MADHYA PRADESH

The Madhya Pradesh government has launched Yuva Shakti Corona Mukti Abhiyan to make the citizens of the state aware of the current COVID-19 pandemic. This translates to free from Corona with the help of the youth power campaign. College students in small groups will be given data and essential points about the magnitude of COVID-friendly behaviour and vaccination.

On the guidelines of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, the Marketing campaign has been launched through the higher schooling and the technical Education department of the state in collaboration with the public healthcare and family welfare department.

The teachers & about 16 lakh students of the Government colleges of higher & technical education will be instructed in COVID friendly behaviour and vaccination. Human beings will be made conscious of them through these students.

Under the launched campaign, college students in colleges in small groups will be given records and details about the value of COVID-friendly behaviour and vaccination.

These trained students will, in addition, disseminate the data to their families & also the people in their surrounding areas about the benefits of vaccination and the Corona prevention.

A mobile application has been developed for the positive real-time online monitoring of the campaign. Through the app, day to day things to do and Growth of the Yuva Shakti Corona Mukti campaign will be reviewed.

Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has appealed to the citizens to send one brick each to Salkanpur after performing worship rituals from their homes for the construction of the grand and divine Devi-Lok to be built at Salkanpur in Sehore district. The CM said that the bhoomi-pujan for construction of Devi-Lok will be done on May 31 and a campaign to collect bricks will be launched from May 15. The Chief Minister was addressing the devotees and villagers from Vyas Peeth at Siyagahan village of Budhni Janpad on Wednesday at Shatchandi Mahayagya and Khedapati Shiv Parivar Pratishtha ceremony. Member of Parliament Ramakant Bhargava was also present.

Chouhan undertook a parikrama of the Yagya and received blessings from Mahamandaleshwar Girish Das Ji Maharaj, Janmeya Maharaj and Pragya Didi at the Katha Sthal. The Chief Minister was honoured by wearing him a crown. The CM handed over the worn crown to the organisers and said that whenever poor daughters get married here, they should be presented Bichhori. Describing the crown as the highest honour, Chief Minister promise to maintain the honour and respect of all the people of the village.

Chouhan said that the has implemented several schemes for the Empowerment of Women. He said that the entire panchayat in Siyagahan including the sarpanch is of sisters and it is a miracle of 50 percent reservation for women in local institutions. The CM said that the Ladli Bahna Yojana will also improve the economic condition of the sisters and boost their prestige.

Besides, last year, out of 378 bodies of Madhya Pradesh, 108 bodies were successful in obtaining ODF++ certification, this year 248 urban bodies have obtained ODF++ certification. In addition, 71 bodies have been successful in obtaining ODF++ certificate. According to the data, about 2.5 times more bodies passed the rigorous ODF++ examination as compared to previous year.

ODF++ norms are extremely difficult, under which 25 percent of the total available public / community toilets in the body should be of excellent standards. Thee bodies must mandatorily have continuous water supply, arrangement of lighting, sanitary napkins and incinerators etc. The remaining toilets must essentially have basic facilities.

Soybean Processors Association of India (SOPA) has estimated exports of soyabean meal from India in the oil year 2022-2023 to touch 14 lakh tonne, higher than the last year.
The oil year 2022-2023 began in October 2022 and will end in September 2023.

Madhya Pradesh is a leading soyabean producing state contributing over 70 per cent to total national output.

Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that necessary facilities should be made available to encourage micro, small, and medium industries. EMPLOYMENT opportunities increase when industrial units of this category are formed. They should get adequate incentives. Necessary help should be provided even if such units operate the Plants using new technology.

Chouhan was discussing the Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises Conference to be held in Bhopal in the coming month in the Manthan room of Samatva Bhavan today. Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises Minister Omprakash Sakhlecha, Chief Secretary Iqbal Singh Bains, Secretary MSME P Narhari, and other departmental officers were present.

It was told that Union Ministers for Micro, Small and Medium enterprises Narayan Rane, and Commerce and Minister Piyush Goyal will be invited to the conference to be held in Bhopal in April.

Madhya Pradeshhas reported a ten-point dip in maternal mortality ratio to take it down to 163 in 2017-19, shows a special bulletin of sample registration system on maternal deaths released recently.

The state has a maternal mortality ratio of 173 in 2016-18 in accordance with the SRS bulletin. The MP despite this dip in MMR continued to be in the worst three performing states in the country behindAssam(205) andUttar Pradesh(167), showed a bulletin released in March.

Maternal death is a death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, irrespective of the duration and site of the pregnancy, from any cause related to or aggravated by the pregnancy or its management but not from accidental or incidental causes. And, the Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) is defined as the number of maternal deaths during a given time per 100,000 live births during the same time.

SRS bulletin further showed that MP along with eight others continued to remain in Empowered Action Group (EAG) of states, which cumulatively had an Average MMR of 145 that was way higher than national average of 103.

In all states in the country, Madhya Pradesh along with Uttar Pradesh have the highest 14.7% maternal mortality rate i.e., maternal death in pregnant Women of reproductive age group, showed bulletin.

The https://exam.pscnotes.com/indian-institute-of-technology”>Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Indore Students won AED 1 million by winning the gold medal at the World Government Summit in Dubai. Niyati Totala and Neel Kalpeshkumar Parikh of The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Indore, were awarded the prestigious medal by Egyptian President Abel Fattah Al-Sisi.

The IIT students were the creators of the Blockbill app. Blockbill is a blockchain-based receipt generation app that generates digital receipts for all of its users transactions.

This app solves multiple problems, which aids the transition away from the production of thermal papers for printing receipts.

Higher Education Minister Mohan Yadav has said that in order to enhance the quality of education in the state, now private colleges and universities will also have NAAC grading. Soon a guide-line will be issued for this. Yadav was reviewing the departmental activities on Tuesday. Yadav said that the guidelines have been issued by NAAC that colleges and universities which have completed one academic year will be eligible to apply for Provisional Accrediation Certificate. Till now it was a system that only those institutions which have completed six years could apply for NAAC certification.

He said that preparations are also being made to make all the 238 colleges of the state multi-faculty in the context of the new education policy. In order to give priority to Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture in the academic campus, it is necessary to include related subjects like , Horticulture etc. in the curriculum.

This year about 75 thousand students have chosen the subject of organic farming. Higher Education Minister Mohan Yadav said that Madhya Pradesh is an agricultural state. With the implementation of the new education policy, the youth will now give a new dimension to the concept of self-reliant Madhya Pradesh by using new modern agricultural techniques.

High prices of soyabean meal in the international market have hit overseas shipment, denting exporters missing out on the peak export season.

Soyabean meal exports in December are estimated at 90,000 ton as against 3.4 lakh ton in the corresponding period a year ago, according toSoybean Processors Association of India(SOPA). So far in the current oil year until December 3.8 lakh ton soyabean meal is exported from the country as against 6.9 lakh ton in the same period.

Exporters fromIndore, a leading trader center and hub for soyabean meal exporters asMadhya Pradeshis a leading producer of soyabean in the country contributing over 60 per cent in the countrys total output, has claimed a sharp decline in export orders for the next two-three months owing to high prices of local produce.

Exporters said local origin soyabean meal is expensive by about $250-$300 per ton as compared with other countries like Brazil and Argentina.

SOPA had estimated soyabean output at 119 lakh ton, up 14 per cent from the previous year. In Madhya Pradesh, soyabean production was estimated at 52 lakh ton as against 41.7 lakh ton last year.