Current Affairs 20 September 2019 Monthly Magazine National International Current Events PDF Download 2019

♦ Prime Minister Narendra Modi to be awarded the Global Goalkeepers Goals Award 2019 for his commitment to the Swachch Bharat Abhiyaan, conferred by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

♦ Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Mongolia, H.E. Khaltmaagiin Battulga jointly unveiled a statue of Lord Buddha and his two disciples installed at the Gandan Tegchenling Monastery in Ulaanbaatar

Country: Mongolia

Capital: Ulaanbaatar

Currency: Mongolian Tughrik

Parliament of Mongolia: The State Great Khural (Unicameral)

♦ 37th GST Council met in Goa under the Chairmanship of Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, some recommendations and reduce the rate of GST in various fields were discussed in the meeting are given

• No GST on hotel accommodation service under Rs 1000 and less
• To reduce GST from 5% to 1.5% on the supply of job work services in relation to diamonds
• To reduce GST from 18%to 12% on supply of machine job work in the engineering industry
• Exemption of  “BANGLA SHASYA BIMA” (BSB) crop insurance scheme of West Bengal Government
• To reduce GST from 18% to 12% on parts of Slide Fasteners
• To reduce GST from 18% to 5% on Marine Fuel 0.5%

♦ Amit Shah launched 3 citizen-centric services- emergency Response Support System, ERSS Dial 112,  E-Beat and E-Saathi App of the Chandigarh Police

◊ Dial 112 is for emergency response service

◊ E-Beat Book is a web and mobile-based application for real-time updating of crime/criminal data

◊ E-Saathi App is to help the general public and also can give suggestions to facilitate participative community policing. By this app services like servant verification, passport verification, tenant verification, character certification etc.can done with one click without the people needing to visit the police station

♦ Anil Kumar Jain, IAS appointed as the new Coal Secretary. He is from Madhya Pradesh cadre of 1986-batch IAS

Minister of Coal, Mines: Pralhad Joshi

Secretary of Coal, Mines: Anil Kumar Jain

Additional Secretary of Coal, Mines: Vinod Kumar Tiwari