08.04.21

Floating solar plants are to be set up on the water reservoirs located in the State. Under this, Chief Minister, Hemant Soren has approved the proposal of the Energy Department to set up a 100 MW capacity floating solar plant in the Geltasud reservoir of Ranchi in the first phase. With the installation of floating solar plants on the reservoirs, the availability of electricity will be ensured and will also help in water conservation.

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Keeping in mind sustainable and inclusive development as well as environmental management, the 2010 has been launched by the Union Ministry of New and RENEWABLE ENERGY to promote the use of renewable energy sources to reduce dependence on traditional energy sources. Under this, the Central government has set a target of developing 175 GW (one thousand MW) renewable energy capacities by the year 2022, which aims to produce 100 GW of solar power. In this connection, several schemes are being implemented like Solar Park, Ultramega Solar Power Project, Grid Connected Solar PP Power Project and Floating Solar Plant.

In Jharkhand also, the work of promoting power generation from renewable energy sources is being done through several projects. In the Light of the feasibility report, jointly prepared by JREDA and Solar Energy Corporation of India, to produce electrical energy by installing floating solar plant on reservoirs to meet the growing power energy requirement with Environment management, the floating solar plant is being set up in the Gaeltasud reservoir.

Meanwhile, in another development, Chief Minister, Hemant Soren, in the financial year 2020-21 has approved the proposal for acceptance of payment of Rs. 600,00,000 (Rupees six crores) and the draft mandate, for reimbursement of fee of children belonging to weaker and unprivileged classes enrolled in reserved seats in pre-primary class as primary class in unaided private schools under Gyanodaya Scheme (Primary Education).

After the approval of the proposal of the Department of School Education and Literacy by the Chief Minister, 11764 students belonging to the weaker and disadvantaged category will be benefited under the Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009, enrolled in 25 per cent seats of admission class in private schools. The State Government will reimburse expenditure on education of such children at a maximum rate of Rs 425 per child.

After outcry, top officials defend new police Bill

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ollowing chief Minister Nitish Kumars statement that the top brass of the state administration and Police should clear misunderstandings about the Bihar Special Armed Police Bill, 2021, which triggered a huge row in the State Legislative Assembly and outside.

The BMP Act, 1892, has been changed into the Bihar Special Armed Police Bill, 2021, after 129 years as it was needed in view of the states development and requirement of protecting important installations like Darbhanga airport and Mahabodhi Temple.

On the lines of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), now State Industrial Security Force (SISF) will be deployed, with adequate powers to take anyone in custody or carry out search on suspicion without warrant.

Centre, Chhattisgarh govt plan major anti-Maoist operation

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There are indications thatsecurity forcesmay launch a targeted operation within a month to take the fight deep into so-called Maoist strongholds and hunt downguerrilla, the sources said.

Multiple sources in the confirmed that both the state and Centre agreed on an operation to neutralize Maoist military commander Hidma, said to be the mastermind of the recent massacre and most major attacks on forces over the past decade.

The southern half of Bastar division is a hotbed of Maoist activity as the insurgents use this corridor to move in and out of Maharashtra, Telangana and Odisha.

Guerrilla squads are mobilised from other regions for major attacks, who cross borders, carry out their task and escape into their own territory and into other areas where they wait out the pursuit.

MP govt has written new chapter in agri production: Shivraj Singh Chouhan

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Chief ministerShivraj Singh Chouhansaid rewriting a new chapter in Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture production farmers ofMadhya Pradeshalong with the state governments policies were able to produce the highest yield of food grains (wheat and pulses) in the country last year. This was possible due to the sheer hard work of farmers which did not let the economy of the state down in tough Covid-19 times, said Chouhan.

Chouhan digitally dedicated the countrys second state-of-the-art semen production laboratory established at Bhadbhada, Bhopal at a cost of Rs 47.50 crore. As many as 985 community cowsheds built at various gram panchayats at a cost of Rs 260 crore were dedicated and foundation stone of 145 community cowsheds to be built at a cost of Rs 50 crores was laid. Chouhan dedicated 33 power sub-stations and also performedbhoomi pujanof four sub-stations in the Mission Earth Programme. Their total cost is Rs 1530 crore.

Chouhan dedicated 80 lakh saplings grown by selfhelp groups in nurseries to the people of the state. Along with this, cheques were also distributed to beneficiaries of Farmers Producer Organizations and Agriculture Infrastructure Fund.

37% dip in donations at famous temples in Gujarat

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Apart from footfalls, donations have fallen at the famous Gujarat temples due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The donations received by the four major temples in the state show that the Average drop for the year 2020-21 is about 37% compared to the previous year.

The shrines in question are Somnath temple in Veraval, Dwarkadhish temple in Dwarka town,Ambaji templein Banaskantha, and Ranchhodrai temple in Dakor.

While the slide is in the range of 20% to 55% for these temples on the standalone basis, between them the collections have dropped from Rs 119.35 crore in 2019-2020 to Rs 74.91 crore in 2020-21.

Ambaji temple has seen a modest drop among the four in donations received for 2020-21. As against Rs 51.63 crore in 2019-2020, it drew Rs 41.34 crore in the financial year ended March 31, 2021.

1,900 pending complaints of crimes against women in Rajasthan: National Commission for Womens chief

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TheNational Commission for Womens (NCW) chairperson Rekha Sharma, who is on a three-day trip to the state capital, has expressed concern about increasingcrimesagainst Women inRajasthan.

According to her, There is a need to sensitise the lower rank Police officials. There is also a need to change societys mindset in Rajasthan and have laws to prevent child marriages and Nata Pratha. Awareness has to be raised which is the governments responsibility.

Cabinet nod to reimplement law on fighting NCRs bad air

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TheUnion cabinet approvedthere-promulgationofordinanceonair quality managementinNational Capital Region(NCR) and adjoining areas spread over four states Haryana,Punjab,RajasthanandUttar Pradesh with important changes that seek to assuage farm unions opposed to the new Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture laws.

The re-promulgated legislation has been tweaked to take care of the concerns of farmers who had objected to its substantially high penalty provision for stubble burning in neighbouring states. The multi-member statutory commission will now also have representation from farmers, and construction sectors. Penalty provisions for erring industry or other sectors remain intact with jail term up to five years or with fine up to Rs 1 crore or with both for any non-compliance or contravention of any provision or rules and order or direction of the panel.

The commission had replaced The Supreme Court-backed Environment-pollution”>ENVIRONMENT POLLUTION (Prevention and Control) Authority EPCA which had been taking care of the issues of Air Pollution in the NCR for last 22 years. The EPCA had successfully implemented certain measures such as relocation of polluting industries, switching over of public transport buses from diesel to CNG and restriction of entry of polluting trucks in the Capital.