Current Affairs Exam

Telangana with high per capita income sees dipping poverty graph during pandemic

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

Telanganagovernment maybe battling with the Centre to lift market borrowing curbs to fight debt, but it has displayed a robust economic trend, as per experts extrapolating on the Ecowrap report released.

, which consistently maintained a high per capita income (PCI), has shown a dipping POVERTY graph with income disparity shrinking during the pandemic.

This was established by its lowGinico-efficient – a measure of income inequality (in aggregate and per capita terms) – in the report.
The report has emphatically linked the Gini co-efficient to inequality reduction in states.

PCI and Gini index are interlinked and states with high PCI are better placed to cut down on inequalities than states with lower PCI, saidKrishna ReddyChittedi, assistant professor of economics atHyderabad Central University. As per the Ecowrap report, the other top two states with high PCI are Goa and Sikkim and those with lowest are Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh,Uttar Pradesh, and Rajasthan. The report also says that higher gross state domestic product (GSDP) is linked to a lower Gini ratio like PCI.

Andhra Pradesh: Vizag all set to become a pharma hub, says Industries Minister

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

The Andhra Pradesh government is putting in efforts to develop the Industrial Sector, which endured the slowdown during the coronavirus pandemic, with renewed vigour, IT and Industries Minister Gudivada Amarnath has said.

Mr. Amarnath said that the government was focusing on three industrial corridorsVizag-Chennai corridor, Chennai- Bengaluru and Bengaluruwith assistance from the Centre. About 9,000 acres of land have been identified for setting up of the nodes and around 7,000 acres have already been acquired for two corridors.

The government will acquire the land and provide basic facilities such as roads, power and water, apart from 75% of skilled local human Resources.

The Minister said that around 90,000 acres were needed to produce 30,000 MW of green energy.

Mariculture policy will pave way for non-Goan investors’

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

The relaxations announced in the Goa mariculture policy will pave the way for non-Goan investors to set up cage fishing in Goa, which will be detrimental to Goan ramponkars and traditional fishermen, said Goa Forward Party (GFP) in a memorandum to the Directorate of .

The concern of the ramponkars is that big investors from outside Goa will take over the coastal waters in the name of cage fishing and will stop local fishermen from fishing in the waters. Large scale commercial cage fishing activity will cause a lot of pollution due to chemicals, antibiotics used to protect the fish and the waste generated by the fish. This will keep wild fish away from the waters where traditional fishermen venture to catch fish

Maharashtra: Demand to enact law to honour, protect widows

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

Expressing concerns over the treatment meted out to widows, the members campaigning for protection of rights and dignity of widows have demanded that a law be enacted for the purpose.

The state convener of ‘Vidhva Mahila Sanman va Sanrakshan’ campaign, Raju Shirsath along with others have presented a memorandum to district collectorate appealing to take urgent steps for enacting the law.

The members said that the agitation would continue in the peaceful and democratic manner till it gathered a pace and became a momentum or the government enacted the law for the protection of widows.

Cabinet approves state EV, data centre policies

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

TheHaryanagovernment approved theState ElectricVehicle (EV) Policy 2022 and launched a data centre policy to make the state a global data centre hub.

A decision in this regard was taken at a meeting of the statecabinetwhich met here under the chairmanship of chief ministerManohar Lal Khattar.

The EV policy aims to protect the Environment, reduce carbon footprint, make Haryana an EV manufacturing hub, ensure Skill development in EV field, encourage uptake of EV vehicles, provide EV charging and encourage R&D in EV technology.

The policy encourages new manufacturing in EV technology and also encourages existing automobile manufacturers to diversify in the EV manufacturing domain. The policy offers various financial incentives to EV manufacturers by giving incentives on fixed capital Investment (Fci), net SGST, stamp duty and EMPLOYMENT generation. There is100% reimbursement of stamp duty along with exemption in Electricity Duty for 20 years.

Haryanas IT ecosystem, good availability of power and locational advantage make it uniquely equipped to be at the forefront of the development of the data centre Industry.

The cabinet also amended Haryana Wood Based Industries (Establishment and Regulation) Rules, 2022, to ensure continuity of licence or registration to existing wood-based industries located within 3km range and to afford more opportunities for Growth of wood-based industries, the establishment of wood-based industries at a distance closer than 3km does not pose threat to the protection of forests, Haryana has amended the Rule-6 (2) of Haryana Wood Based Industries (Establishment and Regulation) Rules, 2022 by substituting the word three-kilometre with 500 meter in original proposal.

Punjab CM announces measures to reform education sector

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

Describing Education as the bedrock for building a new Society, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Saturday announced introduction of multipronged improvements in the sector. He said government schools in the state will be transformed into ‘schools of eminence’.

