11-12.07.21

Rohtak tops gender ratio at birth, Jhajjar at bottom

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Rohtak has topped the state in terms of sex ratio at birth (SRB) by recording the birth of 962 girls against 100 boys in the first half of the current year. Jhajjar has performed the worst with the lowest SRB of 858.

As per the Health Department record, Rohtak has improved by 50 points as compared to last year. A total of 9,603 children were born in Rohtak from January 1 to June 30. Among them, 4,895 were male and 4,708 were female.

Rohtak is followed by Charkhi Dadri (945) and Panipat (937). While Mahendragarh (931) secured fourth position, Rewari (927), Panchkula (926) and Jind (925) are at fifth, sixth and seventh position respectively. Fatehabad (862) is the second worst performing district after Jhajjar followed by Bhiwani (887), Karnal (888) and Sonepat (888) and Faridabad (895).

The state has witnessed 911 as Average SRB till June 30 this year. The figure was 922 at the end of 2020. Total 2,20,841 children were born in the state from January 1 to June 30 this year. Among them, 1,15,586 were male and 1,05,255 female.

The Chief Minister lauded the progress in creating an investment-friendly eco-system, facilitating 2,661 investment proposals worth Rs 86,819 crore, received till May 2021, with an employment potential of 3,23,260.

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The Industrial Sector in the state had seen a massive Growth since the Congress government took over in March 2017. The new -friendly policies, initiated by the government which had promoted ease of business, had attracted investor confidence, he said, pointing out that despite the sluggishness in the economy due to the COVID crisis, the state had received a whopping 267 Investment proposals worth Rs 2,277 crore in May 2021.

The Chief Minister also appreciated the efforts of Punjab Bureau of Investment Promotion (PBIP) in initiating several path-breaking steps to ensure prompt clearances to prospective investors or entrepreneurs to set up their industrial units. The recent decision to set up the District Bureau of Industry and Investment Promotion (DBIIP) in each district would further promote Ease of Doing Business in the state. This will facilitate timely grant or issuance of clearances, approvals, or NOCs, applied through the Invest Punjab Business First portal, he added.

The state Principal Secretary (Investment Promotion) Alok Shekhar said that out of Rs 2,277 crore worth of proposals received in the month of May 2021, Rs 1,206 crore were related to key projects in Real Estate, Housing and Infrastructure, Tourism and Hospitality, Healthcare, Manufacturing and Agri, Food Processing and Beverages.

26 projects from Nahan and Paonta Sahib cleared, sent to banks for funding

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Projects of 26 candidates were selected for funding under the Mukhmantri Swavalamban Yojna from Nahan and Paonta Sahib development blocks in Sirmaur district today.

A committee headed by Deputy Commissioner Sirmaur RK Gautam selected these 26 projects worth Rs 3.62 crore. These business ventures comprised purchase of small goods vehicle, setting up of beauty parlours, fitness gyms, restaurant, , auto workshop, testing lab, etc. Out of the 60 candidates, who had applied, 26 projects have been cleared today and the bankers have also agreed to finance them, informed Gautam.

The State Government has enhanced the Investment limit to Rs 1 crore from Rs 60 lakh under this scheme where 25 to 35 per cent subsidy is granted by the government.

The first meeting of the Uttarakhand Cabinet chaired by Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami late on Sunday resolved to give people a corruption-free administration, transparent, sensitive and speedy services by maximising the use of information technology and ramp up health facilities to effectively control Covid-19 in the State.

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The Cabinet adopted six resolutions to meet public expectations ahead of 2022 Assembly . Cabinet Minister Subodh Uniyal informed the media about the decisions taken in the meeting held hours after Dhamis and his 11 Cabinet colleagues swearing-in on Sunday, though the media briefing was held on Monday as the meeting continued till late in the night.

Uniyal said the other resolutions passed by the Cabinet included those for creating jobs and self-EMPLOYMENT opportunities for youngsters, uplifting Dalits and empowering Women. Apart from the resolutions, some major decisions were taken by the Cabinet. These included raising the salary of the guest teachers from Rs 15,000 to Rs 25,000 per month and deploying them in their Home districts, said Uniyal.

The Cabinet also decided to maintain the continuity of service of about 200 contractual employees of polytechnic institutes, paying the salaries to MNREGA workers for the strike period and the filling about 22,000 vacancies in different Government departments, the Cabinet Minister said.

The Cabinet also granted its approval to the proposal for reviving the defunct district employment offices.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday launched a mobile app named ‘Health Center in Uttar Pradesh’, developed by the Health department and inaugurated 11 BSL 2 RT-PCR labs in the state on the occasion of World Population Day. Through this mobile app information about the status of district hospitals, community and primary health centers in all the districts of the state can be obtained. Officials said here on Sunday that information about available beds, number of doctors and medicines would also be available in the app.

