Telangana is the first state to have eco-friendly bridges for the movement of tigers over a canal cutting across the tiger corridor.
The bridge links Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve (TATR) in Maharashtra with the forests in Telangana.
It requires the laying of fertile soil to grow grass and plants over the structure, so that fragmentation of the reserve forest is camouflaged.
Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve
Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve is a tiger reserve in Chandrapur district of Maharashtra state in central India.
It is Maharashtra's oldest and largest national park.
It is one of India's 50 "Project Tiger" - tiger reserves.
Andhari, a minor river in waiganga basin flows through the tiger reserve.
National Academic Depository (NAD)
It is a 24 X 7 online store house of academic awards digitally lodged by various academic institutions/school boards/eligibility assessment bodies.
The academic awards in NAD shall cover degrees, diplomas, certificates, mark-sheets including awards issued for skill development.
The University Grants Commission (UGC) has been designated as authorized body to operationalise NAD.
NAD comprises of two interoperable digital depositories viz., NDSL Database Management Limited (NDML) and CDSL Ventures Limited (CVL).
The Aadhaar or unique NAD ID will be used for registration and usage of the digital database.
NAD facilitates online access, retrieval and verification of academic awards and eliminates fraudulent practices such as forgoing of certificates and mark sheets etc.
Initiatives to improve Quality of Education
Global Initiative Of Academic Networks (GIAN) – It aimed at collaborating Indian institutes of Higher Education in India with Foreign academics.
Impacting Research Innovation And Technology(IMPRINT) - It is a pan-IIT and IISc joint initiative to develop a roadmap for research in premier institutions to solve major engineering and technology challenges in ten technology domains relevant to India.
Uchchtar Aavishkar Abhiyan – It aims to promote industry-specific need-based research in the educational institutions to keep up the competitiveness of the Indian industry in the global market.
Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan – It aims at providing strategic funding to higher educational institutions to improve the overall quality of existing state institutions.
Science Express
Science Express is a flagship programme of the Dept. of Science & Technology (DST).
It is an innovative mobile science exhibition mounted on AC train, traveling across India since October 2007. Since then, it has made eight tours of the country.
Currently, the 9th phase of the Science Express exhibition train is on a nationwide tour since 17 February 2017.
This phase of train is being referred as ‘Science Express Climate Action Special (SECAS) highlighting the global challenge of climate change.
Monetary neutrality
A theory which states that money has no real effect on how resources are allocated in an economy.
For instance, a doubling of the stock of money supply caused by central bank policy should have no other effect on the economy except the doubling of the nominal prices of all goods.
But this theory has been criticized for assuming that when the supply of money is increased, the new money percolates into the economy and affects prices evenly.
Others have argued that the new money enters the economy at different points and affects prices unevenly, thus distorting resource allocation.
Neolithic Axe
Recently, the largest Neolithic granite axe has been shifted to a museum in Kerala.
Neolithic Period, also called New Stone Age, is the final stage of cultural evolution or technological development among prehistoric humans.
It was characterized by stone tools shaped by polishing or grinding, dependence on domesticated plants or animals, settlement in permanent villages, and the appearance of such crafts as pottery and weaving.
It is generally thought to have occurred sometime about 10,000 BC.
During that time, humans learned to raise crops and keep domestic livestock and were thus no longer dependent on hunting, fishing, and gathering wild plants.
The cultivation of cereal grains enabled Neolithic peoples to build permanent dwellings and congregate in villages.
The Neolithic Period was succeeded by the Bronze Age when human societies learned to combine copper and tin to make bronze, which replaced stone for use as tools and weapons.
Important Neolithic Age sites are Mehrgarh (in present day Pakistan), Gufzral, Burzahoam (Kashmir), Chirand (Bihar), Utnur (A.P), Paiyampalli (T.N) etc.
