09.07.21

Khelo India Youth Games 2022 to be in Haryana

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The state authorities of Haryana will organise the Khelo India Youth Games 2021 in February 2022.

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Earlier, the Sports activities exhibit was once scheduled to be held from November 21 to December 5, 2021, but has been shifted due to the viable third wave of Covid-19 pandemic and maintaining in thinking that Khelo India Youth Games 2021 are to be held in the Under-18 category. Around 8,500 players will participate in the match, of which 5,072 will be athletes, including 2,400 Women and 2,672 males.

About 69 percent of children in Chandigarh have tested positive for IgG antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 in a sero survey being conducted by the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research.

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The survey was kickstarted on June 24 to cover children between 6-18 years of age and the PGIMER on Tuesday released initial findings.

The serosurvey among the paediatric Population is of utmost importance since there is a speculation that the third COVID-19 wave can affect children, said PGIMER Director Dr Jagat Ram.

He said that till date, blood samples of 756 children had been collected for the serosurvey out of which 519 had tested positive for IgG antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 which means almost 69 percent of children in Chandigarh had been previously infected.

Till date blood samples of 756 children had been collected for the serosurvey out of which 519 had tested positive for IgG antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 which means around 69 percent of children in Chandigarh had been previously infected, he said.

Nauni varsity, Shimla firm tie up for vinegar tech

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Dr YS Parmar University of and Forestry, Nauni, has signed an MoU with a Shimla-based Food Processing company for the production of apple cider vinegar based on the technology developed by its scientists.

This is the second start-up that has signed an agreement with the university for the transfer of technology by paying Rs 40,000 as fee. The company will acknowledge the universitys name on the product label.

KD Sharma, Professor and Head, Department of Food Science and Technology, said the technology was an alternative to the traditional methods and ensured utilisation of culled apples.

To make rural women self sufficient in promoting and marketing their business, the Dehradun district administration has decided to provide them marketing skill training.

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In the last few years, the administration has provided various kinds of Skill development training to hundreds of Women associated with various (SHGs) to make them financially independent. According to the officials, various rural women of SHGs have been trained in many skills like mushroom production, baking, tailoring, and making LED Light strings and light bulbs.

Most of the time, the District Administration provides platforms for such women to exhibit their products. However, now the officials want these rural women to be capable of Marketing and selling their products in open markets among the other existing private businesses.

According to her, the reach of the products prepared by these women will not extend beyond the government departments and associated events if these women will fail to market their products. “This training will help them to get more exposure in the open market so that they can get the confidence to market and promote their own products.

Expressing happiness that people were willing to provide land for the Ganga Expressway project to the administration, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath instructed officials to speed up the process of purchase of remaining 1,221 hectares of land for the project.

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Till date, 5,261 hectares of land has been purchased from 63,362 farmers which accounts for 80 per cent of the total requirement of the project.

The 594-km-long Ganga Expressway project of UP Expressways Industrial Development Authority (UPEIDA) is an approved six-lane access-controlled road with a route alignment connecting National Highway 334 in Meerut with National Highway 2 at Prayagraj bypass in Prayagraj. This Greenfield project was first announced to connect Noida with Ballia during the Mayawati regime in 2008. Since then, the project in Phase 1 has been revised to connect Meerut with Prayagraj.

In Phase 2, the expressway will be extended by 110 km to Tigri on Uttar Pradesh-Uttarakhand border and by 314 km to Ballia near Varanasi. In February 2021, the Uttar Pradesh government decided to extend the project on either end — from Meerut to Haridwar and from Prayagraj to Varanasi from the get-go. The total estimated cost of the project is around Rs 40,000 crore.

Speaking at a State-level Workshop on Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) India Index and Multidimensional Poverty Index by Niti Ayog Chief Minister Hemant Soren today said that NIti Ayog should help in strengthening the rural economy of the State making development plans as per the need of a particular region.

