Current Affairs Exam

Agricultural progress to open ways of overall development in State

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

Joint Secretary, Ministry of Rural Development (MRD), Government of India Charanjit Singh and Livelihood Mission Directors of Gujarat, Assam and Nadu, inspected the Integrated Livelihood Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture System under Karra Block in Khunti District on Friday. During the visit the Joint Secretary said that works of common masses along with sisters of the District Administration and Sakhi Mandal are highly appreciable.

On the occasion, Mission Director of Gujarat , KC Sampad, Mission Director of Tamilnadu, Pallvi Baldeo, Mission Director, Mission Director of Assam, Krishna Barua, Khunti Deputy Commissioner (DC), Shashiranjan, Deputy Development Commissioner, Sub-Divisional Officer as well as representatives of other states and other block level officials were present.

Singh, while addressing the villagers, told that the goal of all of us should be that we can move forward on the path of multifaceted progress. He said that Jharkhand has a lot of potential in the field of agriculture. Especially if done on a large scale, farmers will get direct benefits. The aim of all of us should be that farmers can get direct benefit from it. Work of the general public along with the sisters of the district administration and Sakhi Mandals are highly appreciable. Along with this, the self-confidence of the villagers also increased to move forward in this direction, he added.

AIIMS Patna launches ‘Shravan Kumar’ scheme to train rural youth

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (Aiims) set up in the state capital Patna has launched an initiative for preparing youth to take care of elderly and poor people in the rural areas. This is seen as an initiative somewhat similar to ‘Shravan Kumar’whose story is famously known in the ancient Hindu text of Ramayana where a boy named Shravan Kumar took care of his old and blind parents.

The main objective of this initiative is to provide support to the elderly, poor and the needy along with generating EMPLOYMENT for the rural youth.

The ‘Shravan Kumar Yojana’ has been started by the Community Outreach and Telemedicine department of AIIMS-Patna, under which six Women among a total of 36 people, have been trained in its second batch. Earlier, 45 youths were trained in the first batch under this initiative.

No registry, allotment under Atal Awas Yojana

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

The Mahasamund District Administration on Monday clarified that no house under the Atal Awas Yojana was registered or allotted to anyone by the Chhattisgarh Housing Board (CGHB) in village Bansula in Basna.

CGHB Executive Engineer, Mahasamund, said in a report to the district Collector that 262 buildings were to be constructed under the scheme in Bansula. The tender for the work was invited in 2008.

The officer said that some people illegally encroached the existing buildings under the scheme. As these were unfit for residential purpose, fearing loss of life, the people living in encroachments were repeatedly told to vacate the premises.

Meanwhile, unused construction material like iron, brick and others were stolen. Police action is under process.

Satellite campus of IIT Indore will open in Ujjain: Minister

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

Higher Education Minister Mohan Yadav said that according to the ancient glorious knowledge tradition, efforts are being made to establish Ujjain of Malwa region as a major Learning centre of technology and knowledge-science. Under this the satellite campus of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Indore will be opened in Ujjain. This campus to be established on 100 acres of land will provide international standard research centre and higher education at par with standards. It will be the first educational institute of its kind in the country. This campus will also play an important role in promotion of EMPLOYMENT and self-employment.

Yadav informed that recently the need of opening educational institutions was discussed with the Union Minister of State for Education Subhash Sarkar keeping in view the heritage of astronomy, culture and knowledge-science of Ujjain. He said that IIT Indore has prepared the preliminary DPR for setting up the satellite campus. The campus would be complete in all respects and would be free to take administrative, academic decisions. The campus will also have hostel and accommodation for teachers. International level research facilities and courses will be conducted here. Research work will also be done for industrial units of Ujjain-Indore in the campus. It is also proposed to open four national level learning centres and industrial research parks in the initial phase.

Gujarat government to amend land grabbing laws through ordinance

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

After receiving complaints about the recently enacted anti-land grabbing laws and looking at the flurry of petitions in theGujarat challenging various provisions, the State Government is likely to soon come out with an ordinance to rectify lacunae in the law.

