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100 government elementary schools of Himachal Pradesh to get Rs15 cr

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

As many as 100 government elementary schools have been approved by the government under the Swaran Jayanti Gyanodaya Cluster Shrestha Vidayalaya Scheme for improving the quality of Education so that the students and parents could repose confidence in these.

Under the scheme, a budgetary provision of Rs 15 crore, (Rs 15 lakh per school) has been made for 2021-22 for providing the improved toilets, electricity, library, better drinking water facilities, adequate and smart classrooms, Sports facilities and furniture.

Financial limits have been fixed for each component and Rs 8 lakh has been earmarked for the school

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Cluster schools will be permitted to spend Rs 1.50 lakh on items for cultural programmes, dress, , band and public address system.

A provision of Rs 1.25 lakh per school has been made for thermal scanners, pulse oximeters, material for sanitisation and other activities to combat Covid and Rs 75,000 for procurement and upgrade of sports equipment.

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A defence focused incubator will be set up in the premises of Veer Madho Singh Bhandari Uttarakhand Technical University (UTU). The incubator will be set up with the help of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Technology Park (ARTPARK), an organisation that is supported by the Science and Technology department of the Central Government.

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After the establishment of the incubator, the administration can promote AI and Robotics culture in the state. Banerjee also said that ARTPARK aims to establish not just a good product but a technology that can help the Indian army in resolving the problems causing due to the challenges faced in the current global scenario.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will unveil the Kashi Vishwanath corridor in Varanasi during a two-day visit to his Lok Sabha constituency on December 13 and 14. Before that, he is also expected to visit Gorakhpur on December 7 to inaugurate AIIMS, nine hi-tech ICMR laboratories at BRD Medical College, and a fertiliser plant. The fertiliser plant, once operated by a central PSU, was closed for the last three decades.

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On December 13, Modi will be inaugurating his dream project, Shri Kashi Vishwanath Dham, following which each house in Varanasi will receive prasad from the temple as also a book on the project. Also, a programme, Bhavya Kashi Divya Kashi, will be organised on both days of his visit.

Significantly, during the 2017 , Modi had campaigned in Varanasi for three days and attended different programmes. This time too, he will be taking part in more than a dozen events during his visit.

The fertiliser plant will ensure large-scale supply of neem-coated urea in eastern Uttar Pradesh as well as in adjoining states and even in Nepal. The trial production in the plant will begin on November 30.

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Expressing a need to digitalise safety, Gopal Kumar, chief inspector of factories, Jharkhand, on Monday said that over 1000 severe incidents got registered in 2020 and led to avoidable human deaths. Addressing the 3rd Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Jharkhand Safety Conclave at Beldih Club, he said that safety is multidimensional and cannot be defined. Since the formation of Factories and Mines Act, lots of work has been done in the field of Safety and yet many more things need to be done. Around seven per cent of the world’s population are working as engineers or as workers on sites which need to be alert and cautious during their work at shop floors.

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He further stated that digitisation is the need of the hour for safety as it bridges the gap between man, process uncertainty and safety officers. Through the help of digitalisation, we can get insights of uncertainty and can get enough time to handle and avoid it. In coming times, Digitisation would not be an option, it will be obligatory and part of our life.

CII Jharkhand organised its third edition of Industrial Safety Conclave today with

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the theme of Leveraging Digital Initiatives for Improving Industrial Safety. The objective of the CII Jharkhand Industrial Safety Conclave was to inspire the stakeholders towards building an even stronger culture of safety in their organisations. This conclave acted as a forum wherein the participants got the opportunity to interact with the safety professionals, thought leaders to learn the best practices.

Bihars share of poor highest, Keralas least, says Niti index

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

Bihar, with its dismal scores across key development indicators such asnutrition, child andadolescent mortality,maternal Health, years of schooling,sanitationandelectricity, has topped the list of states with the largest share of Population who arepoor, according to think tankNiti Aayogs report, which has identified 25.01% of the countrys population as multi-dimensionally poor.

More than 50% of Bihars population has been classified as poor under the national Multi-dimensional POVERTY Index (MPI), followed by Jharkhand (42.2%), Uttar Pradesh (37.8%), Madhya Pradesh (36.7%) and Meghalaya (32.7%).Keralahas the least number of poor with only 0.7% of its population classified as such. Among the Union territories, 27.4% of Dadra and Nagar Havelis population is poor, according to the MPI parameters.

The data showed 51.9% of the population in Bihar is deprived of Nutrition, followed by Jharkhand (47.8%), MP (45.5%) and Uttar Pradesh (44.5%). has the lowest Percentage of population deprived of nutrition at 13.3%.

