Thirteen years after 871 acres of land was acquired by the then government for setting up a thermal power plant at Gobindpura village in Mansa district, the AAP government today gave permission to set up a solar power plant.
The company for which the land was acquired Poena Power Development Limited has been granted permission to change the project from thermal to , including solar power generation.
Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu said that the government was planning to introduce new technical courses in educational institutions to enhance EMPLOYMENT and self-employment opportunities for the youth. He presided over a function of the Hamirpur Students Union here.
Sukhu said that courses such Robotics, cyber security, cloud computing, data analytics, (AI) and machine Learning could provide better employment opportunities to the youth.
He said that to provide quality Education in rural areas, one Rajiv Gandhi Day Boarding School was being established in every Assembly constituency. The State Government has made a provision of Rs 300 crore for this ambitious scheme. Additionally, to ensure that poor students are not deprived of higher education, they will be provided loans at one per cent interest rate, he added.
Sukhu said that the government was making all efforts to provide quality higher education to students. Himachal Pradesh University (HPU) has been given an additional grant of Rs 50 crore for the purpose, he added.
The forest department ofUttarakhandis planning to undertake a significant initiative to provide economic benefits to the high-altitude mountain communities by conducting satellite resource mapping and ground surveys of locations where the rare medicinal herb known as Keeda Jadi is found. Keeda jadi is harvested from April to June and is predominantly found in alpine pastures of the Himalayas.
Recognising that previous efforts in 2018 to regulate the collection, Marketing, and royalty of keeda jadi for the benefit of hill villagers were not very promising , the forest department has now taken the approach of estimating the total production and mapping the locations first.Subodh Uniyal, the forest minister of Uttarakhand, told media, “The villagers of the hills should be the primary beneficiaries since they live in challenging geographical areas under harsh climatic conditions.”
Uttar Pradesh State Industrial Development Authority (UPSIDA) is all set to implement proposals worth Rs 40,000 crorein thefirst groundbreaking ceremony of Yogi Adityanath government 2.0.
Simultaneously, the process of grounding MoUs worth Rs 42,000 crore in the groundbreaking ceremony is underway.
The land has been identified by these investors and soon it will also be made available to them. Notably, all the departments have been given specific targets for the groundbreaking ceremony. UPSIDA has been given the highest investment target of Rs 1.60 lakh crore, of which 224 MoUs worth more than Rs 82,000 crore have been shortlisted so far.
UPSIDA CEO Mayur Maheshwari said, Proposals for a total investment of Rs 3.18 lakh crore were received from 600 investors in UPGIS-2023. In such a situation, to get these investment proposals implemented, they were divided into five categories MSME (up to Rs 50 crore), large (Rs 50-200 crore), mega (Rs 200-500 crore), super mega (Rs 500- 5,000 crore) and ultra mega (above Rs. 5,000 crore).
The maximum investment of Rs 7,020 crore is being made in Chandauli by four investors while Amethi has 30 units with an investment of Rs 4,761 crore.
In terms of sectors, the Logistics and Warehousing sector will witness investments from 41 investors, while 32 investors are set to establish private industrial parks while28 other investors have expressed interest in the Food Processing sector. Most of these investors are investing in Purvanchal, where 65 units with an investment of Rs 20,189 crore are ready for implementation.
Notably, these units will generate 1,33,477 EMPLOYMENT opportunities in the state. Besides, units established in Paschimanchal will generate maximum employment opportunities. The number of jobs to be generated in Paschimanchal will be 72,740, while 36,135 employment opportunities will be generated from the units investing in Purvanchal region. As many as 22,702 jobs will be created for people living in Madhyanchal while 1,900 jobs are likely to be created in Bundelkhand region.
TheSupreme Courtcommittee on road safety has sent a team toJharkhandto assess and audit the compliance of its guidelines on road safety in the state.
The committee comprising members from theIndian Institute of Technology(IIT) Delhi and Delhi Integrated Multi-Transit System would visit Ranchi, Jamshedpur, Dhanbad andBokaroand also conduct separate meetings with officials of different departments.
The committee members held introductory session with different departments on the first day. It appreciated implementation of helmet wearing in the state, said a state official.
At least 5,600 pilgrims from across the state are expected to go onhaj pilgrimagethis year fromGaya airportafter a gap of three years. The first flight carrying haj pilgrims will leave Gaya airport on May 21 and the last one on June 6. At least 392 people from Gaya district have also registered for the haj pilgrimage.
Haj pilgrimage from Gaya had remained suspended for three years due to Covid pandemic. In 2022, haj pilgrims fromBiharhad to board their flights at Kolkata airport.
The Chhattisgarh government has received a record revenue of Rs 12,941 crores from mining activities in 2022-23, which is Rs 636 crore more than the previous fiscal.
Another Rs 3,336 crore was earned from mineral coal, Rs 392 crore from limestone and Rs 31 crore from bauxite, an official Communication on Sunday quoted him as saying.
Dantewada district was in first place with Rs 6,419 crore, Kobra followed with Rs 2,361 crore, then came Raigarh Rs 1,717 crore, Balod Rs 760 crore, Baloda Bazar Rs 315 crore, Kanker Rs 286 crore and Surguja Rs 286 crore.
The Minerals mined in the state are contributing to the development of , production of electricity and operation of industries, the statement said.
Gov has given a systematic form to the Kanya Vivah Yojana: CM
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that Mukhyamantri Kanya Vivah Yojana is our effort in the direction of making a daughter a boon and not a burden.
The started this scheme in the year 2006 with the aim to ensure that the marriage of the daughter should not be a burden to the family. Lakhs of daughters have been married in the last 16 years under the scheme. Marriage is considered a Sanskar in Indian culture. Chief Minister Chouhan said that not only the bride and groom unite in marriage, but two families also unite and the Society also unites.
A national study comparing states’biomedical wastegeneration duringCovid-19reveals that Gujarat generated the third largest quantity of biomedical waste in 2020. However, it was also among the states that recorded the sharpest falls in 2021 – 71%, according to the data based on thecentral pollution control board’s (CPCB) reports.
According to the study, ‘An investigation of bio-medical waste produced in India during Covid-19 pandemic and Maharashtra state (pre-Covid-19 and post-Covid-19) analysis: a GIS-based approach’, published inResearch and Health Services& Regions journal indicated that mean biomedical waste generated in tonnes per day was the highest at 25.75 in Maharashtra, followed by 15.72 in Kerala, 14.71 in Gujarat, 13.4 in Nadu and 11.93 in Uttar Pradesh. The number fell to 4 tonnes per day (72.5% drop) year-on-year.
According to the CPCB data, the number of common biomedical waste treatment and disposal facilities (CBWTF) reduced from 20 in September 2020 to eight in August 2022.
As the Centre is setting up 5G labs in the country, the Health experts of the state hope that the research and development in 5G technology will bring revolution in the healthcare sector.
In the series, at the Sawai Man Singh (SMS) Hospital, the has launched an integrated hospital management system (IHMS) for seamless functioning of the hospital, which works on the Internet. The better the internet connectivity, the better will be the functioning ofIHMS.
All the functioning of theSMS Hospitalneeds to be done on the new IHMS system for more efficient functioning of the hospital.
Under IHMS, all the functioning of the hospital will be done online from writing prescriptions to providing medicines, from issuing lab reports to discharge of patients, all will be done online.