PIB- Features: July 2014

Notes From pib.nic.in Features

New Army Chief: General Dalvir Singh
                    - 26th Army Chief
                     -Gorkha Brigade ; Third from gorakha brigade

Commonwealth 2014-- Glasgow, Scotland
 -20th Commonwealth
 -21st Commonwealth games will in Queensland Australia
  -Mascot-Clyde: river in Glasgow.
 -Ranking: 1) England 2)Australia 3) Canada 4) Scotland 5) India: Gold 15 Silver 30 Bronze 19

UNO celebrates 18th july as a Mandela Day.

Millets : Rich  source of iron, calcium , zinc, magnesium, phosphorus , potassium etc.

World Population Day 2014: 11th July
Theme: Investing in Young People

*UN's Conference on Human Environment, Stockholm (1972)
-Population growth could harm poverty eradication and safe & stable environment

*National Population Policy, 2000
-Feb 15, 2000
-Short term objectives:meeting the needs for contraceptives,health care infrastructure , health personnel and integrated service delivery.

-Medium term objectives: Bring TFR at replacement level.

-Long term objectives: Stabalisation of population till 2045

-16 promotional and motivational measures - some of them are promoting small families via PRIs, strict implementation of Child Marriage Restrain Act, PCPNDT Act, incentives for late marriage, late deliveries and sterilisation.

*National Commission on Population: 

-May 2000

-Chaired by PM with Dy Chairman of Planning Commission , CMs, Eminent Physicians, demographers, representatives of civil society.

-Aim: To review , monitor and give directions for implementation of the National Population Policy

-National Population Stabilisation Fund: July 2000=> Transferred to Dept of Health and Family Welfare.

*National Health Policy:

-Adoption in 1983

-NHP, 2002=> 1) Need to increase public sector health expenditure from 2 to 3 %

2) Strengthning role of public sector in social protection against rising cost of health service.

*AIIMS, New Delhi: 1956

-6 new AIIMS: Bhopal, Bhuvaneshwar, Jodhpur, Patna, Rishikesh, Raipur.