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The chief minister said, We have to take Health ATMs to the community and primary health centres because despite all the efforts, the desired manpower is not available in community health centres (CHCs) and primary health centres (PHCs). Not only will the facility of medical examination be available through Health ATM, specialist medical advice can also be given through teleconsultation. He also distributed shagun kits to two couples on the occasion to encourage family planning.

On this occasion, the chief minister also inaugurated BSL 2 RT-PCR labs in 11 districts of the state. These districts include Kushinagar, Mau, Bijnor, Siddharthnagar, Amethi, Auraiya, Bulandshahr, Kasganj, Mahoba, Sonbhadra and Deoria. So far, laboratories have been set up for coronavirus testing in 44 districts of the state. The chief minister said that action was on for setting up laboratories in the remaining 30 districts of the state.

Tourists paradise Goa is slowly emerging as the new destination of labourers of Jharkhand as labourers feel that there is employment opportunity for them in Goa, which is not crowded unlike other metro cities, besides, they get the right wage for their skill.

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Although, the State Labour, EMPLOYMENT, Training & Skill development department still doesnt have comprehensive data of the Migration of labourers from Jharkhand to other states but officials admitted Goa is the preferred destination of many labourers.

Last year when the nationwide lockdown was imposed to stop the outbreak of Covid 19; the Jharkhand Government had made special arrangements for the safe return of labourers back to their Home in Jharkhand.

Anganwadi and other workers working at the grass root level were involved in the survey. But the survey ended with less than a lakh people having migrated to other States as people were hesitant to divulge details of their family members working outside of Jharkhand.

Bihar heading for financial crisis, says CAG official

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Bihar is heading towards a financial crisis as the state has shown trends of in the fiscal year 2019-2020, even though there was no pandemic, against the revenue surplus in fiscal 2018-19, said additional deputy (eastern region)Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) Rakesh Mohan.

Revenue deficit is when the government has less income to meet its expenditure, whereas revenue surplus is when its net income is higher than projected expenditure.

The revenue deficit in 2019-20 is expected to be around 2000 crore as against the revenue surplus in 2018-19 of 6897 crore.

In 2018-19, the total budget was 2,09,490 lakh crore whereas the actual spending was 1.60 lakh crore. The saving was 49,000, which is 23% of the total budget. In 2019-20, there are projections that the State Government could have saved more than 30%. Many departments have not been able to spend even 40% of their allotted funds. This is wrong because the budgets in the last few years are being prepared unrealistically without taking into account how much funds are available.

Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel on Wednesday told officers to conduct a special campaign to distribute individual and community forest land rights certificates (van adhikar patta) in the districts of Bastar zone.

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Baghel gave the instruction while reviewing the work of the Tribal Welfare Department here.

The Chief Minister told the officials to organize special camps to provide the forest land rights certificates in Dantewada, Sukma, Bijapur and Narayanpur districts of Bastar region.

He said that to provide social and economic stability to the people in forested regions, it is necessary to give them the right to use the land. He said the distribution of forest land lease should commence from villages adjoining the district headquarters so that the beneficiaries can benefit under various government schemes as well, an official Communication said.

The Chief Minister said that Devgudi is the center of faith for the tribals, and the government intends to preserve Devgudis and develop Devgudi sites in a better way. There wll be no shortage of funds for this work.

Baghel also reviewed the TEACHING–Learning situation in educational institutions such as Prayas residential schools.

Detailed guidelines have been issued by the Public Works Department under the new transfer policy of the State Government. Under this, all orders from transfer order to notice of discharge will be issued only through the official e-mail ID of the department.

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Principal Secretary Mandloi said that the Transfer Policy 2020-21 issued by the General Administration Department will be strictly followed in the Public Works Department. He said that the department has also issued detailed guidelines for the employees affected by Covid-19 in the past. Except for the district level cadre, the orders of all the Class one, two and three government personnel will be issued from the level. The government employee will be compulsorily relieved within 7 days of transfer; the Chief Engineer of the concerned zone will be responsible for this.

Mandloi informed that the certification of head of office will be mandatory on transfer application with mutual Consent. He has clarified that while scrutiny of transfer proposals, it will be made sure that the eligibility for the charge of the higher post in the eligibility list (time scale pay scale) issued by the department is not affected. The government personnel whose transfers have been done in the past with the coordination of the Chief Minister will be clearly mentioned while preparing the present transfer proposal.

Mandatory hallmark leads to huge gold inventory pile-up across Gujarat

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After the new law, making hallmarking ofgoldjewellery compulsory from June 16 came into force, hallmarkingcentresacrossGujarathave been facing a huge pile up of inventory. The government has fixed the August 1 deadline to get backlogstockto get hallmarked.

Rajkot, the hub of lightweight gold jewellery design in the country, is especially facing the toughest challenges implementing the order owing to its lengthy procedure which has stalled supply to other states as well as abroad. The city manufactures around 40 kg gold jewellery every day. sources claim that 80 percent jewellers in Rajkot never got their ornaments hallmarked earlier.