Funfact Friday

 

 Manohar Parrikar- The first IITian who became a CM   

        Hailed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the 'builder of modern Goa', Chief Minister and former Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar was the first IIT alumnus to hold the office of CM in Indian public services.


  • He was Chief Minister of Goa from 2000 to 2005 and from 2012 to 2014 and from 2017 to 2019. 
  • He also served as the Minister of Defence from October 2014 to March 2017. 
  • In January 2020, he was posthumously awarded Padma Bhushan.
  • Manohar Parrikar was known to travel by his bicycle to Goa Vidhan Sabha and refused all government benefits after becoming chief minister. He insisted on using his old Innova even after becoming CM.
  • His name appears in the closing credits of the movies 'The Bourne Supremacy'


220 million tons of old computers and other technological hardware are trashed in the United States each year.

  • The amount of worldwide e-waste generation is expected to exceed 50 million tons by 2020, with an annual growth between 4% and 5%.
  • This quantity includes 16.8 million metric tons of small equipment; 9.1 million metric tons of large equipment; 7.6 million metric tons of temperature exchange (freezing and cooling) equipment; 6.6 million metric tons of screens and monitors; 3.9 million metric tons of small IT,; and 0.7 million metric tons of lamps.
  • Roughly 40% of e-waste generated in the U.S., Canada, and Europe is exported to Asia, a trade flow that is a source of considerable controversy
  • A record 53.6 million metric tonnes (Mt) of electronic waste was generated worldwide in 2019, up 21 per cent in just five years, according to the UN’s Global E-waste Monitor 2020, released today.  
  •  The new report also predicts global e-waste - discarded products with a battery or plug - will reach 74 Mt by 2030, almost a doubling of e-waste in just 16 years. This makes e-waste the world’s fastest-growing domestic waste stream, fueled mainly by higher consumption rates of electric and electronic equipment, short life cycles, and few options for repair.   
  • Only 17.4 per cent of 2019’s e-waste was collected and recycled. This means that gold, silver, copper, platinum and other high-value, recoverable materials conservatively valued at US $57 billion -- a sum greater than the Gross Domestic Product of most countries – were mostly dumped or burned rather than being collected for treatment and reuse.





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