India on Call

Hello everyone, welcome to the latest episode of our podcast India on Call. This is the seventeenth episode of the podcast. This week Anubhav and Aditya are discussing National Common Mobility Card. National Common Mobility Card or NCMC is an interoperable transport card that can be used for all sorts of travel. It is integrated with a Rupay card and also it can be used as a debit card.

Topics discussed in this podcast:

-What is NCMC?

-What NCMC is used for?

-When NCMC got conceptualized?

-How much time NCMC will take in implementation?

-Does NCMC synchronizes with the idea of Make in Indian and Atmnirbhar Bharat?

Link to our past episodes:

क्यों नाकाम है दिल्ली में प्रदूषण रोकने को सरकार । Delhi Air Pollution | AQI | India on Call | EP 16 : 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYwUQXBE-vk&t=2s

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6LTuHWLTBo1UwuMyYrFAtu

क्या वाक़ई चीन विरोधी गेम में भारत को शामिल कर रहा है पश्चिम | भारत-रूस सम्बन्ध | India on Call

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MS0xmDaeCY&t=11s

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2pS8VYJKHYwaKY1cx6QjRw

#NCMC #OneNationOneCard

Hello and welcome to the sixteenth episode of our podcast India on call. This week we are talking about something which is a very grave situation and everyone is talking about it but nobody is caring. We will be discussing Pollution in Delhi   With winters the pollution in the capital has increased. Anubhav will be telling us about what is AQI? Why air pollution is a serious situation in Delhi? Why pollution in Delhi increases with winters? What is the commission for air quality management and much more?  #AirPollution #Delhi #DelhiPollution

Hello, and welcome to the latest episode of our podcast 'India on Call'. Anubhav and Aditya are back with 'Hafte Bhar ki Bhasad'. Last week they talked about Urban Local Bodies. In this podcast, they are discussing why Russia is annoyed with India. In a recent event, the Russian foreign minister said that the USA is using India as an object in the anti-China game. Anubhav will tell in detail in this podcast what's actually happening. 

Topics they discussed:

-Latest development.

-Relationship between India and Russia.

-Relationship between India and the Indo-pacific region.

-What is Malabar exercise?

Links:

क्यों खस्ता है Municipal Corporation के हालात और क्या होते हैं Municipal Bond | India on Call: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ig1m_ddGruM&t=90s

Why India didn’t join RCEP | भारत ने RCEP समझौते से खींचा हाथ | India on Call: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Byaf0...

Why India didn't join RCEP: Audio Podcast https://srmpodcasts.com/why-didnt-ind...

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Hello and welcome to the latest episode of our podcast India on Call. Anubhav and Aditya are back with 'Hafte Bhar ki Bhasad'. Last week was full of GHMC and listing of the bond of Lucknow Municipal corporation. The election was held in Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation and Yogi Adityanath went to the Bombay Stock exchange to list the bond of Lucknow Municipal bond. having so seen much buzz of the local urban bodies, Aditya and ANubhav decided to talk about Urban Local Bodies.

Topics they discussed were:

- What are Urban Local Bodies?

- Why Municipal bonds are required?

- What is the 74th constitution amendment?

- What is the present scenario?

- Why there is a financial crisis?

- Are bonds are required for every local body?

- The way forward

Links:

Why India didn’t join RCEP | भारत ने RCEP समझौते से खींचा हाथ | India on Call: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Byaf01PMtVw&t=213s

Why India didn't join RCEP: Audio Podcast https://srmpodcasts.com/why-didnt-india-join-rcep/

Link to our website: srmpodcasts.com 

Hello and welcome to the latest episode of our podcast India on Call. From this week onwards we will be having India on Call on audio as well as a video platform. Till now Indian on Call was streaming on all major streaming platforms and now it will be on youtube also.

In this edition of India on Call, Aditya is joined with Anubhav. They are talking about everything one needs to know about RCEP. Aditya started the conversation by asking Anubhav about what is RCEP? Anubhav told that it is Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership. It is a free trade agreement between Asia-Pacific nations. Excitingly these RCEP countries have 30% of the world's population and 30% of the world's GDP. The talk about RCEP started in 2012.

Anubhav told that the USA was having a Trans-Pacific trade partnership, which was the largest free trade agreement between any bloc of countries but when Trump joins the office, he dropped out of the USA from the same deal. Since then finding the vacuum in space, China is talking aggressively about RCEP.

They also talked about the various factors because of which India didn't join the RCEP and what are the merits and demerits of not joining RCEP. for more listen to the conversation or watch the video. Don't forget to visit our website srmpodcasts.com

Hello and welcome to the twelfth episode of our podcast India on Call. In this podcast, they are talking about India-USA 2+2 ministerial dialogue.  India and the USA are up for a landmark defense treaty, Basic Exchange and Cooperation Agreement for Geo-Spatial Cooperation (BECA) so that geospatial information sharing between the armed forces of the India and USA can be expanded.

