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Current Affairs 22nd and 23rd September 2019

♦ Prime Minister Narendra Modi attended the ‘Howdy Modi’ event at NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas. Modi joined by the President of the USA, Donald J Trump.

♦ Mayor of Houston, Sylvester Turner presented the ‘Key to Houston‘ to Narendra Modi as a mark of respect, solidarity and long-standing India-Houston relationship

♦ ECI, Election Commission of India appointed 2 ex-IRS officers as Special Expenditure Observers for the forthcoming elections to the Legislative Assembly of Maharashtra

Special Expenditure Observers: Madhu Mahajan and B Murali Kumar

Note: ECI as the power to appoint observers under Article 324 of the Indian Constitution and Section 20B of The Representation of the People Act 1951

♦ The First Advance Estimates of production of major Kharif crops for 2019-20 released by the Dept of Agriculture, Cooperation and Farmers Welfare

• Foodgrains: 140.57 million tonnes
• Oilseeds: 22.39 million tonnes
• Cotton: 32.27 million bales
• Jute  & Mesta: 9.96 million bales
• Sugarcane: 377.77 million tonnes

♦ The Union Minister for Health Family Welfare, Harsh Vardhan launched the UMMID initiative to tackle inherited genetic diseases of newborn babies in New Delhi and also inaugurated NIDAN Kendras

UMMID: Unique Methods of Management and treatment of Inherited Disorders

NIDAN: National Inherited Diseases Administration

♦ Sign Language Day was celebrated by the ISLRTC, which an autonomous body under the Dept of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities, M/o Social Justice and Empowerment. Thaawarchand Gehlot, Union Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment Distributed Prizes to Winners of ‘2nd Sign Language Competition, 2019

United Nations declared 23rd September as International Sign Language Day which formally accepted by the United Nations Assembly on 19^th December 2017.

Theme for the year 2019:  Sign Language-Rights for all

ISLRTC: Indian Sign Language Research and Training Centre

Union Minister for Social Justice Empowerment: Thaawarchand Gehlot

♦ Ministry of Steel organized Chintan Shivir on the theme, Towards a Vibrant, Efficient and Globally Competitive Indian Steel sector inaugurated by Dharmendra Pradhan was concluded New Delhi attended by Arjun Ram Meghwal as Cheif Guest

Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs and Heavy Industries & Public enterprises: Arjun Ram Meghwal.

Union Minister for Steel and Petroleum and Natural Gas: Dharmendra Pradhan

♦ Nitin Gadkari and Prahlad Singh Patel inaugurated the 2nd edition of India Tourism Mart (ITM) 2019 in New Delhi which jointly organized by the Ministry of Tourism and FAITH

FAITH: Federation of Associations in Indian Tourism and Hospitality

Union Minister of Road, Transport and Highways & Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises: Nitin Gadkari

Union Minister of State for Culture and Tourism: Prahlad Singh Patel