Indian Organisation Flashcards
ASI
Estd: Alexander Cunningham
Ministry- culture
Functions-
1.Regulates archaeological activities as per ancient monuments and archaeological sites and remains act,1958
Also regulates antiquities and art treasure act,1972
2.Archaeological researches and protection of cultural heritage
3.Maintain archaeological sites, ancient monuments
Institute of life sciences
Autonomous insti
Estd 1989
Bhubaneswar,Odisha
Under Dobiotech, Mo sci and tech
Food safety and standards authority of India
- sets stds for food fortifications
- encourage production,manufacture,distribution, sale and consumption
- promotion for food fortification
- make fortification mandatory
NCPCR:
The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR)
set up : March 2007 under the Commission for Protection of Child Rights Act, 2005.
It works under the administrative control of the Ministry of Women & Child Development.
The Child is defined as a person in the 0 to 18 years age group.
The Commission’s Mandate is to ensure that all Laws, Policies, Programmes, and Administrative Mechanisms are in consonance with the Child Rights perspective as enshrined in the Constitution of India and also the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
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National anti-profiteering authority
Constituted under sec 171 of CGST
Function - traders unfair profits by charging high price for consumers
- benefits of reduction and change in input tax credit passed to consumers
Head- secretary
Undue benefit - return to recipient of goods or services
Extreme case- penalty on businesses/ cancellation of its registration
Not detected: deposit in consumer welfare fund
UGC
Formed in 1953
Statutory status - 1956
HQ- New Delhi
Aim- coordination, determination, maintenance of standards of teaching, examination and research in university education
FAO
FAO work towards:
· Help eliminate hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition
· Make agriculture, forestry and fisheries more productive and sustainable
· Reduce rural poverty
· Enable inclusive and efficient agricultural and food systems
· Increase the resilience of livelihoods to threats and crises
NCPOR
The NCPOR under the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) has undertaken studies in the Western Himalaya in Chandra basin in Lahaul-Spiti (Himachal Pradesh) since 2013.
The NCPOR has established a high-altitude research station named ‘Himansh’ in Himalaya at 4,000 metres altitude at Sutri Dhaka, a remote location in Lahaul-Spiti district of Himachal Pradesh.
The NCPOR has also been doing research in the Arctic region and the Antarctica continent.
NISE
NISE (National Institute of Solar Energy)
• It is an autonomous institution of Ministry of New and Renewable (MNRE), is the apex National R&D institution in the field Solar Energy.
• The Government of India has converted 25-year-old Solar Energy Centre (SEC) under MNRE to an autonomous institution in September 2013 to assist the Ministry in implementing the National Solar Mission and to coordinate research, technology and other related works.
BCCI
agreed to come under the ambit of the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA).
• Implication of this decision:
• All cricketers will now be tested by NADA.
• BCCI now becomes a designated National Sports Federation as per government norms despite being financially autonomous.
• It will also face more pressure to come under the government’s Right to Information Act.
- The BCCI is registered as a society under the Tamil Nadu Societies Registration Act, 1975.
- It was established in 1928 as the central governing body regulating cricket in India.
- It is a consortium of state cricket associations and the state associations select their representatives who in turn elect the BCCI Chief.
- Headquarters: Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai.
- Committee of Administrators (CoA): In 2017, the Supreme Court nominated a four-member panel Committee of Administrators to look after the administration of the BCCI in order to implement Lodha committee reforms.
