04.09.21

The children of poor families, who have been verified under the Parivar Pehchan Patra, will now be imparted education free of cost at the Model Sanskriti Senior Secondary Schools in Haryana.

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The decision was taken in a meeting to review the progress of Model Sanskriti Schools held under the chairmanship of the Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar here.

To ensure consistent progress of these schools, the Chief Minister directed the senior officers to conduct field visits at these schools and to carry out monthly review of these schools. He suggested that the senior officers of the districts like SDM, DDPO, Tehsildar should adopt Model Sanskriti Schools and sincere efforts should also be made in this regard. He also expressed satisfaction over the work done by the Education Department in setting up these schools.

The Chief Minister said there is a demand to increase the number of such schools due to the consistent progress of these schools. Thus, the officials should work towards enhancing the number of schools while considering its viability, he said.

Khattar further said that it is mentioned in the National Education Policy 2020 that the schools should lay emphasis on national and local languages, so students should be given the option of taking education in English medium as well as Hindi medium in these schools. He said that the schools should give prominence to the quality of education and work on enhancing it consistently.

It was informed that during the budget speech of Chief Minister, an announcement was made to open Government Model Sanskriti Senior Secondary School and Government Model Sanskriti Primary School in each block of the state, so as to render quality education to the students on par with private schools. At present, there are 137 Government Model Sanskriti Senior Secondary Schools and 1,418 Model Sanskriti Primary Schools functional in the state.

The Chief Minister said that the number of children has increased by 27.90 per cent in Model Sanskriti Senior Secondary Schools and 16.73 per cent in Model Sanskriti Primary Schools.

It was further informed that a standardized test would be taken to recruit teachers for Model Sanskriti Senior Secondary Schools.

The GST (good and services tax) revenue receipts for the State of Punjab during the month of August this year registered a growth of 20.41 percent with collection stood at Rs 1,188.70 crore against Rs 987.20 crore for August 2020 indicating rapid economic recovery after the second wave of COVID-19.

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In addition to the regular IGST settlement, Punjab has received an ad-hoc settlement to the tune of Rs 448.35 crore in the month of August 2021 for the first quarter of the financial year 2021-22. As a result, the GST revenue up to the month of August 2021 has witnessed a high Growth of nearly 80 percent as compared to the corresponding period last year.

The tax collection from VAT and CST during the month of August 2021 is Rs 648.44 crore and Rs 26.97 crore respectively. As compared to the same period last year, VAT and CST revenue collection have displayed an impressive growth of 24 and 40 percent this year thereby pointing to the upward curve of the economic recovery.

The Punjab State Development Tax collection during August 2021 remained at Rs 11.38 crore with a growth of 9.63 percent over the corresponding period last year.

Himachal Government signed 27 Memorandum of Understandings (MoUs) worth Rs 3,307 crore with various industrial sectors at Chandigarh that would provide direct and indirect employment opportunities to around 15,000 persons.

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The offers distinct advantages to the investors such as affordable land cost, high quality and reliable power supply, proactive and accessible administration, he said adding that some investors had evinced interest in setting up ethanol units.

As a new trend in the state, few entrepreneurs have also shown intent in developing private industrial areas and theme parks in Himachal. The state Government has already made provision of incentives and concessions in the HP Industrial Investment Policy 2019 for setting up of private industrial areas and theme parks.

Uttarakhandminister for disaster management Dhan Singh Rawat has landed into controversy after he purportedly said in a viral video that the government was thinking of “using anappto control the intensity of rainfall”. The statement is believed to have been made at a recent media interaction which detailed steps taken by the government to tackle rain-related damage. Uttarakhand has seen widespread misery, landslides and cloudbursts, since monsoon hit.

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This is the latest in a series of controversial remarks made by leaders of the ruling party. Earlier this year, former chief minister Tirath Rawat said that “The US had ruled India for 200 years” and that “ripped jeans worn by Women led to the Society‘s degeneration”, drawing nationwide outrage.

The Varanasi-Chunar Cruise service started on September 5, 2021 and added a new dimension to the tourism facilities in Varanasi.

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This cruise service in Ganga River will run from Varanasi to historic Chunar fort in Mirzapur.

Tourists travelling to Varanasi can now travel around 30 km long journey in River Ganga.

