JHARKHAND

Out of the 60.24 lakh vehicles (that run on petrol/diesel) registered in the state, only 9,714 are battery-operated, which is when converted to Percentage, comes down to 0.16%.

However, the figure is lower as per FAME-II which says 705 two-wheelers, 349 three-wheelers and 33 four-wheelers are registered as e-vehicles inJharkhand.

The primary objective of FAME-II, which was launched by the Centre in April, 2019, is to encourage faster adoption of electric vehicles by offering an incentive for purchasing electric vehicles. Although the Centre grants subsidy for purchasing e-vehicles, unlike other states, no such offer is given by Jharkhand, part of the reason why people are hesitant to switch to battery-operated vehicles. Coupled with that, the fact that there are not enough charging facilities in the state is discouraging people from buying e-vehicles.

The state charges 9% for vehicles priced over Rs.1 lakh and 8% for vehicles priced under Rs 1 lakh as registration fee.

The state industries department recently notified the Jharkhand Industrial and Promotion Policy, 2021 but it did not contain any clause on the promotion of e-vehicles. A chapter on automobile, auto-component and electric vehicles mentions incentives for automobile the sector as a whole, but it does not say anything about e-vehicles particularly. The document also fails to envision the route map to transition and catching up with the FAME scheme.

As per the document released by Icmr, a total of 1,231 persons were tested for antibodies across three districts from the general Population, of which 680 showed the presence of antibodies. While among Health workers, 302 persons were tested and 243 had antibodies.

The three districts that were selected for the survey are Pakur, Latehar and Simdega. In the general population category, Simdega topped the chart with 65.3% of those surveyed having antibodies while Latehar reported 56.6% and Pakur 44%. In the health worker category, 85% in Latehar have developed antibodies followed by Simdega with 81%, while Pakur reported 77%.

Governor C.P. Radhakrishnan, while participating in the programme organised by the Forest Management and Conservation General Committee and Johar Bharat Federation in KNJ High School, Chakulia said that Environment protection has become the biggest challenge for the world today and the whole world is worried about it. Due to environmental imbalance, there is an increase in drought, extreme heat, no rain, unseasonal heavy rain, etc., due to which crores of people are affected. The main reasons for this are indiscriminate exploitation of https://exam.pscnotes.com/natural-Resources“>Natural Resources, unplanned throwing of garbage and waste materials, construction of factories as well as lack of measures to prevent pollution from them, indiscriminate use of pesticides, lack of scientific technology. Non adoption and lack of information.

He said that industrial development is very necessary to meet the basic needs of the ever-increasing Population and increase their economic level. It is also necessary to increase the means of transport, but along with this the increase in tree plantation is also necessary in the same proportion.

The Governor said that today the ground water level is continuously going down. During my visits to different districts, people apprised me about the problems related to water level and Irrigation there. He directed the Deputy Commissioner and officials of the Irrigation Department to complete the pending projects for water harvesting soon. The attention of the State Government is also being drawn for this.

The Governor said that our state is full of mineral wealth, the country’s maximum mineral wealth is present here, if it is used in a planned way, then no power in the world can stop the prosperity of our state, just keeping in mind the environmental balance. Keeping this in mind, there is a need to work in this direction.

As per bulletin released by the National Health Mission (NHM), the Growth rate of Covid-19 in the State was 0.91 per cent against the national Average of 0.93 per cent on Tuesday, while the doubling rate of cases in Jharkhand also improved in comparison to the national average. As per NHM data, it would take 76.68 days for the cases to double in the state against the national doubling rate of 75.03 days.

While the Covid recovery rate in the State also surpassed the national average of 85.60 per cent and reached 88.74 per cent with recoveries outnumbering fresh cases every day in the past fortnight, Jharkhands Covid mortality rate continued to be higher than the national average 0f 1.10 per cent. As per NHM data, the Covid mortality rate in Jharkhand was 1.43 per cent.

Chief Minister Hemant Soren said that where the number of AYUSH doctors in the State was less than one hundred a few months ago, today the number of AYUSH doctors in the state is more than one thousand. Earlier, the budget for the AYUSH sector used to be only Rs 20 to 30 crores, while our government has now made a budget provision of Rs 300 crores to further strengthen the AYUSH sector.

