UTTAR PRADESH

Professionals from various fields, citizens and students, will be able to benefit from this facility by registering with a missed call at mobile phone number 9522340003, filling up a form and completing required formalities. They will then be trained through virtual classes of an hour each day for 20 days free of cost from the end of July.

The Uttar Pradesh government is constantly trying to inculcate , said to be the language of Gods, and give opportunities to those who want to learn the ancient language. Uttar Pradesh Sanskrit Sansthan is playing a big role in giving a meaningful shape to this government endeavour. Along with Hindi and English, arrangements are now being made by the State Government to give Sanskrit training to every child.

President of UP Sanskrit Sansthan, Dr Vachaspati Mishra, said that students who wanted to study Sanskrit would also be imparted information about moral values along with the knowledge of the rich language. “It is a novel effort of the government to teach Sanskrit through free classes along with Hindi and English,” he pointed out

Mangotraders and exporters in Mumbai expressed interest in exporting different varieties of mango from UP, during a mango buyer-seller meet organised in Mumbai,Maharashtra.

Dasehri, Chausa, Langda were some of the varieties fromUttar Pradeshthat were exhibited in the mango exhibition that was also held on the occasion.

Minister of state for (independent charge)DineshSingh said exporters may get in contact with mango growers in UP directly to procure the fruit and also seek help from the department.

He said the buyer-seller meet is organised to promote commercial varieties of mangoes. HoFED is working in a planned manner to encourage export of mangoes from Uttar Pradesh.

Uttar Pradesh accounts for 23% of total mango production in the country, which is more than 48 lakh tonnes of the total production of over 279 lakh tonnes in the country.

Lucknow, Saharanpur and Meerut are the main mango producing regions.
In thelast few years, mango varieties from the state have been exported to Singapore, Malaysia, England and Dubai.

Prime MinisterNarendra Modis repeated praise of the Covid containment strategy in his parliamentary constituency, Varanasi, has trained the spotlight on theKashi model, which helped flatten the spiralling pandemic curve in district after the second Corona wave struck.
The model envisages smooth and comprehensive steps to provide immediate medical attention to people contracting the virus through creation of micro-containment zones.

The model further stresses on strengthening medical to deal with the deluge of patients.

At the same time, Covid patients in Home isolation are provided 24×7 medical support by respective primary Health centre and community health centres and Covid response team regularly takes updates.

The Uttar Pradesh government is targeting to procure 60 lakh tons of wheat in the Rabi Marketing season 2023-24. Since the minimum support price (MSP) of wheat has been fixed at Rs 2,125 per quintal, the payout to farmers against the targeted purchase is estimated at Rs 12,750 crore.

UP government agencies have so far procured 90,000 MT of wheat at 2,978 procurement centres from 19,000 farmers. The farmers have been paid Rs 130 crore through DBT (direct benefit transfer). The state, together with the (Fci), will procure wheat from the farmers.

Last year, UP wheat procurement was way below the mark against the target of 60 lakh tons since the open market prices were higher than the MSP owing to a surge in the international wheat prices following the Russia-Ukraine war.

Since Russia and Ukraine are among the leading global wheat producers, the conflict affected their wheat supply chains, causing a scarcity of the commodity and stoking prices.

The domestic wheat prices during the last procurement season went north due to the sudden spurt in the export market, prompting India to ban export of the commodity to cool domestic prices and ensure Food Security amid global upheavals.

The global wheat supply chains are fairly stabilised this year, which augurs well for the domestic procurement of the Rabi crop in different states, including UP. Barring the 2022-23 wheat procurement season, which was exacerbated by the Ukraine war, the institutional buying of wheat in UP has been robust over the year

In view of increasing power demand in the state, it has a plan to increase power generation in the state.

Replying to posers in the question-hour session, Power Minister AK Sharma said that between 2017 and 2022, at least five thermal projects are under construction in the state for power supply. Of these projects (total capacity 5643 MW), the Harduaganj thermal project with a capacity of 660 MW has been made operational while Jawaharpur Vidyut Utpadan Nigam Ltd (capacity 2×660=1320 MW), Panki Thermal Project (capacity 1×660=660 MW), Ghatampur Thermal Project (capacity 3×660=1980 MW) and Obra C Thermal Project (capacity 2×660=1320 MW) are under construction.

He said that out of 42 renewable projects (total capacity 3970 MW) signed for power generation in the middle of the question period, 31 projects (total capacity 2412 MW) are operational and 11 projects (total capacity 1558 MW) are under construction.

Apart from this, MoUs have been signed with NTPC for setting up thermal projects in Obra (capacity 2×800 MW) and Anpara (capacity 2×800 MW) in the Global Investors Summit-2023 and of Rs 29,1914.8 crore has been proposed in the field of RENEWABLE ENERGY. A total of 116 MoUs have been signed, Sharma said.

To promote and to bring down carbon emissions, the housing and urban planning department ofUttar Pradeshis going to come up with a code for green buildings. The real estate Industry and construction business works on the building code specified by the regulatory authorities and so far Uttar Pradesh did not have a defined set of rules to incentivise the smart buildings.

The state was working on the general guidelines laid down under the National Building Code. Going forward the UP government will frame a specific set of rules and framework to recognise energy efficient buildings after floating specific building norms that have to be adhered to.

A team of experts from Chandigarh-based NationalInstitute of Epidemiology of Icmr(Indian Council of Medical Research) is conducting a survey of -transmitted helminths prevalence among children studying in the government primary and upper primary schools inUttar Pradesh.

Soil-transmitted helminths lead toparasitic infectionin children that hinders nutritional and physical development in young children, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO).

Under the survey, stool samples of school going children are being collected and their microscopic examination is being done in temporary microscopic centres set up at the nearest health facility (community/ primary health centre).