# Vaccine maitri

• Union health minister Harsh vardhan told the Rajya sabha on tuesday that covid-19 vaccines were not being sent to foreign countries at the expense of Indian citizens.

• On monday alone 30 lakh people were administered the vaccine and till now more than 3 crore people had been inoculated.

• However, a parliamentary standing committee on home affairs has observed that the vaccination process is too low.

# Reservation

• Older IIMs have performed badly in filling reserved seats of faculties.

• One of the worst performers is IIM kolkata were only 3% of reserved seats were filled. Also, IIM Nagpur has no faculty from reserved category.

• Some of the newer IIMs liked IIM shilong, IIM jammu, and IIM raipur has 31%, 23%, and 25% of reserved seats filled.

# National capital territory law

• The expression “government” referred to in any law to be made by the legislative assembly shall mean the lieutanant governor.

• All executive action of the LG whether taken on advice of his minister or otherwise shall be taken in the name of the LG.

• The assembly shall not make any rule to enable itself or its committees to consider the matters of day to day administration of the capital.

# Air pollution

• Delhi remained the most polluted capital of the world.

• Out of top 15 cities, 13 cities are from India.

• However, the average annual PM 2.5 levels in 2020 was lower than in 2019.

# Medical termination of pregnancy

• The rajya sabha on tuesday passed the medical termination of pregnancy (amendment) bill 2020.

• It increase the time period within which an abortion may be carried out.

• The pregnant woman need a nod from a medical board for abortion in the case of pregnancies beyond 24 weeks is one of the new rules in the act.