The law has been under question for various reasons, mainly for unsettling settled disputes by its overriding effect on pending civil disputes and decrees of civil courts. The lawyers termed this law draconian and submitted how Gujarat has adopted few safeguards compared to other states.

2nd genome sequencing lab to start in Jodhpur from January

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

To speed up trackingOmicroncases and other Covid variants, the is expanding its genome sequencing labs. It will soon start the states second genome testing lab inJodhpur, which is expected to be functional from the first week of January.

Currently, the onlygenome sequencing labat Sawai Man Singh (SMS) hospital is functional for identifying the variants of Corona infected. The Health department is maintaining that samples of each and every Corona infected should be sent for genome sequencing.

Chief ministerConrad K Sangma met representatives of different political parties to discuss the firing byAssam Policeat Mukroh village in West Jaintia Hills on November 22 that led to the death of six persons, five of them fromMeghalaya.

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

Mobile Internet service was restored in seven districts, including the state capital, on Monday after being suspended for almost a week. Life is also returning to normal with vehicles bearingAssamregistration numbers plying in the state.

Various expressed concern and also suggested measures to thwart border conflicts, he said, adding that the State Government will meet on Tuesday to finalise the list of border outposts (BOPs) of the Police to be set up in sensitive areas.

Maternal mortality ratio in Assam highest in country

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

According to the National Family Health Survey-5 (2019-21) published earlier this year, 25% of Women aged 18-29 marry before reaching the legal minimum age of marriage, while the Percentage of women marrying before the legal minimum age is 32% in Assam. The prevalence of anaemia among women is 60% or more in eight Indian states and Assam, along with Tripura, comes under this category.

TN launches non-fungible token representing state

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

In a first for any Indian state, Nadunow has its own Artificial Intelligence (AI)-generated NFT (non-fungible token) representing the state.

Titled Netru, Indru, Nalai (Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow), the NFT showcases TN’s past, present and future, and was launched by the state IT ministerMano Thangarajhere on Wednesday at the TechNext 2022 Web3 conference organized by Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). The NFT is set to be auctioned, and the proceeds will be used to set up a Web 3 Centre of Excellence (CoE) in the state, the state officials said. NFTs are digital assets on a blockchain with unique identification codes, and serve as digital collectibles that cannot be amended.

Tamil Nadus iTNT hub will be live in the next 2-3 months, and will function as the largest deep tech incubator in the country.

The minister also released a CII report titled ‘Metaverse and Web 3.0 opportunities in India – Nurturing Tamil Nadus Growth ambitions through nextgen technologies’ in association with KPMG. The report notes that Tamil Nadu and Chennai in specific is emerging as a technology hub with a broad spectrum of new age technologies includingmetaverse, web 3.0, blockchain and others.

Kerala gets largest share of revenue deficit grant

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

The state is the recipient of the largest share of grant as recommended by the 15th Finance Commission in the period ranging from 2020-21 to 2025-26 among all states, as per a statement submitted by the state finance department in the assembly.

The figures also point towards the need for the state to exercise more financial discipline and increase its non-tax revenue, the eligibility of states to receive this grant and the quantum of grant for the period from 2020-21 to 2025-26 was decided by the 15th finance commission based on the gap between assessment of revenue and expenditure of the state, after considering the assessed devolution during this period.

As per the statement by finance ministerKN Balagopalbefore the assembly, the state has been granted Rs 53,137 crore as revenue deficit grant on the recommendations of the commission, which is the highest when compared to other 16 states which have got the grant.

The state’s main committed expenditure include salaries, pensions and interest payments on loans and the revision of the salaries and pensions on the basis of the recommendations of the 11th pay commission alone has caused an additional burden of Rs 15,000 crore annually to the state. At the same time, to bridge the gap of revenue deficit, state’s revenue generation has to improve correspondingly, that also has not been happening.