Subhash Chandra Bose Aapda Prabandhan Puraskar-2024 (GS Paper 3, Defence)
Why in news?
- For the year 2024, 60 Parachute Field Hospital, Uttar Pradesh, in the Institutional category, has been selected for the Subhash Chandra Bose Aapda Prabandhan Puraskar-2024 for its excellent work in Disaster Management.
About Subhash Chandra Bose Aapda Prabandhan Puraskar:
- The Government of India has instituted an annual award known as Subhash Chandra Bose Aapda Prabandhan Puraskar to recognize and honour the invaluable contribution and selfless service rendered by individuals and organizations in India in the field of disaster management.
- The award is announced every year on 23rd January, the birth anniversary of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.
- The award carries a cash prize of Rs. 51 lakh and a certificate in case of an institution and Rs. 5 lakh and a certificate in case of an individual.
Why 60 Parachute Field Hospital, Uttar Pradesh has been awarded?
- 60 Parachute Field Hospital, Uttar Pradesh, was established in 1942.
- It is the sole airborne medical establishment of the Indian Armed Forces, recognized for its exceptional service in various global crisis. The primary mission includes Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) operations during natural calamities, nationally and internationally, both in time of peace and war.
- It had provided medical assistance during the Uttarakhand floods (2013), Nepal Earthquake under the operation name ‘Maitri’ (2015) and Indonesian Tsunami as part of operation Samudra Maitri (2018).
- Recently, in response to the 7.8 magnitude earthquake in Turkey and Syria in February 2023, the unit rapidly assembled a 99-member team and established India’s pioneering level-2 medical facility in Turkey overcoming resource constraints and language barrier to set up a 30 bed hospital in Hatay province’s school building.
- The unit provided a wide range of medical services, including rescue, triage, surgery, dental treatment, X Ray and lab facilities and offered care to 3600 patients during a 12 day period as a part of ‘Operation Dost’.
ACME and Japanese IHI to supply Green Ammonia from India to Japan
(GS Paper 3, Environment)
Why in news?
- Recently, ACME Group, a leading renewable energy company in India, and IHI Corporation, a Japanese integrated heavy industry group, signed an offtake term sheet for supply of green ammonia from Odisha, India to Japan.
- Under this agreement, ACME and IHI plan to compete with the relatively cheaper but less environment-friendly blue ammonia supply with the active support and incentives being offered by the Central Government of India under National Green Hydrogen Mission (NGHM) and State Government of Odisha.
Key Highlights:
- The Green Ammonia will be produced at ACME’s 1.2 MMTPA Green Ammonia project being developed at Gopalpur in the state of Odisha.
- Total investment for 1.2 MMT per annum plant will be 5 billion USD.
- The term sheet between IHI and Acme covers the supply of 0.4 MMTPA (million metric tons per annum) of green ammonia from Phase-1 of Odisha project in Gopalpur on a long-term basis.
- Both companies wish to partner across the value chain, starting from production to logistics, supply to the Japanese customers and to create the market for green ammonia for use in a range of applications in power generation and various industrial uses in Japan to reduce the overall emissions.
About ACME:
- ACME Group is one of the largest renewable Independent Power Producer in India with a portfolio of more than 5 GW of renewable energy capacity under operation and various stages of implementation.
- In 2021, Acme built what is perhaps the world’s first Green Ammonia plant in Bikaner, Rajasthan.
- It is developing several green hydrogen and ammonia projects in India, Oman and USA with an aim to have a portfolio of c. 10 MMTPA of green ammonia or equivalent hydrogen/derivatives by 2032.
About IHI:
- IHI is a preeminent Japanese integrated heavy industry group that originated in 1853 and leveraged its shipbuilding technology to expand into onshore machinery, bridge, plant, aero-engine, and other manufacturing fields.
- IHI has provided various solutions in the Resource, Energy and Environment; Social Infrastructure; Industrial Systems and General-Purpose Machinery; and Aero Engine, Space and Defence business segments.
- It is developing technology for ammonia firing and is constructing a carbon-free fuel ammonia supply chain to help decarbonise the economy.
