All private firms operating inJharkhandwith a workforce of 10 or more staff, incuding those which are agencies for central and state PSUs, have to register themselves with the government portal http://jharniyojan.jharkhand.gov.in.
The website, which was launched by CMHemant Sorenhere on Friday, aims at reserving 75% of the jobs with salaries up to Rs 40,000 in the companies for the locals.
While registering with the website, the companies must include details of all such positions with salaries up to Rs 40,000 per month each.
JHARKHAND
Odia schools in Jharkhand shift to Hindi, sparks row
Thousands of children of Odia-speaking people residing in bordering districts ofJharkhandare forced to study in Hindi medium due to the lack of Odia-language teachers in their schools.
As a result,Odisha Bhasha Vichar Mancha a civil Society group has decided to move the Jharkhand with a demand to include Odia in the teachers training programme.
The recent decision of the National Council of Teachers Education (NCTE) to exclude Odia from the primary teachers training programme in the state has added to the woes ofOdiasin Jharkhand.
Sources said Odia is studied as a second language in Jharkhand as around 20 lakh Odia-speaking people reside in 10 districts of the state. In the three bordering districts of East and West Singhbhum and Sareikala-Kharswan, around 30% of the Population are Odias.
TSF and CII set up career centre to provide jobs
Tata Steel Foundation (TSF) in PARTNERSHIP with Confederation of Indian (CII) has established Model Career Centre (MCC) in Jamshedpur, with an aim to guide/counsel the job seekers to pursue the right career choice and support them to provide better placement opportunities.
This initiative will provide a platform to the Niche group of job seekers who are either unaware of or cannot access other job portals. While the Services of MCC are open to all job seekers, but focus would be reach out to the youth from socially and economically marginalized sections of the Society. On the other, MCC provide the support to the industries for hiring the right talent pool to reduce the skill gap. Although like any other industries, MCC operation has impacted due to pandemic but after constant effort and rigorous process MCC has connected various industries viz. manufacturing, service, hospitality, retails, E-Commerce etc. to place the required workforce from eastern region.
Over the past two years we have mobilised more than 5000 candidates, comprising different qualifications and skill sets, viz- 10th and below, 12th pass, ITI/Polytechnic, Graduates & Post Graduates ( Technical/ Non- technical). Till date, we have successfully placed 300 candidates in the organisations like Tata Electronics, Zomato, Mansi, Five S Digital, Yes Tecno, United Infracore, Automeck, Sodexo, Wow Momos etc. In coming 3 years MCC has vision to reach 30,000 youth for creating better job opportunities and increasing livelihood through EMPLOYMENT led activities with the help of industries workforce requirements from eastern region and pan India as well.
BAU & Agri Dept begin research on oil seed Gobhi Sarson
Agricultural think tank of the State, Birsa Agricultural University (BAU), and the Agricultural Directorate of the are jointly trying to increase income of the farmers of the State. In order to do so, BAU has started research on the newly emerging oilseed crop Gobhi Sarson’ in the current Rabi season for searching opportunities in the State.
This initiative of research on this crop is being done for the first time in the State by the Agronomy Department of BAU, which is being implemented under the ICAR supported All India Coordinated Research project on Integrated Farming System Research.
This crop was planted in November in the agronomy department’s Integrated Farming System Research Farm. Presently this crop is flourishing in the field. Flowering has started in its Plants.
Govt providing plants at Rs 5 to Rs 15 to boost horticulture
In a bid to boost in Jharkhand, the State Government is giving saplings to the people from its nursery at the lowest rate. The Department of Forest, Environment and Climate-change”>Climate Change, Jharkhand has issued information that Plants of different species have been kept ready for sale in the departmental nursery. The plants are available from Rs 5 to Rs 15.
In nurseries located in Ranchi, Jamshedpur,Seraikela and Deoghar, people can get normal plants for Rs 5 and big plants and Kalmi trees for Rs 15. The real motive behind selling saplings at cheap rates is also to make people aware of planting trees in and around their homes and making the environment healthy.
Jharkhand to promote classes 9th & 11th students without exams
Jharkhandgovernment has decided to promote students enrolled in classes 9 and 11 in the academic session 2020-21 to the next class i.e., Class 11 and 12 respectively.
The students of the classes 9 and 11 were examined through the examination conducted by the Jharkhand Govt at the end of the session and the successful candidates promoted to the next classes, but this year due to Covid-19 epidemic, examinations have not taken place this year. Therefore, the Govt has decided to promote these students without examination.
