Admin provides benefits under Savitribai Phule Kishori Smardhi Yojana

In a bid to enable Women take independent decisions, to increase the efficiency in girls, child Education and to stop child marriage, the has started an important scheme Savitribai Phule Kishori Smardhi Yojana. Under this plan the District Administration has given financial benefits to 32 school students.

Under the scheme, girl students who are in 8th and 9th class, will get Rs 2500 financial assistance from the State government. The students of class 11th and 12th will receive the 5,000 cash benefit. The girls who are between 18-19 years of age will be one time benefit with cash Rs 20,000.

Jharkhand State Livelihood Promotion Society signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with NGO Vasan to include the families of Primitive Vulnerable Tribal Groups of the State in the mainstream of development by connecting them with a strong livelihood through Jharkhand Millet Mission. The MoU was signed by the Chief Executive Officer Nancy Sahay and the Director of Vasan, Dr. Sabyasachi Das at the State Office of JSLPS at Hehal.

Under this non-financial agreement, Vasan will work to improve the livelihood of PVTGs within the scope of the UDAN project run by JSLPS. To revive the cultivation of honey, work will be done to increase the income of tribal families by connecting them with improved cultivation of honey. After signing the MoU, Sahay said that Jharkhand Millet Mission will be launched, through which the goal of making the State Malnutrition free along with livelihood for tribal families will also be achieved.

Vasan will provide technical assistance from millet production to processing, Marketing etc. This initiative will help in making the PVTG families of the State prosperous by linking them with the means of sustainable livelihood. Sabyasachi Das, Director of Vasan, said that Vasan will help JSLPS in the implementation of Millet Mission in the State and will help in providing marketing and processing facilities from honey production. Through this initiative, the Birhor, Asur, Sabar, Pahariya, Korba, Birjia and Parhiya tribal groups will get direct benefits.

Through this initiative, an increase in the income of PVTG families will also be ensured by establishing a model of through backyard Poultry in 20 blocks of the State.

Under the UDAN project, about 15,000 PVTG families of the state will be linked to the backyard poultry and madua based value chain. Through this initiative, about 15,000 tribal (PVTG) families will be linked with millet production and processing by launching the Jharkhand Millet Mission in the JSLPS state. Along with this, Vasan will also provide technical help for the capacity building of the community, marketing and market system including Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture and production. Organic Farming of madua will be encouraged through PVTG families so that they can get good prices for the products.

Jharkhand: First Sanskrit school in East Singhbhum named after Dr APJ Abdul Kalam

A Muslim-owned organisation named Abdul Hanan Memorial Educational, Welfare and Charitable Society, (AHMEWCS) here will open the first Sanskritschoolin the district next month on the occasion of Teachers Day.

TheJharkhand Academic Council(JAC)-affiliatedSanskritschool, which is named after former President of India, Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, will conduct primary and secondary classes.

AHMEWCS has been running two schools — APJ Abdul Kalam High School and APJ Abdul KalamInter College– since 2008 and a total of 2,000 students are enrolled in the two schools.

Vedanta Group has spent Rs 331 crore on social impact initiatives in FY 2021. Vedantas CSR expenditure is 28 per cent or Rs 93 crore more than the stipulated requirement.

Over the years, Vedanta has built one of the most recognised and impactful CSR programmes in India. During FY 2020, the company had spent Rs 296 crore on its CSR initiatives.

The companys CSR expenditure, which is among the highest by India Inc, has been spread across the companys core impact areas of Education, Health, sustainable livelihoods, Women Empowerment, Sports and culture, Environment and community development.

Each of the Group business units played its part by executing the respective CSR agenda, in line with the Group guidelines.

Vedanta is committed to conduct its business in a socially responsible, ethical and environment friendly manner and continuously works towards improving the Quality Of Life of the communities in and around its operational areas.

Vedanta has recently announced the Anil Agarwal Foundation initiative of Swasth Gaon Abhiyan and has created a roadmap to spend Rs 5,000 crore over the next five years to provide end-to-end healthcare to communities across 24 districts in 12 states.

17 schools register for Jharkhand School Innovation Challenge

Altogether 17 schools have so far registered for the Jharkhand School Innovation Challenge (JHSIC)2023, the biggest innovation challenge contest for school students (Class 8 to 12) being organized by Naresh Vashisht Centre for Tinkering and Innovation (NVCTI), IIT (ISM) for which the registration began last week.

