Shoolini University has secured the second position in the category of exemplary researcher of the year in the Education World Grand Jury India Higher Education Rankings 2023-24 announced recently.
The Education World Grand Jury, consisting of well-informed educationists, meticulously evaluated and ranked over 400 nominated higher education institutions across 14 categories of the 21st century education excellence.
Health and Family Welfare and AYUSH Minister Dr Rajiv Saizal on Friday launched the program and also unveiled a booklet related to the program.
This program has been started by the Department of AYUSH in collaboration with the Art of Living organisation. Bharti’s instructors would provide their Services in the program. During the launch, about 80 Home isolated Covid positive patients from all over the state were also connected virtually.
Under the program, approximately 1000 virtual groups on Social Media platforms like zoom, WhatsApp and Google meet will be formed to connect with COVID positive patients in home isolation.
The initiative intends to provide a holistic healthcare approach through AYUSH to ensure not only physical but also mental, social and spiritual wellbeing.
The Himachal Pradesh Secretariat Armsdale Building Phase-III, which was constructed at a cost of Rs 43.07 crore, was inaugurated on Monday. Inaugurating the new building, chief ministerSukhvinder Singh Sukhusaid that though the state was facing tough economic conditions, it would achieve self reliance in the next four years. He assured that the was taking economically prudent decisions to ensure this.
The CM said that the new building was equipped with modern amenities and parking facilities for 123 four-wheelers and 60 two-wheelers. It includes offices such as Disaster Management cell, command and control centre, tribal development office, rooms for officers and drivers as well as branches of SBI andPunjab National Bank.
Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur said that in the wake of increase in the number of Covid patients, the has decided to provide free treatment to the beneficiaries of Himcare and Ayushman Bharat Scheme in registered private hospitals designated as Covid hospitals.
The Chief Minister was presiding over a meeting with the senior officers and members of Covid Management Committees. He said that as many as 4.16 lakh families had been registered under Ayushman Bharat and 5.13 lakh families under State sponsored Himcare scheme. He said that all these families would now be eligible for the free treatment of Covid-19.
Solan-based Shoolini University signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM), Spain, to encourage exchange programmes between the two universities.
The agreement aims at laying the groundwork for mutual cooperation between the two universities, including exchange of doctoral students and faculty members from both institutions.
Both institutions will encourage more contact and collaboration among their faculty and research members in order to lay a solid foundation for the development of joint training programmes and research projects besides the exchange of TEACHING material.
The Autonomous University of Madrid is a public university that combines quality teaching, intensive research and high job placement with a strong social commitment and is a global benchmark in these areas, according to various global indicators. For the second year in a row, the UAM is ranked among the top 200 universities in the world in the QS World University Rankings 2021.
The state is all set to send the first consignment of 5-lakh trout eggs to . The eggs would be collected from Barahat and Hamni hatcheries in Kullu district, Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Varinder Kanwar today said. The farming of trout, the high-altitude cold water fish, has been gradually picking up pace in the state.
The Animal Husbandry Department is producing 17-lakh eggs of trout fish at Patlikul, Barahat, Masndal, Holi, Barot, Sangla and Dhammari hatcheries, he said. The department stocks 80,000 to 1-lakh eggs of brown trout seed at cold water reservoirs and efforts are on to encourage farmers to adopt trout farming in a big way, he said.
The Indo-Norwegian trout farming project was started in the state for commercial production of trout and pilot projects were launched in high altitude areas. To encourage the private sector, incentives are being given due to which 15 trout hatcheries were set up by private players in 2017-18 and 12 in 2018-19. As many as 32 hatcheries have been established in the state. These include nine each in Mandi and Kullu districts, five in Chamba, three in Kinnaur and two each in Shimla, Kangra and Sirmaur.
These hatcheries were set up at the cost of Rs 8.75 crore and a target has been set to establish five new hatcheries in Sirmaur, Chamba, Kinnaur and Mandi districts during the current financial year at the cost of Rs 2.50 crore and subsidy component of Rs 1.40 crore, the minister said. A target to produce 632 metric tonne of trout fish has been fixed for the current year.
The state Police have completely switched over from the manual registration of FIRs to the digital mode. Even chargesheets are now being filed online.
A meeting of the State Apex Committee of the Criminal Tracking Network and Systems (CCTNS) was held under the chairmanship of Chief Secretary.
The CCTNS data is being shared with the National Data Centre, New Delhi, for its integration with the national Database on a daily basis. Chargesheets of cases are also being filed electronically and are being shared with the courts.
The implementation of the CCTNS project was started in the state in 2009 with the signing of an MoU between the HP Government and the Central Government in September, 2009. At present, the CCTNS is successfully operational at 246 places, which includes police stations, offices of DSPs, SPs and higher offices.
The Hp Police have been awarded the first rank among the hilly and Northeastern states in the CCTNS two years in a row i.e. in 2020 and 2021. The state has also bagged the first rank overall at all-India level in the implementation of the Interoperable Criminal System.
The CCTNS is a Centre-funded mission-mode project initiated by the Union Home Ministry under the National e-Governance Plan. It aims to create a comprehensive and integrated e-system to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of policing, especially at the police station level.
Entrepreneurs stressed the need to strengthen in the industrial areas of the state during an interaction session of Union Commerce and Industries Minister Piyush Goyal with the stakeholders, investors and captains of the Industry on Economic Development of Himachal Pradesh here today. They also suggested that an API Monitoring Cell be set up in Himachal.
Goyal appreciated the steps taken by the Jai Ram Thakur government to make Himachal Pradesh as an investors paradise. He said that this week (from September 20 to 26) was being celebrated as Vanijya Saptah to acknowledge Indias rising economic strength.
Chief ministerSukhvinder Singh Sukhusaid that the proposal of his government to invest in Solar power will provide much awaited end results when it comes to conservation of the pristine Environment of the state.
He said that preservation of the ecosystem will certainly pave the way for ‘Green and Clean Himachal’, thereby fulfilling the dream of a Green Energy State.
He said that in a bid towards ‘Green and Clean Himachal’ the government mulls to develop two panchayats in each district of the State as Green Panchayats by setting up Solar Power projects ranging from 500 KW to 1 MW capacity on pilot basis. He said that the youth of the State will also be given 40 percent subsidy to set up solar power projects ranging from 250 KW to 2 MW on their own or leased land, as per budget assurance.
He said that government has also proposed to set up ‘Himachal PradeshPower Sector Development Programme’ to cost Rs 2000 crore with the help of the , Under this there is a provision to construct solar power projects with a capacity of 200 MW and to construct 11 sub-stations and 2 distribution lines serving 13 towns of the State.
Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu urged Union Minister for Environment, Forest and https://exam.pscnotes.com/Climate-change”>Climate Change Bhupender Yadav that forest clearances for various development projects in the state be expedited.
The CM said the tough geological conditions of the state necessitated the construction of heliports. Heliports are required not only to facilitate tourists, but also for emergency needs during natural calamities. A decision should be taken without delay regarding the necessary forest clearances pending for the construction of heliports, the CM said.