Soren said that at present the homeopath system is very effective and important in the Health care sector. It is the priority of our government to further strengthen the ancient health system. He said that in the last few months a large number of AYUSH doctors have been appointed by the . Doctors have been made an integral part of the State government. Work is being done with commitment on how to strengthen the health system in the State. The role of our AYUSH doctors will be important in fulfilling the vision of Healthy Jharkhand, Prosperous Jharkhand. He said that Ayush Anganwadi homeopathic kit distribution is starting today. Make a better action plan and work on how to maximize the delivery of homeopathic kits. He said that an action plan should be prepared to make AYUSH medicines accessible to PDS holders and pensioners in the state.

As per figures compiled by the National Health Mission (NHM), Ranchi accounts for 41 of the 82 Covid casualties reported in the state in the past one month. On the other hand, East Singhbhum, which continues to top among Jharkhand districts in terms of Covid casualties, has reported only seven Covid fatalities since March 10, reveals NHM data.

As per NHM data, Ranchi reported 7,017 of the 14,279 fresh Covid cases in Jharkhand since March 10. In totality, the district accounts for 40,407 of the 1,34,715 cases of Covid infection reported in Jharkhand so far. The figures indicate that Ranchi has reported 49 per cent of cases in the past one month and only 29 per cent of the total cases reported in Jharkhand so far.

As per figures with the NHM, Ranchi accounts for 290 of the 1175 Covid casualties about 24 per cent in Jharkhand so far.

TheJharkhandassembly approved the annual demand of grants worth Rs 7,040.90 crore for the department of Health, medical Education and family welfare department during the ongoing budget session. The budget proposal was approved by a voice vote without the opposition members.

The assembly secretariat has sent four reminders to the department but the question remains unanswered,” he said, underlining that for raising the question, the health minister lodged an FIR against him with the Doranda Police station.

While replying to the debate, health minister Banna Gupta accused Rai of unlawfully acquiring his department’s documents and challenged him to prove his complicity in taking the meant for incentives to Covid warriors. The heated arguments were somehow managed by speaker Rabindra Nath Mahto and the demand for grants was declared approved through a voice vote.

TheJharkhandcabinet gave its post-facto approval to convene the budget session of the assembly session from February 27 and its proposal will now be sent to governorRamesh Baisfor approval.

Among them is a proposal by the state tourism department to rope in a consulting firm as transaction advisors for building and its operation by private companies under the public-private-PARTNERSHIP (PPP) mode across the states prominent tourist locations.

In another decision, the cabinet approved a proposal to issue Bonds to trainee nurses at government-run Nursing colleges.

The cabinet further approved the disbursement of Rs 268.14 crore from the state contingency fund for payments to farmers across 226 drought-hit blocks under the Mukhyamantri Sukhar Rahat Yojana.

The project of Akshaya Patra kitchen in Hazaribagh is taking shape with the efforts of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance and Hazaribagh MP cum Chairman Jayant Sinha. The project is likely to be completed in the next 8-9 months. This kitchen being built at Demotand at a cost of Rs 27 crore will provide nutritious mid-day meals to about 1 lakh children of 565 government schools in the district daily. This Akshaya Patra will be the 5th largest kitchen in the world.

With the efforts of Hazaribag MP Jayant Sinha, now a huge kitchen of Akshaya Patra is being built in Ramgarh on the same lines. For this he was trying for a long time. He urged CCL for its construction and operation and got an amount of Rs 22 crore approved through CSR. An amount of Rs 15 crore will be spent for the construction of this kitchen and Rs 7 crore on its operation. They are continuously working to take this project on the ground and are providing necessary guidelines and support to Ramgarh District Administration, CCL and Akshaypatra’s team in this regard. By the efforts of Jayant Sinha, MoU was signed on 17 January 2022 for this huge project.

The kitchen will provide nutritious mid-day meals daily to 50,000 children of government schools. This kitchen is unique in itself, as it will increase the capacity and quality of food availability. Also, it will be equipped with world class facilities. Equipment will be imported from all over the world for its manufacture and many things will be made from steam instead of gas. It will be ready in the next 2 years. Jayant Sinha has envisaged this project keeping in mind the Human resource development and then children will get quality food regularly, their Health will improve and school attendance will increase.