 Welcome to civil speedy are the current affairs digital library powered by Shankara's Academy as part of today's discussion. We look at topics such as national commission for women, Prime Minister Jan Aurogya Yojana, national clean air program and Atal innovation mission and as part of mains or learning topic you will discuss preventing students suicides. First let us discuss this national commission for women. The topic was taken from the Hindu newspaper and first we shall know that this institution or this body is a statutory body created by the National Commission for Women Act of 1990. This legislation got the assent of the president in the year 1990. However, the first commission for women, national commission for women was constituted in the year 1992. Coming to the members, it consists of a chairperson and five members and one member secretary. What we have to keep in mind is that for national commission for women, the National Commission for Women Act of 1990 does not specify that it has to be only women who should be appointed as members or a chairperson or member secretary in this commission. And coming to the functions, this national commission for women reviews various safeguards for women in legislations, in various legislations and also in constitution for India of India and also it also suggests or recommends various measures to be you know various amendments that has to be carried out in various legislations to the government of India and it also can investigate and also look into complaints and it also can take so much of complaints related to deprivation of women's rights and also non-implementation of legislations related to protection for women and also even non-implementation of policy decisions, rules and instructions related to protection of women can also be taken as complaints by this national commission for women and also it can promote various researchers and studies and surveys related to the protection and areas concerning women and one special thing is that it can fund litigations, it can fund litigations related to matters that affect large body of women and it has to submit annual report before the government of India which the government of India lays before the parliament of India and also various periodical reports to also the government of India which will again be laid before the parliament by the central government. As presently the chairperson of present national commission of women is Madam Rekha Sharma. Whatever it is, it can look into complaints, yes it can investigate but whatever final orders that it gives is only of recommendatory nature or advisory nature, the orders are not binding on the central government so that it can follow and this national commission for women was originally recommended by the committee, the first committee on the status of women in India which was constituted, this committee was first committee was constituted in the year 1971 because in relation to international year for women, the United Nations asked for status of women report from the Indian government and therefore the first committee on the status of women was constituted in 1971, it gave its report in the year 1974 called us towards equality report and this chairperson of this committee was Fulrenu Guha and very recently the second committee was constituted that was in the year 2013, the chairperson was Dr. Palm Rajput although during constitution there was the chairperson was another person who later resigned and Dr. Palm Rajput became the chairperson later, this is the second committee, it gave its final report in the year 2015, with this we come to the end of this discussion on national commission for women, next let us discuss Prime Minister Jan Arogya Yojana as a small snippet this news was taken from the press information bureau of government of India and first it is a health initiative under the program umbrella scheme of Ayushman Bharat and the foremost objective is to cover 10 crore poor and vulnerable families so that there will be approximately 50 crore beneficiaries actually 10 crore poor and vulnerable families providing a coverage of up to 5 lakh per family not per person per family per year, not for primary needs but for secondary and tertiary hospitalization this one has to keep in mind this program was launched on September 23, 2018 and after the launch of this Prime Minister Jan Arogya Yojana, this rastriya swastya Bhima Yojana and senior citizens health insurance scheme got subsumed under it and this Prime Minister Jan Arogya Yojana is a entitlement based scheme and what one should keep in mind is that it takes the use of socio-economic and caste census so as to ascertain the deprivation and occupational criteria so that based on the deprivation and occupational criteria given by the socio-economic caste census the entitlements are provided to the poor and vulnerable families. This is related to Prime Minister Jan Arogya Yojana, next we will move on to national clean air program the news was taken from the press information bureau of government of India what one should keep in mind is it is not a short term program and it is not a long term program it is a medium term actually five year program first year will be 2019 this program was launched on January 10 of 2019 therefore it is a medium level medium term national level strategy or program the foremost or the overall objective of this program is to create effective ambient air quality monitoring network all over the nation and also to create or to ensure a comprehensive management plan to prevent and to control and to abate this problem of air pollution in India and this will be focused based on collaborative and participatory approach because it includes all stakeholders related to pollution from central government, academia, industry, state government and other stakeholders as well alright one important thing is that it gives a tentative national target this plan gives a tentative national target where it aims to achieve 20% to 30% reduction in particulate matter 2.5 and particulate matter 10 alright concentration by the year 2024 and the base year for this calculation will be 2017 and it consists of various units such as project monitoring units at the central level and also at the state level and it also has project implementation units and as of now there are 102 cities that are chosen for intervention under this national clean air program also called as non-attainable cities and within these 102 cities there are 43 cities which come under Swachh Bharat program smart sorry smart city program alright this 43 city come under smart city program overall 102 cities as of now is coming under national clean air program and there is also city level review committee related to this national clean air program this is very important is one of the very important step why the why importance was given to the cities is that although the area of cities are only 3% in India but the pollution and this global warming potential and this emission particularly the emission of carbon dioxide concentration from this 3% area of cities is of 78 percentage therefore much focus has been given to the cities around 102 cities in India with this we come to the end of this discussion on national clean air program next we will discuss Airtel innovation mission the tag line goes like aim to innovate it was a program set up by this mission was set up by Nity Iyog national institution for transforming India the primary objective is to promote innovation and also entrepreneurship usually when we think of Airtel innovation mission when given in options in our exam we may think it concentrates only on innovation not like that it focuses