Question: Recently the three day conference on ‘Urban Transition in BRICS’ was held in which of the following city?
(a) Jaipur
(b) Visakhapatnam
(c) Bangalore
(d) Kochi
Ans: (b)
Related facts:
- The three (14-16 September 2016) day conference on ‘Urban Transition in BRICS’ inaugurated on 14 September 2016 in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh.
- Minister of Urban Development and Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation, M.Venkaiah Naidu inaugurated the confrence.
- The conference discussed and evolved a common agenda for BRICS to be presented later at the Habitat-III Conference at Quito, Ecuador.
- The Visakhapatnam Conference is being organized as a part of the Government’s efforts to take cooperation among BRICS group on various issues to the people for which several such meetings are being organized across the country.
- BRICS nations account for over 3 billon population constituting 53.40% of world’s population, 23.10% of global GDP and 26.70% of world’s geographical area, spread over four continents.
- Range of urbanization varies from 84% in Brazil, 73% in Russia, 64% in South Africa, 57% in China and 32% in India.
Reference:
http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=149720
http://www.ptinews.com/news/7864840_BRICS-conference-to-promote-cooperation-in-urban-sector.html