MAHARASHTRA

More than 20,000 doctors practicing India medicine (Ayurveda& Unani) are still deprived of the registration renewal from their statutory body TheMaharashtra Council of Indian Medicine(MCIM) since over 2 years, claimed student forum ofNational Integrated medical Association(NIMA). This registration is must for them to continue their practice.

Interestingly, MCIM has revised registration fees from Rs50 to Rs2000. According to the officials, this revision was pending since 1960s. Doctors have agreed to pay this fees but still not getting the certificates of renewal. Doctors, especially PG students attached to NIMA have demanded that their PG specialization should be mentioned on the renewal certificate.

Over 48% of corporate employees are at a “risk” of poor mental Health, with more female employees (56%) at a higher risk than their male counterparts (41%), according to a psychological survey released.

The survey, which was conducted by MPower, an initiative of the Aditya Birla Education Trust, covered 3,000 employees across eight sectors in eight cities, including Mumbai.

Around 50% of those surveyed said that Stress at the workplace adversely affected their productivity, while 45% said they felt “isolated” due to the ‘work from Home‘ phase during the Covid pandemic. Many of the people in Mumbai who said they were stressed at the workplace also had severe backaches.

TheMaharashtragovernment has directed all the , including the housing ones, to submit their audit reports inMarathilanguage.

The move, the circular says, is aimed at making it easy for majority of cooperative department officials, stakeholders, auditors and office bearers of the societies who speak and write in Marathi language in taking proper review and actions.

However, the circular allows English version for those societies which have made a required resolution in their general body (GB) while appointing the auditor.

As per the Marathi bhasha circular of May 07, 2018 and section 81 of the Maharashtra Cooperative Society Act, it is mandatory to have all official or statutory transactions in Marathi language so as to address larger section of people involved in the societies and for this it is mandatory for all the auditors appointed by the society to have a proper knowledge of the language.

Even though the state is inching close to a kerosene-free status, the existing supply of the combustible oil is far from meeting the Centre’s directive of bringing down the sulphur content from 2.5% (2,500 parts per million) to 0.10% (100 parts per million), a reduction of 96%. As a result, up to 15% of the sulphur and carbon monoxide load in Mumbai’s air is due to domestic burning – mainly kerosene used in slums and surrounding rural areas – forcing Mumbaikars to breathe the poisonous gas.

It’s been almost four years since the central Environment ministry’s notification directed petroleum companies to bring down sulphur content in kerosene. However, only a miniscule quota of kerosene alloted to the army has been converted to the expected sulphur standards, say activists.
Sulfur dioxide emitted from kerosene use irritates skin and mucous membranes of eyes, nose, throat, and lungs. High concentrations of SO2 can cause inflammation and irritation of the Respiratory System. In addition tosulphur dioxide, kerosene heaters also emit carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and nitrogen dioxide. Breathing these substances can pose Health risks.

https://exam.pscnotes.com/Home“>Home delivery of alcohol started in Pune following an official notification issued in this regard by the .

Many wine shops in Pune began delivering liquor to consumers on Tuesday under a strict SOP, sources from Pune District Wine Merchants Association said.

Earlier this month, the State Government had only allowed home delivery from bars as per the time window provided in local orders for restaurants and bars.

Theinformationreceived from theState Information Commissionerhas suggested that as many as 1,00,433 second appeals have been filed by citizens acrossMaharashtrain 2021 in their pursuit to get the required information from the variousgovernment agencies. This is around 20% rise over the last three years (2018, 19 and 20) which saw an Average of 80,000 appeals each year. Ideally, the applicants should get information at first instance and should not even have to make the first appeal with the information officers of concerned government departments.

However, the statistics suggest that on one hand, when the purpose of theRTIAct is to combat Corruption and irregularities to benefit common citizens, unfortunately on the other hand so many second appeals are indicative of the fact that the government departments are refusing information to the applicants on a very large scale compared to earlier years.

The Information commissioners on eight benches across Maharashtra are responsible for the growing pendency as well as the refusal of information to the citizens, alleged social activist Jeetendra Ghadge, whose RTI application to the state chief information commissioner’s office has revealed that the overall pendency of appeals had risen from 32,950 in 2018 to 87,577 in 2021.

The Pune zilla parishad (ZP) schools are all set for a facelift in and academics with a boost of Rs 80 lakh funding as part of the STARS project by the Union Government.

The Pune ZP will select schools in the district for the makeover aimed at improving the quality of Education and performance grading index from pre-primary to StdXIIclasses.

Strengthening TEACHING–Learning and Results for StatesProgramme(STARS) project has been launched in Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha andRajasthan.

The State Government has set up a seven-member panel that will coordinate and overlook the functioning of the project in Maharashtra.

There will also be efforts to reduce dropouts, improve learning outcomes and extend counselling and guidance sessions to students.