JHARKHAND

The Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture Department had made preparations in advance for timely supply of seeds and timely supply of urea to the farmers, it is now being implemented, he said while addressing all the district agriculture officials of the State and the officials associated with the department in the State level workshop organized at NIC, Nepal House.

Under the Leadership of Chief Minister Hemant Soren, the Agriculture Department is in commanding mode this time. It is expected that in this tenure of five years, the government will be successful in making 24 lakh farmers of the state financially strong. Many revolutionary changes have taken place in the agriculture sector and in the coming years, we will be among those selected agricultural states of the country, which have a special place in the field of agricultural production, he said.

The Minister added this year the programme of timely seed distribution was done with complete transparency. Along with this, distribution of urea is also being done among all the farmers.

State Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture Minister Badal inaugurated the Godhan Nyaya Yojana in the auditorium of the Animal Husbandry Department at Hesag. Addressing the progressive farmers and milk producers from different districts of the state, he said that we can make Jharkhand’s identity in the field of organic agriculture with the cow dung in the state. Today we are dependent on chemical Fertilizers, which leave a deep impact on our Health. He said that Godhan Nyaya Yojana is being started as a pilot project from five districts of the state. After reviewing the success of this project, we will plan to run it in the entire state, so all the cow herders are requested to move towards making the state an organic Jharkhand.

Badal said that the government is preparing to set up an agency and a centre so that more and more organic food items are used in the state, and our products are recognized as organic. We have made a budget provision of Rs 10 crores for vermicompost, if it is successful, then a plan of Rs 100 crores will also be made. Under this scheme, farmers of the state will be able to get vermicompost at Rs.8 per kg in their area only. Along with this, the government will take cow dung at Rs. 2 per kg from the cowherds and after processing it will make it available to the farmers in the form of vermicompost.

Badal said that for the first time, construction of Gomukti Dham has been started in the state along with work on Gaushala. So far 12 lakh farmers of the state have been given a benefit of Rs 3500 per farmer. Along with this, an amount of Rs 810 crore has been distributed among 9.38 lakh farmers as benefit of crop Insurance in lieu of damage caused by drought. For the welfare of farmers, we have demanded 9682 crores to the central government for drought relief. This amount will go directly to the farmers’ account. Our department has started many flagship schemes under the guidance of the Chief Minister. Godhan Nyay Yojana is also one of them, which will benefit about 10,000 farmers in the first phase.

The objective of this scheme is to reduce the dependence of farmers on chemical fertilizers and increase the income of farmers by preparing vermicompost using cow dung available in the state of Jharkhand. According to the economic survey of the year 2019, there are 12.57 million cattle in the state. As an estimate, 504 lakh tonnes of cow dung is emitted every year by the cattle. Explain that the dung emitted by cattle plays an important role in the ecosystem of agriculture, as it increases the organic content of the by increasing the water holding capacity of the soil. An effective management is needed to effectively use cow dung in agricultural works, which will be beneficial for the farmers. This is a pilot project to convert cow dung produced in the entire state into vermicompost by purchasing it from cow herders and making it available to farmers at a subsidized rate. At present, the project is being started from one district of each division.

TheNational Bank for Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture and Rural Development() has recommended increasing the limits for providing collateral-free credit to the students.

In its state focus paper 2023-24 for Jharkhand, Nabard stated there is a provision for collateral-free loans up to Rs 7.50 lakh for Education. However,Jharkhandbeing a tribal majority state with a large number of students from poor households, enhancing the quantum of loans would be beneficial for them. The representation may be given to theReserve Bank Of India(RBI), it said.

The State Government has held discussions with its officials on enhancing the collateral-free loans up to Rs 15 lakh. Sources said the government is mulling over creating a corpus to implement the plan.

Nabard projected that the potential for education loan in the state is Rs 1,222.53 crore for the 2023-24 financial year.

Under its Phase III drive of the vaccination policy for 18 to 44 years, the targets to inoculate 1.4 crore beneficiaries. However, many of these beneficiaries are not tech-savvy as they are from the rural areas and coupled with the lack of Internet access, the Centres app will hamper the drive, the government said.

Jharkhandis on top of the list of and land erosion in the country, according to theIndian Space and Research Organisation’s (ISRO) Desertification and Land Degradation Atlas (2015). It said Jharkhand has the highest area – 68.98% – under desertification and land degradation with respect to its total geographical area of 79, 716 km.

To counter the environmental loss, the space research organisation has said degraded forest and parched areas are to be covered withgreeneryalong with the implementation of Soil-moisture preservation measures.

As part of the corrective measures, the Gumla forest division is planning to undertake more plantation and silvicultural activities in the degraded and denuded forest patches apart from other activities.

CT Scan has been a remarkable discovery leading to the award of prestigious Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, in the year 1979 to South Africa born American Physicist Dr Allan Cormack and British electrical engineer, Dr Godfrey Hounsefield .

MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) went further and completely transformed the imaging process as this is extremely safe and equally versatile in acquiring images because it uses safe – gradients and radio waves instead of ionising radiation in CT scanner, to gather the pre requisite informations which is effectively converted into 2D and 3D images in any desired plane.

Unlike modern CT Scan, MRI remains quite costly because of heavy maintenance cost due to the necessity of keeping the superconducting magnet functioning in artificially created extreme cold Environment effected by liquid Helium and a layer of liquid nitrogen around the magnet.

MRI takes a lot of time to complete the study and is prone to movement related artefacts easily. These remain cause of worry. Restless people and children find it difficult to take the test. Also for people who are claustrophobic (fear for narrow space) and dislike loud noises, produced by radio pulse generators or those who have metallic implants in their body, are not advised to take this test . Recently a lot of welcome changes have taken place in their design to address the above problems but it has only enhanced the cost substantially and has restricted its use in resource poor countries.

International Maithili Council (Antarrastriya Maithili Parishad) has demanded from the Jharkhand government to add Mathili language to the list of regional languages that could be opted by candidates for job examinations to do district level posts.With more voices, Maithili speaking people of different constituencies raised their voices to support their demand. They threatened to conduct a strong movement across the state, informed Arun Pathak, a member of the Antarrastriya Maithili Parishad.

Notably, Maithili is the second and has a place in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution. Over lakhs of Maithili-speaking people are residing in Jharkhand, he said.It was decided that the members of the Parishad would meet the Chief Minister to submit a memorandum soon after the Coronavirus impact diminished.