The age wise bifurcation of inoculation records suggests, around three to four per cent of the eligible 18 lakh Population in the 18-44 age group is yet to be given the first dose. In the age group people above 45 years, it has already achieved over 103% of its target.
Faced with increased cost of production, tile makers in Morbi, India’s largest cluster of ceramic industry,Morbihave decided to raise the prices of their products by about 10-15%, The new prices will come into effect from September 1, according to ceramic industry players.
The tilemakers in Morbi have decided to raise prices to pass on the increased production cost, which has gone up by around 15% due to increase in prices of natural gas, raw materials, coal as well as a surge in transportation cost following spiralling diesel prices, said players.
GujaratGas Limited (GGL) hiked the price of natural gas supplied to ceramic and sanitaryware units in Morbi and Surendranagar. For 3-month minimum guaranteed offtake (MGO), GGL increased the rate by Rs 4.37 per SCM (excluding taxes).
The communities under theScheduled Tribesare leading the way in girls education with the highest of 115 girls for every 100 boys enrolled in the higher education institutes, says the higher education department report on enrolments. The worst female-male ratio came at 93 girls enrolled for every 100 boys from Scheduled Caste communities. TheSTcommunities have made a major jump from 30 girls in 2005-06, completely reversing the trend in fifteen years.
The figures are testimony to the fast-changing mindset of the orthodox communities in the state. A higher enrolment means higher job opportunities. In our research papers, it is proven that an educated family gives away orthodoxy, leading to overall development including liberation of Women, saidRashmi Jain, head of department, Sociology. The Average ratio of girls to boys was 105:100 in 2020-21.
Experts say that state policies like opening only girls colleges and free Education for girls, along with several scholarships schemes, turn out to be game changers. Of 322 government colleges, 60 are only girls colleges, especially in blocks that are dominated by the communities known for poor girls education.
Meanwhile, humanities continue to have a lions share in enrolments with 66.41% of the total enrolments in higher education in social sciences. The next share of 24.07% goes to science, while commerce stood third with 7.22% enrolments.
The Mizoram government, in an official letter to the Centre, has called out the Assam government as the aggressor who unleashed violence against Mizoram Police and unarmed civilians on July 26 and added that the situation could have been averted had the CRPF jawans performed their assigned duties.
In a missive to the Union Home ministry’s additional secretary (Northeast) sent recently.Mizoram home secretary Lalbiaksangi said the CRPF personnel on duty had allowed the movement of a large contingent of armed Assam Police personnel without challenging or questioning why it was crossing the duty post towards Mizoram.
She wrote that about 200 Assam Police personnel led by Assam inspector-general of police Anurag Agarwal had come to the Mizoram police duty post at autorickshaw stand, Kawngthar Veng, Vairengte, after crossing the camp of the 225 battalion CRPF, located just below the Mizoram Police duty post around 11.30am on Monday. Around a section of Mizoram police personnel were stationed at the duty post at that time.
nly 70% work on the Rs 316-crore mega piped drinking water supply project has been completed till date though it was supposed to be commissioned by August 2020.Work on the project started in April 2018 to ensure round-the- clock supply of safe drinking water to around 2.75 lakh villagers in 52 panchayats underJeypore, Borigumma andKotpadblocks.
He said under the project the surface water ofMurandam in Borigumma block will be filtered and supplied to the villagers for drinking replacing digging of borewells for water.
Official sources said as the ground water level is depleting with each passing year, the use of surface water will be very helpful in providing safe piped water supply in rural areas.
The prestigiousinstitution of national importance(INI) status has been conferred on the Indian Institute of Food Processing Technology (IIFPT),Thanjavur. TheIIFPTis a national research and educational institute functioning under theUnion ministry of food processing industries.
Considering the significance of the IIFPT in the development of the Food Processing sector, the institute has been granted the INI status for improving the research standard further.
TheParliamenton July 26 unanimously passed the National Institute of Food Technology, and Management (NIFTEM) Bill, 2021 to declare IIFPT as an INI.
IIFPT director Dr C Anandharamakrishnan said the development would the pave way for the institutes functional autonomy for administrative policy decisions and establishing new departments to meet the requirement of skilled manpower. The INI status will also enable the institute to start new innovative courses and research in food technology.
In Kerala, almost 80% of patients had to pay out of their own pocket for Covid treatment in private hospitals. Only 8% availed the benefits of government insurance schemes and another 12% had private insurance.
Till June 30, 2021, almost 8.2% of the total Population (29,24,166 people) had Covid infection and of that an estimated 4,38,625 required hospitalization with many requiring ICU and ventilator support. During the initial phase of the first Covid wave, Covid treatment was limited to government hospitals. However, from October, private hospitals were roped in for treatment and now 50% of Covid hospital admissions, mostly category C patients (mainly critical patients), are treated in private hospitals.
An analysis of hospitalization trends in southern states by Project Jeevan Raksha, a public-private PARTNERSHIP initiative involvingPublic Health Foundation of India(PHFI), that has been submitted to central and state governments shows that in Kerala, till June 15, only 34,755 had sought treatment in private hospitals under government schemes and another 51,102 made claims under individual health Insurance schemes.
The department of public instruction has launched a campaign in Udupi district to collect old or spare smartphones from well-off residents and distribute them among poor students. The initiative follows a survey, which revealed that 2,688 children in the district are unable to access online classes because of the digital divide.
Officials found that many children, especially those in rural areas, dont have a mobile or a television in their homes.
Several huts and small units in villages dont have electricity connections. The department is providing solar lamps to class 10 students living in such households. We have taken up a campaign to distribute solar lamps with the help of individual donors and organisations. We have already received 25 solar lamp sets.
Online or digital Education has gained widespread adoption following the pandemic. While it has helped ease Learning disruptions in urban areas, children in many rural areas have been left out. A number of studies and ground reports have shown how lack of devices and Internet connection is hampering learning in rural or remote pockets. Officials and organisations are making efforts to solve the problem.
Political and diplomatic efforts seem to have fetched theUnescoWorld Heritage Site tag for the historicRamappa templein Telangana. The dossier prepared by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), Department of HeritageTelangana(DHT) and the Kakatiya Heritage Trust (KHT), however, failed to convince the Unesco experts on the uniqueness and grandeur of the 13th century temple complex.
If the report of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) submitted to the ongoing extended 44th session of theWorld Heritage Committee of Unescois any indication, the experts involved in the preparation of the dossier did not come up with a foolproof plan.
ICOMOS in its report pinpointed the loopholes in the dossier and explained how the state party failed to come up with clinching scientific evidence in support of the claims made for the heritage status.
To repair badly damaged roads in the state, the government has decided to secure Rs 2,200 croreloanfrom nationalized banks.
The is gearing up to launch strengthening and maintenance works for 9,000 km roads after securing the bank loan. The government is making special arrangements to clear bills of contractors through banks to avoid delay.
Krishnababu also said that they would be shortly launching the works proposed with New Development Bank (NDB) loan of Rs 6,480 crore. He said that all the roads from district headquarter city to the mandal headquarter town would be converted intotwo-lanewith new alignments and facilities.
He said that they would begin the first phase works with Rs 2,970 crore in a couple of months. He said that the chief minister had also agreed to open a separate bank account to handle the loan amount to be released by the NDB as per the advice of the Centre.