Tourists can now enjoy the day-long luxury cruise ride which starts at 9 a.m. in the morning from Ravidas ghat.

It returns back to Varanasi at around 5pm from the Chunar fort.

is further planning to extend this journey till Sangam in Prayagraj.

Chunar Fort is located in Mirzapur district of Uttar Pradesh. Chunar town is also situated below the fort. Both the places are historic places with common HISTORY and legends. It is located 23 kilometres south west of Varanasi. South-eastern part of the fort touches the rocky bank of the Ganges River. The history span of the fort is from 56 BC and between Afghan decedent Sher Shah Suris rule, the Mughal Empire rule, as well as the Maratha rule in 1782 to 1804. British Raj occupied this fort till 1947 when India gained independence.

Ravidas ghat is the southernmost and largest ghat in Varanasi. It is known for an important religious place Ravidasis comprising of a 25 acres park known as Sant Ravidas Smarak Park. Its creation was announced in in February 2008 and was inaugurated in 2009.

The state education department has finalized the reducedsyllabusfor Class I to Class XII students of government schools for the 2021-22 academic session because of the Covid pandemic.

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The new syllabus prepared by theJharkhandCouncil for Educational Research and Training has reduced study material by almost 25%. Many chapters in various subjects have been removed while several sub-sections of chapters have been dropped. For instance, in the Class IX syllabus for Hindi, several chapters have been omitted but the grammar part has been kept intact. Several sub-sections of mathematics of Class IX and X have also been dropped. In junior classes, the long stories and the ones which are difficult to read and understand have been omitted.

The reduction in syllabus comes in the aftermath of a disruption of study in government schools during the current academic session because of the pandemic. So far, the regular classes for students in Class I to class VIII have not taken place even though over one-third of the session is over. However, classes for students of Class IX to XII are underway amid restrictions since the early part of August. Last year the syllabus was reduced by 40%.

BiharCMNitish Kumar laid foundation stones for a Rs 422 crore double decker flyover from Kargil Chowk (Gandhi Maidan) to Science College via Patna Medical College Hospital (PMCH) on the historic Ashok Rajpath in Patna.

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It will be the first double-decker flyover in the state capital and the second in Bihar.
Bihars first double decker flyover (total length 3.5 KM), which is coincidentally Indias longest double decker flyover, is coming up in Saran districts Chapra town.

Chief minister Bhupesh Baghel on Wednesday launched a mobileappandportalfor the count of OBC and economically weaker sections of society. Baghel began the survey by registering his information on the app of Chhattisgarhquantifiable data commission.

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The Quantifiable Data Commission was constituted when some people challenged this decision in court and its implementation was stayed, said the CM. The court had ordered the state to submit quantifiable data.

As many as 5,549 supervisors have been appointed for the survey in the state, 4,446 (80%) of them in gram panchayat areas.

Ditching the Covid-19 pandemic blues, investors have proposed to invest close to Rs6,000 crore inMadhya Pradeshin the first five months of the ongoing fiscal 2021/22, pushing demand for developed as well asundevelopedland parcels.

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As many as 495 industries, including large and Micro, Small and Medium enterprises (MSME) have proposed to invest Rs5,707 crore in the state so far in 2021-22 fiscal.

The department has allotted 832 hectare to industries so far this year. These industries have proposed to give EMPLOYMENT to 25,186 people in FY 2021-22. Several large and medium textile units have taken up land in the Indore region for setting up integrated facilities.
In Indore region, around 50 textile and garment industries have booked land by paying 25% of the total premium amount to set up factories by pumping Investment of Rs1,560 crore, according to the regional office of MPIDC.

Work done by Gujarats noted astrophysicist and cosmologist Dr Pankaj Joshi is gettingglobal recognition.

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The Scientific American, one of the topmost journal in the world, has published a cover story on Naked Singularities in which Joshis paper is the very first reference.

Earlier, it was in 2009 that the 150-years-old US magazine had invited Joshi to write a full-length article on his path-breaking research. The article Naked Singularities was published as international cover story, translated in more than 20 international languages then.

It was for the first time in seven decades of independent India that an Indian scientific research was published as a cover story in the topmost journal. Joshis work is one step ahead of Roger Penrose, who was conferred the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics, for his discovery in 1965.