Current Affairs One-Liner: 24th August 2021

• India’s highest altitude herbal park was inaugurated in Mana village, Chamoli district of Uttarakhand. It is situated at a height of 11,000 feet. The park is comprised of 40 species of plants that are found in high altitude alpine areas in the Indian Himalayan region. The park is developed under the Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management and Planning Authority (CAMPA) scheme of the central government.
• Static Part: 
• CM of Uttarakhand: Pushkar Singh Dhami
• Governor of Uttarakhand: Baby Rani Maurya
• NTPC has commissioned India’s largest floating solar PV project of 25MW power on the reservoir of its Simhadri thermal station in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. With this, the total installed capacity of NTPC has now become 66,900 MW.
• Static Part: 
• HQ of NTPC: New Delhi
• Important Days and Themes: 23rd to 27th Aug 2021: World Water Week
• Theme: ‘Building Resilience Faster’
• Books and Authors: Title of Book: Let’s Go Time Travelling Again: Indians Through the Ages
• Author: Subhadra Sen Gupta

• The GOI is planning to have 35 more earthquake observatories (EO) by the 2021 year-end and aims to have 100 more EOs by 2026. The announcement for the same was made by Minister of State (MoS) for Science and Technology Jitendra Singh while addressing an event of Joint Scientific Assembly of International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy (IAGA) - International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's Interior (IASPEI).
• The NABARD has offered a loan of Rs 24.9 lakh for the Integrated Mangrove Fishery Farming System (IMFFS) project in the Cuddalore district of Tamil Nadu. The project will help to enhance the adaptive capacity of the fishing community.
• National Monetisation Pipeline
• Partnership between Paytm and HDFC Bank
• ‘NeoBolt’--India’s First Indigenous Motorized Wheelchair Vehicle
• ‘Yuktdhara’-- New Geospatial Planning Portal
• Appointments on 24th August 2021

Question: 

Q.1 What was the theme for World Water Week 2021?
a. Building Resilience Faster
b. Valuing Water
c. Water: Major resource on the Earth
d. Don’t waste it, reuse it