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Uttarakhand to start cave tourism’ circuit on lines of Slovenia

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

Taking a cue fromSlovenia, a country in central Europe known for itscave destinations,Uttarakhandis set to initiate its own cave tourismcircuit in the Gangolihat area of Pithoragarh where a Network of nineunderground caveswas discovered in September.
Scientists of Uttarakhand Space Application Centre (USAC) recently surveyed the caves situated in Mailchaura, Gupta Ganga, Sailiswar, Vrihad Tung, Mukteshwar and Daneswar areas.

The caves are tagged as part of a karst landscape, which is a landscape where of the bedrock creates Sinkholes, sinking streams, caves, springs and other such features.

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As many as 6,000 children have benefited from the Bal Sewa Yojana (child service scheme) launched by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath for children who lost either of their parents or both during the COVID-19 period (from March 2020).

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Besides, 2,000 other new children have also been selected by the Women and Child Development department, and they will be given the benefits of Bal Sewa Yojana soon.

The fresh applications have started coming in the department for the child service scheme.

Prior to this scheme, hundreds of children of UP were getting direct benefit from the sponsorship scheme aimed to give dignity, self-reliance and security to the children of people living below https://exam.pscnotes.com/POVERTY-line”>Poverty Line in UP. Under this scheme, there is a provision of giving Rs 2,000 per month to single, disabled parents and orphan, destitute children of poor sections.

At the district level, the district probation

officer, DPO, DCPU and Bal Kalyan Samiti are accepting the applications coming from gram panchayat, block levels and distributing the amount to the children within six months. Under this scheme, 1,026 children have been benefited in different districts of the state.

To connect the children of the needy families of the state with the mainstream of Education, the State Government had also launched Bal Shramik Vidya Yojana. Through this scheme, on the one hand, the parents are being counseled to encourage their children in the field of education, while on the other, by getting all these children enrolled in primary schools, the children of underprivileged class are getting educated.

The State level workshop for speedy implementation of Chief Minister Pashudhan Vikas Yojna was organized by Directorate of Gavya Development, Ranchi in the auditorium of Fisheries Farmers Training Centre.

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As a special guest in the works, Secretary, Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Cooperation Department,, Abu Baqr Siddiqui, Special Secretary-cum-Advisor, Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Cooperation Department Pradeep Hazari, Director, Gavya and Animal Husbandry Shashi Prakash Jha, , Director, HN Dwivedi and Managing Director, Jharkhand Milk Federation (JMF) Sudhir Kumar Singh gave their valuable views.The Chief Ministers Pashudhan Vikas Yojna was described

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as a boon for the Livestock farmers by the Divisional Secretary, said

Chief Guest of the workshop Minister, Department of Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Cooperation, Government of Jharkhand, Badal, directed the animal owners and officials who came to the workshop to achieve the physical goals of Mukhyamantri Pashudhan Vikas Yojna and told that this scheme is for economic uplift of rural Population.

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Railways to give 50% subsidy to farmers to transport agricultural items

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

With the overall improvement inCovid-19pandemic situation in the country, railways has decided to give 50% subsidy to farmers to transport their perishable agricultural products outside Bihar by parcel cargo Kisan Rail air- conditioned (AC) express trains.
These special trains are running from different places falling under the jurisdiction of the East Central RAILWAY

(ECR) to Maharashtra, New Delhi and other places enabling farmers to transport their agricultural products like vegetables, fruits, flowers, fish, meat, milk and other products outside the state.

According to the CPRO, railways is charging Rs 404 per quintal for booking vegetables and fruits from Muzaffarpur to Devlali. But it is hardly Rs 212 per quintal after giving 50 per cent subsidy. “Similarly railways charge Rs 205 per quintal between Danapur and Devlali, Rs 205 per quintal between Muzaffarpur and Manmad and Rs 144 per quintal betweenPatnaand New Delhi and Rs 65 per quintal between Patna and Howrah on vegetables and fruits only, he said.

These parcel cargo Kisan Rail trains are running with the load combination of at least 11 parcel vans which include frozen containers. Railways has fixed tariff for each item per ton freight loading based on the distance.

