Haryanachief minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Monday launched the first-of-its-kind Har Hith scheme, under which people would be allocated stores of daily needs to generate employment.

These stores will provide a platform to franchisees as well as Micro, Small and Medium enterprises (MSMEs), government cooperative institutions, FPOs (farmer producer organisations), and self-help groups (SHGs) to increase their business.

These stores would not only play a pivotal role in enhancing manufacturing capabilities of MSMEs, but prove to be a game-changer for market access to government cooperatives.

To further heighten the quality education in the government schools, Punjab Government has decided to develop language listening labs in as many as 4,738 smart schools.

A grant of Rs 4.74 crore has been released by the Education Department to 2,200 primary and 2,538 high and senior secondary schools for the establishment of listening labs.

The Minister said that recently, Punjab has emerged as a leader in the field of school education as per the Performance Grading Index (PGI) released by the Union Government and the has continuously been working hard to retain the top position in the upcoming years.

Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur inaugurated development projects worth Rs 75.50 crore in the Nachan Assembly constituency from Jai Devi in Mandi district.

He announced the upgrade of various Health centres and Education facilities, Rs 10 lakh each for 12 new panchayats in the Nachan constituency for the construction of panchayat bhawans and the opening of a new patwar circle at Killing. He said Ayurvedic dispensaries would be opened at Gharot and Ghinvi.

The Chief Minister said that Rs 50 lakh each had been released for the construction of stadiums at government senior secondary schools at Aatgarh and Chail Chowk.

Later, Thakur presided over a conference of the elected members of the institutions (PRIs) of the block and the elected members of the Municipal Council, Sundernagar.

As an initiative to prevent piles of waste from ending up in landfills and dump yards of the city, the Municipal Corporation of Dehradun (MCD) has started promoting and monitoring the compositing process in selected government colonies in the city in association with a non-governmental organisation Waste Warriors.

The officials informed that the Health section of the corporation has marked 45 government colonies and societies in various wards of Dehradun to initiate this process. Besides this, certain general colonies have been marked for composting too. As stated by municipal sanitation inspector, Pushpa Rauthan, the corporation always encourages segregating garbage at source and adoption of composting to minimise the domestic waste generation but not many locals follow it.

The residents make compost and the corporation only monitors whether garbage segregation and compositing are being done regularly in these areas. Sanitation workers of MCD do not get involved in the composting process.

After Union home ministerAmit Shahlaid the foundation ofUP State Institute of Forensic Sciencesin Lucknow on Sunday, chief ministerYogi Adityanathrevealed that the proposed campus at Piparsand, straddling 142acres was once usurped by themafiaand was put up for sale.

The state underwent dramatic changes under the guidance of Home minister Amit Shah, who nurtured UP during his stint as BJP state in charge in 2014 and then as party president in 2017.

Jharkhand Small Industries Association (JSIA) and Department of Management, BIT Mesra has signed an MOU with an aim is to promote, protect, and represent on behalf of MSME organizations of Jharkhand State before all department, offices or bodies, whether private, Government and continuously support and take all such initiatives to ensure smooth working.

As a first step of this association, JSIA in collaboration with the Department of Management, BIT Mesra had organised Abhyudaya 21 a Business Plan Competition to promote the start-up ecosystem of Jharkhand. The visionary framework has been devised by JSIA, which has pledged to provide incubation as well as hands-on support to the creative minds of tomorrow for the greater good of the State.

Bihar’s Nitish Kumar government managed to gave only 3 per cent employment to labourers under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme between 2014 to 2019, the Comptroller and Auditor General said in a report.As per the report, there were 26 to 36 per cent people in Bihar who applied for 100 days guaranteed employment under the MNREGS but only 3 per cent got work.The report further said that 86.61 per cent labourers do not have land in Bihar and were completely dependent on the scheme. It conducted a survey among 60.88 lakh labourers before preparing the report.The CAG has also found financial irregularities in the Nitish Kumar government’s ambitious project, Lohia Path Chakra, the multi-purpose grade separator on Bailey Road near Raj Bhavan in Patna.

The government auditor said that construction company Bihar Rajya Pul Nirmaan Nigam Ltd (BRPNNL) has taken some wrong decisions during planning, preparation of Detail Project Report (DPR) and construction, wrongly expending Rs 6.04 crore in design, Rs 10.86 crore on specialist observers, and Rs 1.52 crore on other expenses.

Madhya Pradesh has made another achievement in the field of nature conservation. The Satpura Tiger Reserve of the State has received the Natwest Group Earth Heroes Award in the Earth Guardian category for best management. Forest Minister Kunwar Vijay Shah has congratulated the staff associated with the management of Satpura Tiger Reserve.

It is noteworthy that the Satpura Tiger Reserve has also been included in the potential list of World Heritage. Satpura Tiger Reserve in Hoshangabad district is spread over an area of 2130 square kilometer. It is part of the Deccan Bio-Geographic Region. It is the oldest forest wealth of the country, full of unmatched natural beauty, which has been carefully preserved.

The 26 species of found in the Himalayan region and 42 species found in the Nilgiri forests are also found abundantly in the Satpura forest area. That is why it is also named as the Northern Ghats like the vast Western Ghats. Some species like the insectivorous Ghataparni, Bamboo, Hisalu, Baruhaldi are found both in Satpura and the Himalayas. Similarly, among the species found in both the Western Ghats and Satpura, red sandalwood is the main one. Cinchona plant, from which malarias medicine quinine is made, is found here in large quantity.

The Satpura Tiger Reserve is said to be the soul of the eco-system of the central region of India. Here there are Plants like Acai Vat, wild jasmine, which are not found anywhere else. Satpura National Park is well known for the presence of tigers and as their breeding ground.

It is one of the regions of Central India with a good presence of tigers. In terms of internal management of Protected Areas, Satpura Tiger Reserve is the best example of the country in itself. Satpura alone accounts for 17 per cent of the country’s tiger Population and 12 per cent of tiger habitat. It is the richest Biodiversity area in the country.

TheGujaratgovernment is all set to implement a new policy that will identify meritorious students, provide them with free education and boarding facilities, and gradually groom them to crack competitive entrance exams through public-private partnership.The state passed a government resolution to promote residential schools of excellence through PPP mode.

All capital towards setting up the schools will be borne by project partners, who will provide land and invest in the civil and digital Infrastructure required from time to time.

While the entire capital cost will be borne by project partners, the Education department will assist in meeting the recurring cost by paying a lump-sum amount for each student to the project partners each year. A lumpsum amount of Rs 60,000 per child per annum for the financial year 2021-22 with an annual increase of 7% every year has been proposed.