RAJASTHAN

The chief minister had announced the creation of an upliftment fund for the transgender community with an initial amount of Rs 10 crore in the state budget 2021-22.

In this sequence, on the proposal of department of social and Empowerment, it is proposed to constitute a Transgender Protection Cell (Cell) in the office of the Director General of Police of the state.

According to the proposal, the main function of this cell, constituted under theProtection of Rights of TransgendersAct-2019, is to protect the rights of transgender (bisexual) persons, besides coordinating between the state levelTransgender Justice Boardand district transgender justice committees. This cell will work for prevention and monitoring of crimes against transgenders and ensure investigation and prosecution by timely registration of cases.

The new MSME policy cleared by the industries department and awaiting approval from finance has laid out a strategy to achieve global competitiveness by establishing product specific centres of excellence, providing assistance in setting up R&D centres, testing labs, and promoting cluster level competitiveness development programmes.

It has also offered additional incentives of 15% and 1% interest subsidies for MSMEs having ZED (Zero defect, zero effect) certification. Development of smart and MSME specific industrial areas and clusters, Skill development centres park development through PPP or private players have been included in the policy.

The three biggest reasons for this are financial crunch, increase in production cost and lack of skilled labor. Incentives in the new MSME policy will be crucial for the revival of the sector which has 90% footprint inRajasthans industrial landscape.

Contrary to popular fears that radiation fromcell phone towersmay be injurious to Health, DoTofficials said extensive research on electro- signals has established that it does not cause any harm.

On the basis of extensive research onEMFsignals, it has been established that mobile tower radiation does not cause any injurious health issues.

Mobile phones communicate by transmitting radio waves through a Network of fixed antennas called base stations. Radiofrequency waves are electromagnetic fields, and unlike ionizing radiation such as X-rays or gamma rays, can neither break chemical Bonds nor cause ionization in the human body.

The Health department on Saturday said availability of Oxygen for medical use will be increased in government and private hospitals by setting up oxygen generation Plants and installing oxygen concentrators, which can extract 750MT to 800 MT oxygen from the air daily.

The need for oxygen during Covid had gone up to 800MT daily. Over the past one year, the increased the number of oxygen-supported beds, which pushed up the requirement of oxygen. The number of O2 beds have also been increased from 6,949 to 18,540 in a year.

The health department is targeting to ensure that even the community health centres in rural areas will have facilities of oxygen for patients and for the purpose, the health department is installing oxygen concentrators in community health centres so that patients get immediate oxygen when they need it.

The , faced with the bleak prospects of augmenting Oxygen supply from local sources in the near future, is planning to importoxygen concentratorsand other essential anti-viral medicines.

Chief ministerAshok Gehlothad directed the officials to explore all Options, including foreign countries, to raise the life-saving medical oxygen and medicines. The chief minister is worried over the high mortality rate in the second wave. Since medical oxygen is the vital for saving lives, the state administration is looking for importing oxygen concentrators from China and other countries.

According to an estimate, demand for oxygen in the state has been estimated at 365 metric tons by April 30, 541 metric tons by May 9 and 900 metric tons by May 30 which the government thinks could not be met from local sources as transportation is a big challenge. This requires 65 cryogenic oxygen tankers which are in short supply now.

Failing to find the source of a cancer epidemic in theGangcanals catchments, a joint committee formed by theNational Green Tribunal(NGT) has recommended engaging the Indian Council of Medical Research (Icmr) or a similar institute to check the canal water, farm , and pesticides for possible reasons.

This Irrigation canal inRajasthans Sri Ganganagar district is fed by the Satluj river passing through Punjabs Ferozepur, Faridkot, and Muktsar districts.

The raw water stored in the sedimentation tank is filtered and distributed to the public through after disinfection by chlorination. The water samples taken from January 2022 to February 2023 had no heavy Metal content, while the Bureau of Indian Standard (Bis) also found the chemical and bacteriological parameters to be within the permissible value.

As the has exceeded its total labour budget of 30 crore for financial year 2021-22, having already generated Rs 34.50 crore persondays underMGNREGA, the Centre has revised the states labour budget to Rs 37.35 crore for the current financial year.

Meanwhile, 4 lakh households have so far completed 100 days of EMPLOYMENT underNREGA. In 2020-21, 12.31 lakh households had completed 100 days of employment in the state. The Average wage rate per day per person has also gone up to Rs 183.26 in the state as against last years Rs 169.51.

As per preliminary findings ofRajasthan State Mineral Exploration Trust(RSMET), large reserves of copper are expected to be found atChandgarhin Kotdi tehsil ofBhilwara. During exploration of iron Ore in the location,RSMETcame across copper deposits at shallow depths.

About 54% of the highest copper deposits in the country are in Rajasthan. Jharkhand andMadhya Pradeshcome after Rajasthan.

Rajasthan is Home to the largest reserves and Resources of copper in the country, estimated at 813 million tonne (53.81%). It is followed by Jharkhand with 295 million tonne (19.54%) and Madhya Pradesh with 283 million tonne (18.75%).
Copper is found in Jhunjhunus Khetri, in addition to the districts Madan-Kudan-Kolihan, Banwas, Akwali, Singhana-Muradpura., and Devpura-Banera belt in Bhilwara, Deri-Basantgarh in Sirohi, Khoh-Dariba Kheda and Mundiyawas in Alwar and Manpura in Udaipur district.