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Colourful stage set for National Tribal Dance Festival

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Chhattisgarhis all set to host the second edition of the National Tribal Dance Festival to promote, preserve, and provide a platform to showcase the rich, vibrant and state’s unique tribal culture and cultural exchange among indeginous people coming from across the country and abroad.

As many as 59 tribal dancers from 27 states and six union territories of the country and seven countries will showcase their unique dance forms and diverse tribal culture in the fest beginning on Thursday. Around 1,000 artists will be part of these dance troupes, of which 63 will be foreign artists from Sri Lanka, Uzbekistan, Swaziland, Nigeria, Palestine, Male, and Uganda.

Chhattisgarh is said to be the

first state of the country to organize this biggest tribal dance festival with a large congregation of tribal artists from the whole country and abroad.

The All India Institute of Medical Sciences Bhopal and Indian Institute of Science for Education and Research (IISER) Bhopal signed a Memorandum of agreement for five years. The ceremony was conducted at AIIMS Bhopal and was attended. Both the premiere Government Institutes of Bhopal will conduct cooperative research in field of public health, metagenomics, cancer epidemiology and treatment by sharing clinical specimens and technology for analysing the samples.

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Both the Institutes will jointly organise seminars, workshops, conferences, faculty and student exchange. The ceremony was conducted at Aiims Bhopal and was attended by Prof. Sarman Singh, Director AIIMS Bhopal, Prof. Siva Umapathy, Director IISER Bhopal, Dean of both the Institutes and the Faculty Members. Prof. Singh and Prof. Umapathy look forward to the collaboration to perform translational research that will benefit the patient care in Madhya Pradesh.

The MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) will pave way to form a translational research cluster

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with other research Institutes in Madhya Pradesh. Prof. Arneet Arora, Head of Forensic Medicine and Dr Biswas, Dean Research expressed how the interdisciplinary research between the two Institutes has progressed over years and will lead to important discoveries. The MoU will further help accelerate this process of discovery.

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Cooperatives key to making India a $ 5trillion economy

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

Stating that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had created the ministry of cooperation with the motto of prosperity with cooperation, union Home and cooperatives minister Amit Shah said that the cooperative sector will play a major role in India becoming a US $ 5 trillion economy.

Shah said that a lot of changes are required in the cooperative sector and said, A charter for the newly formed ministry is being prepared with the core idea of sahakaar se samruddhi (cooperation to wealth).

Shah launched an automated cheese warehouse at Khatraj, Amuls organic biofertilizer, souvenir, stamp and envelope marking 75 years of Amul and inaugurated newly constructed auditorium. He also launched the Sahakar scheme of the National Cooperative Development Corporation

with Rs 5,000 crore allocation.

Finance department stops RTE entitlements for 50,000 Rajasthan private schools

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

The finance department has stopped Right to Education (RTE) entitlements for 50,000 state private schools citing that the schools were shut due to the pandemic and the bills could not be cleared without verifying if regular online classes were conducted.

The has to pay more than Rs 300 crore to

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the private schools under RTE. According to sources in the department, the proposal of releasing the amount was cleared by the finance department earlier and funds for some schools were also released, however, the department decided to take back the amount released.

As the schools remained closed in the session 2020-21, and students were made to study online. The finance department has asked the government to make a complete plan and verify the quality of education on the basis of which funds will be released and the mode of payment will be decided.

Every part of North East will be connected with 4G: Union minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

Union MinisterRajeev Chandrasekhar said the entire northeast will have 4G connectivity and every part ofNagalandwill get access to Internet.

Chandrasekhar, the Union minister of state for electronics and information technology, announced this during a press conference held inDimapuron Tuesday, the last day of his three-day visit to Nagaland.

The union minister said Nagaland and the entire northeast will have minimum of 4G connectivity as

part of Prime Minister Narendra Modis vision of connecting all Indians, with an approach that No one is left behind.

Assam govt merges elementary, secondary education depts.

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

TheAssam governmenthas decided to create a newschool Education departmentby merging two existing ones, an official notification said. Theelementary and secondary educationdepartments are being merged to form the new one, it said.

Consequent to the merger, all officers and staff of

the two departments will come under the administrative control of the school education department.

All existing directorates and organisations of the two departments will be under the administrative control of the school education.