BIHAR

At least 5,600 pilgrims from across the state are expected to go onhaj pilgrimagethis year fromGaya airportafter a gap of three years. The first flight carrying haj pilgrims will leave Gaya airport on May 21 and the last one on June 6. At least 392 people from Gaya district have also registered for the haj pilgrimage.
Haj pilgrimage from Gaya had remained suspended for three years due to Covid pandemic. In 2022, haj pilgrims fromBiharhad to board their flights at Kolkata airport.

As the schools in Bihar are closed owing to rise in Covid-19 cases in the second wave, the state Education department released online study material on newly launched e-Library of Teachers and Students (e-LoTS) mobile application and web portal to ensure continuous Learning for kids at Home through electronic contents.

From video content (including some on YouTube) to e-books, the departments Bihar Education Project Council (BEPC), in collaboration with the UNICEF, Bihar, has uploaded all study materials accordingly to the syllabus for classes I to XII. The initiative was taken to ensure that the students would continue with their studies even in the lockdown period.

The state cabinet on Monday approved the new rules moved by the Education department for the recruitment of schoolteachers, besides creating a separate cadre to treat them on par with the government employees. The new schoolteachers will be appointed by a commission.

Around 1.5 lakh teachers will be appointed through the revised rules. Under the new rules, primary schools will impart TEACHING from class 1 to 5 while middle schools will have classes from 1 to 8.

CM gifts 89 schemes in tune of Rs 537.01 Cr to people in Godda

Chief Minister Hemant Soren, while addressing the Vikas Mela cum Janata Darbar organized at Tasaria, Sundarpahari, Godda on Monday said that the people should try to know and understand the schemes of the government and take advantage of them. The officials are also reaching the last person of the state. The government is also going and the schemes are also coming into reality. We have a clear vision that development should pick up pace in the remote and remote villages of the state as well, he said.

The CM gifted 89 schemes to the people of the area. This includes inauguration of 31 schemes worth Rs 18637.81 lakh and foundation stone laying of 58 schemes worth Rs 35065.64 lakh.

CMNitish Kumarasked thestate government officialsto work in mission mode to achieve the targets fixed under different development schemes.

Presiding over the 8th governing body meeting of theBihar Vikas Mission(BVM) through videoconferencing, Nitish also called for taking all necessary steps to increase the milk processing capacity in the state.

The BVM was formed in January, 2016 forproper implementationand monitoring of the schemes under the Saat Nischay (seven resolves) programme of the erstwhile grand alliance government also headed by Nitish.

Additional chief secretary of the state Environment, forests and https://exam.pscnotes.com/Climate-change”>Climate Change department,Dipak Kumar Singh, said a draft plan for low-carbon Growth opportunities for all sectors of the state would be prepared by the end of 2023.

Addressing a workshop on Low carbon building in Bihar organised by theBiharState Pollution Control Board (BSPCB) as part of the larger initiative under the study of Climate resilient and low carbon development pathway for Bihar, Singh said even as the government of India has set the target of achieving zero carbon by 2070, Bihar has fixed its target for 2040.

He explained the initiatives of the State Government on low carbon strategy planned by the year 2040 in detail and said the state is working with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to prepare the draft plan. He said the building sector needs to be addressed on a priority basis in order to minimize Carbon Emission.

Education ministerVijay Kumar Chaudhary, urged DEFENCE ministerRajnath Singhon Thursday to include the Bihar government in the process of selecting 100 institutes across the country for upgrading them toSainikschools, as announced in the Union Budget for 2022-2023. He had participated in a meeting of theSainik School Societys board of governors held under the chairmanship of Singh.

By involving the in the selection process, he said, the committee would have chosen high-quality institutions with adequate Infrastructure.

People in the age group of 20 to 39 years are the most affected in the third wave ofCovidpandemic.

About 51.9% people who got infected with coronavirus between January 1 and January 10 were in the age group of 20-39 years, as per the Health department data. Around 1.9% infected people were in the age group of 0-9 years, 10% in 10-19, 15.2% in 40-49 and 12.5% in 50-59 age groups. Among the affected, 8.6% were senior citizens.

Altogether 29,149 people have tested positive for Covid in the state in the last 10 days. Of them, 66.9% are men and 33.1% Women.

The mobile application was launched in May last year by CMNitish Kumar, through which the health workers kept track of around 1.5 lakh patients in Home isolation. The ANMs used to monitor the SPO2 and temperature of Covid patients before uploading the data to the health dashboard.