Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Wednesday inaugurated/laid the foundation stone of 60 schemes of different departments and some of the beneficiaries selected by different departments were given certificates symbolically related to Pradhan Patta, appointment letters and other welfare schemes during a programme organized at Teshobathan village in Sundarpahari block of Godda district.

In the programme, the CM inaugurated 37 schemes worth Rs 7,050.83 lakh and laid the foundation stone of 23 schemes worth Rs 2,230.42 lakh, while under the housing scheme, he handed over the keys of the house for the house entry of six beneficiaries, while four were given Pradhan Patta. Apart from this, some of the beneficiaries selected by District Establishment Branch, MGNREGA, Education Department, Health Department, Cooperative Department, Welfare Department, Social Welfare Department, Supply Department etc were be given a symbolic appointment letter, community forest rights lease, ration card, and pension, grant acceptance letter etc. The CM presented a cheque of Rs 4 lakh each to the dependents of those who died due to the lightning.

Spl drive for 100% birth and death registration rolled out

TheJharkhand governmenton Friday rolled out a special month-long drive for ensuring cent percent birth and death registrations in the state.
Finance minister Rameshwar Oraon launched the initiative at the Project Building. The drive will be held till August 14.

The special drive, government officials said, aims to focus on registration of birth through government-run schools in the state. Approximately 6 lakh children enrol into the schools in Jharkhand every year. The principals of all the schools have been directed to ensure that their birth dates are registered, K Ravi Kumar, the secretary of school Education and Literacy, said.

According to statistics available with the , roughly 30% of all deaths and births in Jharkhand go unregistered in any given point in time.

The government said special awareness campaigns will be held across nearly 5,000 birth and death registrationcentres of the state.

XLRI-Xavier School of Management, Jamshedpur has reached the topmost level five (Pioneering Business Schools) among 47 participating business schools located in four continents and 21 countries in the second edition of Positive Impact Rating 2021.At the World Economic Forum in Lucerne-Burgenstock, Switzerland, the Second edition of the Positive Impact Rating 2021 results was released recently.

XLRI is the only business school in the world to have moved up from Level 3 (progressing schools) to the topmost Level 5 (Pioneering Business Schools) within a year.

State mulls opening Yoga and AYUSH centres in tourist places

The State Health Department has sought help from the Centre in opening and AYUSH centers in the famous tourist places Netarhat and Patratu. A video conferencing meeting was held in the chairmanship of Additional Chief Secretary, Health, Family Welfare and Medical Education, Arun Kumar Singh with the Ministry of AYUSH (Central Government).

Additional Chief Secretary, Department of Health, Medical Education and Family Welfare) gave a proposal related to this. In connection with the approval of the Annual Action Plan of Jharkhand State for the financial year 2023-24, under the chairmanship of the Secretary of the Ministry, Vaidya Rajesh Kotecha, many important things were discussed in this meeting.

Points were also discussed during this, 18 schemes were approved for Jharkhand AYUSH including four new schemes totalling Rs 159.36 crores. Last year also, 50 bedded Ayush Dhanwantri Hospitals in Ranchi and East Singhbhum districts were set up by the Government of India. Approval was also given for five 10 bedded Ayush Dhanwantri Hospitals in Gumla, Palamu, Deoghar, Dumka and Bokaro districts.

harkhand has clinched the first position in the recent ranking released by the Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Government of India, based on the progress of the implementation of the Smart City Mission’s schemes running in different 100 cities of the Country’s 36 states and union territories.

At the same time, Jharkhand’s Capital Ranchi has risen to 12th position in terms of progress of the ongoing mission plans in 100 cities. On the other hand, Delhi is at number 11 in the list of States and Union Territories and Bihar at number 27 and New Delhi is at number 41 and Bihar Capital Patna at 68th position in the list of cities. The Urban and Housing Development Department, Government of Jharkhand informed this through a press note.

The Government of Jharkhand and Chief Minister, Hemant Soren are very serious about the development of Ranchi Smart City. Earlier, Soren and Chief Secretary, Sukhdeo Singh have also expressed satisfaction over the progress of the ongoing development plans in the Smart City during their review meetings and assured the people that the city would develop in line with the aspirations of the people.

Make effective marketing system for Agri and Forest produce: CM

Chief Minister Hemant Soren said that forest produce based products can be made an important source of livelihood by value addition in remote rural areas of the State. Emphasize on providing fair price to the villagers for the products produced and stored by them. Sido-Kanhu Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture and Forest Produce State Cooperative Union Limited Production, collection, processing and distribution of agricultural and forest produce such as paddy, wheat, vegetables, fruits, tamarind, surguja, chironji, sal, amla, lac, mahua, karanj, silk and others in the state. Prepare an effective system of Marketing for buying and selling.

