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India & Japan, strategic
Varanasi, holy & clean partners in arms

rime Minister Narendra Modi and the then
hats of Varanasi are returning to their past PJapanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo
Gglory due to the commitment of people welcomed the signing of the Agreement on
towards clean Ganga. This is endorsed from Reciprocal Provision of Supplies and Services
the fact that Varanasi has emerged as the between the Indian Armed Forces and the
cleanest city along Ganga river in the Swachh Self-Defense Forces of Japan. Speaking via
Survekshan, 2020. One of the priests in video-conferencing, they concurred that the
Varanasi said that people are no more hesitant agreement would further enhance the depth of
to ritualistic Achman. The 140 MLD capacity defence cooperation between the two countries
sewage treatment plant has proved to be very and contribute to peace and security in the
helpful to make Ganga clean. A classification of Indo-Pacific region. Both the leaders reviewed
21 important and 63 general ghats (river banks) the status of ongoing cooperation, including the
has been made under the Swachh Bharat Mumbai-Ahmedabad High Speed Rail (MAHSR)
Mission to clean and beautify river fronts. project, under the framework of the India-Japan
Over 8-9 metric tonnes of garbage collected Special Strategic & Global Partnership. They
everyday is taken to a plant in covered boats agreed that the strong and enduring partnership
to make compost. The city has become an between the two countries will play a critical role
inspiration for others. in charting the course for the global community
in the post-COVID world.

CHECK YOUR HEALTH STATUS REAL TIME ON AAROGYA SETU

arogya Setu App, the most downloaded contact tracing App in the world, has
Aadded a new feature ‘Open API Service’, which can be availed by organizations
and business entities registered in India with more than 50 employees. They
can use the ‘Open API Service’ to enquire about the Aarogya Setu Application
in real-time and get the health status of their employees or any other Aarogya
Setu user, who have provided their consent for sharing their health status with
the organization. The Open API Service shall only provide the Aarogya Setu
status and name of the Aarogya Setu user. No other personal data shall be
provided through the API. Aarogya Setu has emerged as the most downloaded
contact tracing App, with more than 15 Crore users. The overwhelming support
of people has enabled it to aid to the efforts of frontline health workers and the
Government in COVID-19 mitigation and management efforts.

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