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An American facelift for the Jaipur foot
Soon there will be a Michigan version of the famous Jaipur Foot. The Jaipur Foot considered to be among the world’s
cheapest and most user-friendly artificial limbs. A prototype of the new Jaipur Foot, is prepared jointly by the
Dr. P. K. Sethi from Rehabilitation & Jaipur Limb Training Centre and Engineers from the Michigan
Technological University, USA. It was fitted on two patients.
Named after the late Magsaysay Award winner Dr. P. K. Sethi, the Centre has so far been working on reducing
the weight of the present model of the Jaipur Foot from 850 grams per piece to about 650 grams. Dr. Sethi
worked at the centre for nearly 20 years, always trying to improve upon the popular models of the Jaipur Foot.
He passed away in 2008.
There are too many versions of the Jaipur Foot and the Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang Sahayata Samiti, is the leading one
among them.

United Nations Resource Centre for the North-East was set up at Guwahati

In Assam, a United Nations Resource Centre for the North-East was set up at Guwahati on 2 January 2012. The centre happens to be the first of its kind in the country and third in Asia region. 

The centre was formally inaugurated by the State Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi.

Setting up of NCTC Approved by the Cabinet
 India’s Cabinet Committee on Security approves the setting up of a National Counter Terrorism Centre.
 The objective of NCTC will be to counter terrorism effectively.
 NCTC will be a single window organisation that will gather and disseminate intelligence to central and state
security organisations.
 NCTC will be a non-statutory body and government will soon issue a notification for the appointment of Directors
and other members of core team of the NCTC.
 NCTC will work under Union Home Ministry
 It would also coordinate with relevant probe and intelligence agencies to ensure that the perpetrators of terror
are brought to justice besides maintaining a comprehensive data base of terrorists, their associates and
supporters.