All hospitals in the state should keep increasing the number of Oxygen-supported beds for at least a month more to handle the current Covid surge.
The states daily demand for medical oxygen has risen to 1,400 metric tonnes; its production capacity is 1,200 MT.
The state Education department’s officials are drafting a policy on re-employing retired teachers in schools with less than 20 students.
After the policy takes shape, it will be decided whether it will be contractual EMPLOYMENT or direct employment by advertising for the post.
There are many students in education colleges, many people who are qualified to become teachers waiting for an opportunity.With this new policy, the government must not cut down on recruitment numbers because that will be injustice to the young generation of teachers.
There will be no reservation of seats for Other Backward Classes in the upcoming municipal in Maharashtra as The Supreme Court has held that reservation cannot be granted because the state has failed to fulfill the triple test criteria, including collecting data on OBCs. The SC has directed the state Election Commission to convert the 27% reserved seats into general category ones.
A bench of Justices A M Khanwilkar and C T Ravikumar turned down the Maharashtra governments plea seeking suspension of the entire election process for at least three months during which the commission set up by it could complete the task of collecting empirical data on OBCs and for the poll to be held thereafter with seats reserved for OBC candidates.
Chief ministerEknath Shindewill inaugurate the agricultural expo Krishiton 2022 in Nashik city.
The 15th edition of the five-day exhibition will be held at Thakkers Dome, nearABB Circlealong Trimbak Road, after a span of two years.
Sanjay Nayaharkar, organizer of the event, said the expo will focus on new farming technology being used across the world along with felicitation of young farmers and seminars on various issues.
This year, around 1.5 lakh people from across the country are expected to visit the expo.
With a consistent drop in fresh Covid infections, the number critical patients in the state has reduced by nearly half, from 5,048 last month to 2783 till November 8, as per public Health department data.
The main purpose of the vaccination is not a reduction in reinfection, but a reduction in severe Covid cases/critical admissions and therefore, mortalities a trend seen post-vaccination.
The MVA government has issued an order raising the Local Area Development fund for MLAs and MLCs to Rs 4 crore.
The MLA LAD fund is meant to be used for development work in a legislators constituency. MLAs and MLCs do not receive any under these schemes. The government transfers it directly to the respective local authorities. The legislators can only recommend works in their constituencies based on a set of guidelines.
The hike became necessary due to the rise in cost of construction material and the need to maintain and repair existing structures, the government resolution says.
Four cases of crime against senior citizens were registered in Uttarakhand in 2020, compared to six in 2019, the report said.
Maharashtrameanwhile has emerged as the most unsafe state in the country for senior citizens with 4,909 cases of crime in 2020, followed by Madhya Pradesh with 4,602.
As the state Health Services in Maharashtra were hit hard during the Covid pandemic due to shortage of medical and senior officials, the state cabinet on Wednesday gave post-facto sanction to the proposal to increase the retirement age of medical officers and those above them by two years, from 60 to 62 years.
The decision will apply to those working under the state health service directorate and Employees State Insurance Scheme (Esic). However, it will be applicable only up to May 2022.
In May 2021, 193 senior officials from Maharashtra medical and health services and ESIC were due to retire at the age of 60 years as per the retirement criteria.
Farmers across Maharashtra have so far completed sowing on barely 1% of the total 1.42 crore hectares for till June 15 due to the delay in monsoon onset over the state this year.
The farmers have completed cultivation on over 1.48 lakh hectares till June 15 as against 66,000 hectares during the same period last year. Though the land under cultivation of kharif crops till now is more than what it was last year, the uncertainty over rain was not there in 2022 and cultivation had picked up in the last two weeks of June. But this time, the impact of cyclone Biparjoy and a full-blown El Nino was already visible on the southwest monsoon pattern over India.
Nearly 50% of 716 districts in India are currently recording large deficiency in monsoon rainfall, while another 19% are deficient, India Meteorological Department (IMD) data showed on Wednesday. All subdivisions of Maharashtra have a rain deficiency of over 79-80% so far.
Expect better air quality as the plans to set up more accurate, low-cost monitoring sensors to identifyair pollution hotspotsin the Mumbai region.
Twenty of the 40 low-cost sensors developed by four start-ups have shown an accuracy of 85-90% vis–vis regulatory grade monitors during a seven-month pilot project byMaharashtra Pollution Control Board(MPCB) in PARTNERSHIP withIIT-Kanpurand Bloomberg Philanthropies.
The study findings were presented at a webinar on Friday with participants from the ministry of Environment, forest and Climate-change”>Climate Change, ministry of housing and urban affairs, central and state pollution control boards, technical experts, media, and civil Society to discuss the way forward under the National Clean Air Programme (NCAP).