The bridge was recently inaugurated at Lower Dibang Valley in Arunachal Pradesh.
It will provide connectivity between Dibang Valley and Siang.
It also provides connectivity to Tinsukia via Dhola-Sadia bridge.
It was constructed by Project Brahmank of Border Roads Organisation (BRO).
It will be a part of Trans Arunachal Highway.
Other Projects of BRO - Vartak, Arunank and Udayak for the development of road connectivity in the State.
Household Consumer Expenditure Survey
The National Statistical Office (NSO), Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation carried out an all-India survey on household consumption expenditure.
The survey is usually conducted in quinquennial intervals and the last survey was conducted in 2011-2012.
It generates estimates of household Monthly Per Capita Consumer Expenditure (MPCE) and the distribution of households and persons over the MPCE classes.
It is designed to collect information regarding expenditure on consumption of goods and services (food and non-food) consumed by households.
The data are also used for rebasing GDP and other macro-economic indicators.
The government has decided not to release the survey results due to data quality issues.
Bharatiya Poshan Krishi Kosh
Ministry of Women and Child Development is going to launch Bharatiya Poshan Krishi Kosh.
It is a repository of diverse crops across 128 agro-climatic zones in India.
Its aim is to provide better nutritional outcomes and to fight malnutrition.
Harvard Chan School of Public Health and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will be a part of this initiative.
They will document and evaluate promising regional dietary practices and the messaging around them and develop a food atlas on regional agro-food systems.
It will select around 12 high focus states, which are representative of the geographical, social, economic, cultural and structural diversities of India.
New Rules for Financial Firms
The government has recently issued framework for bringing ‘systemically important financial service providers’ under the purview of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC).
Accordingly, the ministry of Corporate Affairs has notified the IBC rules, 2019 to provide a generic framework for insolvency and liquidation proceedings of systemically important FSPs other than banks.
Section 227 of the IBC Code enables the Central government to notify such rules for the purpose of insolvency and liquidation proceedings.
Such rules will be notified in consultation with the financial sector regulators, financial service providers (FSPs) or categories of FSPs.
International Conference on Agricultural Statistics
The 8th International Conference on Agricultural Statistics (ICAS) will be held in New Delhi.
It will be organized by the Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare.
Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, FAO, Asian Development Bank, World Bank, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation are partners of this conference.
The theme of the conference is “Statistics for Transformation of Agriculture to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)”.
ICAS is a series of conferences that started in 1998 based on overarching need for agricultural data worldwide.
It is conducted every three years based on overarching need for agricultural data worldwide.
