12.10.22

Tripura CM opens states 1st English-medium govt college

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Tripurachief ministerManik Sahaalong with Education ministerRatan Lal Nathon Tuesday inaugurated the first English medium general degree college of the state in the city with 100 intake capacity.
The five basic subjects of the arts stream, including compulsory Bengali and English, are being taught this academic session that began last month. Renovating an old Teachers Training College, the Tripura government has built the general degree college at the cost of over Rs 1 crore as committed in the budget this year.

In the first step, the exact syllabus of CBSE has been introduced, followed by recruiting a large number of trained teachers and training up to over 40,000 existing teachers of government schools and also improving the student-teacher ratio going by the national Average.

60% of Assams 706 tea gardens in 14 districts pay workers full bonus

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has brought glad tidings for the tea garden workers of Assam. About 60% of the 706 tea gardens in the 14 highest tea producing districts of the state have made the full payment of the puja bonus to its workers by Maha Saptami.
This has been a major issue of confrontation between the tea garden workers and the owners for decades. However, the payment of full bonus this time as agreed upon after several rounds of talks between the workers and managements has received accolades even from the Trade Unions.

Upper AssamsDibrugarhdistrict has the maximum number of (177) tea estates. Out of these, 96 or 54% of the gardens have made full payment of the bonus. A total of 75 tea estates in Dibrugarh have agreed to give 20% bonus this puja. In nearbyTinsukiadistrict, 71 (59%) of the 120 tea estates have made the full payment of bonus, while 41 gardens have declared 20% bonus.

Golaghatdistrict showed a better track records, with 51 out of the 71 tea estates making the full payment of the bonus for this year. Altogether 28 gardens in Golaghat are paying 20% bonus this year. In South Assams Cachar district, which has the highest (57) tea estates among the threeBarak Valleydistricts, 56 gardens have made full bonus payment. Twenty tea gardens in Cachar are paying 20% bonus.

Ganjam OAV 5th best in country

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As per a survey conducted by the Education World India School Ranking 2022-23, Odisha Adarsh Vidyalaya (OAV)at Hatiote under Polasara block in the district has been ranked 5th best school.

This is for the fifth year that the OAV has secured a spot among top Government schools in the country. The OAV secured the rank due to its quality of TEACHING, Leadership, management, curricular activities and technical education imparted to the students.

The Education World India School Ranking is one of the world’s leading school ranking organisations. Education, teachers, guardians, students and prominent persons are associated with the organisation.

Tamil Nadu makes Aadhaar mandatory to avail electricity subsidy

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The Nadugovernment has made linking ofAadhaarwith electricity consumer number mandatory to avail subsidy, including 100 free units for all domestic consumers.

Those who do not have an Aadhaar number and still want to avail the subsidy should apply for Aadhaar enrolment in any Aadhaar enrolment centre or permanent enrolment centre.

Till the Aadhaar is assigned to an individual, he or she can still avail the subsidy by submitting their Aadhaar enrolment identity slip or a copy of his or her request made for Aadhaar enrolment along with any of the authorised identify documents such as bank passbook, voter ID, ration card, PAN card, passport and driving licence.

The State Government has passed the order under Section 7 of the Aadhaar Act since the subsidy schemes are implemented from the state consolidated fund.

KSEB inks power purchase pact with NLCIL

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The Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) has inked a pact with the Neyveli Lignite Corporation India Ltd (NLCIL) for purchase of 400 MW from the proposed Talabira power plant in Odisha.

In August, the Kerala State Electricity Regulatory Commission had given the go-ahead for procuring power from the coal-based Talabira plant for a period of 25 years.

NLCIL is developing a 2400-MW power station at Talabira. Since it is to be a ‘pit-head’ station, the cost of power will be relatively low.

Karnataka banks on tech to plan MNREGA projects

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To ensure transparency and adopt a scientific approach to projects under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural EMPLOYMENT Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), the government has been using technology to avoid overlapping and unscientific projects.

While the Centre has decreed that 65% of annual MGNREGA work should be dedicated to water and conservation, theRDPRdepartment has made it mandatory for MGNREGA projects for the fiscal 2023-24 to be approved by a state core team.

This team will plan works based on data and approve those suited to a particular region. BesidesKarnatakas geographic information system and Geo MGNREGA for table-top planning, the NREGA commissionerate is using Composite Landscape Assessment & Restoration Tool, a mobile application developed byFoundation for Ecological Security(FES), a not-for-profit organization, for ground proofing.

Health profile of Telangana being created: CM K Chandrashekhar Rao

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The Health profile of every citizen ofTelanganawill be prepared soon and the initiative launched on a pilot basis in Sircilla andMuluguassembly constituencies has already concluded, CMK Chandrashekhar Raosaid.

He also noted that once the project was completed at the state level, access to health profile of any citizen will just be a click away.

According to him, the number of MBBS seats in the state has reached 6,800 from 2,800 in 2014.

There were only five government medical colleges in the state when the state was formed in 2014.

Action plan evolved to take benefits of embryo transfer technology to farmers in Prakasamof Andhra Pradesh

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The Ongole breed of cattle, flourishing between Gundlakamma and Musi rivers in Prakasam district for centuries, now face the threat of becoming endangered in the land of origin.

To reverse this trend, the Andhra Pradesh Development Agency(APLDA) has evolved an action plan to proactively take up In Vitro fertilization(IVF)/ embryo transfer(ET) technology in and around the State-run Chadalawada farm to produce high-yielding Dairy animals, according to the agencys Chief Executive Officer M. Srinivasa Rao.

Accordingly, veterinary doctors in the 50 km radius of the farm have been entrusted with the task of roping in farmers for production of Ongole breed of cattle using the advanced technology for multiplication of superior female germplasm at a much faster rate, he said.

Goa bags fifth place among UTs, city-states in innovation index

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Goa bagged the fifth position among Union territories and city-states in the third edition ofNitiAayogs Indiainnovationindex. With a score of 14.93, Goa beat the national Average, which is about 14.56. For the Union territories and city-states category, Chandigarh is the top performer, followed by Delhi, while among the 17 major states, Karnataka, with a score of 18.01, is the top performer.
The third edition of the index, for 2021, was conducted against the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Being one of the countrys coastal regions, the state has shown positive signs in the higher Education domain, said the report. With an impressive pupil-teacher ratio of 15:1, the state also registered an increase in PhD enrolments from about 20 to 30 per lakh residents.

Goa has seen moderate improvement in the pillars of and knowledge workers which are enabling factors for innovation. This improved performance in the enablers was partially visible in its performers, where the trademarks filed per lakh individuals increased from about 320 to 362.

Maharashtra has 23,000 wetlands of 2.5 hectares+ area, including 13 in Navi Mumbai

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TheMaharashtragovernment has filed an affidavit in the Bombay identifying a total of 23,055 wetland sites in the state that measure more than 2.5 hectares (ha). These include at least 13 wetland sites within Navi Mumbai city, besides more in parts of Kharghar and Uran, among others.

The affidavit elaborates how the wetlands were identified and listed as per the demarcation of wetland boundaries supported by accurate digital maps with coordinates and validated by ground truthing, demarcation of its zone of influence and land use and the land cover indicated in a digital map, and ecological character description among, other criteria.

Since the past one-and-half years, the vast wetlands data from all the districts was collated and matched with the National Wetland Atlas while preparing the final official list following field visits and satellite mapping.
The wetlands identified from Navi Mumbai region include Seawoods Darawe, Seawoods Nerul, Belapur, Koparkhairane and Ghansoli areas, among others.