CHHATTISGARH

Cgarhs Narayanpur excels in Delta ranking of Niti Aayog

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Chhattisgarhs aspirational district Narayanpur has secured the 14th rank under the Delta Ranking issued by for excellent performance in various fields.

An official Communication on Monday said that in the fields of Health, Nutrition and Education, Narayanpur secured the achievement in the Aspirational District Programme for September.

Also, Narayanpur was ranked 19th in Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture, 75th in Financial Inclusion and Skill development, and 93rd in Infrastructure.

In the overall assessment, the district has been ranked 14th.

With the objective of further improving the delta rankings of Narayanpur, all departments are being regularly reviewed by the Collector. All the officers have been told to regularly monitor the various works and upload the data on the portal.

Prior to this, theperformance of Narayanpur was better in the ‘Champion of Change’ Delta ranking released for August 2022. Of the 112 aspirational districts, Narayanpur was ranked fifth in the country for overall performance.

Besides, Narayanpur district had secured second position in health andnutrition, fourth in education, second in Health and Nutrition, and fourth in the education category.

Chhattisgarh to sponsor private school education of kids who have lost parents to Covid

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Chhattisgarhgovernment, on Monday, announced that it would sponsoreducationof those children who are studying in private schools and lost their parents to Covid. The entitled children will be provided with free Education preferably at the state’s first government’s English medium school and those already studying in private schools.

The had earlier announced that it would provide education and monthly Scholarship to the children studying in government schools who lost parents and caretakers due to Covid.

Under Mahtari Dular scheme, students will be given a scholarship of Rs 500 per month from class 1 to 8 and Rs 1,000 per month from class 9 to 12. Regarding the implementation of Mahtari Dular Yojna, the official said that school education department would work in coordination with the Health department and social welfare department to provide benefits of this scheme to such children. Chhattisgarh Mahtari Dular Yojana 2021 is applicable from academic session 2021-22.

The benefit of the scheme will be given to destitute children belonging to the domicile families of state. Children who have lost the earning parent (mother, father or both) due to Covid are eligible to avail this scheme.

Empowered committee mulls establishment of C-Marts

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Chhattisgarh Chief Secretary Amitabh Jain on Friday told officials to take necessary steps for effective implementation, monitoring and coordination to establish C-Marts in each district headquarter across the state.

An official Communication said that at a meeting of the empowered committee, Collectors were told to enlist and prepare details of the Self-Help Groups, weavers, artisans and Cottage industries of their districts whose products would be on sale at the showrooms of C-Marts.

The Chief Secretary stressed the need to properly commercially market the products made in rural areas, the communication said.

On the occasion, the Managing Director of the Minor Forest Produce Federation, Dr Sanjay Shukla, said the C-Marts would be opened in cities to market the products manufactured in the villages.

The objective is to boost the rural economy, he said.

It should be equipped with all the amenities for proper showcasing of the products to attract customers, he said.

The Marketing of these products would be done on the lines of the system developed for the products of Chhattisgarh Herbals brand, he added.

Education Minister launches Auro Scholar, Project Inclusion

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Chhattisgarh Education Minister Premsai Singh on Friday launched Auro Scholar and Project Inclusion programmes for school students. The programmes, to be conducted with the help of Aurobindo Society, will help achieve excellence in education.

Premsai Singh launched both the programme at a function here in Shankar Nagar.

The Auro scholar will provide school students a chance to win scholarships through a quiz competition. The Project Inclusion will help differently abled students to take education at the IQ level that normal students do, a government press release said.

Both the programmes are important for Chhattisgarh and both will benefit the students of the state, the Minister said in a statement.

The Minister said that students could earn Rs 1,000 a month by answering 80 percent of the answers in 20 quiz competitions to be held each month.

Ensure effective implementation of POCSO Act: Chhattisgarh chief justice

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Chhattisgarh high courtchief justiceArup Kumar Goswamidirected all the stakeholders of the POCSO Act to play their role seriously for the benefit of the children.

