05.04.23

Haryana Govt schools to have print-rich environment in classrooms

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Teachers in government primary schools of the state will compete and develop a print-rich Environment in their respective classrooms under the Foundational Literacy and Numeracy programme in Haryana.

The programme aims to help the students improve their literacy skills. The teachers, in association with students, will have to compete on cluster, block, district and state levels. As per the schedule issued by the Directorate of School Education, the programme started on April 1 at school level and will conclude next month with the state-level competition.

At the district level, 25 per cent of the received Videos will be nominated for the state-level competition where the best classrooms will be selected for the state-level Awards. The videos will be shared on Social Media to attract children.

To check fiscal deficit, SGPC mulls merger of educational institutes

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Keeping in view the , the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) is contemplating merging the committee-run educational institutions.

SGPC has recently passed a budget allocation of Rs 1,138.14 crore for the fiscal 2023-2024. The expenditure estimate on educational institutes exceeds revenue estimates by around Rs 30 crore. An amount of Rs 242 crore has been spared for educational institutions whereas the anticipated income could not be more than Rs 213 crore.

Last year (2022-2023), of the total budget of Rs 988.15 crore, an amount of Rs 231.83 crore was kept for Education. As the income generated was not as per the expectations, an extra amount of Rs 37 crore from its golak (donation boxes) had to be pumped in to overcome the deficit.

Himachal amends archaic law, allows daughters to hold land

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Aimed at removing gender disparity, the passing of the Himachal Pradesh Ceiling on Land Holdings (Amendment) Bill, 2023, by the Assembly will pave the way for the eldest adult daughter in a family to retain land as a separate unit.

Under HP Ceiling on Land Holdings Act, 1972, a family comprising husband, wife and minor children can retain a maximum of 150 bighas

The law till now entitled the eldest adult son, recognised as a separate unit, to hold additional 150 bighas, taking total permissible limit a family can retain to 300 bighas

Now, the families who do not have a son can also hold 300 bighas, as the adult eldest daughter will also be treated as a separate unit

It will entitle the adult eldest daughter, either married or unmarried, to hold 150 bighas

The Bill, which seeks to amend Section 3, 4 and 5 of the HP Ceiling on Land Holdings Act, 1972, will become part of the legislation once it gets the assent of the President. Under this Act, the land possessed by any family over and above the permissible limit (of 300 bighas) was vested in the government.

Uttarakhand govt to lay thrust on horticulture, tourism sectors

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With the start of the new financial year, CM Pushkar Singh Dhami reviewed the targets set by various departments and the efforts to achieve these targets at his secretariat office on Saturday. He directed the officials to hold review meetings on a regular basis to collect updates on works done and measures required to achieve set targets.

“We are working in the direction of making Uttarakhand one of the best performing states by 2025 and we need to work collectively. We need to fix time limit for our works and ensure they are completed within deadline,” Dhami said. He said there are many possibilities in the field of tourism, Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture,horticultureand . “Along with short-term action plan in these areas, we need to look into more possibilities these sectors have,” he said.

UP govt to train grampradhans, others forbeautification of villages

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In an effort to make the villages of Uttar Pradesh clean and beautiful, the Yogi Adityanath government will now impart training to gram pradhans, block motivators, panchayat assistants and cleaning staff. A total of 21 training centres will be set up across the state and 83,000 people will be trained in different sessions.

As per the instructions of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, preparations are underway to take appropriate steps regarding the management of solid and liquid waste in all the villages of the state and to train the gram panchayat officials for this.

In the second phase of the Swachh Bharat Mission (Rural), more than 25,000 gram panchayats of the state have been included for the financial year 2023-24. The training of master trainers has been completed recently.

In this sequence, training will be provided to about 83,000 people like village heads, block motivators, and panchayat assistants, who will actually work in the villages.

Expansion of Tinplate will direct employment to 1000 people: CM

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To mark the beginning of construction for a new industrial facility in the city, Chief Minister Hemant Soren performed rituals for the expansion project of Tinplate Company of India Limited (TCIL). The Chief Minister said that his government will help industries in the state to grow.

TCIL laid the foundation stone of the CRM-III (Cold Rolling Mill) unit at its premises. Tata Steel is investing more than Rs 2,000 crore in this project. 1,000 people will directly get EMPLOYMENT. Indirectly 5 to 7 thousand people will get employment.

The Chief Minister said that his government would help a lot in the Development Of Industries in the state. CM Hemant Soren said on Monday that he constantly remains in touch with all the industrial houses in the state.