primary aim is to promote innovation and entrepreneurship and coming to the long term goals of Airtel innovation mission it is to promote the small business innovation research and development at a national scale and also to rejuvenate science and technology innovations in major research institutions such as see council for scientific CSIR council of scientific industrial research and also Indian council for agricultural research and also ICMR Indian council for medical research these are the long-term goals of Airtel innovation mission it has so four special initiatives come under this Airtel innovation mission at the large scale at the top scale they are Airtel tinkering labs at the level of schools and Airtel incubators to promote innovation and entrepreneurship in universities colleges and also in industries and Airtel new India challenges and Airtel grand challenges these are like competitions wherein the candidates will be selected so that they will given a grant so as to promote their idea and innovation and project and under Airtel new India challenge a grant of around one crore could be given and under Airtel grand challenge a grant of around rupees 30 crore could be given and the fourth and finally it has a good collaboration of industry academia government and international institutions and one important example for that is that it has a program called mentor India program wherein there are mentors who will be responsible mentoring students and participants coming under under Airtel tinkering lab and Airtel incubators with this we come to the end of this discussion on Airtel innovation mission next we will discuss about students suicide particularly some measures so that it could be prevented the official crime statistics in India is given by the national crime records bureau and according to it between the years 2004 during the years 2014 15 and 16 there were officially around 26476 student suicides of which 7462 students have allegedly committed suicide due to failure in various examinations and various various activists and various defenders who work for students at various levels have stated that this problem of student suicides if not mitigated if not checked properly can go on a rise because of various issues like there are no various there are no not there are no various opportunities so as for the future for students because the no no no greater job opportunities particularly the trend report of 2018 given in the form of world employment and social outlook by international labour organization has stated that in the year 2019 alone in India there will be around 18.9 million people who will be unemployed and every year in the last three years there are three lakh people who have become unemployed according to this report the year 2017 it was 18.3 million there 2018 it was 18.6 million there 2019 it was it is projected that 18.9 million people in India will be unemployed this is a matter of serious worry because this can act as a cause so that students could you know take the final resort according to them to suicide therefore the activist or the different has suggested various methods so as to arrest this trend and to instill confidence faith and hope to the students so that they will not resort to suicide firstly most of the time students the major causes for the suicide are you know mental health issues psychological concerns interpersonal relationships and family and adjustment and problems of course academic stress and others and coming to some of the measures first every school and university or college should have trained counselors and also psychiatrists particularly in schools psychiatrists is necessary and these psychiatrist and counselors should be effective in giving age appropriate counseling and guidance because in school we find children from early childhood and also children during the age of puberty and also children in the face of adolescent phase and also you know like 17 18 those years of children will also be there therefore age appropriate guidance should be given and one important thing is that these trained counselors and psychiatrists has to be monitored by necessary authority many schools do have this counselor and psychiatrists but they since they are because of the absence of monitoring authority there were no proper functioning or effective working of this counselors and next there should be parent-children interaction because most of the time in India we do not find parent particularly father and mother interacting with their children individually for around half an hour or one hour is not a normal scenario in our country that has to be promoted because then only the children can develop a bond emotional bond with their parents so that their problems can be addressed by their by their parents and there has to be parents teacher interaction but this interaction has to be constructive and in the best interest of the children not in the best interest of the parents or the teachers but in the best interest of the children and in the year 2018 the government has launched this integrated scheme for school education wherein it has it has subsumed this service Iksha abyan rastriya madhyamik siksha abyan and teacher education during for the period april 1 2018 to 31st march 2020 but what the defenders for children say is that although there is a scheme like integrated scheme for school education there is no you know funding no increased funding or no proper funding for areas involving guidance and counseling for children and there is a mindset among parents and teachers and also those those handling the profile of school administration treating the area of guidance and counseling as non-productive areas this mindset has to be changed and therefore and they are also asked that necessary funds and more importance has to be given to this guidance and counseling for the children and also the youth and in related to this an initiative under the government of new del government of delhi could be considered because they have launched this happiness curriculum they are going to introduce they are going to begin this curriculum the academic year and this curriculum focuses on meditation and it also focuses on encouraging the students providing them hope there will be a 45 minute period of you know the period called as happiness period and the student will be motivated to tackle challenges that they face in life and also various other things it will also help them in the age of internet and mobile phones wherein students and children are particularly vulnerable because and not many children were given this monitored internet access and therefore we recently saw many students and children became vulnerable and also have lost lives in a game like blue whale online game very serious information and also various timely surveys and studies has to be conducted in schools and colleges and in universities about the reasons behind the various suicides so that these problems could be tackled effectively and according to justice Rupanwal commission on this higher education who has suggested that an equal opportunity sell with an anti-discrimination officer and many many experts also say that if we could establish such equal opportunity sell with anti-discriminatory officer as a post as a designation in various schools and universities various universities it could act as a as a measure to curb this young youth suicides and with this we come to the end of this discussion and with this we come to the end of this discussion we request you to like our video comment our video and also to subscribe to our Shankar IS Academy YouTube channel for more update and content on civil services preparation