Case of Bihar and West Bengal.

3. Rodent catching glue traps

4. Aditya L1 lifts off to study the Sun

5. Payloads onboard Aditya L1 Satellite.

INDIAN HISTORY HERITAGE & CULTURE

Mangri Orang – Assam’s unsung hero

• • The North East Regional Centre (NERC) of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) staged Malati Mem, a multi lingual play based on the life and the revolutionary zeal of Mangri Orang, an Adivasi with roots in Central India.
    • Fellow plantation workers used to call her Malati Mem, the second word being a shorter form of memsahib.

Mangri Orang

• Mangri Orang is an unsung hero of India’s struggle for freedom from British rule.
  • She was gunned down in 1921 for leading a fight against foreign liquor and opium pushed during the colonial period.
  • She is said to be the first female martyr of India’s freedom movement.

POLITY, GOVERNANCE & LAWS AND SCHEMES

Governor Vs Government: The Case of Bihar and West Bengal.

West Bengal:

• West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose decided to discharge the duties of interim vice chancellors (V-Cs) of all universities where full-time V-Cs are yet to be appointed.

Governor’s Office:

• It is observed that Students of a few State Universities, where V C posts are vacant, are facing difficulties in obtaining degree certificates and other documents.
• To provide relief, The Governor in his capacity as the chancellor has decided to discharge the duties of V-Cs
• None of the 31 State – run Universities has a full time VC, and in most Universities the Governor has appointed academicians as officiating V-Cs.

Government:

• Education Minister says this is a dangerous situation, as Governor without any consultation with the Government and bypassing the Chief Minister, has appointed officiating V-Cs not only from State but also from outside.

Bihar:

• V-Cs of Bihar State Universities are asked to take orders only from the Governor.
  • Principal Secretary to the Governor, wrote to the V-Cs that obeying orders of anyone other than Raj Bhavan or the Governor’s Secretariat is not compatible with their autonomy.
  • This is creating confusion illegally and recalcitrantly and undermining the established autonomy of the University administration.

Rodent catching glue traps

• • The Arunachal Pradesh government has prohibited the Statewide manufacture, sale and use of gle traps for catching rats.
    • It was followed from the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India.
    • Animal Welfare Board of India to impose the ban on glue traps.
  • The notification also said that the use of glue traps violates the provisions of The Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960.
    • As they increase the suffering of small animals that get trapped on sticky boards.

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY & HEALTH

Aditya L1 lifts off to study the Sun

• • India’s first solar observatory mission — Aditya-L1— was launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
    • The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV), in its 59th flight with the Aditya-L1 onboard, took off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota.

About Aditya L1

• This was among the longest flights of ISRO’s workhorse launch vehicle in recent times.
• Aditya-L1 will stay in orbit around Earth for 16 days during which it will undergo five manoeuvres to gain the necessary velocity for its long journey towards the sun.
• Aditya-L1 will undergo a Trans-Lagrangian1 insertion manoeuvre, marking the beginning of its 110-day trajectory to the destination around the L1 Lagrange point.
  • Upon arrival at the L1 point, another manoeuvre binds Aditya-L1 to an orbit around L1, a balanced gravitational location between the earth and the sun.
• The spacecraft will perform orbital manoeuvres by using its Liquid Apogee Motor (LAM) engine to reach L1.
  • Aditya-L1 will stay approximately 1.5 million km away from earth, directed towards the sun, which is about 1% of the earth-sun distance.
  • Aditya-L1 has a mission life of five years during which its payloads are expected to provide the most crucial information to understand the problem of,
    • coronal heating;
    • coronal mass ejection;
    • pre-flare and flare activities and their characteristics;
    • dynamics of space weather; and
    • propagation of particles and fields.

Payloads onboard Aditya L1 Satellite.

• • The seven payloads onboard Aditya-L1 are: 
    • Visible Emission Line Coronagraph (VELC);
    • Solar Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (SUIT);
    • Solar Low Energy X-ray Spectrometer (SoLEXS);
    • High Energy L1 Orbiting X-ray Spectrometer (HEL1OS);
    • Aditya Solar wind Particle Experiment (ASPEX);
    • Plasma Analyser Package For Aditya (PAPA); and
    • Advanced Tri-axial High Resolution Digital Magnetometers.