Notably, altogether 187 teams of different schools from across the state took part in the competition during the last year and all efforts are being made to ensure greater participation during this year.

state to participate in JH-SIC 2023 and said that the best ideas selected during the contest can also work to launch their own start up for which all necessary will be extended by various centres of IIT (ISM) including Mining Technology Innovation Hub, TEXMiN besides ACIC and NVCTI.

The/Nudge Centre for Rural Development is set to invest Rs 200 crore to support rural livelihoods and to help poor households access Government programs, subsidies, schemes, and private sector investment. Called Asha Kiran – the Hope Project, this initiative is supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation, the Skoll Foundation, Hindustan Unilever Foundation, FICCI-Aditya Birla CSR Centre for Excellence, HT Parekh Foundation, Godrej, RBL Bank, and KPMG among others.

Focused on Uttar Pradesh as the primary State along with neighbouring geographies, Asha Kiran will build upon government priorities and programs, to scale high-impact models, in PARTNERSHIP with the government. Asha Kirans implementation partners include Transform Rural India Foundation, Indus Action, Magic Bus, Heifer International, Trust Community Livelihoods, The Goat Trust, Haqdarshak and others.

Asha Kiran is acting as a force-multiplier and scaling targeted, high-impact and cost-effective interventions which include enabling access to MGNREGS and PDS, input distribution and kitchen gardens to provide immediate relief in addition to improving agricultural incomes through high value crops, productivity and market linkages and adding secondary income via goatery & backyard . Asha Kirans Investment of Rs 200 crores is likely to unlock 800 crore rupees to 1000 crore rupees worth of benefits for rural communities through access to government schemes and private sector investments.

Kerala model fishery will be implement in Jkhand: Badal

Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture Minister Badal said, on Sunday, that work has been done at many levels in the field of agriculture, animal husbandry and in the state of Kerala, in which technical inclusion is an important part. It is our effort to implement the excellent agriculture policy and technology of Kerala in Jharkhand.

Under the Badals Leadership, the team that went on Kerala tour is continuously visiting different agricultural institutes to implement new techniques of agriculture in Jharkhand. In this sequence, he, along with Secretary Agriculture, Abu Bakar Siddiqui and departmental officials, visited the Central Institute of Fisheries Technology (CIFT), Kochi, Kerala, where technical and educational arrangements related to agriculture, fisheries were discussed.

For the Hygienic Fish Market located in Dhurva Ranchi in the state, discussion was also held on providing technology by the Minister for the sale of fish in hygienic condition and proper processing of fish waste products, on which the Scientists of the institute told that the institute has developed a refrigerated box for the sale of fish in hygienic condition at a cost of only Rs 65,000, in which fish can be sold properly, as well as the usefulness of the equipment for removing fish scales (Choita) is also discussed. There was talk about the technique of using those waste products as a fish mill.

Centre accuses Jharkhand of 37% vax wastage, CM counters

Union Government alleged thatJharkhandwasted 37.3% Covid-19 Vaccines it received till date, the refuted the charge with chief minister Hemant Soren and Health minister Banna Gupta claiming wastage of only 4.65%. However, later the health department clarified that although it could not compile data from all the 24 districts due to the impact of cyclone Yaas, the wastage stands around 2.5%.

Releasing a data hastily compiled by the health department, chief minister Hemant Sorens tweet said 48,63,660 doses were supplied to the districts of which, 40, 12,142 have been administered and 6,56,532 are still in stock.

MP Jayant Sinha honored with Sansad Ratna Award

Hazaribag Member of Parliament Co-Chairman Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance Jayant Sinha was honored with Sansad Ratna Award.The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance headed by him has been adjudged as the Best Committee for outstanding performance.This is a matter of pride for Hazaribag and Ramgarh.Jayant Sinha was honored with this award by the Honorable Governor of Haryana Shri Bandaru Dattatreya on 25 March 2023 in New Delhi.

Sinha was also adjudged as the Best Parliamentarian in the year 2022 and the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance headed by him as the Best Committee for outstanding performance.He has had a very good performance in the Lok Sabha as a Member of Parliament.Representing the Hazaribag Lok Sabha, he has been raised many important issues related to the region and the nation in all the sessions of the House.He has presented many private member bills related to the national interest in the House.

Fifth mining conclave organised in Ranchi

The fifth mining conclave organised by theIndian Chamber of Commercewas held at Hotel Radiance Blue, Ranchi on Saturday under the theme ‘Impact of Latest Technology in Mining ‘.

Many experts from major mining companies of the state participated in this conclave.Amritanshu Prasad, chairman, Indian Chamber of Commerce,Jharkhand Chapterspoke about the increasing impact of technology on the mining industries.