09.06.23

Tripura to develop ‘Weekend tourism hub’ around Ujjayanta PalaceTo promote tourism, the Tripura government has decided to develop a “weekend tourist” hub around Ujjayanta Palace, an official said.

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The Ujjayanta Palace which was built at the heart of the city in 1862 by the erstwhile prince Chandra Manikya houses the state museum since 2013 and is the main attraction of tourists visiting the state.

A beautification drive has already been initiated for the front side of the palace and there will be food stalls along the roads leading to the Ujjayanta palace, he said, adding separate stalls will also be available for traditional items and flowers. Besides, there will be a boating facility on the lake of the palace.

The official said the government has taken measures to promote tourism highlighting the state’s important tourism destinations including Unakoti in North district, Tripureswari temple in Gomati district, Neermahal in Sepahijala district and Dumbur in Dhalai district.


TheAssamgovernment has declared Cachar district’s Rukni Part-IV village as a “zero child-marriage village”.

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“Rukni Part-IV has been found with nochild marriagecases in the past two years. It’s a good job by the Cachar District Administration, Police department and social welfare department for making it possible by creating awareness among the people of the locality. I also thank the villagers for their sense of consciousness and response to the government initiative,” said Assam minister for excise, and transport Parimal Suklabaidya.

State nod to 18 industrial projects

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The approved 18 industrial projects worth Rs 3,457 crore that will generate 14,436 EMPLOYMENT opportunities. The approval was given during the 118th meeting of the state-levelSingle Window Clearance Authority.

Official sources said 10 out of these Investment proposals were received during the Make inOdishaConclave-2022. During the meeting, the state government also recommended two industrial projects to the high level clearance authority (HLCA). The approved projects have been spread across a range of sectors, including Metal downstream and ancillary, pharmaceutical, Food Processing, cement, textile and apparel, information technology and food and agro processing.

Nilgiris should strive to become net zero

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Additional chief secretary (Environment, https://exam.pscnotes.com/Climate-change”>Climate Change and forest department)SupriyaSahu said a district-level Climate Change Committee, headed by the collector, has been set up in theNilgiristo turn it into a carbon-neutral or net zero district. Speaking at the Carbon Neutral Nilgiris event held in the town on Thursday, Sahu said, Climate change is nothing but a balance between emission and consumption of carbon. This programme has an inclusive agenda keeping in mind the Flora and Fauna in the Nilgiri Biodiversity and to making everyone aware of what the district holds for us. The Nilgiris is the water tower ofTamil Nadu.

Economist and member of the Tamil Nadu Governing Council Montek Singh Ahluwalia said the Nilgiris should strive to become a net zero district. Stating that the Nilgiris is a low carbon district, Erik Solheim, executive director (6th), UNEP and member of the TN Governing Council, said the movement should become people-centred.

Kerala likely to teach NCERT’s deleted portions in state schools

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Students in Kerala are likely to be taught the portions that the NCERT had deleted from its class 11 and 12 textbooks, including those pertaining to the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi and the ban on RSS.

The NCERT recently had, in the name of rationalisation of the syllabus, dropped from its class 12 HISTORY textbook certain portions on Mahatma Gandhi and how his pursuit of Hindu-Muslim unity “provoked Hindu extremists”. It also left out the portion where the government placed a ban on the RSS after Gandhi’s assassination. The revision of textbooks by obfuscating facts has triggered a row.

The State Council of Education Research and Training (SCERT), an autonomous body of the General Education Department, is considering a decision by its curriculum steering committee to include these deleted portions in the state syllabus.

The committee, which met on Tuesday, has entrusted General Education Minister V Sivankutty with taking a final decision on the matter after consulting with the government and Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan.

Confirming the development, Sivankutty told reporters here that the SCERT and the Curriculum Committee take decisions on the academic affairs of the general education department of the state.

