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Uttar Pradesh sees 23% jump in juvenile crime, 1,282 booked in 2020

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

Even as crime against children declined, the offences committed by juveniles shot up by 23% in 2020, according to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) statistics.

As many as 976 crimes were committed by children in 2019 which went up to 1,282 in 2020.
Data shows that 238 cases of crimes were committed by minors

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under the POSCO Act, followed by theft (219), burglary (75) and rape (54 cases).

Out of 1,282 minors booked in 2020, at least 575 had passed Class 10. As per the record of cities mentioned in NCRB report, Lucknow recorded 120 cases of crimes committed by juveniles in 2020, up from 63 reported in 2019. In Kanpur, 10 cases were committed by juveniles in 2019 which rose to 15 in 2020.

Jharkhand must do its own OBC/ST survey: Rameshwar Oraon

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

Even as chief ministerHemant Sorenis leading an all-party delegation from the state to met Union Home ministerAmit Shahand demand a caste-based census,Jharkhandfinance minister and senior CongressmanRameshwar Oraoncalled for a state-funded headcount of

the Other Backward Caste (OBCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) in case the outcome of the meeting is not fruitful.

In Jharkhand, OBCs are roughly 46% of the Population while STs form about 26% as per the 2011 census. Oraon conceded that OBCs are a larger chunk in the state while the population of STs has dwindled because of unchecked Migration and faulty census patterns.

Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar reiterates demand for caste census, says this is in national interest

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

Biharchief ministerNitish Kumar reiterated his demand for a castecensus, saying it is in national interest and will facilitate development of the communities lagging in development.
Asked about the Centre’s affidavit in The Supreme Court that virtually ruled out census on the caste lines, he told reporters that it was “absolutely not correct” but added that the matter was not directly related to the issue of caste census.

In the national capital to attend Home ministerAmit Shah’s meeting with the chief ministers of naxal-affected states, the JD(U) leader also rejected arguments against caste census and asserted that the demand for it has been coming from not only

Bihar but many states.

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salinity also leads to large agricultural production loses. Another study by department of soil science of Chaudhary Sarwan Kumar (CSK),Himachal Pradesh, Krishi Vishvavidyalaya (HPKV), Palampur, India and Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Jammu has claimed that Gujarat state suffers 4.83 million tonnes of production loss because of soil salinity. In terms of monetary loss, Gujarat tops the list with Rs 100.63 billion, followed by Uttar Pradesh with Rs 81.29 billion.

The study further adds, Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh have the largest salt-affected area which is more than 50% of cultivated area in the country. The two states

alone share around 79% monetary losses in the country. All these states deserve policy attention for management of salt-affected areas to reduce the crop production and monetary loss, the study states.
One of the major reasons for rising soil salinity is the use of brackish groundwater Irrigation waters that is causing secondary Salinization in about 17% of irrigated lands in the country. Good quality irrigation water is scarce in the country. Increasing pressure of producing more food per unit available arable land forces for extensive use of brackish groundwater for irrigation claims the study.