State Assembly Speaker Rabindra Nath Mahato, Chief Minister Hemant Soren and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Alamgir Alam inaugurated the two-day first Jharkhand Students Parliament-2021 organized in Jharkhand Legislative Assembly on Saturday by lighting the lamp. In the first Jharkhand Students Parliament-2021, 24 students selected from the universities of different districts of the State are participating.

Speaker Rabindra Nath Mahto in his address said that CM Hemant Soren is one of the youngest Chief Ministers of the country. Being a young CM, Soren is always serious about how the potential is developed among the youth of the State. Taking this link forward, the first Jharkhand Students Parliament-2021 is being organized in the Jharkhand Legislative Assembly today. The students participating in the first Jharkhand Student Parliament-2021 will work to bring complete information about the legislative, executive and judiciary system to every section of the Subscribe on YouTube

href="https://exam.pscnotes.com/society-notes-for-state-psc-exams">Society. The main objective of this program is how to reach the benefits of parliamentary system to the last line of the society. It is also necessary for the common people to have complete knowledge of parliamentary subjects and functions, only then the dream of a developed society can be realized, he said.

The CM said that the direction of the State and the country is given by the Lok Sabha and the Legislative Assemblies of different states, run by the Central Government. For the all-round development of different sections of the society, laws are made from here and through this law the wheel of development moves forward. He said that people have their own views on many matters, that is why both the ruling party and the opposition remain active in the Legislative Assembly. Both the parties work together to give a new direction to the State.

Four sewage treatment plants in Patna to be made functional by March 22

The foursewage treatment Plants(STPs) at Beur, Karmalichak, Saidpur, and Pahadi inPatnawill be made functional by the end of the 2021-2022 financial year. Sewer networks are being laid to connect all the households to the STPs so that untreated water does not get discharged into the Ganga directly.

The foundation for the plants, which have a capacity to treat 200 million litres of wastewater per day, was laid by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Mokama in Patna district in October 2017.

According to sources, the wastewater will be treated through sequencing batch reactor system and used for

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Two other STPs at Digha and Kankerbagh are in the initial stage of construction. While the one at Digha will have a 228km-long sewer Network, the Kankerbagh STP will have a 150km-long sewer network.

Inter-state dispute between MP-Chhattisgarh on ownership of Jwaleshwar Mahadev temple

An inter-state dispute is apparently brewing betweenChhattisgarhandMadhya Pradeshover theJwaleshwar Mahadevtemple, located on the border.

Chhattisgarh claims that it takes care of and Police forces required during temple festivals and thetemple committeealso constitutes natives of the state, the neighbouring statesAmarkantak Nagar Parishadhas stamped its number on the temple wall.

The dispute erupted when Chhattisgarh

was carved out of Madhya Pradesh in the year 2000 and both the states claimed that the Jwaleshwar Mahadev temple was on their land.

Commemorating the 75 glorious years of Indias Independence i.e.Amrit Mahotsav as well as birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, the ICAR-Indian Institute of Soybean Research, Indore today conducted a Cleanliness Awareness Programme for School Children at Shriram Convent School, Musakhedi, village.

Shyam Kishor Verma shared his poems on Cleanliness and Health especially composed for the occasion. The programme was conducted in presence of Rakesh Chandra Shakya, Seema Chauhan of the institute along with Shri

Pramod Raghuwanshi, the Director of Shriram Convvent School as well as Principal Arti Raghuwanshi.

Drop of 3.3 lakh in rural telecom subscribers in Gujarat

With people discontinuing mobile connections and service issues due to the Covid-19 pandemic,rural Gujaratsaw a reduction of some 3.3 lakh telecom subscribers in the April to June quarter this year. The

latest performance indicator report of the (TRAI), suggests that rural telecom subscribers inGujaratfell from 2.788 crore to 2.755 crore from the January-March quarter to the April-June quarter.

Telecom operators said many connections expired and could not be renewed due to Covid-19 restrictions imposed due to the second wave of Covid-19 cases in April and May.

The trend, according to TRAI, was similar across the country. Rural telephone subscribers decreased from 53.74 crore at the end of March 2021 to 53.64 crore at the end of June 2021. Rural tele-density also decreased from 60.27% to

60.10% in this period, states the performance indicator report.

Rajasthan forest department eyes new safari zones to boost tourism in Sariska Tiger Reserve

The state forest department is exploring possibilities to develop more zones for tourism atSariskaTiger Reserve (STR). The famed reserve now gives access to only 5% of the area for safaris.

Many stakeholders have pointed out that there are no safari zones in STR where big cats inhabit. As part of it, the department has already started work on a 17km protection route for effective monitoring.

As per NTCA norms, a maximum 20% of the core/critical tiger habitat can be used for regulated tourism. In Sariska, there are many tigers in Talvriksha range, but there are no safari and monitoring zones

Strategy to promote NER as Agri Export Hub

APEDA (Agricultural and Processed Food Products Development and Authority) recently formulated a Strategy for the promotion of Export of Agricultural and products from North-Eastern (NE) states of India.

APEDA has launched a platform in Assam, which will help the exporters to get products from producer group and processors, directly.

This platform will be linked among the producers & processors of Assam and exporters from across India. This move will expand the base of export pockets inNE states.

Central Government had launched Mission Organic Value Chain Development for

North East Region (MOVCD-NER) in a bid to promote the region as Agri Export Hub.

Assam govt may regulate private madrassas: Edu min

TheAssam governmentmay regulate all theprivate madrassasin the state under an existing Act,Education Minister Ranoj Pegusaid. The proposal is making rounds in the wake of the arrests of severalmadrassa teachersfor their alleged links with terror outfits.

The government is gradually taking steps to bring all the non-governmental educational institutions under this existing Act for their regulation and monitoring, the minister said.

Odisha will need 428 yrs to ensure women make up 1/3rd of police force

At the current rate of recruitment,Odishawill need 428 years to fulfil the criteria of having one-third Women in Police force, the India Report 2021, released on Thursday, stated. Ironically, Odisha had introduced 33% reservation for women in police force way back in 1992.

The report, published by a group of seven organisations working towards reforms in justice delivery mechanism, said India will take 33 years to reach 33% target for women, assuming the rate of recruitment for women and men in police stay the same.

The report, the third overall, said as on 2020 Odisha has 9.1% of women in police and 11.1% officers in the force. As per the latest report,Delhi Policewith 12.4% of women in the force, will take 31 years,Gujaratwill require seven years (with 16% women now in police) followed by Bihar (17.4%), needing eight years.

Mizoram will be slowest, requiring 585 years to reach the 33% mark. While Gujarat also has 33% reservation, Bihar has 38% quota for women.

The 2019 report (the second) had said Odisha would take 82-111 years to reach the 33% target. The womens share then was 10% overall and 11.2% among officers, which has since declined, the report stated.

Include TN in MSP panel: Delta farmers

Delta farmers have urged the Union Government to include a representative from Naduin the committee formed by it to make minimum support price (MSP) system more effective and transparent.

The committee has representatives of the Union and state governments, farmers, agricultural scientists and Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture economists.

Swamimalai S Vimalnathan, secretary ofTamil Nadu CauveryFarmers Protection Association, claimed that most of the members in the present committee are those who had endorsed the three agriculture laws, which were repealed following massive protests across the country.