Health ministerParsadi Lal Meena said the Right to Health (RTH) Bill was now applicable to all hospitals with capacity of more than 50 beds and claimed thatRajasthanis the first state in the country to give this right to its people through a bill.
Efforts are underway to increase the manpower according to requirement in hospitals and collectors and CMHOs of the districts were authorized to ensure the same.
Sariska Tiger Reserve’s habitat management program began in June 2020. This has increased the number of tigers in the area.
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The number of tigers in reserve has risen to 25. Water holes and grasslands were created as part of habitat management.
For tourists, new paths have been opened. The paths were established in the tiger reserve’s buffer zone. It’s close to Alwar.
As part of its corporate social responsibility spending, a private company delivers needed goods and Resources.
Earthen bunds, water holes, and meadows have been built using CSR funding in ten different areas.
Sariska Tiger Reserve is situated in Rajasthan’s Alwar district. In 1978, it was designated as a tiger reserve.
The state has recorded the highest ever enrolment of 13 lakh students in government schools in the 2021-22 academic session. This has taken the total enrolment to almost 1 crore against 87 lakh in the 2020-21 academic year.
The rise is attributed to transfer of students from private to government schools in the pandemic year, enrolment of children from migrant families and improvement in quality Education. The desert state is among the few in the country that offers free education in government schools.
The situation in several schools has come to a level where they have refused admission to students due to running full capacity.
The performance of government schools during lockdown has also shown exemplary results. Programmes like SMILE and Aao Ghar Se Seekhen (Lets Learn From Home) where students are being taught online or through pre-recorded Videos have had a major impact in containing the Learning outcomes of students.
The rise in figures in government schools clearly means that fall of numbers in private schools. Data on private school enrolments for 2021-22 and 2020-21 is officially not available. In 2019-20, the official figures say that enrolment in private schools were 81 lakhs while in the government schools were 85 lakh in 2019-20.
The has introduced a mobile application – ICDS CSS for Anganwadi workers for complete digitisation of records aiming to provide immediate help to pregnant Women and malnourished children under 5 years of age. The app is in Hindi and English.
Every Anganwadi worker has to feed information related to pregnant women, childrens Health in the app. Information like age, height, weight, ailment, health parameters will be updated on the app at regular intervals.
Every family will get an 11-digit unique code which will be used as a reference number to track the information about the beneficiary. The reporting for children will be done from one month to 60 months.
Besides, over 1.05 crore doses have been administered to people above 60 years. Doses in the age group of 45 to 60 years have risen to 1.30 crore.
While the state is currently placed fifth in the country with highest number of vaccinations, the daily Covid infections are not a worry for the Health authorities.
In line with Jaipur Literary Festival (JLF), the is all set to organise theRajasthanLiterary Festival (RLF) in Jodhpur. The three-day event will be held at Janana Bagh from March 25.
The event will showcase various types of literary events. Besides, the government will give four all-India Awards in the name of four literary personalities of the state – Sarvashri Kanhaiya Lal Sethia, Komal Kothari,Sitaram LalasandVijay Dan Detha. In addition, the event will also host a book fair and even food festival featuring authentic dishes from the state.
RLF is being organized under the guidance of the CM to strengthen Rajasthans literary identity and promote culture. Rajasthan Sahitya Akademi, Urdu Akademi, Sanskrit Akademi, Nehru Bal Sahitya Akademi, Sangeet Natak Akademi, Lalit Kala Akademi and other academies would make this event a success.
Even after several programmes running for Education of girls and Women Empowerment, the root cause is lack of self-confidence and self-belief in young girls, mostly in rural regions of Rajasthan, that unable to bring them to the height of .
On such issues, the District Administration of Tonk is initiating project ‘Vaani’ to bring up self-confidence and self-belief in young girls and also in their families where parents will understand that girls are not lagging boys in any way.
The research made by the administration for Vaani shows that messages like ‘daughters have to go to their in-laws’, ‘Mukti is only through the birth of a son’, ‘teach household works to girls so that she will work when went to her in-laws’, lead to loss of self-confidence among girls.
Even Shiksha Chaupal model, Awards to children, programme like ‘mera manch, meri awaz (my stage, my voice), gender sensitisation of boys, Sports activities, community projects like library, parks and bolti dewarein (speaking walls) are some initiatives included in this project.
The registration of false rape cases has gone up to 45% last year in the state, said director general of Police (DGP) Umesh Mishra in the city on Monday, while stating that the crime data has shown an increase because the state police filed FIRs promptly when they received complaints.
The number of FIRs does not reflect an increase in crimes and showed that the police have registered cases fairly, Mishra said while addressing a press conference at the police headquarters and sharing the crime data.
The variation in climatic conditions and its resultant impact on the socio-economic conditions are behind the increasing Migration in the state, revealed a report prepared by the International Institute for Environment and Development based in the United Kingdom.
The study mentioned that 28% of the households in the desert state have at least one person migrating twice a year due to a decline in economic opportunities related to drought.
The Average age of person intending to migrate is 44 years and 76% of them are males. Of the total migrants, 58% people were into Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture and 22% of them were dependent upon MGNREGA,” mentioned the report.
The revenue model in the report suggests that on average, a family requires between Rs 5,000 and Rs 10,000 per month to prevent feeling stressed.
The researchers observed that during Climate distress, slow-onset events such as drought can threaten natural resource-based livelihoods such as agriculture, , and fishery, compromising peoples ability to earn a living.
The survey had chosen three states,Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh ad Uttar Pradesh, which have witnessed a higher frequency of droughts and expansion of drought-affected areas since 1950.
Chief MinisterAshok Gehlot approved the proposal to bring new Services within the ambit of various departments of the under the Guarantee forDelivery of Public Services Act, 2011.
The departments mentioned in the proposal are social Justice and Empowerment department, industries and commerce department, urban housing and development, local self-government,Rajasthan State Road Transport Corporation, the state pollution control board, Home department, transport and road safety, excise, energy, economics and statistics, tourism, food, civil supplies and consumer affairs and legal metrology cell.
The CM also approved the amendment in the notified designated officer/first appeal officer/second appellate officer for services in the departments of labour, food, civil supplies and consumer affairs, pension and pensioners welfare, urban housing and development (UDH), industries and commerce and home department. This is expected to improve the Quality of service delivery of these departments