07.03.22

Nari Shakti of North East

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The Ministry of Development of the North Eastern Region (MDoNER), as part of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav, is celebrating a week-long campaign called Nari Shakti of the North East, to recognize the exceptional achievements of women and girls in North East India ahead of International Womens Day 2022.

The campaign was launched by Minister of Development of the North Eastern Region, G. Kishan Reddy.

During this Nari Shakti Week, a range of social media activities have been planned.

MDoNER will host a virtual Town Hall meeting where Minister Shri G. Kishan Reddy will interact with MDoNERs Women Workforce, the North Eastern Council, and other government of India departments.

Other social media campaigns will also be organized which would focus on the Ministrys efforts to transform the lives of Nari Shakti in the North Eastern Region.

Brahmaputra gets connected with Ganga via IBP route

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A new milestone was achieved in regional connectivity when Union minister for ports, shipping and waterways Sarbananda Sonowal and chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma received MV Lal Bahadur Shastri, the cargo vessel carrying 200 metric tonnes of foodgrain from Patna, by traversing 2,350 km through the Indo-Bangladesh Protocol (IBP) route.

The vessel arrived in Pandu port on Sunday morning carrying foodgrains for FCI.

The vessel passed through Bhagalpur, Manihari, Sahibganj, Farakka, Tribeni, Kolkata, Haldia, Hemnagar, IBP route through Khulna, Narayanganj, Sirajganj, Chilmari and then National Waterway-2 through Dhubri and Jogighopa. The journey of the vessel was flagged off by Sonowal from Patna docks, throughGanga, which culminated its month-ago journey inBrahmaputra.

Tamil Nadu urban employment scheme will help poor in cities: Minister

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TheTamil Nadu urban employment schemewould generate employment for the urbanpoorin 15 municipal corporations, including Chennai, seven municipalities and 37 town panchayats in the state.

The minister was speaking after inspecting the progress of the scheme in ward number 8 in K Abishekapuram zone of theTrichy Corporation.

The Rs 100crore Tamil Nadu urban employment scheme was one of the recommendations of a high-level committee headed by former RBI governor Dr C Rangarajan formed by the state government to assess the economic impact of Covid-19 in the state. The scheme works on the line of MGNREGA in rural parts.

The state government under the urban employment scheme will provide a uniform wage of Rs 363 per day to unemployed men and women workers hailing from urban poor families

Kerala records under 2,000 Covid cases; TPR at 6.01%

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The state reported 1,836 cases from 30,504 samples tested in the last 24 hours.TPRis at 6.01%.

With 41 more deaths in the past few days recorded as Covid deaths and 83 deaths added from appeals received, the death toll has climbed to 66,136.

Total active cases are 15,825, of which 8.5% of people are admitted either in hospitals or other treatment centres. At the same time, 2,988 patients have recovered.Ernakulamreported maximum number of cases – 350.

Karnataka: Experts laud focus on school infrastructure, flay lack of NEP funds

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A day after chief minister Basavaraj Bommai presented his maiden budget, educationists and experts appreciated the decision to boost infrastructure development in government schools. However, they feel more could have been done.

The CM had announced a Rs 31,980 crore outlay for education, an increase from Rs 29,688 crore in 2021. Of this, Rs 500 crore has been allocated for infrastructure development in government schools across the state.

The government proposals to develop Bengaluru Public Schools and provide coaching for NEET in all taluks to help poor students. He, however, suggested state-level entrance exam for medical education as is done for engineering, and said the government should allow class 12 public exam results for admission to help students from rural areas and marginalised groups.

100cr each for women, forest varsity

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TheTelanganagovernment has allocated 100 crore each for establishment of exclusive varsity for women and forest in the state.
As proposed, the Koti Womens College will be upgraded into a womens university and the forest college at Mulugu will be turned into a university.

The womens university would enable women to venture into new fields such asSTEMand humanities. It would research in some key areas and give greater opportunities to women. With forest university, the government is creating a niche in this field.

Andhra Pradesh CM YS Jagan Mohan Reddy cabinet clears raising of retirement age to 62

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The cabinet also approved the proposal to increase retirement age of government employees to 62 years from 60 years.

Chief ministerYS Jagan Mohan Reddychaired the cabinet meeting, which was held atVelagapudisecretariat complex after the first day of budget session was adjourned.

The fishing harbours are proposed to be set up at Uppada in Kakinada district, Nizampatnam in Guntur district, and Machilipatnam in Krishna district. The government will spend 1,234 crore to develop the three fishing harbours.

Fishermenhave demanded immediatescrappingof the MajorPortsAuthorityBilland have decided to submit a memorandum when the new state cabinet is formed.

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The Coastal Zone Management Plan (CZMP) will have detrimental effect on the fishing community of Goa. Prior to its implementation the authorities should have taken the opinions and objections of the people. The plan was supposed to be passed for the protection of the high tide. However unless there is village-wise clarity about each and every aspect of the plan, we cannot think of agreeing with it blindly, one of the fishermen said.

The bill, when implemented, will created an autonomous body which neither the central nor the state government will have control over as the onus solely lies with the Mormugao Ports Authority.

The laws introduced by the Union ministry of shipping, particularly the draft Indian Ports Bill and the Major Ports Authorities Act, 2021 could dilute and impinge on the powers of the state government with respect to minor ports and enable their privatisation.

618cr boost to bridge gap in Thane city & rural infra

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The gap in the basic infrastructure between rural and urban Thane will be bridged in the next fiscal at a cost of Rs 618 cr which was approved by the state for the district recently, officials informed.

The allocation under the district planning funds has been approved by deputy chief ministerAjit Pawarrecently after elected representatives from the district led by guardian and cabinet minister for urban developmentEknath Shindeand cabinet minister for housingJitendra Awhadpursued the issue of more funds required for the district that is rapidly witnessing urbanisation.

The district planning commission had got an initial allocation of Rs 475 crore, following which the elected representatives felt the need for increased funding and approached Pawar with a request.

Even as the rural pockets of the district are progressing, there is a growing disparity seen in the quality of infrastructure here which has to be made on par with the urbanised areas.