23rd January 2024 Daily Current Affairs
Schemes
1. PM Modi launches new rooftop solar power scheme
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the ‘Pradhan Mantri Suryodaya Yojana’, a government scheme under which one crore households will get rooftop solar power systems.
- This isn’t the first scheme for promoting the installation of rooftop solar power systems, though.
- In 2014, the government launched the Rooftop Solar Programme that aimed to achieve a cumulative installed capacity of 40,000 megawatts (MW) or 40 gigawatts (GW) by 2022.
State Affairs
2. Final Electoral roll of J&K published with a total of 86.93 lakh voters
- The final electoral roll of Jammu and Kashmir has been published with a total of 86.93 lakh voters.
- Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of Jammu and Kashmir Pandurang K Pole said that out of 86.93 lakh voters, 44.34 lakh are males and 42.58 lakh females.
- More than 2.31 lakh voters have been added to the roll. The release of the electoral roll paves the way for holding of various polls in the Union Territory.
National Affairs
2. Namibian cheetah Jwala gives birth to three cubs at Kuno
- A Namibian cheetah named Jwala gave birth to three cubs at Kuno National park in Madhya Pradesh, just weeks after another Namibian cheetah, Aasha, gave birth to three cubs.
- Jwala (Namibian name Siyaya) had given birth to four cubs last March. However, only one of them survived.
- Currently, there are a total of seven cubs being looked after by the Kuno park officials.
