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Maharashtra feat: Pune set to pilot unique land digital identification initiative

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

The state has selected Pune to pilot the Unique Land Parcel Identification Number (ULPIN) project for facilitating IT-based management of records.

Christened “Aadhaarfor land”, the 14-digit Unique Land Parcel Identification Number aims at identifying every surveyed parcel of land and also preventing any fraud related to land.

Union finance ministerNirmala Sitharaman, in herBudgetspeech, mentioned about ULPIN and encouraged all states to roll out the process. Pilots on the project have been carried out in select districts of 10 states, includingMaharashtra.The other states are Haryana, Bihar, Odisha, Jharkhand, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, , Goa, Madhya Pradesh andKarnataka.

For Pune district, all land parcels were marked and numbered according to their latitude and longitude coordinates. The unique number will have ownership details of a plot, besides its size and longitudinal and latitudinal details up to the taluka level and beyond.

Adventure-sports training to be given to 1,000 youth every year in Hry: Khattar

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Sunday announced that 1,000 youth of the state would be imparted training in adventure Sports every year by the so as to enable them to get EMPLOYMENT.

Besides this, adventure-sports will be started in the hills of Kalesar, Dhosi, Aravalli and Mewat, where three to five ‘adventure-sports camps’ will be organised every year other than such camps being organised in Morni, Panchkula.

An amount of Rs 2 crore will be spent every year on training in the above camps, said the Chief Minister while addressing the youth at the closing ceremony of the training programme named ‘Youthpreneur’ under the ‘Milkha Singh Adventure Sports Club’ organised by the Sports and Youth Affairs Department of Haryana.

Citing example of Swami Vivekananda, Mahatma Buddha, Mahatma Gandhi, Bhagat Singh and other great personalities, Khattar said that youth is energetic, thus, if this energy is channelised in the right direction, then the nation will surely be on the path of progress.

State Govt. committed to redress grievances of outsourcing employees: HP Minister

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

Himachal Jal Shakti and Revenue Minister Mahender Singh Thakur on Friday said that the cabinet sub-committee after obtaining suggestions from the departments will prepare its report before the upcoming budget session for giving final shape to redress the grievances of employees.

Thakur said that thousands of youth are rendering their Services on an outsource basis in various departments, boards and corporations in the state and their services are being outsourced through various agencies. The State Government had constituted the cabinet sub-committee to ensure best of the interests of outsourcing employees and to protect them from any kind of exploitation, he said.

Inaccessible villages being electrified through solar power plants

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

Villages located in remote and inaccessible areas of Jharkhand are now illuminating with the help of . These are the villages where electrification was not possible through a grid or conventional electrification methods. Ultimately, a total of 7740 UN-electrified households have been electrified with solar stand-alone systems and solar power Plants.

These villages were identified by Jharkhand BijliVitran Nigam Limited where electricity was still inaccessible. It was not feasible to electrify these villages through conventional methods due to inaccessible hills and forests. In such a situation, such villages have been electrified through solar energy.

The State Government aims to electrify every village & town across the state. Due to difficult demography, the conventional power supply was practically not feasible in many villages. In such a situation, the government believes that the RENEWABLE ENERGY project can prove to be a better option as per the local needs. Work is being done to electrify such villages or towns through mini-grid or solar stand-alone Home lighting systems. Under this scheme, the beneficiaries were provided with a solar power supply at a 100 per cent subsidy.

The electrification of such villages is being done through two means. The first is, through a solar stand-alone system. This system is being utilized for the villages with less than 50 houses or where the expansion of the village is in small clusters. Under this, a module of 200-250 watts is being installed in each house with four 9 watts led bulbs, one DC fan, a mobile charging point and a power socket for LED TV. Apart from the above, community buildings or schools are also being electrified through a solar stand-alone system. Also, for every 10 households, a solar street Light is being installed to illuminate streets.

Covid brings focus on health sector infrastructure development in Bihar

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

Ever since the Covid-19 hit the globe, Health has become a priority not only for an individual but also the government. Bihar has also been spending more on this sector for the opening of new health institutes, procurement of equipment and recruitment and training of healthcare workers.

Experts say a vast change is being seen in the availability of Oxygen and ICU beds. At present, over 400 MT of oxygen can be generated from different pressure swing adsorption Plants and cryogenic tanks in Bihar, apart from different types of cylinders and concentrators available in the state. This is more than the peak equipment of the second wave when 377 MT was needed in the state on the day it had the highest number of Covid cases.

Now Nyay to landless agriculture labourers

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will on February 3 launch a Rajiv Gandhi Gramin Bhumiheen Krishi Majdoor Nyay Yojana at a function to be held at the Science College Ground here.

In the function, the first installment of Rs 6,000 per family annually will be released directly to the bank accounts of the beneficiaries. Two more installments will be released later. Already, a budgetary allocation of Rs 200 crore has been made.

According to Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel, the scheme is being launched as per the advice of Rahul Gandhi.

The scheme has been envisaged for labourers not holding any land. It will be the first of its kind in the country for landless labourers.

