current affairs 04 June 2022

NCTE launches online portal to Simplify Process of Teacher Education Programme.

National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) has launched an online portal to simplify the process of recognition of teacher education programs in higher education institutions.
The portal helps right from the time of inviting application for courses till the stage of issue of recognition orders including the inspection of institutions.
The applications for the recently launched four-year integrated teacher education programmes (ITEP) applications will be processed.
This portal aims to bring a paradigm shift in the functioning of NCTE.
It will also provide an automated robust framework thereby enhancing accountability, transparency and ease of doing business.

Gujarat’s Climate Change Department has signed a MoU to join the worldwide Save Soil initiative.
Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel signed a Memorandum of Understanding in Ahmedabad.
Jaggi Sadguru is on a 100-day motorcycle tour in order to raise awareness about the soil regeneration campaign throughout the world.
The 30,000-kilometer journey will pass through Europe, Central Asia, and the Middle East.

Senior scientist Rajesh Gera has been appointed as the Director-General, National Informatics Centre (NIC).
At present, He is serving as Deputy Director-General in the NIC.
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved the appointment of Gera, Scientist G, to the post of Director-General.
Rajesh Gera completed his B.Tech (Electrical Engineering) with Honors in 1984 from IIT Varanasi, Banaras Hindu University.
He was on deputation in the Defence Ministry as CEO, DPIT from August 11, 2018, to August 31, 2020.

Indian-origin academic Dr Swati Dhingra has been elected as an external member of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC). Dhingra was the first Indian-origin woman to join the committee.
Dr Swati Dhingra will take place of the current external member, Michael Saunders, who has been on the MPC since August 2016.
Dhingra is an associate professor of economics at LSE and an associate in the Centre for Economic Performance’s trade programme.
She will join the panel on 9 August for a three-year term.

Director of Ruchi Foodline, Rashmi Sahoo has been awarded the Third Times Business Award 2022 in the category of Eastern India’s Leading READY -TO-EAT brand.
She was given the award by renowned Bollywood actor and social activist Sonu Sood.
She has established Frozit, which is Odisha’s first frozen food company.
Sahoo and Frozit have won various recognition across the world for their innovative food product line, quality and hygiene standards.