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Central ATFM Complex
Context
- Minister of State (I/c) for Civil Aviation today inaugurated the Air Traffic Flow Management – Central Command Centre
What is C-ATFM?
- The C-ATFM system is primarily meant to address the balancing of capacity against the demand to achieve optimum utilization of the major resources viz., airport, airspace and aircraft at every Indian airport where there is a capacity constraint.
- The C-ATFM system integrates flight data from various subsystems like ATC Automation System, flight updates and flight update messages
- The system also displays weather information along with static information about airports, airspaces and air routes.
- The system processes the demand and capacity information and provides decision-making tools to the ATFM Flow Manager for collaborative decision making and to ensure regulated flow of traffic at each airport in India.
Significance of C-ATFM
- The C-ATFM system is supported by 36 Flow Management Positions (FMP) at various airports including eight defence airports.
- After successfully implementing the Air Traffic Flow Management System, India has become the seventh country after the US, Europe, Australia, South Africa, Japan, Brazil.
Printing process for General Budget 2019-20 commences
Context
- Halwa ceremony marking the commencement of Budget printing process for the General Budget 2019-20 was held in North Block.
Halwa ceremony
- To maintain the secrecy of Budget, there is a “lock-in” of the officials involved in making the Budget.
- Budget press situated in North Block, which houses all the officials in the period leading up to the presentation of the Union Budget.
- These officers and staff gain touch with their near and dear ones only after the Budget is presented by the Union Finance Minister in Parliament.
NSIC signs MoU with Common Service Centres
Context
- The National Small Industries Corporation signed an MoU with Common Service Centres (CSC) e-Governance Services India in New Delhi
About the MoU
- MoU will have a special focus on providing services to village level entrepreneurs (VLEs) and would to lead to an exponential growth of Village Entrepreneurs in the country.
- The MoU will also enable CSCs to utilize a plethora of NSIC offerings through the NSIC portal.
- CSC will facilitate VLEs and MSMEs through digital empowerment in accessing NSIC integrated support services encompassing Marketing, Finance, Technology and other offerings.
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