The chief stated this in one day state level workshop on the effective implementation of POCSO Act, 2012, organised by the Juvenile Justice Committee ofChhattisgarhHigh Court in collaboration with Chhattisgarh State Judicial Academy and Chhattisgarh State Legal Services Authority (SLSA).

Chhattisgarh aims to provide international standard education to school students: CM

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ChhattisgarhChief Minister Bhupesh Baghel on Sunday said government schools in the state will be run as per international standards to provide quality Education to students on the lines of the Swami Atmanand Government English Medium Schools, also known as SAGES. He said the will also set up ‘Balwadi’ (kindergarten schools) for children above three years of age. The CM made these announcements under the ‘Chhattisgarh school education vision document 2030’ while addressing the opening ceremony of the two-day Jawaharlal Nehru Rashtriya Shiksha Samagam, a congregation of educationists and innovative teachers being held here to mark the birth anniversary of the country’s first prime minister.

On the lines of Swami Atmanand Government English Medium Schools (SAGES), (government) schools will be run in the state as per international standard to provide quality education to children.

The state government had launched the SAGES scheme in November last year under which government Hindi medium schools were renovated and modernized into English medium schools. As many as 171 SAGES are being run in the state.

CMs home town ranks first in East Zone, second in country

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Among small towns, Chhattisgarhs Patan (Durg district) was ranked first in the East Zone and second in the country in the Swachh Survekshan Awards 2022.

Ambikapur maintained its standing among clean cities. Chhattisgarh stood second in the category of Best Performing State.

Among the cities with a Population of more than one lakh, Ambikapur stood at number one in the state and Korba at number two. Raipur secured the second place among cities with a population more than 10 lakh.

The 7th edition of Swachh Survekshan was conducted to study the progress of the Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban) and ranked based on various cleanliness and sanitation parameters.

The generation of electricity from cow dung should be taken up on a mission mode, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel said on Monday.

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Already three gauthans in Raipur, Bemetara and Durg district are producing electricity. Soon, the villages should be self-sufficient in power generation.

The Chief Minister said the electricity generated from gauthans will be procured by the , generating revenue for the villages.

The Women self-help groups should not be given just the limited work of converting cow dung to vermi-compost.

Apart from community kitchen gardens, mushroom production, Fisheries, goat rearing, Poultry and, manufacturing different products from cow dung will be promoted, the Chief Minister said.

To promote solar power, the Chhattisgarh State Renewable Energy Development Agency (CREDA) is asking domestic and other consumers to set up roof top grid connected solar plants based on their contract load with the electricity department.

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The installation will be based on the regulations issued by the Chhattisgarh State Electricity Regulatory Commission (CSERC). The domestic consumers, will get a waiver of 20-40 percent of the installation cost.

The domestic consumer can install the grid connection solar Plants of 1 to 10 kW capacity.

Chhattisgarh: FICCI urges to implement pre-emption right of iron ore for state-based end plants

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Chhattisgarh-based sponge and steel industries are facing acute shortage of iron Ore, the Federation of Indian Chambers Of Commerce and Industries (FICCI) Chhattisgarh said urging the to implement pre-emption or first right of the iron ore for state based end Plants.

Chhattisgarh based plants are at a competitive disadvantage being situated in hinterland areas, with muted demand for finished steel and iron products compared to other states likePunjab, Uttar Pradesh,Maharashtra, Karnataka, Gujarat, and West Bengal.

FICCI has urged the state government to pro-actively implement pre-emption of iron ore for State based end-use plants who are solely dependent on MMDC for meeting their iron ore requirement. The Industry body has asked states to consider the issues of improving the production in state based iron ore mines so that they consistently achieve rated capacity and endeavor to first fulfill the iron requirement of state based plants before allowing merchant miners such as NMDC to engage in outside state exports.