07.07.21

With many departments experiencing difficulties in transferring unutilized lands to private bodies, Haryana Government has chalked out a new policy for fixation of market rate of immovable properties in the State.

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Under the policy, a uniform standing committee at district level would be constituted which will fix rates of properties of all departments of the government, boards, corporations, institutions and Urban Local Bodies.

The committee will be set up by the Revenue Department which has been designated as the nodal department under the new policy. The Divisional Commissioner concerned will be the chairman of the uniform standing committee.

The empanelled valuers shall make a valuation of the property in question, as per the relevant statute, rules, policy and instructions of the department, institution or entity, to which they belong, and shall submit a report in 10 days from the date they are requested. The uniform standing committee shall meet within seven days of receipt of the report and work out the Average of the valuation made by the valuers.

The Punjab Government has decided to convert 17,299 more classrooms of 12,507 Government schools in the State into smart classrooms, besides transforming 24 rooms of 22 District Institute of Education and Training (DIETs) into smart training rooms.

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An amount of Rs 117 crore would be spent for transformation of these training and class rooms.

That apart from the improvement in the facilities, few path-breaking initiatives like online teacher transfer policy, smart schools policy, pre-primary Education, digital education and special cadre of teachers working in border areas, which have also led to remarkable improvement in the quality of education across the State.

Himachal to promote e-vehicles, create zero emission zones

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Concerned over high vehicular emissions, Himachal plans to promote electric vehicles by creating zero or low emission zones in Shimla, Baddi, Dharamsala and eco-sensitive areas in all tourist destinations where only battery-operated vehicles will be allowed.

The Himachal Electric Vehicle policy is being formulated. The state has around 19 lakh registered vehicles, including nine lakh two-wheelers. As the prices of most of the electric vehicles are high, the government is keen to provide some subsidy or incentive but this may not be possible due to severe financial constraints it is facing.

Himachal is amongst the first states in the country to run battery-operated electric vehicles following the (NGT) rap over high vehicular emissions causing environmental damage in the ecologically-fragile Rohtang area and its Glaciers. Some private individuals are running electric auto-rickshaws in border areas such as Baddi, Nalagarh and Paonta Sahib, as they are cost efficient with low running cost and practically require no maintenance.

After Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami formally inaugurated Mukhyamantri Vatsalya Yojana (MVY) this week, the State Government will issue Rs 3,000 each to the eligible beneficiaries of the scheme. Women Empowerment and Child Development (WECD) Minister Rekha Arya stated this during a review meeting of four welfare schemes in Uttarakhand on Monday.

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While discussing the first scheme Nanda Gaura Yojana (NGY), the district programme officers (DPOs) of all districts demanded a budget of about Rs 200 crore from the department to ensure its proper implementation across the State. Arya said the department will soon allocate the required amount to all the districts.

Moreover, the preparations of Mukhyamantri Mahalakshmi Kit Yojana (MMKY) were also reviewed in the meeting. Under this scheme, Women will be given kits worth Rs 3,500 each on the birth of the first two daughters which include items like dry fruits, clothing, soaps, bedsheets etc that can be used by new mothers and daughters.

The Minister said all the kits have reached the Anganwadi centres across the State and will be distributed among the eligible beneficiaries soon. She also disclosed that the CM will officially launch this scheme this week which is set to benefit at least 50,000 women in Uttarakhand.

Talking about Mukhyamantri Vatsalya Yojana (MVY), the Minister said the district administrations have marked over 2,000 beneficiaries under this scheme but the WECD department has received only about 600 applications which have been thoroughly verified under the district magistrates.

With Yogi Adityanath governments initiatives, the Digital India campaign has gained momentum while there is a record investment in the information technology (IT) sector in the state.

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As a result, Uttar Pradesh is emerging fast as a major centre of mobile phone manufacturing in the country with several companies like Oppo, Vivo, Samsung, Lava and Formi all set to set up their units in the state.

An official spokesman of the government said here on Saturday that the day was not far away when UP would become the biggest hub of mobile phone manufacturing with both domestic and foreign companies having their factories and billions of people talking on mobile handsets made in UP.

According to officials of these mobile phone manufacturing giants, Uttar Pradesh has made remarkable progress under the Digital India campaign in mobile phone manufacturing. Big companies have made huge investments in the state due to the -friendly policies of the UP government in the field of electronic manufacturing.

Senior UP minister and government spokesman Sidharth Nath Singh said that the picture was entirely different four years ago, when no one could have even imagined setting up a factory to make mobile handsets in the state.

