Important (51)

Organization Name

Headquarters

Name of Current Chief

United Nations
UN General Assembly
UN Security Council
UN Economic and Social Council

John Ashe (Antigua and Barbuda)

New York

UN Secretariat

Gary Quinlan (USA)

Martin Sajdik
Ban Ki-moon (South Korea)

International Court of Justice

Ther Hague
(Netherlands)

Peter Tomka (Slovakia)

Food and Agriculture

Organization

Rome (Italy)

Jose Graziano da Silva

International Labour Organization

Geneva
(Switzerland)

Guy Ryder

International Maritime
Organization

London (UK)

Koji Sekimizu

United Nations Children's Fund

(UNICEF)

New York (USA)

Anthony Lake

United Nations Educational,

Scientific and Cultural
Organization (UNESCO)

Paris (France)

Irina Bokova

United Nations Environment

Programme (UNEP)

Nairobi (Kenya)

Achim Steiner

World Health Organization

Geneva
(Switzerland)

Margaret Chan

World Intellectual Property

Organization

Geneva
(Switzerland)

Francis Gurry

World Food Programme

Rome (Italy)

Ertharin Cousin

World Tourism Organization

Madrid (Spain)

Taleb Rifai

United Nations Development

Programme

New York (USA)

Helen Clark

United Nations Capital

Development Fund

New York (USA)

Marc Bichler

United Nations

Vienna (Austria)

Li Yong

Industrial Development
Organization
Environmental
International Union for
Conservation of Nature

Gland,
Switzerland

Julia Marton-Lefvre (Director

General), Zhang Xinsheng
(President)

Arms Control
Organisation for the Prohibition of The Hague,
Chemical Weapons
Netherlands

Ahmet Uzumcu

Energy
International Energy Agency

Paris (France)

Maria van der Hoeven

International Renewable Energy

Agency

Masdar City
(United Arab
Emirates)

Adnan Amin

Nuclear Energy Agency

Paris (France)

William D. Magwood, IV

International Atomic Energy

Agency

Vienna (Austria)

Yukiya Amano

Economic Institutions
International Monetary Fund

Washington, D.C.(
United States)

Christine Lagarde

Asian Development Bank

Manila
(Philippines)

Takehiko Nakao

International Fund for Agricultural

Rome (Italy)
Development

Kanayo F. Nwanze

African Development Bank

Ivory Coast

Donald Kaberuka

Bank for International Settlements

Basel, Switzerland

Jaime Caruana

Organisation for Economic Cooperation and

Development (OECD)

Paris (France)

Jose Angel Gurria

Vienna (Austria)

President - Diezani AlisonMadueke,Secretary General Abdallah el-Badri

Organization of the Petroleum

Exporting Countries (OPEC)

World Bank Group

International Bank for

Reconstruction and Development

Jim Yong Kim

International Development
Association

Jim Yong Kim

International Finance Corporation

Washington, D.C.
(United States)

Jin-Yong Cai

Multilateral Investment Guarantee

Agency

Keiko Honda

International Centre for

Settlement of Investment Disputes

Meg Kinnear
Miscellaneous

World Customs Organization

Brussels
(Belgium)

Kunio Mikuriya

World Trade Organization

Geneva
(Switzerland)

Roberto Azevdo

International Criminal Court

The Hague
(Netherlands)

Song Sang-Hyun

European Commission

Jean-Claude Juncker

European Parliament

Martin Schulz

European Council

Herman Van Rompuy

Council of Europe

Strasbourg
(France)

Thorbjorn Jagland

European Organization for

Nuclear Research (CERN)

Meyrin
(Switzerland)

Rolf-Dieter Heuer

European Space Agency

Paris (France)

Jean-Jacques Dordain

Association of Southeast Asian

Nations (ASEAN)

Jakarta (Indonesia) Le Luong Minh

South Asian Association for

Regional Cooperation (SAARC)

Kathmandu
(Nepal)

Arjun Bahadur Thapa

North Atlantic Treaty

Organization (NATO)

