Good Governance Day

• 25 December
• Atal Bihari Vajpayee
• announced in 2014 (Narendra Modi)

e-Governance

• "Good Governance through e-Governance"

Good Governance Report

• Ministry of Communication and Information Technology

Good Governance Index

• 2019
• The Department of Administration Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG)

Index For Industrial Production (IIP)

• data released by the National Statistical Office (NSO) 
• The base year for ‘Index For Industrial Production (IIP) was changed to 2011-12 from 2004-05 in the year 2017.

Price Indices: CPI and WPI

  The inflation rates in the country are the year-on-year

1. Wholesale price index (WPI) based inflation rate
2. Consumer price index (CPI) based inflation rate

• The CPI-based inflation data is compiled by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (or MoSPI) and 
• the WPI-based inflation data is put together by the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (or DPIIT).

Difference

• WPI does not take into account the change in prices of services.
• If services such as transport, education, recreation and amusement, personal care, etc. get significantly costlier, then retail inflation will rise but there will be no impact on wholesale price inflation.

Emissions Gap Report 2022

• United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) 
• Titled ‘Emissions Gap Report 2022: The Closing Window — Climate Crisis Calls For Rapid Transformation of Societies’

The world is falling short of the goals set forth in the Paris Climate Agreement adopted in 2015, and no credible pathway is currently in place to restrict global warming to under 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

Human Development Index 2021

India 

• Rank: 132/191
• Point: 0.633 lower than the world average of 0.732
• Category: Medium

 

Indicators

• Life expectancy at Birth (SDG 3)
• Expected Years of Schooling (SDG 4)
• Mean Years of Schooling ( SDG 4)
• Gross National Income (GNI)

World Press Freedom Day

• 3rd May

 World Press Freedom Index

• published by Reporters Without Borders (RSF)
• Theme: "Journalism under digital siege"
• India ranked 150th among the 180 countries.

Source: The Indian Express

Gender Gap Index

• released by the World Economic Forum(WEF)
• four key areas: health, education, economics and politics.