MAHARASHTRA

TheMaharashtragovernment on Wednesday presented supplementary demands totalling Rs 31,298.26 crore, the highest amount so far under the MVA government.

The has budgeted Rs 435 crore for the Maharashtra State Backward Classes Commission (MSBCC), which was declared as a dedicated commission forOBCreservation four months ago. The state government released Rs 5 crore from its contingency fund to the commission last week.

An amount of Rs 1,152 crore has been earmarked for creating Health Infrastructure during the pandemic. Another Rs 1,000 crore has been earmarked for providing ex-gratia to the families of those who died due to Covid-19. That apart, the government has earmarked Rs 1,410.8 crore to provide relief to the farmers whose crops were damaged by the devastating rains in August and September.

Supplementary demands are additional expenditure that are not part of the main budget. A total of Rs 1,150 crore has been budgeted for the loss-makingMaharashtra State Road Transport Corporation(MSRTC), which is reeling under a financial crisis and also the ongoing employee strike. The government recently announced a salary hike for all ST employees.

Chief ministerEknath Shindesaid that no village of Maharashtra will be allowed to merge with any other state.

Shinde’s statement comes against the backdrop of his Karnataka counterpart Basavraj Bommai’s comment.

Bommai had said that his government is actively considering the resolution of the Jath taluka villages to merge with Karnataka, as the Maharashtra government had allegedly failed to address the water and Irrigation problems there.

The resolution adopted by those villages was way back in 2012 when they faced water problems. However, since then, schemes have been planned in the Jath taluka villages, and some of them have been already been implemented. Others will be implemented in due course of time.

The historic city ofAurangabadhas improved its ranking to 22ndpositionin the annualcleanliness surveyamong cities with more than 10 lakh Population.
Last year, the city was ranked 26th in the country and 8th at the state level. The city is now ranked 6th in the state in the survey, whose results were released by the ministry of housing and urban affairs.

Notably, the Aurangabad has moved past local civic bodies of Nagpur, Kalyan Dombivli, Vasai Virar and Mumbai in the ranking. Aurangabad secured 3,765 points from total 6,000, said an official release.

Amid outcry over biased treatment to Nanded division by the South Central RAILWAY (SCR), Union minister of state for railways Raosaheb Danve on Wednesday said rail works worth Rs 4,264 crore have been sanctioned for Maharashtra under the jurisdiction of SCR.

Danve said doubling of railway line between Mudkhed-Parbhani for a length of 81-km has already been completed whereas electrification works between Akola-Lohagad for a distance of 34 km have also been accomplished.

In regard to the status of new rail line between Ahmednagar and Parli via Beed, Danve said the new rail line work between Beed and Parli for a distance of 30-km has been completed and another stretch of 30-km was expected to get over during the current financial year.

Two new Humboldt penguin cubs, joining the seven adult Humboldt penguins at Byculla Zoo in Mumbai

About Humboldt penguins:

The Humboldt penguin is named after a cold ocean current, called the
The Humboldt Current (known as Peru Current) is a cold, low-salinity ocean current that flows north along South America’s west coast.
Habitat: The Humboldt penguin is a South American penguin that breeds along the coast of Chile and Peru
When not raising chicks, these penguins have been known to travel long distances at sea to discover food.
Humboldt penguins can breed all year round.

Marathwadais set to get its first bio compressed natural gas (CNG) plant at Ranjani in Kalamb taluka of Osmanabad district after receiving a go-ahead from the ministry of Environment, forest and https://exam.pscnotes.com/Climate-change”>Climate Change and other competent authorities.

The multi-crore project will be producing eco-friendly and cheaper fuel from the press-mud, the waste by-product produced during sugar making by mills, and effluents produced by the biogas Plants and industries from the region.

The poor farmers from the region will be among the beneficiaries of our plant as they will get fuel to run their tractors and agricultural machinery at a discounted price. The talks with oil companies are in progress to buy and distribute the price-competitive fuel.

As per the Maharashtra Energy Development Agency, the sugar Industry in India and farmers stand to benefit from biomethanation, which is used for the production of renewable sources of energy.

The registrations have declined by nearly 1 lakh, this year. The common entrance test (CET) will be held in August and admissions would be conducted based on the merit list announced as per theCETscores.

The Covid-19 pandemic has forced Education to go online, so courses such as engineering that mainly depend on practical sessions, have taken a massive setback. There are many students who will be willing to take a break for a year and do some short-term courses, prepare better and then come back next year to appear for the CET and bag a good seat in the college.

TheMaharashtra governmenthas prepared revised detailed project reports (DPR) for four Dams at Virdi and one in Ambadgao in Dodamarg taluka, and sent them to the Goa government for scrutiny. The dams will utilise water from tributaries flowing into Goa.

After the tribunal gave its final award pertaining to the allocation of water, Goa, Maharashtra and Karnataka each filed special leave petitions before The Supreme Court to enhance their .

As required, Karnataka accordingly prepared a revised DPR of its damming and diversion schemes, and obtained the necessary approval from the Central Water Commission.

As the proposed damming schemes of Maharashtra cover a command area of less than 2,000 hectares, it is not mandatory to take prior approval from the Central Water Commission.

GujaratandMaharashtra the two states reporting the highest cases ofmucormycosis(MM) after the second wave of Covid-19 also reported the highest cases of rhino-orbital-cerebral mucormycosis (ROCM), claimed a national study encompassing 2,826 patients from 22 states and Union territories. The findings suggested 22% of Indias total ROCM recorded from Gujarat, followed closely by Maharashtra with 21%.

The study, Epidemiology, clinical profile, management, and outcome of Covid19associated rhinoorbitalcerebral mucormycosis in 2,826 patients in India Collaborative OPAIIJO Study on Mucormycosis in Covid19 (COSMIC) was recently published in the Indian Journal of Ophthalmology.

The study focused on the fungal infection spread in sinuses, space behind the eyes and below the brain. The study added that ROCM was primarily manifested by facial or eye pain (23%), swelling (edema) on face or near eyes (21%), and loss of vision (19%). The study includes doctors from Ahmedabad, Surat, Vadodara and Rajkot.

TheMaharashtraOBC Commission has invited the convener of theSakal Maratha Samaj, aMarathacommunity outfit, to discuss the demands put up in a petition filed in 2021.

According to the petition, the Maratha activists from Kolhapur have demanded that the list of OBC should be reviewed based on the current financial and social status of the community and that the Maratha community should be included in the list.