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COUNTRY'S FIRST NATIONAL

REPOSITORY FOR LIFE SCIENCE DATA

he data required for studies related to humans,
plants, animals, germs, and fungi in the
Tcountry will now be stored in the country itself.
So far, life science data was stored in "repositories"
in Europe and America. On November 10, Union
Science and Technology Minister Jitendra Singh
dedicated to the nation the country's first national
repository for life science data, the Indian Biological
Data Center (IBDC) in Faridabad, Haryana.
In IBDC, whatever life sciences research is done
at government expense across the country, it will
be kept. This centre has a capacity of 4 petabytes variant in real time. Union Minister Jitendra Singh
of data storage. It also has a "Brahma" accelerated informed that a disaster recovery centre has been set
computing facility. It has a dashboard for genomic up at the National Informatics Centre, Bhubaneswar.
surveillance data from INSACOG laboratories IBDC has collected more than 200 billion "bases"
(https://inda.rcb.ac.in/insacog/statisticsinsacog). in more than 50 research laboratories across the
There will be a facility to monitor the SARS-CoV-2 country.

IPPB ORGANISES COUNTRY'S FIRST GUJARAT'S KEVADIA BECOMES

FLOATING FINANCIAL LITERACY CAMP COUNTRY'S FIRST "ELECTRIC

preading financial literacy among the people VEHICLE" CITY
Sof India remains a challenge because a large
portion of the population still lives in rural areas. ujarat's Kevadia town has become the
In such a situation, India Post Payments Bank Gcountry's first "electric vehicle" town, marking
(IPPB) has devised a new strategy to extend its a significant step toward a pollution-free India.
reach to the last mile and bridge the financial As a result, the area around the Statue of Unity
inclusion gap with the assistance of the world's has become India's first "e-vehicle area." The
largest postal network. As part of this strategy, Kevadia area of Gujarat will be known not only for
the IPPB organised India's first floating financial the 182-meter-tall
literacy camp in Dal Lake in Sri Nagar, Jammu and statue of Sardar
Kashmir, as part of the "Investor Didi" initiative. Vallabhbhai Patel
The first floating financial literacy camp in India known as the
has made an important contribution to closing the "Statue of Unity,"
financial inclusion gap. This camp demonstrates but also as the
the ability to reach every household across the country's first city where only electric vehicles are
country. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has plying on road.
praised the IPPB's initiative. The Prime Minister With this initiative, India's progress toward a green
responded to a tweet from India Post Payments and clean India will be accelerated. The most
Bank by saying, "Wonderful initiative which will important aspect is that e-rickshaws are operated
further women's empowerment!" "Investor Didi" by local tribal women here, which is a significant
will play the role of a lady postman with a strong step toward empowering women. The tallest
social connection to the rural masses. statue in the world is located in Kevadia, Gujarat.

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