All the top 20 most polluted cities of east India located in Bihar

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Cities in Indias eastern states Bihar,West BengalandOdisha are increasingly falling into the pincer grip of toxic particulate pollution during winter season, and the problem is spreading quickly to the smaller cities and towns of the region, said the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) in its latest assessment.

The CSE noted that even though the long-term trend in winter air quality improved marginally, it worsened last winter (2022-23) with the eastern states experiencing the most polluted season since 2019-20. In absolute concentration terms, Bihar with an Average PM2.5 level of 134 micrograms per cubic meter (g/m3) was the most polluted state in the east, followed by West Bengal with average PM2.5 level of 84 g/m3. Odisha was third with a seasonal average of 63 g/m3.

Patnahad the highest increase in winter pollution during the 2022-23 season among the major cities whereas pollution levels were worst in smaller towns of Bihar. In fact, all the top 20 most polluted cities of east India are located in Bihar.

Cgarh to explore rubber plantation possibility

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Chhattisgarh is going to explore the possibility of rubber cultivation in the state. The Rubber Research Institute (RRI) at Kottayam in Kerala will conduct experimental farming in Bastar region.

An agreement was signed between the Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwavidyalaya (IGKV), Raipur, and the Rubber Research Institute, Kottayam.

The MoU was signed by IGKV Director of Research Dr. Vivek Kumar Tripathi and Rubber Research Institute Director Dr. M.D. Jessy.

According to the pact, the rubber institute will provide the expenditure on plant material, manure, Fertilizers, medicines and manual labour for seven years for plantation on 1 hectare of land to cultivate rubber.

It will also give technical guidance to extract rubber. The plantation will be managed by IGKV under the guidance of the scientists from Kottayam.

IGKV Vice Chancellor Girish Chandel said rubber provides good profits to farmers.

The cultivation of rubber has played a major role in making farmers of Kerala, Nadu prosperous, he said.

Cabinet nods eslablishment of 730 PM Shri Schools in MP

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The State Cabinet held at under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan ratified the establishment of 730 PM Shri Schools in the state. Maximum 2 schools in each development block of the state (626 in 313 development blocks) and 104 schools in urban bodies of 52 districts, in this way maximum 730 schools have been marked as PM Shri Schools.

One of the identified schools will be run for primary Education (Class I to VIII) and one school for higher secondary education. The cost of PM Shri School will be borne by the Center and the State in the ratio of 60:40. As many as Rs. 277 crore 40 lakh will be spent on all 730 PM Shri Schools every year, out of which the states share will be Rs. 110 crore 96 lakh per year. This project is of 5 years and during this period the expenditure burden of Rs 554 crore 80 lakh will fall on the . After 5 years of the scheme, it will be fully operated by the state government.

It is noteworthy that PM Shri School will include quality of education, Equality and access to education facilities with overall compliance with the provisions of the National Education Policy-2020. These schools will be presented as examples for other schools.

The Cabinet granted administrative approval of Rs 714 crore 91 lakh for a new medical college with 100 MBBS seat admission capacity at Budhni in Sehore district, a 500 bed affiliated hospital, 60 seat admission capacity Nursing college for nursing courses and 60 seat admission capacity college for paramedical courses. Due to the long distance from the medical colleges located in Hoshangabad, Itarsi, Pipariya, Betul and surrounding areas to Bhopal, Jabalpur and Chhindwara, the people of the area will get medical facilities easily.

The Cabinet has sanctioned free government guarantee amount of Rs 29 thousand 400 crores for the period from April 1, 2023 to March 31, 2024, for the procurement of food grains, Public Distribution System and operation of other government schemes and for meeting the deficit under the support price decentralized scheme in the state. Apart from the amount available from the government guarantee, the finance of the remaining amount will be done from the food grain credit limit with higher rate of interest. Out of the free government guarantee, the Food Department has been given the right to reallocate between Madhya Pradesh State Civil Supplies Corporation and Madhya Pradesh State Marketing“>Cooperative Marketing Federation from time to time.

Hazardous waste: Gujarat makes 1/3rd of India’s

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Gujarataccounted for 34% of the hazardous waste generated in the country in 2021-2022, accounting for more than all other states.
Data tabled by the Union Government in the ongoingParliamentsession shows that with more than 42 lakh metric tonnes (MT) of hazardous waste generated in 2021-22, Gujarat accounted for 34% of the hazardous waste generated in the country in the year.

Hazardous waste generated in Gujarat in 2021-22 increased by 31% compared to 2020-21, the data shows. According to the data, hazardous waste generated in Gujarat in 2021-22, 2020-21 and 2019-20 was 42,02,837 MT, 31,93,378 MT and 24,85,317 MT, respectively.
In 2021-22, India produced 1.23 crore MT of hazardous waste, the Union government data showed.