To ensure that students get quality and affordable education, the government is committed not only to building state-of-the-art government schools but also regulating fees in private schools, he said.

The NoC (No Objection Certificate) of schools found violating the Fee Act, 2016, will be cancelled and a fine of Rs 1 lakh will be imposed,” he said.

Mann said the has already started the process to fill vacant posts and the recruitment of 5,994 Elementary Trained Teachers and 8,393 Pre-Primary teachers is under process.

HP plans 3 logistics hubs to facilitate states agro industry

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

TheHimachal Pradeshgovernment has notified itsLogistic Policy2022 under Gati Shakti National Master Plan to create an efficient and sophisticated ecosystem to support the states industrial Growth. The policy aims to strengthen the logistics infrastructures of the state by promoting Investment from private sector to develop Inland Container Depots (ICDs), Common Facility Centres (CFCs), Integrated Cold Chain, Logistic Parks, Truck Terminals, Air Cargo facilities, Quality testing labs, Integrated Cold Chain etc.

According to the policy, it will be the states goal to build key logistics hubs that can handle freight from the states higher reaches, particularly agricultural and Horticulture products to support first mile connectivity. It says that Shoghi in Shimla district, Sauli Khad inMandidistrict, and Pandoga inUnadistrict are all potential locations for such logistical hubs and the state will provide incentives for setting up primary processing centres to facilitate the vast agro-Industry in the state.

The State Government has also constituted an Empowered Group of Secretaries under the chairmanship of the chief secretary for the overall development of logistics sector in the state and also to ensure the projects are in line with the vision of PM GatiShakti NMP.
The policy says that to support the existing industrial corridor, the state would provide the required Infrastructure assistance for the establishment of an Industrial Logistics and Warehousing Hub in the Baddi-Barotiwala-Nalagarh region.

Himachal Pradesh currently lacks a robust Network of customs Ports, with only one ICD facility located inBaddi. The state government will continue to look into the possibility of establishing new ICDs and CFCs as needed, as well as assist the development of logistic parks, warehousing zones, and other similar facilities wherever feasible. The state would support the establishment of transportation and warehousing zones at strategic locations.

Uttarakhand has staggering outstanding debt of Rs 73,000 crore, shows CAG report

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

The state finance audit report of the (for the year ended March 31, 2021), tabled in the state assembly on Friday, has pointed out that the total outstanding debt on theUttarakhandgovernment at the end of 2020-21 is a staggering Rs 73,751 crore.

Internal debt, which is primarily market borrowings, accounts for 56% of the total outstanding debt. The breakup shows that Rs 53,302 crore is the outstanding amount of internal debt, Rs 16,636 crore is public accounts liability and Rs 3,813 crore is owed to the Union Government.
Moreover, the report said that Rs 44,583 crore was the loan in 2016-17, Rs 51,831 crore in 2017-18, Rs 58,039 crore in 2018-19, while it was Rs 65,982 crore in 2019-20.

Lucknow: 603crore agriculture scheme to boost farmer’s income

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

The Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture department has started work on rolling out the Rs 603 crore Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya Kisan Samriddhi scheme inUttar Pradesh. Issuing a government order on Wednesday, the department has set a goal of changing the status of 2.19 lakh hectare of unproductive land for agriculture purposes.

Barring Gautam Budh Nagar all the remaining 74 districts are going to be covered under the scheme. Officials said due to limited agriculture activity in Noida andGreater Noidaand unavailability of farm workers, the UP-NCR district was not included in the scheme.

The Yogi government gave its approval to launch the scheme and provided the budget in the cabinet meeting that took place on June 14. After carrying out surveys the department identified 1.78 lakh hectare of barren and fallow land and an additional 41,000 hectare of low-lying and waterlogged land. The department said that work on improving the condition of the waterlogged and low-lying land would be done through MGNREGA funds while funds required to turn around barren land into productive fields will be provided by the .

Award for tobacco control to Jkhand

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

Recognising its efforts in controlling tobacco consumption, theWorld Health Organization(WHO) has selectedJharkhandfor theWorld No Tobacco Day(WNTD) Award-2022.

Stata Tobacco Control Cell of the Health Department will receive the award on the occasion of World No Tobacco Day in New Delhi on May 31, Jharkhand’s nodal officer of National Tobacco Control Programme (NTCP)Lalit Ranjan Pathaksaid. Its a great achievement for Jharkhand, which could be possible only due to political and administrative supports that tobacco control cell has got in implementing the programme, Pathak said.

NTCP was launched in Jharkhand in 2012 when the tobacco prevalence rate in the state was 51.1 per cent, of which 48 per cent were smokeless users, according to the Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS)-1 report.

The GATS-2 report, which was published in 2018, said tobacco users came down to 38.9 per cent in the state, of which 35.4 per cent were smokeless users.