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■ MISSION KARMAYOGI. The Union Cabinet gave its approval for Mission Karmayogi, a new national capacity building and performance evaluation programme for civil servants. □ ABOUT :- ◇ The mission is established under the National Programme for Civil Services Capacity Building (NPCSCB). ◇ It is aimed at building a future-ready civil service with the right attitude, skills and knowledge, aligned to the vision of New India. ◇ The scheme will cover 46 lakh, Central government employees, at all levels, and involve an outlay of ₹510 crores over a five-year period, according to an official statement. □ NEED OF SUCH MISSION ? ◇ The capacity of Civil Services plays a vital role in rendering a wide variety of services, implementing welfare programs and performing core governance functions. □ APEX BODY ◇ The Prime Minister’s Public Human Resource Council will be set up as the apex body to direct the reforms.

 ⬛ TROPICAL MONSOON CLIMATE :- ◾ DISTRIBUTION ◇ Some parts of world experience seasonal winds like land and sea breezes but on larger scale. ◇ These are Tropical monsoon lands with on-shore wet monsoons in summer and off-shore dry monsoons in winter. ◇ Best developed in Burma,Thailand, Laos,Cambodia,parts of vietnam and south china. ◾CLIMATIC CONDITIONS ◇ In summer sun is overhead at the tropic of cancer, the land masses of northern hemisphere heated.  ◇ A low pressure is set up in  Central asia.  ◇  At the same time Southern hemisphere experiences a winter and a region of high pressure created. ◇ Winds blows outwards as the south - east monsoon and after crossing the equator are drawn towards continental low pressure area reaching Indian sub-continent. ◾SEASONS OF TROPICAL MONSOON CLIMATE ◇ Cool, dry season. ( oct to Feb ) ◇ Hot dry season. ( March to mid june ) ◇ Rainy season ( mid - june to September)

 ■ WHITE BELLIED HERON SPOTTED :- This bird is spotted in Anjaw district of Arunachal Pradesh. ◇ The white-bellied heron is categorised as ‘critically endangered’ in International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red Data Book. ◇ It is listed in Schedule IV in the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972. ◇ It is one of the rarest birds in the world and is found only in Bhutan, Myanmar and the Namdapha Tiger Reserve in Arunachal Pradesh. ◇ It had also been recorded in the adjacent Kamlang Tiger Reserve in Lohit district in camera trap images.