Current Affairs 14th to 16th April 2017

BHIM-Aadhaar Pay app launched by - PM Narendra Modi

• Prime Minister Modi at the 126th birth anniversary of Dr BR Ambedkar on 14th August 2017, launched BHIM-Aadhaaar app for merchants in Nagpur.
•  He also launched cash back and referral bonus schemes for BHIM and declared about 75 townships spread all over India as ‘less-cash townships’.
• The initiatives were launched with an aim to digitize payments revolution in India. It also reinforces the vision of Baba Saheb for social empowerment of all through financial inclusion.

Mukulita Vijayawargiya takes charge as - Full Time Member of IBBI

• Mukulita Vijayawargiya took charge as full Time Member of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) in New Delhi on 13th April 2017. 
• She will look after Administrative Law Wing of IBBI,Information Technology, Limited Insolvency Examination, National Insolvency Examination, Finance and Accounts and Communication.

President Pranab Mukherjee gives approval - to four GST related legislations

• President Pranab Mukherjee gave his approval to four supporting legislations related to Goods and Services Tax, GST on 13th April 2017.  
• Now it will be one-nation-one-tax regime from 1st July 2017. 
• These four legislations are the Integrated GST Act 2017, GST (Compensation to States) Act 2017, Central GST Act 2017 and Union Territory GST Act, 2017. 
• These GST bills were passed in Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha on 6th April 2017 and 29th March 2017 respectively.

WHO Study : Two billion people drinking contaminated water

• The World Health Organization (WHO) published a report on 13th April 2017, Global Analysis and Assessment of Sanitation and Drinking-Water (GLAAS) 2017, stating nearly two billion people currently using contaminated water. 
• The revelation was made in the new report published by WHO on behalf of UN-Water.

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