According to the report, a household is considered deprived if any child between the ages of 0 to 59 months, or woman between the ages of 15 to 49 years or man between the ages of 15 to 54 years for whom nutritional information is available is found to be undernourished.
The national MPI baseline report based on the National Family Health Survey-4 (2015-16) has been developed by NITI Aayog in consultation with 12 ministries and in PARTNERSHIP with state governments and the

index publishing agencies Oxford Universitys Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

Uttar Pradesh is on top of the list with a population of nearly 5% categorised as deprived under child and adolescent mortality, followed by Bihar (4.6%), Madhya Pradesh (3.6%), Chattisgrah ( 3.3%) and Jharkhand (3.3%). Under maternal health, Bihar tops the chart with 45.6% categorised as deprived, followed by UP (35.5%), Jharkhand (33.1%) and Nagaland (33.1%).

Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel conferred the Mahatma Phule Samta Award in Pune on the occasion of 131st death anniversary of Mahatma Jyotiba Phule.

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All India Mahatma Phule Samta Parishad President Chhagan Bhujbal presented a Phule turban, a shawl, award and a memento to Baghel at a function organized by the Mahatma Phule

Memorial ‘Samta Bhoomi’ in Pune.

Govt move to ensure grazing land for cows available in Madhya Pradesh

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

District collectors will need to take Consent from theMadhya PradeshGaupalan and Promotion Board before allotting any government land that is used for cow grazing, for any development project. It has been done to ensure grasslands for cows are readily available.

The state has four native breeds of cattle – Malvi, Nimari, Kankatha and Gaolo. There are around 2,200 cowsheds that are functioning across state. Of them, close to 650 are run by non-government organisations and existed even before the cow cabinet was formed a year back, yoking together six departments animal husbandry, Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture, panchayat, forests, Home and revenue. The

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remaining cowsheds are run by the panchayats. The State Government had made a provision of Rs300 crore for cows in the last budget.

The state government has also decided that the eight gau sadans that were shut down will be operational again. There were eight gau sadans in undivided MP with total land of 7,200 acres. Of the eight,

two went to Chhattisgarh when the state was carved out while the state still has land of 6,700 acres.

A van vihar is being set up at Gangaivir in Jabalpur district. Authorities said that 530 acres of land of the animal husbandry department is available and 2,000 cows can be given shelter there in a systematic manner.

Gujarat high court to take steps to cut plastic waste

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

TheGujarathigh court on decided to take up the issue of curbing plastic waste menace and said public awareness should be created to do away with excessive usage of plastic. Putting a question about bringing in deterrence to resolve this growing problem, it said, This

is going to be an uphill task, but there is always hope.

The court has been hearing two litigations filed in 2018 seeking strict implementation of plastic Waste Management rules and complete ban on paper cups and dishes, in which multi-layered plastic material is used. Besides, the petitions seek on manufacturing and sale of plastic products that are not recyclable.

Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot okays 4% quota in promotions for disabled

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

Chief ministerAshok Gehlot gave approval to provide 4% reservation to persons with disabilities (PwDS) in promotions in the Services.

Along with this, provision has been made to provide relaxation to specially-abled persons in the upper age limit and minimum marks to be secured in the direct recruitment, read an official statement issued by the chief minister’s office.

Gehlot gave approval to the circular for effective implementation. Gehlot also gave instructions to appoint nodal officers in each department to comply with the provisions of reservation for PwDs.

In this regard, he approved the circular to be issued by the department of personnel (DOP) to all the departments for the effective implementation of theRajasthanRights of Persons with Disabilities (Amendment) Rules-2021 in the state.

Rajasthan is one of the leading states after Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab and Chhattisgarh to make provisions of reservation in promotion for PwDs.

At 70.9%, Mizoram leads woman-man ratio in senior jobs

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

Mizoramhad the highest 70.9% ratio of female-to-male workers who were working as legislators, senior officials and managers and also the highest proportion of Women occupying managerial jobs. Nearly all the northeastern states, barringNagaland, have strong double-digit representation in senior level jobs, according to the latest additional data in (PLFS) for July 2020-June 2021.

Sikkim with 48.2% and Manipur at 45.1% made up the top three states. Among the top five states in the category,Andhra Pradeshrecorded 43%. The other northeastern state among the top five was Meghalaya with 44.8%. Assam had 16.1% while Nagaland had a ratio of 9.1%. The all India ratio for females to

male workers, working as legislators, senior officials and managers, was at 22.8%.

There were several states andUnion Territorieswhich had a sharply lower proportion. Among the larger states and Union Territories with a low ratio wereUttarakhand, Jammu and Kashmir, Bihar, Punjab and Andaman and Nicobar.Dadra Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu had the lowest

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ratio of 1.8%.

In terms of senior managerial jobs, Mizoram again topped the charts with 40.8%, followed by Sikkim with 32.5 and Meghalaya at 31%. Here again, Andhra Pradesh was among the top five with a ratio of 30.4%. Traditionally northeastern states have had a larger proportion of women in senior managerial jobs. But what is surprising is that Punjab, which had figured among the top states in this category in 2021, recorded a ratio of only 7.5%.