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Daily Current Affairs: 1 July 2026

Current affairs of 1 July 2026: IBCA Gets Bangladesh as Its 27th Member Country; ICJS Digital Rollout: Criminal Trials Go Paperless in 2027; Sujalam Sufalam Jal Abhiyan 2026: Gujarat Water Storage Gain, and 12 more topics. Key facts for every exam, with a quiz.

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In this issue: 15 topics

National Affairs

  1. ICJS Digital Rollout: Criminal Trials Go Paperless in 2027
  2. FCRA 2.0 Portal and e-OCI Card Launched by MHA
  3. 16th CCHFW: Nadda Launches SSBSK and SUMAN Roadmap 2030

Government Schemes

  1. Sujalam Sufalam Jal Abhiyan 2026: Gujarat Water Storage Gain
  2. SUMAN Roadmap 2030 Targets Maternal and Newborn Deaths
  3. Ayushman Sarathi: PM-JAY Chatbot for Cards and Grievances
  4. EPFO CITES 2.01 Database Migration: Key Facts
  5. Corporate Mitra Scheme: MCA and IIT Madras Train Youth for MSMEs

Banking & Finance

  1. NBFC CoR Surrender: RBI’s Updated Form and Checklist
  2. Bima Sugam: insurance marketplace products due by September 2026

Agriculture & Rural

  1. RuTAGe Smart Village Centres Open in Telangana PACS
  2. WLGSP-Coops: Cooperative Grain Storage Plan Explained

Environment & Ecology

  1. IBCA Gets Bangladesh as Its 27th Member Country

Defence & Security

  1. BRAHMANK Project: BRO Marks 16th Raising Day in Arunachal
  2. Gen Dhiraj Seth Becomes India’s 31st Army Chief

National Affairs

Polity & Governance

1. ICJS Digital Rollout: Criminal Trials Go Paperless in 2027

  • From 1 January 2027, every probe and trial under the three new criminal codes is to be recorded in digital form.
  • ICJS links police, courts, prisons, forensics and prosecution on one platform, with data kept on the MeghRaj cloud.
  • The national ICJS implementation score moved from 46.47% in January 2025 to 70.06% in June 2026.
  • BNS, BNSS and BSA took over from the IPC, CrPC and Evidence Act on 1 July 2024.
  • Under BNSS Section 173, any police station can register a zero-FIR irrespective of jurisdiction.
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Polity & Governance

2. FCRA 2.0 Portal and e-OCI Card Launched by MHA

  • The Home Minister launched the FCRA 2.0 Portal and the e-OCI Card in New Delhi on 30 June 2026.
  • FCRA 2.0 runs on MeghRaj, the government cloud, and offers Aadhaar authentication, e-Sign and OCR-based document reading.
  • About 14,500 active FCRA organisations exist; the e-OCI Card targets over 50 lakh OCI holders worldwide.
  • The FCRA Amendment Rules, 2026 require 75% use of earlier funds before the next instalment.
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Government Schemes

Government Schemes

4. Sujalam Sufalam Jal Abhiyan 2026: Gujarat Water Storage Gain

  • Gujarat gained 20,789 lakh cubic feet of storage capacity in 2026 through Sujalam Sufalam Jal Abhiyan; eight-year total is 1,38,039 lakh cubic feet.
  • The 2026 edition began on 23 February 2026 at Gandhinagar, inaugurated by CM Bhupendra Patel.
  • Jal Shakti Abhiyan began on 1 July 2019; its Catch the Rain version was launched on 22 March 2021.
  • Jal Sanchay Jan Bhagidari was started by PM Modi from Surat on 6 September 2024.
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Government Schemes

5. SUMAN Roadmap 2030 Targets Maternal and Newborn Deaths

  • SUMAN Roadmap 2030 was unveiled by Health Minister J P Nadda on 29 June 2026 at the 16th CCHFW, Vigyan Bhawan.
  • Goal: bring the Maternal Mortality Ratio under 70 per 1,00,000 live births by 2030, in line with SDG targets.
  • Focus covers 130 high-burden districts across 13 States, using the RMNCHA+N framework.
  • SUMAN expands to Surakshit Matritva Aashwasan; the scheme was first launched by the Prime Minister on 10 October 2019.
  • Operational Guidelines on National Ambulance Services 2026 were also released, with 112 integration and GPS tracking.
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Government Schemes

