RAJASTHAN

The 19-year-old shooter won the gold medal in the womens 10m air rifle standing (SH1), defeating reigning champion Zhang Cuiping of China and Ukraines Iryna Shchetnik, who won silver and bronze, respectively.

The Average wage under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural EMPLOYMENT Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) has touched an all-time high of Rs 190.89 (per day per person) in the state, data received fromNREGAportal stated.

In 2021-22, the average wage rate inRajasthanwas Rs 182.62; in 2020-21, it was Rs 169.51; Rs 144.87 in 2019-20 and Rs 137.24 in 2018-19.

A labour budget of 24 crore was sanctioned for the financial year 2022-23. So far, 7.57 crore persondays have been generated in the state.

Oxygenbanks are coming up acrossRajasthanto help people take Home Oxygen concentrators for patients facing difficulties in breathing. These oxygen banks will be run by thestate Health department. The oxygen concentrators will be provided to the needy patients on the basis of doctors prescription.

Not only Covid, patients but also those suffering from neurological problems or other lung diseases will be able to get oxygen concentrators from these banks. During the secondCovidwave, a lot of NGOs and social workers put their efforts to provide oxygen concentrators to patients at homes, in case they did not find a bed in hospital. But it is for the first time that the has taken a decision on creating oxygen banks in all the districts.

The state government is taking measures to become self-reliant in oxygen generation as it is planning to produce 1,000 metric tonnes in times to come with oxygen generation Plants being set up by various institutions and through other equipment.

The survey revealed that water of five towns in Rajasthan – Bhiwadi and Kharital in Alwar district and Navalgarh, Surajgarh and Chirawa in Jhunjhunu district has a high concentration of nitrate. Water consumed in Govindgarh in Alwar has a high concentration of TDS. Lastly, water available in Nadbai in Bharatpur, Ratangarh in Churu and Fatehpur Shekhawati, Ramgarh Shekhawati and Losal in Sikar is contaminated owing to multiple parameters.

India could be poised to make its second ‘discovery’ oflithiumreserves, with news agency IANS on Monday saying theGeological Survey of India(GSI) has found a large reserve of the critical mineral — used in electric vehicles to laptops and mobile phones — at Degana area of Nagaur district of Rajasthan.

Understandably, the report created a buzz throughout the day and analysts joined the ring on the commercial and strategic upside for the country, especially ending China’s monopoly.

US Geological Survey puts total lithium reserves globally at just 80.7 million tonnes. Nearly 54% of India’s lithium imports are from China, which hogs 80% of global supply. Available data shows India imported lithium worth over Rs 6,000 crore, including Rs 3,500 crore worth from China, in 2020-21.

There’s a mismatch of nearly Rs 4 crore between government’s share (Rs 14,171.54 crore) and employees’ share ofRajasthan(Rs 14,167.82 crore) under the National Pension System (NPS) fund, an RTI reply obtained from the (PFRDA) has revealed.

According to an official of the state’s finance department, the mismatch was quite low and it was because of the legacy data of employees’ share which was yet to be deposited in the NPS funds. “PRAN activation, recovery head issues and general provident fund reconciliation are some of the reasons for the mismatch between government and employees’ share,” said the official.

About formation of Rajasthan:

Every year State Day of Rajasthan is celebrated on 30th March.

Rajasthan, formerly known as Rajputana, was established on March 30, 1949.

The state is mainly composed of Rajputs lands, including 19 former princely states, two chiefships and the Ajmer-Merwara districts of the British.

On August 15, 1947, the princely states was merged into the union of India, but the reunification could only be completed later.

The 4 princely states of Alwar, Dhaulpur, Karauli, and Bharatpur formed the Matsya Union and it was established on March 17, 1948.

The Rajasthan Union was established in March 25th, 1948 by the union of states: Banswara, Bundi, Dungarpur, Jhalawar, Kishangarh, Pratapgarh, Shahpura, Tonk, and Kota.

The emperor of Udaipur decided to join the Rajasthan Union three days after the establishment of the Rajasthan Union.

Rajasthan State is established and inaugurated by Jawaharlal Nehru on April 18, 1948.

On March 30, 1949, the four states will be forthcoming Jodhpur, Jaipur, Bikaner and Jaisalmer joined this integration, and the area was later called Greater Rajasthan.

The Matsya Union merged with Rajasthan on May 15, 1949.

So far, the only state-Sirohi has not yet joined the federation and later it was joined the Federation on 26th January, 1950.

During the state reorganization in 1956, the Ajmer-Merwara region merged with Rajasthan, while Bhanpura Tehsil in Madhya Pradesh and Abu Tehsil in Gujarat also merged with Rajasthan at that time.

The Centre has taken a step forward to accord national status to theEastern Rajasthan Canal Project(ERCP), an issue that had resulted in a political slugfest between the Congress and BJP in the past.

TheRajasthangovernment had proposed the scheme in the year 2017. However, since then – till now even now there is non-availability of water (according to the parameters of the national project) under this scheme. The Central Government has now duly approved the integrated modified Parbati-Kalisindh-Chambal (PKC) Link Project as part of the National River Linking Plan (partial)

The fast-changing land use pattern of Aravallis hill range into human settlements, Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture and mining is leading to gradual environmental catastrophes.

A research report titled Assessment of Land Use Dynamics of the Aravalli Range by the Central University ofRajasthan(CURAJ) Department of Environment and Earth Sciences (DEES) projected by 2029, 16% of the Aravalli land would be consumed by settlements from 4.5% of the land in 1975. The land under agriculture will shoot up from 18.9% in 1975 to 28% in 2029 causing additional Stress on surface and underwater reserves. The total area under the range is 75572.8 square kilometres.

The study assessed land-use dynamics patterns between 1975 and 2019 using remote sensing and machine Learning-based approaches. It has made the projection on the available data on settlements, forest cover, water bodies, and barren land till 2059 concluding that it will disturb the geo equilibrium of the region from Delhi-Ahmedabad.

UnderJal Jeevan Mission, 100 per cent tap connection has been made available in 70 villages and 90 per cent tap connection has been provided in 56 villages in Jaipur district, district collectorRajan Vishalwas informed during a review meeting of the mission at the Collectorate on Monday.

Under Jal Jeevan Mission, out of 5.27 lakh families in Jaipur district, 1.80 lakh families have benefited from functional tap connections. He asked the officials concerned to organise meetings of village water and sanitation committee (VWSC) from time to time and workshops should be organised in each block. During the meeting, superintendent engineer (SE) and member secretary of district water and sanitation mission R C Meena said that 100% functional tap connections have been made available in four gram panchayats – Bhankri (Paota), Chobala (Paota),Kudli(Phagi) andMendwas(Phagi) – in Jaipur district.

The remaining households will be provided with tap connections by 2024. Functional tap connections have been made available to more than 10,000 institutions through pipeline, he said.