JHARKHAND

Traders, industrialists, members of the business and industrialists gave mixed reactions on Union Budget 2022 23 presented by Union Minister of Finance, Nirmala Sitharaman.

Federation of Jharkhand Chambers of Commerce and Industries (FJCCI), Chief Dhiraj Taneja said that for mineral rich states like Jharkhand, there was a hope of further expansion in Infrastructure, whatever is missing, it is expected that it will be considered.

The Confederation of All India Traders (CAT) has described the Union Budget presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman as a comprehensive and progressive budget document. CAT’s National Secretary Suresh Sonthalia, in his statement issued on Tuesday, said that the phased development of trade and small scale industries, along with ensuring the development of each sector from the general budget, underlines the parameters of strong Growth in Health-sector”>Health sector and Services. Overall, it can be called a complete developing budget. Sonthalia said that many new announcements including expansion of ECGL scheme with Rs 5 lakh crore, linking of PLI scheme to various sectors will not only benefit the small manufacturing units but also the business sector.

Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture Animal Husbandry and Cooperation Minister Badal todat said that the is determined to strengthen all the gaushalas of the State, that is why it has increased the maximum amount of Rs 9000 as grant for the maintenance of animals given earlier to a maximum of Rs 36000 per year. The Minister was speaking at a program organized at Ranchi Gaushala.

Badal said that 10 gaushalas of the State would soon be given rescue vehicles. Due to which the animals injured in the accident can be sent to the hospital as soon as possible for proper treatment. Badal inquired about other problems including maintenance of cows in Ranchi Gaushala. He said that soon a meeting would be held with the representatives of all the Gaushalas of the State to inquire about the problems of all the Gaushalas of the State.

The inauguration of the new programmes and facilities took place today at a special event in the JEH complex. The event saw the presence of officials from the hospital, key members of the Rotary Club and officials from Tata Steel Foundation (TSF) and Tata Steel. The new Satellite Mobile Eye Clinic on Van is being launched in collaboration with Rotary Club of Jamshedpur & TSF.

Chief Guest of the function Ruchi Narendran said, JEH has been at the forefront of providing the best eye care Services in the Jamshedpur area for more than six decades now. What started with a mission to provide comprehensive eye care services with utmost compassion, quality and affordability to all, is today a full-fledged super-specialist eye hospital in and around Indias Steel City. Over these many years, we have invested in the best in class eye care , doctors and paramedics to eliminate all avoidable visual impairment in the local community we operate in. We are starting the new year with a host of new services with which we expect to reach out to more people and continue to improve the quality of our services and outcome in the years to come.

The National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5) for the first time has included certain new parameters in its survey, including screening forcancer, among Women in the age group 30 to 49 years.

InJharkhand, only 0.5% of the surveyed women have confirmed to have undergone screening forcervicalcancer. This figure of respondents is better than neighbouring Chhattisgarh and West Bengal where only 0.3% and 0.2% women have been screened.

In another neighbouring state Bihar, 0.8% women Population have undergone screening whereas in Punjab, infamous for cancer cases as many as 2.5% women confirmed to have undergone screening for cervical cancer. Though this figure, which is under 5% in most of the states, appears miniscule, health experts believe that not all women require scientific screening and only a certain faction of the women in reproductive age group, who are either symptomatic or in high-risk category are required to undergo screening (on diagnostic machine) for detection and treatment.

Among the districts, Giridih with 1.9% responses is at the top whereas in Jamshedpur and Dumka, not a single woman in the sample survey responded to have undergone screening for cervical cancer ever. In Ranchi, 0.3% women have undergone screening where the sample size was 979 households comprising 1,182 women and 156 men respondents for the entire NFHS-5 survey.

High prevalence ofanaemiaamong Women and children continues to remain a major worry for authorities, the findings of theNational Family Health Survey(NFHS) – 5 has indicated. The survey covered over 22,823 homes in rural and urbanJharkhand.

The reports of the survey’s second phase, which was conducted between January 1, 2020 and April 30, 2021 and made public late last week, revealed that 67.5% of children aged between five months and five years were anaemic. Around 65.5% children living in rural areas and 67.9% in urban areas were found to be anaemic, the survey has found. However, it has indicated a dip from 69% as reported during the fourth edition of the survey held between 2015 and 2016.

Anaemia among women aged between 15 and 49 yrs was found to be 65.3% in the latest survey as against the 65.2% anaemic women found in the last one.

Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Sorenon Thursday called on the states to work on increasing the purchasing power of their respective tribal communities living in the villages.
Soren flew down toRaipurto attend the inauguration ceremony of theTribal Dance Festivaland Rajyotsava 2021. The event, patronised byChhattisgarhs Congress-led government, got underway at Raipurs Science College Ground.

As many as 1,000 tribal artists from countries such as Uganda, Nigeria, Uzbekistan, Maldives, Sri Lanka, Philippines and 27 states and six union territories will participate in the ongoing festival in Raipur. A contingent of tribal artists from Jharkhand is also attending the event.