The CM said that a Database should be prepared of which forest produce trees are there on private and forest land, and by which group the products of those trees are being used. He was directing the officials in the second meeting of the Board of Directors of Sido-Kanhu Agriculture and Forest Produce State Cooperative Union Ltd., Ranchi, held at the Ministry of Jharkhand.

Sido-Kanhu Agriculture and Forest Produce State Cooperative Union Ltd is continuously organizing meetings with the District Union and the works are being given a concrete shape. State level workshop is also being organized along with the survey. Approval was also given for the selected logo of Sido-Kanhu Agriculture and Forest Produce State Cooperative Union Ltd. in the meeting.

CAR-Indian Institute of Agricultural Biotechnology (IIAB), Garhkhatanga, Ranchi successfully organized International Symposium on Advances in Plant Biotechnology and Genome Editing (APBGE-2021), held virtually. More than 450 delegates from 11 different countries participated in the three-day Symposium (Apr 8-10).

Nine scientific sessions were organized during these days with keynote lectures delivered by renowned national and international experts working in the domain.

There was a timely workshop on Genome Editing Technology, partnering with the industries, for the benefit of young researchers and students.

The symposium extensively covered recent advances in plant Tissue Culture, system biology and Biotechnology in plant sciences with focus on plant Stress induced by impending Climate changes.

Jharkhand: Bhojpuri, Maghi dropped from list of regional languages in Bokaro and Dhanbad districts

The Hemant Soren government on Friday removed Bhojpuri and Magahi from the list of regional languages in Bokaro and Dhanbad districts for district-level EMPLOYMENT examinations to be held by the state staff selection commission.
The move was aimed at quelling the ongoing language row which has been raging in the area for weeks.

In an order, the state department of personnel, Administrative Reforms and Rajbhasha nullified its previous notification of December 24 last year, which subsequently triggered the language row by pro-tribal outfits.

It also notified Bhojpuri and Magahi as regional languages in Garhwa and Palamu districts while Angika is listed as the regional language in Dumka, Jamtara, Sahebganj, Pakur and Godda districts. Odiya will be considered a regional language in East Singhbhum, West Singhbhum and Seraikela-Kharsawan districts.

23k farmers get benefit from drip irrigation project

Around 11,800 farmers in the entire State are on the path of by earning more than good production due to micro Irrigation“>Drip Irrigation and other facilities. So far, about 23000 farmers have been registered to join Jharkhand State Livelihood Promotion Society (JSLPS) run drip irrigation project. This project is being implemented in 30 blocks of 9 districts of the State.

Among the priorities of the State Government is to equip the farmers with facilities, so that they do not face any kind of problem, including irrigation, even in the difficult geographical conditions of Jharkhand. In this episode, training and facilities are being provided to the farmers of the State to grow better crops in less water through drip irrigation. The aim of which is to enable the framers of the State to register an increase in vegetable production through sustainable and eco-friendly Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture. The Government is also succeeding in its objective, due to which thousands of farmers, who were earlier dependent on one crop in the year, are now earning well by cultivating three to four crops in a year.

Jharkhand reported as many as 10 deaths due to medical negligence in the year 2020, the fifth highest among States and Union Territories in India, the latest Crime in India report released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) has revealed.

The first wave of Covid-19 pandemic hit the tribal State in March 2020, leading to a crisis of beds in hospitals and drugs used for treating Covid patients. While the medical in the State was gradually enhanced to face the Covid crisis, many patients had to suffer during the initial phase of the pandemic, sources from hospitals said.

As per NCRB records, Uttar Pradesh reported the highest number of deaths due to medical negligence in 2020, followed by Rajasthan, Telangana and Madhya Pradesh. At least 29 people died due to medical negligence in BJP-ruled Uttar Pradesh, while 23 died in Rajasthan, 16 in Telangana and 11 in Madhya Pradesh during this period.

As per records with the state Health department, about 1000 Jharkhand residents died of Covid-19 in year 2020. The toll was at least three times higher during the second wave of the pandemic in year 2021.

While NCRB has not defined medical negligence in context of its annual report, most legal websites define medical negligence as misconduct by a medical practitioner or doctor by not providing enough care resulting in breach of their duties.