Nearly 356,485 eligible families will be benefitted under the scheme.

Every household will get tap water: Chief Minister

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that the has included the work of providing water from tap to every household in rural areas of the state under the Jal Jeevan Mission. In Rajgarh district also, works worth Rs. 1200 crore are being done in the mission expeditiously. By March 22, the work of 3 out of 5 schemes will be completed. Chief Minister Shri Chouhan was addressing the inauguration of development works and beneficiary conference programme at village Pipliya Kalan in Khilchipur tehsil of Rajgarh district.

Chief Minister Chouhan dedicated seven construction works worth Rs 29 crore 72 lakh 75 thousand. He also announced the construction of Higher Secondary School building at Pipliyan Kalan. MP Shri Rodmal Nagar was also present

Chouhan directed to get the work of Right Wing of Kundliyan Dam done at the earliest, so that Irrigation facility should be available in the entire area. He said that after the new survey of Pradhan Mantri Awas Plus Yojna in Rajgarh, one lakh new houses would be sanctioned in a phased manner.

Chief Minister Chouhan said that the state government is dedicated to the poor. Under the Mukhyamantri Bhu-Adhikar Awas Yojana, such joint families who are living in the same house will be made the owner of the residential land family-wise. Chief Minister Chouhan instructed to run a special campaign to give the card of Ayushman Bharat Yojana to every poor. He assured the farmers that the amount of last year’s crop Insurance would be received from next month. The Chief Minister directed the District Administration to ensure that every eligible farmer gets the benefit of Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi and Mukhyamantri Kisan-Kalyan Yojana.

Chief Minister Chouhan also visited the exhibition of materials produced by livelihood group Khilchipur and Women self-help groups. Chief Minister Chouhan was honoured by offering a safa according to the tradition of Rajgarh. At the outset, the Chief Minister also performed pujan of Ladli Laxmi girls.

AM/NS India proposes to invest 1.66 lakh crore in Gujarat

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

ArcelorMittalNippon Steel India Limited (AM/NS India) on Thursday signed an MoU with the states industries department, proposing of Rs 1.66 lakh crore in six projects inGujarat.

This includes Rs 40,000 crore in RENEWABLE ENERGY, Rs 30,000 crore for development of a steel city and an industrial cluster in Surat.

The agreement, part of Vibrant Gujarat Summit 2022, was signed in the presence of chief minister Bhupendra Patel between AM/NS India CEO Dilip Oommen and additional chief secretary to the department of industries Rajiv Gupta. AM/NS Indias six proposed investment projects include Rs 4,200 crore for expansion and modernization of the existing captive jetty at Hazira and Rs 45,000 crore to increase the capacity of the 8.6 MMTPA steel plant to 18 MMTPA, according to a statement from the State Government.

A total of 10GW of renewable power generation Plants at various locations in the state will be set up by ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel with an investment of approximately Rs 40,000 crore, according to the release. This will include hybrid, solar and Wind Energy. An MoU has also been signed for a 2,200MW plant at Kanatalav in Bhavnagar district in the first phase.

AM/NS India is also planning to invest Rs 17,000 crore in another downstream coke project in Hazira, Surat. Approximately 1.80 lakh direct and indirect EMPLOYMENT opportunities will be generated through this. The government of Gujarat will co-operate with ArcelorMittal in accordance with existing policies.

Rajasthan, Punjab at loggerheads over sharing of IGNP water

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

TheRajasthangovernment is again at loggerheads with thePunjabgovernment over the closing duration of the Indira Gandhi Nahar Project (IGNP).

Rajasthan has proposed the closure of the IGNP for 60 days from March 20 to May 20, while Punjab is adamant to close it for 70 days from March 1 to May 15.

The department of water resource has shot a letter to its counterpart in Punjab arguing that the state doesnt have enough Resources“>Water Resources/banks to store water for more than 60 days. The state wanted the closure to take place after Holi which is falling on March 17-18.

Punjab is adamantly citing the reason that the central government has set the deadline of 2022 for the repair of the entire IGNP in 2019.

130-km long Indo-Bangla Friendship Pipeline likely to be commissioned in FebruaryThe 130-km long international oil pipeline, known as the Indo-Bangla Friendship Pipeline (IBFPL), which will carry fuel from Assam-based Numaligarh Refinery Ltd’s (NRL) marketing terminal at Siliguri in West Bengal to the Parbatipur depot of Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) is likely to be commissioned by February, said reports. The seed of the ambitious project was sown in 2017, when Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his meeting with Hasina in 2017 had agreed to finance this pipeline with a capacity of one million metric tonne per annum (MMTPA).

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

Following the ceremonial inauguration of the IBFPL which was held in September 2018 was completed on December 12 last year. The total project cost for construction of the IBFPL is Rs 377.08 crore. Out of this, NRL’s is Rs 91.84 crore for the India portion of the pipeline, while the remaining Rs 285.24 crore for Bangladesh portion is being funded by the Indian government as grant-in-aid, said reports.