Current affairs 15 August 2023

Narendra Modi lays foundation of Sant Ravidas temple in Madhya Pradesh.

PM Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone for a temple-cum-memorial for Sant Ravidas and along with that also inaugurated developmental works which are worth Rs 4,000 crore in Madhya Pradesh in Aug 2023.
The memorial is steeped in the spirit of Samrasta as the soil of more than 20,000 villages and 300 rivers have been used in it.
Sant Ravidas was an Indian mystic poet-saint of the bhakti movement and founder of the Ravidassia religion during the 15th to 16th century CE.

Online travel company MakeMyTrip(MMT) has joined hands with the Ministry of Tourism to launch a microsite, 'Traveller’s Map of India in Aug 2023.
Aim: To showcases 600 plus destinations beyond the popular travel spots in the country.
Objective: To discover lesser-known tourism gems that lie within the country's borders based on their preferences.
According to MMT "This microsite has been designed in line with the Government of India’s visionary DekhoApnaDesh program".

District Kupwara has been conferred with the award for the Best Performer District 2023 in UT of J&K under PMAY-G by Manoj Sinha, Lieutenant Governor J&K UT, held at Srinagar.
Kupwara has received the award in recognition of the construction of 4723 PMAY houses out of a target of 4902 houses for FY 2022-23.
PMAY-Gis successfully fulfilled the dream of several poor and vulnerable families having their own Pucca house in frontier Kupwara district.

National Automated Fingerprint Identification System (NAFIS) Team won Gold Award under Excellence in Government Process Reengineering for Digital Transformation Category-1 by the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Complaints in Aug 2023.
ABOUT NAFIS

NAFIS helps in the quick and easy disposal of cases with the help of a centralized fingerprint database.
It assigns a unique 10-digit National Fingerprint Number (NFN) to each person arrested for a crime.

The first space-based Indian observatory to study the Sun - Aditya-L1, is getting ready for its launch in September 2023.
The spacecraft is expected to be placed in a halo orbit around the Lagrange point - L1 of the Sun-Earth system, which is about 1.5 million Km from the Earth and has advantage of continuously viewing the Sun without any eclipses.
This will provide a greater advantage of observing the solar activities and its effect on space weather in real-time.