# OBC,SC qouta

• More than half of the faculty positions reserved for the OBCs in central institutions of higher education are vacant while about 40% of those reserved for SC and STs also remain unfilled.

• The situation is particularly acute in the elite Indian institutes of management (IIMs), where more than 60% of SC and OBC reserved positions are vacant.

• The condition is better in assistant professors category as nearly 64% of OBC quota is filled.

# Ministry of home affairs

• The MHA moved a bill in the lok sabha on monday in which it proposed that the “government” in the National capital territory of Delhi meant the lieutant governor of Delhi.

• The proposed legislation also seeks to ensure that the LG is necessarily granted an opportunity to give his/her opinion before any decision taken by the council of ministers is implemented.

• Delhi is an union territory with a legislature and it came into being in 1991 under article 239A of the constitution inserted by the 69th constitutional amendment act,1991.

# Bee fences

• Forest officials have pitted the largest animal on land against a minute insect like bee.

• This has been done to mitigate human elephant conflict in parts of southern karnataka.

• A pilot project launched in Kodagu entails installing bee boxes along the periphery of the forest and the villages.

# 2000 rupees notes

• The government on monday informed the Lok sabha that 2000 rupees currency notes have not printed in the past two years.

• Minister of state for finance Anurag thakur said that 3362 million currency notes of 2000 denomination were in circulation on march 30, 2018 , constituting 3.27% and 37.26% of the currency in terms of volume and trade respectively.

# Arms import

• Arms import decreased by 33% between 2011-15 and 2016-20, while India continued to remain the second largest arms importer after Saudi Arabia.

• The report has been published by a swedish think tank stockholm international peace research institute.

• The overall drop in arms import seems to be mainly due to its complex and lenghty procurement processes.