RAJASTHAN

Garment exporters are feeling the heat of economic slowdown in Europe and the US with exports falling as much 30% and reducing capacity utilisation.

The economic slowdown has affected all the garment exporting countries, but the impact is more on India because of traditional inefficiencies.

Export-oriented units are operating on Average at around 70% of capacity.

Reduced tax on buying latest machines, skills development in the sector, easy availability of raw materials and creating centre of excellencies are some of the major points to be looked for.

n the occasion ofNational Ayurveda Day, the integrated AYUSH hospital was inaugurated by Health minister Raghu Sharma atPratap Nagar.
The hospital, built at a cost of Rs 4.36 crore, will have facilities of treatment in ayurveda, homeopathy and unani.

Such AYUSH hospitals are also coming upAjmer, Bhilwara, Bikaner,Sikarand Churu.
Sharma said Rs 3.39 crore will be spent on equipment and furniture in the coming days.

InRajasthan, it is almost like a divine intervention. People in the vast desert expanses, lived with a stoic endurance of untold hardship the Geography unleashes, never imagined the harsh rays would turn into hopes.

As the country steps on the gas to minimize the dominance of energy from coalbased Plants, Rajasthan has taken the steering wheel to make solar the energy of the future. Today, the desert state produces the largest quantity of solar power in the country, having an installed capacity of over 14,000 megawatt.

Given the prospects of new projects and advantages of the whole ecosystem, the number one producer will remain the leader in times to come.

TheNational Green Tribunal(NGT), Bhopal, has banned all commercial activities, including restaurant, hotel and bar, inNahargarhFort located in the Nahargarh Wildlife Sanctuary (NWS) of the city on Monday The tribunal has called business activities illegal and ordered them to stop operations as they are non-Forestry activity.

In the PIL, listed on January 18 this year, the petitioner had alleged that commercial activities were going on in the forest area, including serving liquor and construction of parking lot, at the fort. The fort belongs to the archaeology department and commercial activities are being run by the RTDC. The NGT took cognizance of increase in movement of people and night tourism activities in the area. In 1961, the Nahargarh forest was declared as a reserve area, on the basis of which the forest department was given the right of control it,

The plans to start theRural GamesinRajasthanare ready to be executed.State Sports ministerAshok Chandna announced November to be the time of the year when the games will be held in 11341 gram panchayats and 44795 revenue villages.

The purpose behind holding the games is to develop the sporting culture and bring out talent from rural Rajasthan and the Ashok Gehlot government has already allotted Rs 30 crore for the same in the budget 2021-22.

Events in six games – volleyball, shooting ball, hockey, kho kho, tennis ball cricket and kabaddi, will be organised following theCovid-19protocols of the Central and the .
Moreover, there will be a designated application for the Rural Games where participating villages will have to register themselves and upload information about their teams.

To combat postpartum hemorrhage, which is the largest direct cause of maternal mortality, the Health department is all set to make use of uterine balloon tamponade (UBT) among pregnant Women with severe bleeding during childbirth. The state is taking measures to bring the maternal mortality ratio (MMR) to 70 deaths per 1 lakh or below by 2030. The MMR in the state, which was 141 maternal deaths per 1 lakh live births in 2017-19, has reduced to 113 deaths per 1 lakh live births in 2018-20.
UBTs are a medical device for the treatment which are inserted inside the uterus and inflated by a healthcare staff to prevent the hemorrhaging for stabilizing the woman.

The health department is hopeful that with the use of UBT, they will be able to prevent maternal deaths by reducing the requirement for operation and also it will reduce the chances of blood transfusions.

In the state, there are 2,065 delivery points identified in the state, out of which 160 are centres with first referral Services.

Rajasthans expenditure under theNational Mission(NFSM), a centrally sponsored scheme launched in 2007-08, has gone down over the years. From Rs 156.94 crore in 2017-18, it has slumped to Rs 85.73 crore in 2021-2022, according to data shared by the central government.

NFSM was launched with the objective of increasing production of foodgrains through area expansion and productivity enhancement in the identified districts of the country.
As per the central government data, Rajasthan governments expenditure under the mission was Rs 95.39 crore in 2018-19, Rs 103.62 crore in 2019-20, and Rs 121.85 crore in 2020-21. But the allocations under the scheme were Rs 190.76 in 2017-18, Rs 188.82 crore in 2018-19, Rs 245.57 crore in 2019-20, Rs 230.96 crore in 2020-21 and Rs 199.6 crore in 2021-22.

Groundwater table in every fifth well (20%) in the state has gone below the alarming level of 40 metres, making it largely unfit for drinking. The water below 40 metres contains sulphur, chlorine and fluoride more than the permissible limit, posing Health hazards when consumed constantly.

Ministry of Jal Shaktis latest groundwater report on Rajasthan 2019-2020 says that five districts had more than 40% of their wells recording water level below 40 metres in January 2020. The figure comes in stark contrast with the fact that annual rainfall in the state increased by 29.5% in 2019 from 2010-2018 (Average).

Jhunjhunu is leading, with 91% of the wells that had gone 40m and above in January 2020 (post monsoon) while in monsoon, the arid city received 32.81% more rain than the previous years. The report says that Jaipur alone had 41% of the wells with water table below 40 metres, despite receiving 744MM rain, which was 29.21% more than the average of the previous 8 years. Experts have said that wells are being overused and are thus not recharged even after sufficient rain.