GUJARAT

Appraisal time is here. However, it is unlikely to bring much cheer to those working in the IT sector as the increments are expected to be lowest in the past three years. experts believe increments may be at an Average rate of 8% compared to 15% last year.

IT companies have seen a significant increase in input costs, but there has been no proportionate rise in revenues, said industry leaders.

Gujaratis emerging as an important destination for the IT industry, and experts believe that the availability of the talent pool has improved, which will continue to boost the IT sectors Growth here. IT companies in the state are evolving, and professionals with expertise in new technologies will continue to get heftier rewards. After the pandemic, Gujarat-based IT professionals have seen their salary packages increase by more than double due to the high demand for talent.

State water supply minister Kunvarji Bavaliya said that the per capita water availability in the state will be doubled in the next 25 years. Bavaliya said the present per capita availability of water in Gujarat is 850 cubic metres, which will be increased to 1,700 cubic metres by 2047.

Bavaliya is participating in the 1st All India Annual States Ministers Conference on Water Vision@2047 which began on Thursday in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. The Resources“>Water Resources ministers of 30 states, Union ministers and officials are participating in the conference. Bavaliya said the has undertaken a strategic programme to eradicate water scarcity. He listed programmes implemented in areas of Gujarat that faced water scarcity. Gujarat has ensured a marked decrease in critical, semi-critical and dark zones in 20 years, Bavaliya said.

After receiving complaints about the recently enacted anti-land grabbing laws and looking at the flurry of petitions in theGujarat challenging various provisions, the State Government is likely to soon come out with an ordinance to rectify lacunae in the law.

The law has been under question for various reasons, mainly for unsettling settled disputes by its overriding effect on pending civil disputes and decrees of civil courts. The lawyers termed this law draconian and submitted how Gujarat has adopted few safeguards compared to other states.

TheGujarathigh court on decided to take up the issue of curbing plastic waste menace and said public awareness should be created to do away with excessive usage of plastic. Putting a question about bringing in deterrence to resolve this growing problem, it said, This is going to be an uphill task, but there is always hope.

The court has been hearing two litigations filed in 2018 seeking strict implementation of plastic Waste Management rules and complete ban on paper cups and dishes, in which multi-layered plastic material is used. Besides, the petitions seek on manufacturing and sale of plastic products that are not recyclable.

With increase in sowing area, cumin production inGujarathas grown by 50% over a five year period from FY 2017 to FY 2021, according to a report byglobal trade finance company,Drip Capital. During this period, cumin production stood at 4.29 lakh tonne in FY 2021.

Gujarat, which is thelargest exporter of spices, especially cumin seeds, exported nearly $700 million worth of spices in FY 2021 according to the report. The state has seen a relatively quicker and higher rise in exports with a CAGR of 19% for the past five years till FY21.

Khuswaha was conferred with the Young Scientist Award (YSA) for innovative research by the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) during a function held in New Delhi on Sunday. She was awarded by the Vice President M Venkaiha Naidu, under the category of Earth, , Ocean and Planetary Sciences.

According to Kushwaha, India needs a sustainable option for clean energy to follow the Paris agreement on Climate-change”>Climate Change. The demand for energy is increasing day by day. Its expected that in the near future the demand for Nuclear Energy will increase worldwide as it is carbon neutral. However, the Uranium reserves are limited and it is estimated that it would be exhausted in over 100 years, she said.

Here the recovery of Uranium from secondary sources such as contaminated groundwater, mining effluents and seawater comes into picture.

Uranium extraction from seawater (UES) is amongst the seven chemical separations processes where progress would lead to global gains. UES provides additional benefits to the Energy Security of any country. It is independent of terrestrial Uranium Ore which reduces the concerns of environmental damage from land-based mining, Khuswaha told TOI. She added that the heavy Metal extracted from seawater is at par with the similar experiments done globally.

Elaborating further, the scientist said that secondary sources of Uranium include spillages from mines, effluents of nuclear power Plants or fly ash dumps that go into water sources after mixing with rainwater and ultimately end up in the sea.

According to the data, 4.3% of people in Gujarat had alcohol dependence. This is even higher than Rajasthan’s 2.3%, Bihar’s 1% and Jammu & Kashmirs 4%. The national Average however was 17.1%, mentioned in the answer.

The answer also said about 1.46% of the Population of Gujarat (6.64 lakh) was addicted to opioids, 1.38% to sedatives (6.28 lakh) and 0.8% to cannabis (3.64 lakh). Moreover, 36,000 (0.08%) were addicted to inhalants.

In all, the survey pointed at about 8% of the total population (about 36.5 lakh) addicted to either alcohol or drugs. The survey did not include tobacco dependency.

Even as credit or debit card credentials leak over the dark web, many citizens dont realize that online frauds can be stopped with a little cyber hygiene.

Since January 2020, all banks, in keeping with the RBI guidelines, have allowed card holders to enable and disable cards for online use on international and domestic websites and Point of Sale (PoS) machines and even modify their transaction limits by simply moving a toggle tab on their bank app or website. Since 2022, fraudulent credit and debit card transactions have surged inGujarat.

The Gujarat CID Crime data for the last one year revealed that 14,725 citizens have lost their or credit to these frauds. At the Hacked cyber safety awareness session at Cloud 9 Society in Nehrunagar, jointly organized by TOI and Gujarat CID Crime, the sleuths explained all about preventing debit and credit card fraud.

Adani Transmission Limited (ATL) has bagged the coveted green loan tag by Sustainalytics for its revolving facility worth $700 million. This provides assurance on the green loan framework forATLs revolving facility.

The firm provides analytical environmental, social and Governance (ESG) research, ratings and data to institutional investors and companies.

A revolving loan facility is a flexible borrowing mechanism that enables the borrower to withdraw, repay, and withdraw again.MUFG Bankhas acted as green loan coordinator to the issuer for arranging the second-party opinion (SPO) on green loan framework prepared by ATL.
The projects associated with the $700 million flexible loan facility are being set up inGujaratandMaharashtra. In Gujarat, these projects are part of the governments green energy corridor projects (GEC), dedicated to the evacuation and transmission of .

In a research published this April, Nimesulide poisoning in white-rumpedvultureGyps bengalensis in Gujarat, India, the authors found the anti-inflammatory drugnimesulidein the Tissues of all the dead vulture fromGujaratthey studied. The research was part of a project funded entirely by the Union ministry of Environment, forest and https://exam.pscnotes.com/Climate-change”>Climate Change.

The collection of tissues of dead vultures sampled in the study were permitted by Gujarat forest department, and shared by Jivdaya Charitable Trust, Ahmedabad.

The research paper pointed out that between March and April 2020, there were at least two other incidents of deaths of white-rumped vultures inAssamand West Bengal.

While 13 vultures died after eating the carcass of a pig in Jalpaiguri district, in West Bengal, 19 vultures died in Sibsagar, Assam possibly due to poisoning However, tissue samples could not be collected for analysis.

The study found that residues of all the 32 most commonly used pesticides in the tissues from kidneys, livers and guts of the four white-rumped vultures collected from Sanand and Dhrangadhra were below detection limits.