A 3-member delegation ofPress Council of India(PCI) visitingTripurahas advised the to appoint a nodal officer to deal with media-related issues.
According to reports, all the media organisations here have expressed serious concern and sought action from PCI over the growing attack on journalists and media outlets. As many as 22 journalists in Tripura have been assaulted in the last six months.
The Assam state branch of the Indian Medical Association (IMA) has expressed deep concern at the reported instances of inappropriate or exorbitant billing by a few private Health care establishments during the Covid crisis.
The medicos body is mulling over the idea of developing a Network so that Covid patients with minor issues could be managed in smaller Nursing homes and in case of deterioration or serious cases, could be transferred to bigger hospitals with better in handling the critically ill. The IMA has also urged upon the State Government to help the economically weaker section in getting Covid care in private facilities.
Chief ministerNaveenPatnaik announced a three-month door-to-door survey by ASHAs and anganwadi workers from May 24 to trace people suspected of having Covid in the wake of the rising infections in villages. He has also announced the formation of a task force for Oxygen management, the mainstay of medical care in the ongoing pandemic.
The CM said the government will pay extra incentives of Rs 1,000 per month to ASHAs for the three-month drive and Rs 10,000 one-time aid to buy bicycles, cupboards, slippers, umbrellas and torches since they will also have to monitor those recuperating in Home isolation. The move comes amid a government analysis that 57% infections in the state this month were from villages.
Naveen said community involvement has been one of the main pillars of the states Covid management and announced Rs 10,000 per Gaon Kalyan Samitis (village-level committees) for undertaking Covid-related activities at the village-level involving the local communities. For this, the state would have to incur an expenditure of Rs 46 crore for the 46106 GKS.
TheTamil Nadugovernment will erect a statue in memory of eminent writerKi Rajanarayananin his native village Edaiseval in Tuticorin district.
The government would renovate the Edaiseval Panchayat Union Middle School, where Ki Ra had studied, without losing its architectural and heritage values and convert it into amuseumin his memory. The museum will house his rare photographs and his works to enable the public and students to learn about his literary skills.
The secondPinarayi Vijayangovernment takes oath with an unprecedented mandate. It has a chance to rewrite the HISTORY ofKeralalike no other government in the past 50 years. Here is my humble advice for the newly-elected CM.
Minimise interference: Kerala has been immensely successful with a decentralized, participatory model of Governance. But, from time to time, bureaucratic bungling, in the form of interference in pushing the rule of the ruler ahead of , has caused much misery.
2. Make Health, Education, and wealth creation key governance issues: Kerala has the potential to be the number one state in India in all three parameters. Although it has done exceedingly well on wealth and wellness, it lags behind its potential in education and Entrepreneurship.
Do not make great ideas a prisoner of ideology: Despite his ideological underpinning, Vijayans government has maderemarkable progressin investing in techno-commercial enterprises that has helped raise the quality of lives of its people. One hopes that he will continue to embrace and act on good ideas irrespective of their origin.
Kerala for All: Kerala cities will need to become more cosmopolitan and multilingual to compete in the changing world. This government should encourage professionals from different parts of the world to work and live here.
Strike a balance between stability and change: Governance is not the same as a government. Government is a blunt instrument designed to enforce the will of the many over the few. All living systems have this tension between being conservative and progressive. By swearing in a young cabinet, the government has taken the first progressive step. The young leaders should be allowed to implement some of their change ideas.
Start CMs research fellowships: The one-year fellowship programme follows a field research and forum approach, wherein, researchers spend six weeks in the field in their respective districts, following which they gather together at IIM campus inKochi,Kozhikodeto collate their findings, brainstorm solutions and prepare their presentations to the CM. Their work is further structured into three essential workstreams Modules, Capsules and Pilots, each designed or facilitated by IIM and other academic institutions.
Open and share data transparently for Good Governance: The story of governance, at least in the past few hundred years, is also that of a move towards democratization and transparency. Data in general, but government-produced data in particular is and should be on a path towards democratization.This means that data should be open. Open data from government-sponsored research projects can lead to advancements in healthcare or even in entrepreneurial activities.
AsKarnatakais battling the second wave of the pandemic, chief minister BSYediyurappa announced a over Rs 1,250 crore financial package, to provide relief for those whose livelihood has been affected by Covid-19 inducedlockdown.
Despite that, as the current restrictions have affected the livelihood of those in unorganised sector and farmers, to mitigate its impact, we are announcing a relief programme of over Rs 1,250 crore.
He said Rs 2,000 each will be given to those under unorganised sector like barbers, washermen, tailor, ragpickers, household workers, cobblers, among others, benefiting 3.04 lakh people, and will cost about Rs 60.89 crore.
Roadside vendors, those registered under “Aatmanirbhar” package will be given Rs 2,000 each, he said adding that it will benefit about 2.20 lakh people and cost Rs 44 crore.
Also artists and art teams will be given Rs 3,000 each, benefiting 16,095 benificiers and will cost Rs 4.82 crore.
While the state has identified 491 micro-containment zones, alarming trends are being observed in the districts which were reporting zero cases like Nirmal.
They have a high number of micro-containment zones, indicating rapid spread ofCovid-19cases across the state.
Nirmal district, which reported zero cases at one point, now has the third-highest number of micro-containment zones at 32.
Nizamabad district, which had become a hotspot after GHMC, has equal number of micro-containment zones as GHMC. Among 33 districts, except Narayanpet, all districts have micro-containment zones now.
Theliteracy rateof the state is considerably lower than thenational Literacy rate, as per the 2021-22socio-economic surveyresults. The states literacy rate currently stands at 67.35 per cent, while the national rate is 72.98 per cent.
The state, however, is ahead in terms of per capita income to some extent when compared to the national position. APs per capita income has grown from 1,68,480 in 2019-20 to 1,70,215 in 2020-21, as per the survey, which also shows some positive signs in GSDP Growth which is projected at at 1.58 per cent against the national growth of 3.8 per cent.
The survey also shows Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture, and peoples Empowerment sectors as its focus areas, in which the partys agenda, Navarathnalu, is a guiding force.
Besides Nadu-Nedu, the chief minister listed the welfare measures of the government under various schemes that can promote literacy rate and quality Education in the state.
The survey also shows that AP, despite the Covid-19 pandemic, has been improving in all the 17 Sustainable Development goals (SDGs) set by the United Nations for the state to be achieved by 2030. In the 2019 ranks given by the NITI Aayog, the state ranked first in two goals, ranked second in four goals and ranked third in one goal.
The iconic environmental activistSunderlal Bahuguna, who initiated theChipko movementto protect the green cover of the Himalayas, wantedGoansto strive for the conservation of the Western Ghats.
He first visited Goa in 1983 to attend the Paryavaran Chetana Saptah. He toured various places in Ponda, Salcete and Bicholim urging the youths to work unitedly to protect the Western Ghats forests, from where most of the regions rivers originate.
Bahuguna visited Goa again in 1986, where all the members of the save Western Ghats movement converged at Bandora. In his speech, he deliberated on a strategy to protect the Western Ghats for posterity.
Cyclone Tautkae has left behind a trail of miseries, with more than 13 lakh electricity consumers in Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) facing power outage which, in some cases, was for as long as 16 to 33 hours. It was frustrating for thousands working from Home or those in Covid isolation.
In Maharashtra, more than 46 lakh consumers faced power tripping due to the cyclone.
At a few places, the transformers of Maharashtra State Electricity Transmission company were affected too. The devastation included damage to at least 188 substations, 1,095 feeders and damage to 2,600 poles.