27-11-21 Daily-Kerala-KPSC Current Affairs

The Kerala Tourism will launch the STREET project for specific spots across the districts to take tourism deep into the interiors of the state,

Highlights:

This project will help visitors to experience the diversity of offerings at these places.

This project has been conceived by Responsible Tourism Mission and is inspired by the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) slogan- “Tourism for <a href="https://exam.pscnotes.com/inclusive-Growth“>Inclusive Growth“.

STREET Project:

STREET is an acronym for “Sustainable, Tangible, Responsible, Experiential, Ethnic, Tourism hubs”.

Under the project, themes like Green Street, village life experience street, cultural street, experiential tourism street, water street, agri-tourism street, and art STREET have been planned.

These streets will be in sequence with the characteristics of the picked areas and will also focus on experiential tourism.

The STREET project intends to display the unique identity of the state of Kerala before to tourists.

It also offers a vast potential for growth in the tourism sector and would bring in vital changes.

The project will foster mutually profitable organic relationships between tourism development and people’s ordinary lives in Kerala.

The STREET project will be implemented in the Public-Private PARTNERSHIP (PPP) model. It will involve local bodies and residents of the select locations as stakeholders.

Munjpara Mahedrabhai, Minister of State (MoS) for Ayush, virtually launched the Ayurveda Parv-2021 on November 26, 2021, in New Delhi.

Highlights:

Ayurveda Parv-2021 is a three-day event designed to promote Ayurveda.

In addition to the involvement of pharmaceutical businesses, an exhibition of 40 booths has been organised as part of the event.

This event has been established to promote the right use of Ayurvedic Health care, as well as to coordinate and improve the use of Ayurvedic Education, research, and pharmaceutical manufacture.

The Ayurveda Parv is organised with the goal of increasing public acceptance of Ayurveda and popularising Ayurveda as the primary therapy for a variety of lifestyle disorders. The Ministry of AYUSH is supporting this programme.

In Light of the Covid-19 crisis, this programme has grown in importance during the last two years. It emphasised the need of promoting Ayurveda in the midst of a pandemic crisis.

In New Delhi, the of India (ECI) sponsored an international webinar titled “Enhancing Electoral Participation of Women, Persons with Disabilities (PwDs), and Senior Citizen Voters: Sharing Best Practices and New Initiatives.”

In the 2019 General Election, women made up more than 67% of the electorate.

In 1962, the gender gap was -16.71 per cent, however, it has already shifted to +0.17 per cent in 2019.

Since the 1971 Elections, India has seen a 233.72% Growth in female electors.The webinar was attended by representatives from 24 countries.