The signing of the long-negotiated Basic Exchange and Cooperation Agreement (BECA) during the third edition of the 2+2 dialogue between the two strategic partners also signals further boosting of bilateral defense and military ties and it comes in the backdrop of India''s tense border standoff with China in eastern Ladakh.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and Defence Minister Rajath Singh held the talks with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defence Secretary Mark T Esper. Both sides were assisted by their top military and security officials.

In the 2+2 dialogue, the two sides deliberated on a host of critical issues including ways to further expand the already close relationship between the militaries of the two countries as well as broader issues of mutual interest in the Indo-Pacific region.

The inking of the BECA completes the finalization of four key pacts between the two countries which were identified as crucial to significantly expand the strategic ties.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and Defence Minister Rajath Singh held the talks with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defence Secretary Mark T Esper. Both sides were assisted by their top military and security officials.

Welcome to the eleventh episode of our podcast India on call.

In this podcast, Anubhav and Aarushi are talking about how society is going to change after the pandemic. 

They started by talking about how corona has changed the way of life of people. There has been a tremendous change in the habits of people. Everyone has started working from home part of the essential services. The online transaction has gained a lot of traction and even small vendors have opted for online payments. 

Anubhav starts talking about various plagues in the history of mankind. He started telling about the Antonine plague which is the first documented plague in the known history.  The Antonine Plague, sometimes referred to as the Plague of Galen, erupted in 165 CE, at the height of Roman power throughout the Mediterranean world during the reign of the last of the Five Good Emperors, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (161-180 CE). The first phase of the outbreak would last until 180 CE affecting the entirety of the Roman Empire, while a second outbreak occurred in 251-266 CE, compounding the effects of the earlier outbreak.

Later Anubhav also talked about the Plague. Plague is an infectious disease caused by Yersinia pestis bacteria, usually found in small mammals and their fleas. The disease is transmitted between animals via their fleas and, as it is a zoonotic bacterium, it can also transmit from animals to humans.

Humans can be contaminated by the bite of infected fleas, through direct contact with infected materials, or by inhalation. Plague can be a very severe disease in people, particularly in its septicaemic and pneumonic forms, with a case-fatality ratio of 30% - 100% if left untreated.

The government has introduced three Bills to replace these ordinances. Lok Sabha passed one of these recently and the other two are listed for consideration and passing during the current session. They are called: 

The Farmers Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Ordinance, 2020;  

The Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Ordinance, 2020;

The Essential Commodities (Amendment) Ordinance, 2020. It is the Bill replacing the third that has been passed in Lok Sabha. While farmers are protesting against all three ordinances, their objections are mostly against the provisions of the first. And while there is no uniform demand among the protesters or a unified leadership, it emerges that their concerns are mainly about sections relating to “trade area”, “trader”, “dispute resolution” and “market fee” in the first ordinance44Section 2(m) of The Farmers Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Ordinance, 2020 defines “trade area” as any area or location, place of production, collection, and aggregation including (a) farm gates; (b) factory premises; (c) warehouses; (d) silos; (e) cold storages; or (f) any other structures or places, from where the trade of farmers’ produce may be undertaken in the territory of India. The definition does not, however, include “the premises, enclosures, and structures constituting (i) physical boundaries of principal market yards, sub-market yards, and market sub-yards managed and run by the market committees formed under each state APMC (Agricultural Produce Market Committee) Act”. It also excludes “private market yards, private market sub-yards, direct marketing collection centers, and private farmer-consumer market yards managed by persons holding licenses or any warehouses, silos, cold storages or other structures notified as markets or deemed markets under each State APMC Act in force in India”. In effect, existing mandis established under APMC Acts have been excluded from the definition of trade area under the new legislation. The government says the creation of an additional trade area outside of mandis will provide farmers the freedom of choice to conduct trade in their produce.

According to an order issued by the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT), all ministries and government departments will have to conduct a quarterly review of the officials, in order to ascertain who among them need to be prematurely retired from service. In order to bring in better clarity to the existing instructions and enable uniform implementation, an effort has been made to review, consolidate, and reiterate the guidelines so far issued on the subject in one place. The register of the government servants who are due to attain the age of 50/55 years or to complete 30 years of service, has to be maintained. The register maintained by each ministry will have to be reviewed at the beginning of every quarter by a senior official of the ministry or department. As such, a review would be mandatory for the January-March, April-June, July-September, and October-December periods.

Hello and welcome to the eighth episode of our podcast.

At the time of independence and after independence, and awareness of isolation began to rise among the Assamese. ! Discovery of oil in several areas of upper Assam in the late 1960s pushed up the crude oil production figure to an average of 3.5 million tons per year. From 1970 onwards, the figure touched 5 million tons per year. ! However, the royalty paid by the center to Assam was not satisfactory. The state government and people of Assam demanded to raise the royalty. However, the central government refused the state government’s demand for the revision of royalty on crude oil. As a result, the feeling spread among the people of the state that the center was merely exploiting the resources of the region without considering Assam’s ever-deteriorating economic situation.