Brussels
(Belgium)

Jens Stoltenberg

Asia-Pacific Economic
Cooperation

Singapore

Alan Bollard

African Union Commission

Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma

African Union

Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz

Top

Semi-Important (34)
Organization Name

Headquarters

Name of Current Chief

United Nations
United Nations Development Fund
for Women

New
York (USA)

Ins Alberdi

United Nations High Commissioner

for Refugees

Geneva
( Switzerland)

Antnio Guterres

Joint United Nations Programme on

HIV/AIDS

Geneva
( Switzerland)

Michel Sidib

United Nations Population Fund

New
York (USA)

Babatunde Osotimehin

United Nations Human Settlements

Programme

Nairobi (Kenya)

Joan Clos

United Nations Volunteers

Bonn (Germany)

Richard Dictus

United Nations Entity for Gender

Equality and the Empowerment of
Women

New
York (USA)

Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

United Nations University

Japan

David M. Malone

Environmental
World Wide Fund For Nature

Gland,
Switzerland

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate

Change
Global Environment Facility

Yolanda Kakabadse (President)

Marco Lambertini (Director
General)
Rajendra K. Pachauri

Washington
(USA)

Naoko Ishii

Migration
International Organization for

Geneva,

William Lacy Swing

Migration

Switzerland
Maritime

International Hydrographic
Organization

Monaco
Arms Control

Nuclear Suppliers Group

Czech Republic
(Current Chair),
Argentina will
be next chair in
2014-2015

Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe

Vienna (Austria)

Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban
Treaty Organization

Vienna, Austria

Lamberto Zannier

Fisheries
International Whaling Commission

Impington
(England)

International Seabed Authority

Kingston
(Jamaica)
Economic Institutions

International Bureau of Weights and

Measures

Sevres (France)

M.J.T. Milton

African Development Bank

Ivory Coast

Donald Kaberuka

Bank for International Settlements

Basel,
Switzerland

Jaime Caruana

Organisation for Economic Cooperation and

Development (OECD)

Paris (France)

Jose Angel Gurria

Organization of the Petroleum

Exporting Countries (OPEC)

Vienna (Austria)

President - Diezani AlisonMadueke,Secretary General Abdallah el-Badri

Nordic Investment Bank

Helsinki
(Finland)

Islamic Development Bank and

Jeddah(Saudi
Organisation of Islamic Cooperation Arabia)

Ahmad Mohamed Ali Al-Madani

Miscellaneous
Energy Community

Vienna (Austria)

Janez Kopac

European Science Foundation

Strasbourg,
France

Marja Makarow

European Southern Observatory

Garching
(Germany)

Tim de Zeeuw

Collective Security Treaty

Organization

Moscow
(Russia)

Nikolai Bordyuzha

Economic Cooperation Organization Tehran (Iran)

Shamil Aleskerov

Union of South American Nations

(UNASUR)

President - Desi Bouterse, Secretary

General - Ernesto Samper

Central American Parliament

Guatemala

Commonwealth of Nations

UK

SG - Kamalesh Sharma,
Chairperson-in-Office - Mahinda
Rajapaksa

Arab League

Cairo (Egypt)

Nabil Elaraby

Top

Regular (21)
Organization Name

Headquarters

Name of Current Chief

Migration
International Centre for Migration
Policy Development

Vienna (Austria)
Maritime

Antarctic Treaty Secretariat

Buenos Aires,
Argentina

International Council for the

Exploration of the Sea

Copenhagen,
Denmark
Fisheries

Asia-Pacific Fishery Commission

Thailand

Indian Ocean Tuna Commission

Victoria

Peter Widermann

(Seychelles)
Inter-American Tropical Tuna
Commission

California
(USA)

Northwest Atlantic Fisheries

Organization

Canada

North Atlantic Salmon Conservation

UK
Organization
Pacific Salmon Commission

Columbia

Southeast Asian Fisheries

Development Center

Thailand

Western and Central Pacific

Fisheries Commission

USA

Susan Farlinger

Charles Karnella

Energy / Nuclear Energy

International Institute for Applied
Systems Analysis

Vienna (Austria)
Miscellaneous

European Free Trade Association

Geneva
(Switzerland)

European Patent Organisation

Munich
(Germany)

Council of the Baltic Sea States

Stockholm
(Sweden)

Southern African Development

Community

Gaborone
(Botswana)

Economic Community of West

African States

Kristinn F. Arnason

Jan Lundin

John Dramani Mahama

Organization of American States

Washington,
D.C.

