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The Hydrogen Economy – New Delhi Dialogue 2021

Context: Inaugural Edition of The Hydrogen Economy – New Delhi Dialogue 2021.

About the Hydrogen Roundtable

• The Energy Forum (TEF) and the Federation of Indian Petroleum Industry (FIPI), under the aegis of Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Government of India, organised a Hydrogen Roundtable titled “Hydrogen Economy- the Indian Dialogue-2021” in a virtual mode.
• The roundtable will discuss emerging hydrogen ecosystems and exploring opportunities for collaboration, cooperation and coalition.
• The Hydrogen Roundtable, the first of its kind, will comprise a High-level Ministerial Session, followed by five Panel Discussions by eminent policy makers, experts and industry leaders from different geographical regions of the world, with focus on policy roadmaps and mapping demand and supply of Hydrogen.
• A separate session is devoted to India’s Hydrogen Mission.
• The objective of the roundtable is to understand the progress of the Hydrogen ecosystem across continents and contribute to creating synchrony among the thinktanks, Governments and the industry to join forces for developing innovative and sustainable technologies at attractive costs.

NCSC Grievance Management Portal

Context: NCSC Launches “Online Grievance Management Portal” for Persons from Scheduled Castes.

About the Portal

• The National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) aims to streamline the grievance redressal specially of the Scheduled Caste population through this portal.
• It would make it easier for them to register complaints from any part of the country.
• The portal will facilitate an end-to-end e-filing of complaints and grievances and their tracking.
• It is also intended to make the hearing process work on similar lines as e-courts.
• This portal is linked to the Commission’s website and one can file one’s complaint upon registering on it.
• The facility to upload documents and audio/video files is also available.
• This would supplement the physical submission of complaints and grievances.
• The portal was designed in collaboration with the Bhaskaracharya Institute for Space Applications and Geoinformatics (BISAG-N), a Centre of Excellence under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India.

Community Mental-Health Digital platform MANAS

Context: Community Mental-Health Digital platform MANAS launched.

About MANAS

• MANAS App is a well-being App that stands for Mental Health and Normalcy Augmentation System.
• It is endorsed as a national program by the Prime Minister’s Science, Technology, and Innovation Advisory Council (PM-STIAC).
• MANAS is a comprehensive, scalable, and national digital wellbeing platform and an app developed to augment the mental well-being of Indian citizens.
• MANAS App integrates the health and wellness efforts of various government ministries, scientifically validated indigenous tools with gamified interfaces developed/researched by various national bodies and research institutions.
• MANAS was initiated by the Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India. It was jointly executed by NIMHANS Bengaluru, AFMC Pune and C-DAC Bengaluru.