Legal Current Affairs for 27 March 2026

Time period: 10 years (FY 2026-27 to FY 2035-36)
Total outlay: Rs.28,840 crore.
Components of Scheme:
Development of Aerodromes (CAPEX): Develop 100 airports from unserved airstrips to boost regional connectivity, in line with the Viksit Bharat 2047 vision.
Operation & Maintenance (O&M): Financial support for 3 years to ~441 RCS-only aerodromes, capped at ₹3.06 crore per airport and ₹0.90 crore per heliport/water aerodrome.
Modern Helipads: Development of 200 helipads in remote, hilly, and aspirational areas to enhance last-mile connectivity and emergency services.
Viability Gap Funding (VGF): ₹10,043 crore support over 10 years for airline operators to sustain regional routes.
Atmanirbhar Aircraft Acquisition: Procurement of HAL Dhruv helicopters and Dornier aircrafts to strengthen aviation capacity in remote and difficult terrains.

Ministry: Ministry of Home Affairs under the National e-Governance Plan (NeGP)
Objective: Modernize Immigration and Visa services and facilitates legitimate travellers while strengthening national security.
Focus Areas: Emerging technology innovations, Transformation of core infrastructure, and Technology and service optimization.
Integrates immigration, visa issuance, registration of foreigners and tracking of their movements in India.
Significance: Boosting tourism, international business, 100% contactless and faceless visa process, national security etc.

It is a Train Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) that prevents collisions by automatically applying brakes if 2 trains are on a collision course.
Developed by: Research Designs & Standards Organization (RDSO) of Indian Railways.
Key features
Continuous real-time updates to the locomotive.
Prevention of all types of train collisions: head-on, rear-end, and side-on. (loco to loco communications)
Prevents Signal Passing at Danger
Others: Repeats line-side signal for foggy weather, Automatic horn activation, Emergency Stop-on-Sight (SoS) messages

Agnite is the world’s largest single-piece 3D-printed booster engine.
Agnite and Agnilet are Agnikul’s 3D-printed semi-cryogenic engines.
It is made using Inconel.
Inconel is a high-performance alloy specifically designed to endure extreme temperatures.
The Agnite engines are built to power the booster stage of Agnikul’s Agnibaan launch vehicle.

Origin: Talakaveri in Coorg (Karnataka) in Brahmagiri Range of hills in the Western ghats.
Drainage Area: extends over states of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala and Union Territory of Puducherry (2.7% of the total geographical area of the country).
Total Length: ~ 800 kms.
Left Bank Tributaries: Harangi, Hemavati, Shimsha and Arkavati.
Right bank Tributaries: Lakshmantirtha, Kabbani, Suvarnavati, Bhavani, Noyil and Amaravati.
Major Waterfalls: Shivanasamudra Falls, Hogenakkal Falls.
Major Dams: Krishnarajasagar in Karnataka, Mettur Dam in Tamil Nadu.

CALM-Brain collects clinical, neuro-imaging, behavioural, genetic and other datasets on five disorders – addiction, bipolar disorder, dementia, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and schizophrenia.
It was initiated as part of the Accelerator program for Discovery in Brain disorders using Stem cells (ADBS project) jointly funded by the Department of Biotechnology and the Pratiksha Trust.
It will be made open source helping clinicians and researchers to better understand disease onset, progression and underlying biological changes leading to disease symptoms.