Jos Miguel Insulza

Caribbean Community

Georgetown
(Guyana)

Secretary-General - Irwin
LaRocque, Chairman Gaston
Browne

Association of Caribbean States

Port-of-Spain
(Trinidad)

Alfonso Munera Cavadia

Organisation of Eastern Caribbean

Saint Lucia

Chairman - Roosevelt Skerrit,

States

Director General - Didacus Jules

Recent Appointments in India

POSTS/DEPTT.

PERSONS

Foreign Secretary

Subrahmanyam Jaishankar took over as

foreign secretary

Replaces Sujatha Singh

KK Paul - Uttarakhands new governor.

Aziz Qureshi - 15th Governor of Mizoram
New Governers
Kalyan Singh - took oath as Governor of
Himachal Pradesh
K K Paul - sworn in as sixth Governor of
Uttarakhand
National Institution for Transforming India
(NITI) Aayog.
NITI AAYOG Chairman Narendra Modi
Vice Chairman: Free market economist Arvind
Panagariya
CEO: Ms. Sindhushree Khullar (IAS)
Fulltime Members: Economist Bibek Debroy
and former DRDO Chief V K Saraswat.
Air India
DRDO

BSNL

CMD Rohit Nandan (10 months extension)

Chief Avinash Chander asked to step
down.

Defense Secretary RK Mathur is holding the

charge of DRDO (30-Jan-2015).

Anupam Shrivastava became new CMD

Hari Shankar Brahma, became the 19th

Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) of India.
He is an Assamese IAS officer from Andhra
EC
Pradesh cadre.

He replaced V S Sampath
Pahlaj Nihalani became new chief
Leela Samson resigned after her decision
Censor Board
against Dera Sachcha Sauda chief Gurmit

Prasar Bharati
ISRO

TCA Anant
Railway board

Ram Rahims movie Messanger of God

(MSG) was overturned by the appellate board.
Chairman Arkalgud Suryaprakash
A.S.Kiran Kumar replaced K.Radhakrishnan
as the new ISRO Chief.
Chief statistician of India.
New chairman A.K. Mittal.

1. Chief Economic Advisor - arvind

subramanium
2. Chief Election Commissionor V.S.Sampath
3. RBI - Raghu Ram Rajan
4. RAW - rajinder khanna
5. SBI - Arundhyuti Bhattyacharya
6. SEBI - U.K. Sinha
7. IB - dineshwar sharma
8. IBPS - Mr.Anup Sankar
Bhattacharya
9. IRDA - T.S.Vijayan
10. ISRO - retired.. naya koi ni hai at
present
11. NABARD - Dr. Harsh Kumar
Bhanwala
12. NASSCOM - R. Chandrasekhar
13. SSC - Amitava Bhattacharyya
14. TRAI - Rahul Khullar
15. UGC - Ved Prakash
16. UPSC - deepak gupta
17. DRDO - Avinash Chander
18. FICCI - jyotdana suri
19. ASSOCHAM - Rana Kapoor
20. CAG - Shashi Kant Sharma
21. CBDT - anita kapur
22. CBI - anil kumar sinha
23. CCI - Ashok Chawla
24. National Commission for women lalitha kumarmanglam
25. National Innovation Commission Sam Pitroda
26. National Security Advisor - Ajit
Kumar Doval

27. Press Trust of India - K N Shanth

Kumar
28. Attorney General of India - Mukul
Rohatgi
29. Bombay Stock Exchange - Ashish
Kr. Chauhan
29. National Stock Exchange - Chitra
Ramkrishna
30. Press Council of India - c k prasad

1) Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana

Launched on: 28 August 2014
Aim: Ambitious scheme for comprehensive financial inclusion by
providing bank accounts, insurance cover and a debit card to all the
citizens of the country.
Ministry/Department in charge of the scheme: Department of Financial
Services, Ministry of Finance
2) Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay Shramev Jayate Karyakram
Launched on: 16 October 2014
Aim: To create an environment conducive to industrial development
while also ensuring transparency in the labour sector.
Ministry/Department in charge of the scheme: Labour Ministry
3) Bal Swachhta Mission
Launched on: 14 November 2014
Aim: Nationwide sanitation initiative for schools as part of Swachh
Bharat Mission.
Ministry/Department in charge of the scheme: Ministry of Women
and Child Development.
4) Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana
Launched on: 25 September 2014
Aim: Aims at training 10 lakh (1 million) rural youths for jobs in three
years, that is, by 2017.
Ministry/Department in charge of the scheme: Ministry for Rural
Development.
5) Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Antyodaya Yojana for urban and rural
poor
Launched on: 25 September 2014
Aim: Aims at alleviating urban and rural poverty through enhancement
of livelihood opportunities through skill development and other means.

Ministry/Department in charge of the scheme: Union Ministry of

Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation & Union Ministry of Rural
Development.
6) Digital life certificate 'Jeevan Pramaan' for pensioners
Launched on: 11 November 2014
Aim: Retired employees of government and PSUs can now digitally
provide proof of his existence to authorities for continuity of pension
every year instead of requiring to present himself physically or through
a Life Certificate issued by specified authorities.
Ministry/Department in charge of the scheme: Department of
Electronics and IT
7) Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (Clean India Campaign)
Launched on: 2 October 2014
Aim: National level campaign by the Government of India covering
4041 statutory towns to clean the streets, roads and infrastructure of
the country. Aims to accomplish the vision of 'Clean India' by 2 October
2019, 150th birthday of Mahatma Gandhi.
Ministry/Department in charge of the scheme: All Ministries &
Departments.
8) Make in India global initiative
Launched on: 25 September 2014
Aim: Aims to boost India`s manufacturing sector.
9) Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana
Launched on: 12 October 2014
Aim: encourages Members of Parliament from both Houses to identify
and develop one village from their constituency as a model village by
2016, and two more by 2019, covering over 2,500 villages of the 6 lakh
villages country-wide.
Ministry/Department in charge of the scheme: Rural Development
Ministry
10) Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao Yojana
Launched on: 10 July 2014
Aim: Help in generating awareness and improving the efficiency of
delivery of welfare services meant for women with an initial corpus of
Rs 100 crore.
11) Deendayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana
Launched on: 20 November 2014

Aim: To provide access of electricity to rural households across the

country.
12) Sukanya Samriddhi account
Launched on: 22 January 2015
Aim: Under the scheme, an interest of 9.1 per cent is provide on
deposited amount which is tax free. The account under this scheme a
saving account can be opened by the parent or legal guardian of a girl
child of less than 10 years of age with a minimum deposit of Rs 1,000
in any post office or authorised branches of commercial bank.
13) HRIDAY
(National
Heritage
City
Development
and
Augmentation Yojana) scheme
Launched on: December 2014
Aim: For conserving and preserving the heritage characters of 12
cities. These are: Amritsar, Varanasi, Gaya, Puri, Ajmer, Mathura,
Dwarka, Badami, Velankanni, Kanchipuram, Warangal (Telangana) and
Amaravati (Andhra Pradesh).
Ministry/Department in charge of the scheme: Urban Development
Ministry
Latest Government Schemes and Its Functions 2014-15 | Expected
GK Questions for All Bank Exams:
The List of Latest Schemes of Indian Government and its functions were
mentioned below, which was most expected GK Questions for IBPS and SBI
Exams.
Sno

Name of the Scheme

Functions

1.

Pradhanmantri Jan-Dhan Yojana

To Provide Bank Accounts to all Citizens.

