IMPORTANT SEPTEMBER 2019 CURRENT AFFAIRS

Awards

• The child activist who has become the first Indian to be awarded the Changemaker Award 2019, for her work towards abolition of child marriage in Rajasthan, by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation – Payal Jangid                                   
•  The international organisation which has awarded the 2019 Global Goalkeeper award to the Indian Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi for his leadership of the Swachch Bharat Mission – Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
• The veteran Bollywood actor who has been chosen for the 66th Dada Saheb Phalke Award for the year 2018 – Amitabh Bachchan
• The TV journalist who has been awarded the first Gauri Lankesh National Award for Journalism – Ravish Kumar
• The noted mathematician, educator and founder of Super 30 who has been awarded Education Excellence Award 2019 by US based organisation Foundation for Excellence – Anand Kumar
• The renowned Indian photographer who has been chosen for the first edition of the Académie des beaux-arts Photography Award – William Klein – Raghu Rai
• The veteran bollywood music director who has been chosen for the 2019-20 Lata Mangeshkar Award – Usha Khanna
• The noted Odia writer who has been chosen for the prestigious Sarala Puraskar – 2019 for his work Chaur Chibar O Charjya – Pradeep Dash
• The Nobel laureate from Bangladesh who has been conferred the Lamp of Peace of St. Francis award by the Vatican – Prof Muhammad Yunus

Defence

• The indigenously built submarine which was commissioned into the Indian Navy by the Defence Minister Shri Rajnath Singh in Mumbai – INS Khanderi
• The trilateral maritime exercise by the navies of India, Japan and the USA to be conducted off the coast of Japan from 26 Sep 19 to 04 Oct 19 – Exercise Malabar
• The IAF officer who has become the India’s first female military diplomat on being appointed as the Deputy Air Attache to Russia – Wg Cdr Anjali Singh
• The maiden trilateral maritime exercise being conducted at Port Blair from 16 Sep to 20 Sep 19 by thenavies of India, Singapore and Thailand is named – SITMEX 19
• The place in Meghalaya where Joint Military Exercise MAITREE-2019 between India and Thailand is scheduled to be conducted from 16 to 29 Sep 2019 – Umroi
• The squadron of the Indian Air Force which has been resurrected about 3 years after it was disbanded in 2016 and also chosen to be the first squadron to be equipped with Rafale in future – 17 Squadron (Golden Arrows)
• The 7th edition of bilateral maritime exercise by India and Sri Lanka being conducted at Visakhapatnam from 08 Sep 19 – SLINEX 2019
• The Indian Air Force base at which AH-64E Apache Attack Helicopter was inducted into the IAF in presence of the Chief of Air Staff, Air Chief Marshall BS Dhanoa – Pathankot
• The venue of Indo-US joint military exercise Yudh Abhyas 2019 being held from 05 to 18 September 2019 – Joint Base Lewis McChord, Washington Persons
• The Indian classical singer after whom a minor planet (located between Mars and Jupiter) has been named – Pandit Jasraj
• The Bulgarian economist who has been chosen to be the new Managing Director of International Monetary Fund replacing Christine Lagarde – Kristalina Georgieva
• The Vice Chief of Air Staff who has been chosen to be the next Chief of Air Staff of India – Air Marshall RKS Bhadauria
• The 1972 batch retired IAS officer who has taken over as the new Prinicipal Secretary to the Prime Minister succeeding Shri Nripendra Mishra who resigned recently – Dr. Pramod Kumar Mishra
• The three member committee constituted by the Union Govt to look into the distribution of assets and liabilities of Jammu and Kashmir between two new Union Territories is headed by – Sanjay Mitra
• The former President of Zimbabwe who passed away on 06 September 2019 in Singapore – Robert Mugabe

Themes

• The theme of the 7th annual World Hindu Economic Forum (WHEF) 2019 held in Mumbai – Prosperous Society: Stronger Society
• The theme of 6th India Water Week being observed from 24 to 28 Sep 2019 – Water Cooperation – Coping with 21st Century Challenges

Miscellaneous

• The index released by the NITI Aayog to evaluate the performance of States and Union Territories (UTs) in the school education sector is named – School Education Quality Index (SEQI)
• The river in Andhra Pradesh in which a tourist boat capsized killing several people onboard – Godavari
• The minimum export price (MEP) fixed by the Central Govt for onions in order to increase domestic prices and check rising prices – $ 850 per metric tonne
• The airport at which India’s tallest Air Traffic Control tower with a height of 102 meters was inaugurated by the Union Minister Shri Hardeep Puri – Indira Gandhi International Airport, Delhi
• The theme of Rashtriya Poshan Maah being observed for the month of September by the Union government – Complementary Feeding
  The country from India has taken over the Presidency of COP to UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) for a period of 2 years (till 2021) – China 

          Ram Jethmalani

• Born: 14 Sep 1923 Death: 08 Sep 2019
  Served as Minister of Law and Justice and Minister of Urban Development under PM Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee
  Books written: Big Egos, Small Men; Conscience of a Maverick; and Maverick: Unchanged, Unrepentant

         New Governors

1. Shri Bhagat Singh Koshyari: Maharashtra
2. Shri Arif Mohammad Khan: Kerala
3. Shri Bandaru Dattatreya: Himachal Pradesh
4. Dr. Tamilisai Soundararajan: Telangana
5. Shri Kalraj Mishra: Rajasthan

Pradhan Mantri Kisan Maan Dhan Yojana

• Launched by the Prime Minister from Ranchi in Jharkhand                                                                       
•  It is voluntary and contributory for farmers in the entry age group of 18 to 40 years and a monthly pension of Rs. 3000/- will be provided to them on attaining the age of 60 years.
• The farmers will have to make a monthly contribution of Rs.55 to Rs.200, depending on their age of entry, in the Pension Fund till they reach the retirement date i.e. the age of 60 years.
• The Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) shall be the Pension Fund Manager and responsible for Pension pay out.
  Small and Marginal Farmer (SMF) – a farmer who owns cultivable land upto 2 hectare as per land record of the concerned State/UT is eligible for joiining this scheme.

Books in News

• Loktantra ke Swar (Republican Ethic) – II – Compilation of speeches by President Shri Ramnath Kovind
  Shiksha, My Experiments as an Education Minister – Manish Sidodia