JHARKHAND

Addressing the State Level Rabi Workshop Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture Minister, Badal said, on Tuesday, that Rs 461 crore has been allocated to all the districts under the Chief Minister’s Drought Relief Scheme. The department is going to give its visiting card to the farmer so that he can be assured that the is with him.

Badal said to make the concept of Smart Village a reality, there is a need to make co-ordination with all the concerned departments. He asked the office bearers to cooperate with those farmers who are not able to reach the Pragya Kendra and are not getting the benefit of the scheme by taking cooperation from Kisan Mitra. Talking about linking the deprived farmers with the schemes, he said that a list of such farmers should be prepared so that the benefits of the schemes could reach them. In 3 years of Government, we are reaching 30 lakh farmer families of the State, this is a big achievement, but the target is to reach 5800000 farmers and ensure the contribution up to 20 per cent in the GDP of the State, he added .

The Minister said that more than five lakh new members have joined the cooperative, monitoring should also be done to see how active the new members are in the cooperative. While addressing 129 new officers, he said that the Government has high hopes from them and the senior officials should share their experience so that they can perform better in the field of agriculture. He said that the commitment in the department should be visible from top to bottom, so that we can play our role honestly in fulfilling the dreams of Birsa farmers.

The stateagriculturedepartment expressed its eagerness to shift the energy load of agricultural activities to renewable Resources, particularlysolarenergy, after an expert committee projected an estimated of Rs 12,465 crore to the state exchequer in the next 15 years, if done so.

The State Government gives huge amounts of subsidy to farmers onpowerbills for their consumption in agricultural activities. As per the roadmap on energy transition in Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture sector, prepared by theJharkhandRenewable Energy Development Agency (JREDA) in consultation with the Centre for Environment and Energy Development (CEED) and Centre for Excellence in Green Energy & Efficient Technology, Central University of Jharkhand, switching to renewable resources would bring down thecostof power substantially and result in savings for the state, which it otherwise gives as subsidy. It would also help the farmers in augmenting their income.

While the roadmap elaborates a slew of measures which can initially reduce the cost of power and save subsidy, it goes on to suggest the development of solarised cold stores and warehouses which can further prove to be sites of Entrepreneurship and activity favouring installation of rooftop grid connected solar Plants.

Highlighting the key aspects of the study conducted for preparing the roadmap, CEEDs Ashwini Ashok said agricultures contribution to the states GDP is as low as 13% and the sector consumes merely 3% of the power from conventional sources. There is a huge scope to incorporate power usage and augment its share to the state GDP. The government will be able to save around Rs 12,465 crore while adding a solar capacity of 4250MW. Solarisation can be instrumental in avoiding CO2 emissions of more than 36.4 million tonnes in the next 15 years he added.

Jharkhandchief minister HemantSorenunveiled the Jharkhand State Solar Policy of 2022 at a hotel here. The chief minister said with https://exam.pscnotes.com/Climate-change”>Climate Change now knocking on our doors, Jharkhand has made an effort to replace thermal power by clean energy and ensure reduction of emission of greenhouse gasses.

Many of the villages atop the hilly tracts are inaccessible and could not be fully lit up. The Solar Policy 2022 will lay the foundation for lighting up all inaccessible villages by encouraging villages to set up solar power Plants. Thermal power costs anything between Rs 4 and Rs 5 per unit, while solar power comes cheap at Rs 2 to Rs 2.50 per unit. One MW of solar power can be generated from a plant on a 5 acre plot. Hence, an entire district can be fully lit up with the help of solar plants on 400 to 500 acres, he added.

Under this policy, the Soren government aims to produce 4,000 MW of solar power in the next five years by providing incentives and supporting entrepreneurs who are willing to invest in utility scale solar projects, distributed solar projects and off-grid solar projects, officials said. The policy document envisages a cumulative solar power generation of 3,000 MW through solar parks, non-solar parks, floating solar power plans and canal top units. That apart, Jharkhand aims to produce 720 MW power through rooftop solar units, captive solar units, and solar power Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture, the policy states.

Under the new policy, households with annual income less than Rs 3 lakh will be provided subsidies to the tune of 60%-80% if they commission rooftop solar units on their residential places between 3KW and 10KW. Solar agriculture projects will draw subsidies to the tune of 30% of the total cost while solar pumps will be provided with subsidies up to 67%.

In such a situation, always keep in mind the interest of the farmers. He directed to expedite the testing of the fields of the farmers of the State so that the farmers can get information about the deficiencies or specialties in the soil of their fields and farmers can use friendly Fertilizers.

The Governor said that the soil and Climate here is conducive for vegetable production. We need to motivate the farmers more in this direction.

The Governor said there is no shortage of water in the State, yet farmers are not getting adequate Irrigation facilities for agricultural work, this is a serious problem, there is a need to work actively with coordination in this direction.

The Health Minister recently asked the RIMS administration to work on starting a department of genome studies in the premiere state-run hospital. Gupta, during a meeting earlier this week, said that genome sequencing was an important part of the states fight against the Covid-19 pandemic and the will also help in combatting diseases caused by viruses in future.