2.

Krishi Amdani Beema Yojana

To Help and protect the Farmers from financial

losses due to unexpected weather.

3.

Pradhanmantri Gram Sinchai

Yojana

To Boost Agricultural Yield

4.

Pradhanmantri Saansad Adarsh

Gram Yojana

Its an Village development project under

which each MP has to adopt three villages
and make them prosperity

5.

Project Uddan

To providing skills to 40,000 young people

within five years

6.

Mahatma Gandhi Pravasi

Suraksha Yojana

Pension and Life Insurance Scheme of Indian

Govt

7.

Rani Laxmi Bai Pension Scheme

Special Pension Scheme for Muzaffarnagar

riot victims announced by UP Govt

8.

Roshini Scheme

Development of skills and job placement for

rural youth and Women in most affected 24
districts in 9 states

9.

Free CFL Bulb Scheme

To provide free compact fluorescent light to

over 14 lakhs huts in Tamil Nadu

10.

Vikram Unyogpuri

Its a Delhi and Mumbai Industrial Corridor

Project, launched by Madhya Pradesh

11.

Swavlamban Abhiyan

11 welfare schemes of Gujarat Government

launched by PM Narendra Modi

12.

Anna Bhagya Scheme

To distribute 30kg rice at the cost of 1 rupee

per kg to over 98 lakh BPL and Antyodaya
Card holders of Karnataka state.

13.

Rajiv Gandhi Jeevandayee

Arogya Yojana

Health Insurance Scheme launched by

Maharashtra

14.

Amma Cement Scheme

To procure cement from private manufactures

and sell them at Rs, 190 per bag in Tamil
Nadu

15.

Golden Girl (Bangaru Talli)

Scheme

To Protect Girl Child and ensure their

education, launched by Andhra Pradesh

16.

Bhagat Puran Singh Sehat

Beema Yojana

Health care Scheme for BPL Families in Punjab

17.

Annapurna

To provide 10 kg of food grains for BPL

households at free of cost every month

18.

e-inclusion project

To Spread the e-Literacy

4. Grammies announced
i. The winners are -

Record of the Year - "Stay with Me," Sam Smith

Song of the Year - "Stay with Me" (Darkchild Version)

Album of the Year - Morning Phase, Beck

Best Country Album - Platinum, Miranda Lambert

Best R&B Performance - "Drunk in Love," Beyonc

Best Rock Album - Morning Phase, Beck

Best Pop Vocal Album - In the Lonely Hour, Sam Smith

Best Pop Solo Performance - "Happy," Pharrell Williams

Best New Artist - Sam Smith

Best Rap/Sung Collaboration - "Monster," by Rihanna and Eminem

Best Rap Album - The Marshall Mathers LP2, Eminem

Best R&B Song - "Drunk in Love," Beyonce

Pop duo/group performance - "Say Something", A Great Big World with Christina Aguilera

Best Rock performance - Lazaretto, Jack White

Best Children's Album - I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up For Education And Changed The World
(Malala Yousafzai)

Best Musical Theater Album - Beautiful: The Carole King Musical,

Jessie Mueller, principal soloist; Jason Howland, Steve Sidwell & Billy Jay Stein, producers (Carole King,
composer & lyricist) (Original Broadway Cast)

5. BAFTA announced

i. The Lunchbox loses to Polish film at BAFTA

ii. The awards went to -

BEST FILM: Boyhood

BEST BRITISH FILM: The Theory Of Everything

BEST DIRECTOR: Richard Linklater, Boyhood

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: The Grand Budapest Hotel, Wes Anderson

BEST LEAD ACTOR: Eddie Redmayne, The Theory Of Everything

BEST LEAD ACTRESS: Julianne Moore, Still Alice

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: J.K. Simmons, Whiplash

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Patricia Arquette, Boyhood

BEST ANIMATED FILM: The Lego Movie, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller

BEST ORIGINAL MUSIC: The Grand Budapest Hotel, Alexandre Desplat