Ruchira Kamboz appointed Permanent Ambassador to UN
- DS Thirumurthy was appointed as India's Permanent Ambassador to the United Nations in April 2020, following the retirement of Syed Akbaruddin as India's Ambassador to the United Nations.
- Since retiring, Ruchira Campos, who passed the IPS exam in 1987, has been appointed Permanent Ambassador to the United Nations.
- He is currently serving as India's Ambassador to Bhutan. Ruchira Kamboj will soon begin her work as the Permanent Ambassador to the United Nations, according to a statement issued by the Union Ministry of Foreign Affairs yesterday.
- Assam has emerged as the 36th state in the country to implement a single nation, single family card scheme. This has enabled the scheme to be successfully implemented in all the States / Union Territories in the country and facilitated the transformation of food security across the country.
- The One Nation, One Family Card has played a key role in ensuring that affordable food grains are made available to beneficiaries, especially migrant workers, under the National Food Security Act during the last 2 years after the outbreak of Covit-19.
- The scheme, one of the public welfare schemes being implemented in the country, has been implemented in a short span of time since its inception in August 2019 to benefit over 80 crore beneficiaries.
- Since the inception of the scheme, 71 crore migrant transactions have been made (43.6 crore under the National Food Security Act and 27.8 crore under the Prime Minister's Kareeb Kalyan Annai Yojana).
- As a result, about Rs 40,000 crore worth of food grains have been distributed in the diaspora under the One Nation, One Family Card scheme. During the Kovid epidemic alone (from April 2020 to date) Rs. 36,000 crore worth of food grains have been provided to migrant workers.
- The 12th Joint Working Group Meeting on Indo-Nepal Border Management and Security Issues was held in New Delhi.
- The Indian side was led by the Joint Secretary (Border Management) of the Union Home Ministry and the Nepalese side was led by the Joint Secretary of the Home Ministry.
- The two-day meeting reviewed the results of the 2015 Joint Action Committee meeting held in Pokhara, Nepal.
- The meeting also discussed aspects of crime at the border, strengthening the border structure, empowerment and capacity building of various security agencies, and prevention of terrorist activities. Following this, it was decided to hold the next meeting of the Joint Action Committee in Nepal.