6. Ayushman Sarathi: PM-JAY Chatbot for Cards and Grievances

  • Ayushman Sarathi is a free digital tool for PM-JAY beneficiaries, launched around 29 June 2026.
  • It covers card application, download, lock/unlock, eKYC and Aadhaar linking, plus a module for the Ayushman Vaya Vandana Card.
  • Unified Drug Registry, Unified Health Interface and Aarogya Setu 2.0 were launched alongside it.
  • PM-JAY, begun 23 September 2018, insures each family for as much as ₹5 lakh annually.
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Banking & Finance

7. EPFO CITES 2.01 Database Migration: Key Facts

  • EPFO shifted its member services onto the unified CITES 2.01 platform between 26 June and 1 July 2026, pausing claims and passbook access.
  • CITES was built by C-DAC and has run since 2023; it replaces more than 120 separate regional databases.
  • CITES 2.01 has six modules; the sixth, covering compliance and grievances, was still being tested in 2026.
  • The Centralised Pension Payment System, live from 1 January 2025, serves 78+ lakh EPS pensioners at any bank branch.
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Banking & Finance

Banking & Finance

9. NBFC CoR Surrender: RBI’s Updated Form and Checklist

  • RBI revised the CoR voluntary-surrender form and checklist for NBFCs including HFCs on 30 June 2026, hosted on the PRAVAAH portal.
  • Unregistered Type I NBFCs take no public funds, have no customer interface and hold assets below ₹1,000 crore; registration under Section 45-IA is not mandatory.
  • The category was created by Amendment Directions dated 29 April 2026; the transition window runs 1 April to 30 September 2026.
  • PRAVAAH (Platform for Regulatory Application, Validation and Authorisation) was launched on 28 May 2024 as a single-window gateway for RBI applications.
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Economy

10. Bima Sugam: insurance marketplace products due by September 2026

  • IRDAI Chairman Ajay Seth said on 30 June 2026 that initial Bima Sugam products should arrive by end-September 2026.
  • Priority products are motor, health and term life insurance; the Bima Sugam website went live in September 2025.
  • Bima Trinity has three pillars: Bima Sugam (marketplace), Bima Vistaar (rural composite cover) and Bima Vahaak (women agent network).
  • Insurance Amendment Bill 2025 allowed 100% FDI in insurance, up from 74%, without an Indian JV partner.
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Agriculture & Rural

Agriculture & Rural Development

11. RuTAGe Smart Village Centres Open in Telangana PACS

  • The first RuTAGe Smart Village Centre (RSVC) based in a PACS is at Beerpur, Jagtial; a second is at Nandanam FSCS, Hanumakonda.
  • The scheme is driven by the PSA's office together with NABARD.
  • NABARD's Gramya Vikas Nidhi gave ₹33.52 lakh for Beerpur's 2026-2029 project, with Cornell Sathguru Foundation advising.
  • The two centres reach 20 villages, over 18,000 hectares and about 5,000 farmers or members.
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Government Schemes

12. WLGSP-Coops: Cooperative Grain Storage Plan Explained

  • WLGSP-Coops got Union Cabinet approval on 31 May 2023 and sits under the Ministry of Cooperation.
  • At PACS level it sets up Fair Price Shops, godowns, processing units and custom hiring centres by pooling four existing schemes.
  • The converging schemes are AIF, AMI, SMAM and PMFME; the plan spans 24 States/UTs.
  • NABARD held a stakeholder sensitisation workshop on the plan in Hojai district, Assam, on 28 June 2026.
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Environment & Ecology

Defence & Security

Defence & Security

14. BRAHMANK Project: BRO Marks 16th Raising Day in Arunachal

  • Project BRAHMANK was raised on 29 June 2011 and turned operational on 3 December 2011; its Raising Day event was held at Ranaghat, East Siang.
  • It looks after 811 km of roads and 86 bridges in five Arunachal districts plus parts of Dhemaji in Assam.
  • In FY 2025-26 it finished 13 bridges (390 m combined span) and blacktopped 61 km of road to NHDL standard.
  • BRO was set up on 7 May 1960 and has worked under the Ministry of Defence since 2015, earlier under MoRTH.
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