The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) and IIT Roorkee has developed an app, in a joint venture, that can predict natural disasters.

App will alert about possible natural calamities in advance.

Uttarakhand cabinet has also formed an expert committee that will tell us about the

quantum of rainfall in each area in order to make arrangements in advance.

According to minister, Doppler Radar has started functioning at Mukteshwar. Radar will also be installed at Surkanda Devi within 1-1.5 months.

Third Doppler Radar will be installed in Lansdowne.

As a tribute to former UP chief ministerKalyan Singh, the UP government on Monday announced that one road each in six districts Ayodhya, Lucknow, Bulandshahr, Aligarh, Etah and Prayagraj would be renamed after the stalwart saffron party leader who passed away in Lucknow on August 21.

Sources said PWD is contemplating renaming the road leading to Ramjanmabhoomi in Ayodhya where the Ram Temple is coming up as Kalyan Singh Marg.
The other five districts, too, have

been strategically selected. Prayagraj is an important Hindu religious centre, while Lucknow is the state capital. Atrauli in Aligarh was Kalyans birthplace and he won nine UP assembly from the seat since 1967. He lost it only in 1980 to Anwar Khan of Congress. After leaving the BJP in 1999, he had formed Jan Kranti Party (Rashtrawadi) and won from Atrauli in 2002 assembly elections.

Jharkhand HRD Minister Jagarnath Mahato informed a delegation of para teachers that the Government has taken the decision to accommodate demands of para teachers from pay hike to regularisation of their service.

The Minister informed the delegation that the Jharkhand government is working on the proposal on the line of the Bihar Government where para teachers too had carried agitation for their demands.

At present there are around 65,000 para teachers working in Jharkhand and out of these, 13000 teachers are TET qualified. Once their service is regularised para teachers will be able to work till 60 years of age. They will be entitled for a pay scale of Rs 5,200-Rs20,000 besides three percent increase in pay scale per year.

Bihar CMNitish Kumar made an aerial survey of flood-affected areas in Darbhanga and Madhubani districts and asked the district magistrates concerned to ensure that the people staying at the relief camps do not face any inconvenience.

The CM also inspected the flood situation in Kusheshwar Asthan Purvi blocks Adalpur and Sahorawa village by the NDRF boat. Accompanied by states Resources“>Water Resources minister Sanjay Kumar Jha and several senior officials, the CM inquired about the facilities and relief being provided to the flood-affected people camping on the nearby roads. He also visited the flood relief camp at Masankhor High School under Kusheshwar Asthan Purvi block and also inspected the temporary shelter made for the flood-affected pregnant Women, community kitchen and a smart class being run in the school.

The Central government is committed to an integrated approach to ensure health, education, better living and livelihood in the tribal forest villages with women’s welfare on priority, Union Minister for Tribal Affairs Arjun Munda said.

The aim is to boost institutional efforts to make the tribals economically and socially self-reliant. This is possible by ensuring overall development with regular EMPLOYMENT opportunities.

Appreciating the Chhattisgarh government, he said it has done good work of covering 57 forest minor produce under the minimum support price.

District administration claimed to have carried 100 per cent first dose inoculation of Covid-19 vaccine in eligible candidates, makingIndorethe first district in the country with over 10 lakh population to achieve the distinction.

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.

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