As per an MoU entered with the NCERT, Kerala has been using their 44 textbooks, and of them, there has been a significant change in the content of subjects including history, political science, economics, and Sociology at the higher-secondary level, the minister explained.

PeTA India urges Ktaka to spare cows from slaughter, encourage veganism

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People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PeTA) India has urged theKarnatakagovernment not to amend the Karnataka Prevention of Cow Slaughter and Preservation of Cattle (Amendment) Bill, 2020, to allow cow slaughter, and instead tackle the problem of cow overpopulation in the state, by advocating a vegan lifestyle.

Ahuja noted that because cows and buffaloes must be pregnant or have recently given birth in order to produce milk, their bodies are repeatedly violated to be forcibly and crudely artificially inseminated. As male calves cannot produce milk, they are considered waste by the Industry and are typically abandoned, left to starve, or sent for slaughter. When the milk production of female cows and buffaloes wanes, they, too often end up abandoned on the roads or at the butcher, she said.

‘Take T model to every Maha doorstep’

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BRS national president K Chandrasekhar Raohas advisedMaharashtra BRS leadersto push the development model for expanding the party in all 288 assembly constituencies in the neighbouring state.
Addressing leaders of various parties and social organisations from Maharashtra who joined BRS in his presence at Pragati Bhavan on Thursday, KCR said nine committees will be formed in every village by including all sections of people.

The BRS chief asked the leaders to take the Telangana model through leaflets, booklets, Social Media, posters, hoardings, etc., to every doorstep. He said Telangana welfare schemes will be extended to the people of Maharashtra once TRS comes to power in that state.

AP aims to provide high income through low investment in organic farming

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Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture minister Kakani Govardhan Reddy has said the ultimate goal of the is to help farmers have high incomes through Organic Farming with low Investment. He said organic crops have high demand in the global market.

A workshop with farmers and exporters was held in Vijayawada on Tuesday to enhance the export opportunities for agricultural, horticultural and processed food products. Minister Govardhan Reddy inaugurated the workshop.

He said AP is an agricultural-based state and there was a high level of outflow of agricultural products from the state to other states as also to markets abroad. The need is to increase this flow of agricultural products from the state, he said.

He urged exporters to give a better price for agricultural products to farmers, which should be more than the remunerative prices. Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy is constantly striving to provide more benefits to the farmers, he said.

The government stands by the farmers at every stage, from the sowing of seed to the sale of farm produce, by the establishment of the Jaganna Yantraseva Scheme at RBKs.

AP is the only state that directly deposits Money into the accounts of the beneficiary farmers through the DBT system without any role for middlemen, he said.

Processing sand mining EC for benefit of poor: Govt

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Even as four permissions for sand mining in theChaporariver have been challenged before the (NGT), the directorate of mines and geology (DMG) has told the Goa State Expert Appraisal Committee (Goa-SEAC) that the state had taken up the process of getting Environment clearances for sand mining in Goa only to help poorGoanvillagers. The state earns no revenue from sand mining, the DMG said.

The government of Goa has not considered sand mining as a means to max-imise revenue (but) has treated it as a livelihood for the poor village people by allowing extraction by manual method only. Further, in order to help the poor village people, the government of Goa decided to take the responsibility of getting all the procedure done, including EC, upon itself, the DMG stated in its submission.

The government, therefore, decided that the respective district collectors will apply for ECs and allow villagers to apply for sand mining permissions not exceeding 1,000 cubic metres per year, by manual method only, said the department. It was for this reason that the Goa Minor Mineral Concession (Amendment) Rules 2022 were notified, the DMG stated.

Biometrics of 13,000 criminals to be ready soon

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Biometric (fingerprint,irisandpalm scan) data of around 13,000 accused in different crimes would be digitized in line with the policy of the .

The work to update the data in the Automated Multimodal Biometric Identification System (AMBIS) is underway on a war footing at different Police stations under the supervision of trained staffers.

Maharashtrais said to be the first state to implement the concept of digitization of criminal Database last year.