Due to pandemic Covid-19, all the schools are closed except for a limited period, due to which almost physical operation of the above classes has not taken place.
CCL inks MOU with CINI for helping TB patients of Chatra, Latehar
The Pradhan Mantri TB Mukt Bharat Abhiyaan was launched by President of India, Droupadi Murmu on September 9, 2022 to support patients undergoing TB treatment and accelerate the countrys progress towards TB elimination.
In order to provide additional patient support to improve treatment outcome of TB patients and leverage Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) opportunities, Government of India launched NI-KSHAY portal-A digital platform for community support for the persons with TB.
To augment its CSR support towards ending TB, Central Coalfields Limited (CCL) has registered as a Nikshay Mitra on NI-KSHAY portal in September, 2022 forproviding nutritional care support for patients with Tuberculosis (TB) in Latehar and Chatra district, Jharkhand.
Bokaro to be develop as industrial, investment hub
Bokaro is set to emerge as an industrial as well as an hub. Under the Amritsar-Kolkata Industrial Corridor (AKIC), an Industrial Production Node (IMN) would be established in Bokaro.
The exercise for setting up new industries on around one thousand acres of land has been started in the district. Director Industries Jitendra Kumar Singh, Deputy Commissioner Kuldeep Choudhary, BIADA Regional Director Kirti Sri, Additional Collector Sadat Anwar along with BSL officials inspected various sites of the district recently.
Under the Amritsar-Kolkata Industrial Corridor (ADKIC), an Industrial Production Node (IMN) will be set up in Bokaro, informed a District Administration official. The corridor encompasses one of the most densely populated regions in the world and houses about 40 per cent of India’s Population.
For setting-up the new industries Bokaro Steel Plant (BSL) management will provide 1000 acres of land for the construction of the Industrial Production Node (IMN). In this sequence, a five-member team of the Central and State Governments inspected the vacant places located near Bhatua, Dhandwara, Garga Bridge.
Notably, the Government of India is developing various Industrial Corridor Projects as part of the National Industrial Corridor Programme, which aims to develop greenfield industrial cities in India to compete with the best manufacturing and investment destinations in the world. National Industrial Corridor Development & Implementation Trust (NICDIT) has been constituted for the unified development of Industrial Corridors in the country.
Jharkhand: plans to hike tariff on surface water usage by 7.5%
Tariff on the usage ofsurface waterfor commercial and organisational use is expected to be hiked in the next few weeks in the state by about 7.5%, officials in the state Resources“>Water Resources department said.
The department has drafted the paper on increase in water surcharge and uploaded it on the website, seeking public comments before making an official notification. The new water tax will come into force with retrospective effect from April 1, 2022.
As per the draft, water sources have been divided into four categoriesnatural sources (river, falls, streams); Dams and their fringe areas; down-stream; and canals. Industrial and commercial entities will have to pay Rs 4.13/1,000 litre for drawing water from natural sources; Rs 11.97 from dams/fringe area; Rs 13 from down-stream; and Rs 29.70 from canals. Similarly, industrial, commercial or individual entities taking water for municipal use will have to pay Rs 3.75/1,000 litre for water from natural sources; Rs 6 from dams/fringe area; Rs 7 from down-stream; and Rs 15 from canals. For government bodies and other government-affiliated agencies, Rs 3.58/1000 litre is fixed for water from natural sources, dams/fringe areas and down-stream, while Rs 15 is fixed for canals.
Ranchi hospital among top-3 under Pradhan Mantri -Jan Arogya Yojna’
The CEO of National Health Authority (NHA) R S Sharma said Jharkhand is doing excellent work under the Pradhan Mantri -Jan Arogya Yojna (PM-JAY) Ayushman Bharat scheme and the model adopted here will be replicated in other states, too.
Sharma, who paid a visit to PICU and other ICUs at Ranchi district hospital which have been constructed with the the hospital received under the scheme, said: “The very purpose of the scheme has fructified in Ranchi as the district hospital has been able to raise better Services with the money they received under the scheme and this model will be taken up for national implementation.”
The aim behind the launch of the scheme is to provide quality healthcare to all especially the poor as they lose everything once someone from their family develops a life-threatening disease. To ensure that more and more beneficiaries are treated under the scheme, we have to ensure that they are provided with documents be it a smart card, a golden card or any piece of paper which could help them in availing hospital facilities free of cost.