It is worth mentioning here that in the year 2014, only six crore mobile handsets were manufactured in the country, which increased to 11 crore in the year 2015-16 and 17.5 crore in 2016-17.

Now, Vivos factory coming up in the Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority area is expected to start producing 12 crore mobile handsets alone soon. Vivo Mobile Pvt Ltd is setting up a factory to manufacture mobile handsets with an investment of Rs 7,000 crore in Sector 24 of YEIDA. Six crore mobile sets will be made in the first phase of this factory being set up on 169 acres of land. In the second phase, the capacity of this factory will be increased in order to produce 12 crore mobile handsets every year. Vivos factory in YEIDA will provide EMPLOYMENT to 60,000 people.

As for the government, it would get revenue in the form of goods and Services tax (GST) from every mobile made by Vivo in its UP unit, the spokesman said.

Besides Vivo, China’s big company Oppo Mobile India Private Limited is setting up its factory in Greater Noida at the cost of Rs 2,000 crore to manufacture smartphones. Similarly, Holitech India Private Ltd is setting up a mobile phone display unit in Greater Noida itself. Land has been allotted for the mobile phone display unit to be set up with an investment of Rs 1,772 crore. Lava Electronics has established its factory in Noida and is manufacturing mobile handsets there. Samsung set up its factory for mobile phone manufacturing in Noida last year.

Jharkhand ASI sends proposal to develop Itkhori megalith site

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A team of archaeologists from the state unit of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) recently discovered an ancientmegalith siteinHurnali village, located in the temple town ofItkhoriin the district, has sent a proposal to its Delhi office for its conservation.
Megaliths are large prehistoric stones which are erected at burial sites in memory of the departed.

Well-known Hazaribag-based writer and megalithic researcher Subhashis Das, who discovered the Pankri Barwadih megalithic site and an equinox point in Hazaribag, termed the Hurnali megaliths as peculiar in shape.

Bihar: IMA members adopt villages for awareness about immunisation

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Doctors under the aegis ofIndian Medical Association(IMA) state branch has come forward to boost the ongoing immunisation drive against the Covid pandemic by adopting villages, mobilise people of 18 years and above and also make them aware of Covid appropriate behaviour for saving the humanity.

As many villagers wanted to get the Vaccines in the village itself, the IMA in association with the District Administration concerned would hold special immunisation camps at the panchayat bhavans or any other government premise very soon.

In just three months of fiscal 2021-22, Chhattisgarh has fulfilled almost half of the year’s employment target under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA).

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Against an EMPLOYMENT target of 13.50 crore person-days approved by the Central government this year, 6.65 crore person-days of employment has been met in April, May as well as June. This is 49.27 percent of the target for the whole year.

In 21 districts, employment has exceeded the target for April to June.

Against a target of 6.21 crores person-days fixed for the first quarter, employment of six 6.65 crores has been created in the entire state. This is about 107 percent of the target.Chhattisgarh ranks sixth in the country in terms of completion of work against the target approved under MNREGA.

Despite the adverse circumstances due to Covid-19 crisis, people in rural areas have been provided continuous employment in the state.

In the first trimester of the current financial year, around 39,34,242 labourers have got employment and 50 percent of them are Women.

In the first quarter of 2021-22, maximum employment of 71.01 lakh person-days has been provided in Rajnandgaon district.

Madhyanchal Professional University Bhopal is conferred with Zee Digital Prestigious Most Emerging Technical University Zee Educare Excellence Award 2021.

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Madhyanchal Professional University has been conferred with this prestigious award out of a total of 578 nominations from premier universities and institutions. It is to be known that Madhyanchal Professional University is the leading group of technical Education quality education in Central India.

Madhyanchal Professional University Patel Group is the apex technical group of Central India. The University is a leader in the field of education for the last 21 years.

For academic excellence, the group conducts regular lectures, industrial visits, seminars, workshop conferences, teacher training. The highly educated and trained teachers of the group are known at the national level.

Launch of Zen Style Garden and Kaizen Academy

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Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi inaugurated a Zen Garden and Kaizen Academy at Ahmedabad Management Association (AMA) premises in Ahmedabad. These two new initiatives are phase of the PM’s vision of growing a Mini-Japan in Gujarat. The newly launched Zen Garden in Ahmedabad will show off quite a few Elements of Japanese art, culture, landscape and architecture.

The Zen garden facets a statue of Lord Buddha. The backyard is built in PARTNERSHIP with the Japan Information and Study Centre at AMA and Indo-Japan Friendship Association (IJFA), Gujarat, supported through the Hyogo International Association (HIA), Japan.