Jharkhand had sent a proposal for procurement of a genome sequencer machine to the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare back in March. However, the proposal was not approved for several months and the state was asked to send RT-PCR samples of Covid patients to the Institute of Live Sciences (ILS) in Bhubaneshwar for genome sequencing.

NIT Jamshedpur, in collaboration with the Technology Information, Forecasting, and Assessment Council (TIFAC), organised a specialized brainstorming session on its campus aimed at reducing carbon emissions. The session, which focused on decarbonizing hard-to-abate sectors, brought together esteemed individuals from academia and research institutes, with a particular emphasis on the steel and cement industriesthe major contributors to greenhouse gas emissions.

The focus of the session was to underscore the importance of technology in achieving net neutrality by decarbonizing the steel sectors and driving India towards becoming a cleaner nation. The speakers emphasized that technology plays a pivotal role in spearheading decarbonization efforts in these sectors. They shed Light on the process of technology needs assessment, which involves evaluating the existing technological landscape, identifying limitations, and devising effective technological solutions to reduce carbon emissions.

Jharkhands Women and Child Development minister JobaManjhi requested the Centre to release pending funds and sanction more Anganwadi centres to strengthen its fight against Malnutrition. She was speaking at the zonal meet of aspirational districts, organised by theMinistry of Women and Child Development.

Manjhi said around 40% children are malnourished. Our government is fighting against it. In this regard, Chief MinisterHemant Sorenhas decided to provide eggs six days a week to Anganwadi centres. However, lack of funds is posing to be a major challenge in the mission against malnutrition, she said. A sum of Rs 254 crore is approved for Anganwadi schemes in Jharkhand.

As nationwide vaccination drive against Covid-19 is set to complete six months, the looks back on the many highs and lows, including overcomingvaccinehesitancy to facing supply gaps in doses, during the first ever adult immunization drive.

As perhealthdepartment records, Jharkhand has been able to completely inoculate around 13,50,465 beneficiaries, out of around 2.47 crore targeted beneficiaries. A total of 64,89,159 have received their first doses till yet.

Out of the targeted 2,20,955 Health workers, 1,58,895 have been administered both the doses, ensuring 71% coverage while 207418 have received their first shot, followed by other frontline staff with 56%. Of 3,98,051, 2,25,397 have received both doses while 362547 have received first dose.

The coverage rate for senior citizens stood at 13.32%, as 4,30,709, out of 32,31,564, have received both doses while 14,07,788 have received their first jab. Those in the 45-59 age group 4,32,831 people receiving their both doses while 17,75,599 received their first jab, the coverage being 8.39%.

Even though youngsters have been turning out in large numbers to take the jab the coverage among the 18+ category with complete inoculation remains lowest with a mere 0.65 % receiving their both the doses. Out of 1,57,34,635 beneficiaries, only 1, 02,643 have received both doses while 2735807 have received first dose.

On World Environment Day, on Monday, the state level campaign of ‘Natural Farming and Planting’ was inaugurated by Governor C.P Radhakrishnan at Arogya Bhawan Ranchi. In the programme IIM Director Deepak Kumar Srivastava, CCL Director Personnel Harshit Mishra, Vice Chancellor of Shri Sai Nath University Dr. S.P. Aggarwal, Shyama Prasad Mukherjee University Vice Chancellor Tapan Kumar Shandilya, Vikas Bharati President Dr. Ajay Kumar Singh, Vice President Dr. S.N. Munda, Former Vice-Chancellor, Shyama Prasad Mookerjee University, President of Jan Shikshan Sansthan, Ranchi, Vikas Kumar Singh, Chamber of Commerce, Kishor Minister, Vikas Bharti Bishunpur and Jan Shikshan Sansthan-Vikas Bharti, Ranchi, workers, trainers and a large number of trainees were present.

The program started with the and was duly inaugurated by the guests by pouring water on the Tulsi plant. Dr. Ajay Kumar Singh, President of the organization and Dr. Ranjana Kumar Chaudhary, Vice President, welcomed the Governor withAngavastram. Joint Secretary of the organization Mahendra Bhagat presented Tulsi plant to the guests on the stage.

The Governor said on the occasion that everyone should avoid the use of plastic. Our environment is being polluted by the use of plastic. Whenever we go to the market, we carry bags, do not use plastic. We should not be ashamed of carrying bags or utensils, should always be conscious towards Health and environment. He said that the good works of any institution should be appreciated. People doing good work are being continuously encouraged by the Prime Minister.

Sinha stated that 32112 metric tonnes of rice and 107245 metric tonnes of wheat are being lifted for these five states, totaling 139357 metric tonnes of food grains.

It is worth mentioning that during the pandemic period, 5 kg food grains per person per month are to be given free of cost to Antyodaya Anna Yojana households. Sinha informed that the has accepted the challenge and has started the work of lifting rice and wheat in the states of Bihar, Jharkhand and Orissa, from the central pool stock.