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It can also be progressed through its civilization and culture. There are more than 40 per cent of malnourished children in Jharkhand, more than 30 per cent are living below the https://exam.pscnotes.com/POVERTY-line”>Poverty Line. According to the data, 10 lakh workers of Jharkhand go to other states to work, in many districts the agricultural land has been exhausted. And 80 per cent of the people are dependent on Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture. In such a situation, how do we give them a way to move forward? There is a need to make an action plan on this

The CM said that proceeding on issues like Education, Health, pure drinking water, increasing people’s income, gender Equality is challenging. In the past, the focus was only on mining and Minerals and the Dalits, deprived and tribals of the State were left with many questions. Plans and budgets are made but the reality is different. Resources with the government are limited. Talking about Sustainable Development, at present there is a need to strengthen the root and not the twigs and leaves. It needs to be considered as to how we can increase the purchasing power of the villagers.

The CM said that Jharkhand has the lowest remuneration under MGNREGA, due to which the villagers do not like to work under MGNREGA and move to the cities. The price of forest produce is fixed by the Central government, which is very little. Tribals have been living in the forest for centuries. Forest is also their means of livelihood. In such a situation, if the tribals are found with forest produce, then the Police take action against them under the law made regarding forests, due to which they are getting troubled.

Eight power substations in rural Gaya soon

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Eight new power substations are being set up in BodhGaya, Manpur, Khizarsarai, Banke Bazar andWazirganjblocks of the district,South Bihar Power Distribution Company Limited(SBPDCL) executive engineer (project) Balvir Prasad Bagish said.

While power supply will start from two substations at Mahkar (Khizarsarai) and Bakraur (Bodh Gaya) from July 20, the other six would be functional by the end of this year. The power substations are being set up at an estimate cost of Rs4 crore each under the Union governmentsDeenDayal Gram Jyoti Yojana and the state plan.

Each substation would have two power transformers of five MVA each. One transformer can supply power to 50 transformers of 200 kVA each. The new substations are being set up to meet the increasing power requirements as every household has got a power connection in the villages. Every year, the load on transformers is increasing and to meet the requirement has to be kept ready. Within the last three years, 24 new power substations have been set up across the district under Deen Dayal Jyoti Yojana and the state plan.

A Task Force formed to conserve Chhattisgarhi art, culture, archaeology and tourism on Wednesday decided to form working groups.

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In a meeting held at Yojana Bhawan, its Chairperson Vinod Verma, who is also advisor to the Chief Minister, said a report will be prepared after consulting experts and the recommendations will be presented to the .

He stressed the need to form a work plan for various programmes prescribed by the Chhattisgarh Sanskriti Parishad, Adivasi Lok Kala Academy and Lalit Kala Academy.

The Culture Expert at the Indian Institute of Science, Bitasa Das, underlined the need to patronize folk artists.

Dr Kalyan Chakraborty, a former Chairman of Lalit Kala Academy, Delhi, gave several suggestions on conserving the fine arts in Chhattisgarh.

Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said that best practices have been adopted to make investment and industry accessible and smooth in the state.

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Along with this, the rules of land use have also been changed. Making this process easy for the common man, it has also been ensured that they do not have to take the trouble of frequently visiting offices.

Online land allotment system has also been simplified for the convenience of investors. Apart from this, the process of registration of contractors for works and Services has also been simplified.

To simplify this process for contractors for works and services, the government has included this process under Guarantee Act to simplify the process of registration of contractors for works and services in Madhya Pradesh.

Gujarat: Lok Adalats resolve 3 lakh cases, Rs 767 crore paid in settlements

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Gujarats judiciary disposed as many as 3.03 lakh cases during aNational Lok Adalatorganized at district courts across the state, the firstLok Adalatheld in courtrooms after the Covid-19 pandemic set in.

Thousands of FIRs that were registered against people for lockdown violations, with charges of violation of the Police notification, under the Epidemic Diseases Act and Disaster Management Act, were also disposed of. These cases were taken up during special sittings in courts alongside the Lok Adalat, said a judicial officer.

According to the Gujarat State Legal Services Authority, under whose aegis the Lok Adalat was held, a total of 2,78,697 pending cases and 24,345 pre-litigation cases were disposed of. In all, disputes involving accident claims were settled and amounts to the tune of Rs 767.76 crore were paid to claimants. These disputes included a case in which a claim of Rs 71.25 lakh was paid to a litigant at the Mirzapur rural court in Ahmedabad.