13.12.22

70% of road accidents victims in Punjab between 18-45 age group: Report

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About 70 percent of the people, dying in road accidents in Punjab, are between 18 and 45 years of age, said the state Transport Minister Laljit Singh Bhullar on Tuesday while quoting the Punjab Road Accident Report-2021.

Bhullar, participating in the closing ceremony of Road Safety Week organized at the Government Senior Secondary School in Mohali, said that as per the report, 13 people are losing their lives daily in road accidents in the state; and 70 percent of them, die in these road accidents, are between 18 and 45 years of age.

The Minister said that CCTV cameras will be installed at all major junctions of Punjab very soon.

CM Inaugurates Manali Winter Carnival

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Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu inaugurated the five-day national-level Winter Carnival Manali by offering prayers at the historic Hadimba Temple and flagging off the carnival parade.

Sukhu also envisaged keen interest in tableaux presented by Mahila Mandals, various departments and institutions on the occasion.

The Chief Minister, later addressing a public meeting, announced enhancement in Protsahan Rashi ofmahila mandalsfrom Rs 10,000 to Rs 20,000. He also announced that an indoor stadium and ice skating rink would be constructed in Manali to promote more tourism and other activities.

Sukhu further announced construction of Manali bypass to ensure smooth flow of vehicles. The wayside facilities would be created at Solang Nallah to facilitate the tourists. This would provide better facilities to the tourists visiting the Atal Tunnel, he said.

CS asks DMs to be innovative to tackle waste management issues

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Chief secretary SS Sandhu said that district magistrates need to be innovative to tackle Waste Management issues in their respective districts. He directed them to prepare a site-specific plan to manage sanitation issues across the district rather than following a single action plan for the whole district.

Sandhu said this while presiding over a meeting at the secretariat with all district magistrates regarding the action plan for Solid Waste Management and preventing the use of single-use plastic across the State. He directed the District Administration to prepare an action plan to tackle waste management issues in forest, rural and urban areas and ensure its 100 per cent implementation. He also directed the officials to consider completely banning single-use plastic products during Char Dham Yatra. The chief secretary further directed the officials to conduct awareness campaigns in villages against single-use plastic and waste management. He said that the officials concerned should also focus on promoting the alternative to plastic to prevent the usage of banned plastic items. He directed them to make plans with self-help groups to promote such alternative products across the state. He also directed the officials to focus on making cleanliness and proper waste management a part of the daily routine of locals rather than presenting it as a special campaign occasionally. He also directed the DMs to coordinate with manufacturers and traders to ensure the compliance of orders for proper collection and disposal of prohibited plastic products.

100 townships to be set up in state in five years

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Expecting significant Growth in urban areas ofUttar Pradesh, the government is planning to set up 100 new townships within the next five years. Thehousingand urban planning department has been asked to start work on identifying the land parcels required to develop the townships.

Out of the 29 development authorities in the state, the larger ones covering the urban areas of Lucknow, Kanpur, Prayagraj, Meerut, Agra, Varanasi, Ghaziabad,Gorakhpur, Meerut, Mathura, Moradabad and Bareilly will have to set up at least four townships, while the remaining have been given the task of establishing two.

The government will roll out a new policy soon through which private participation in such projects can be encouraged.

The 100 development authorities and the UP housing and development board will facilitate 90 township projects, while the housing department will set up 10 from the headquarters.

Jharkhand plans solar power in 200 villages by 2023

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With Giridih gearing up to become the state’s first solar city, theJharkhandgovernment has set an ambitious target of equipping 1,000 villages with solar lights across the state under Jharkhand State Solar Policy 2022 of which 200 villages will be solarised in the first phase by 2023.
Chief minister Hemant Soren’s office in a communique said the move will boost to rural economy, improve the quality and reliability of solar power, enhance rural income generation, strengthen Education and Health Services and provide a host of EMPLOYMENT opportunities by integrating solar power into the rural economy.

As a first step, Giridih is being developed as a solar city. Here, a total of 17 MW capacity units are being set up for domestic consumers, 5 MW for commercial sector rooftop power Plants, 1 MW for solar street lights and 18 MW for ground-mounted solar power plants. In the first phase, the process of installing 5 MW rooftop panels for domestic consumers is on.”

The microgrid revolution in Bihar

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It is a project that has touched the lives of some 44,000 households, spread across 240 villages. To put it simply, these people now have something they never had before electricity.

Nothing can capture the project better than this data point: In January 2018, India had 63 microgrids, or networks that generated and distributed electricity in a particular area, with generation capacity of 1.9 MW. A year down the line, this number has increased by at least 373 microgrids and 12.8 MW of capacity, not counting the 11,961 standalone systems.

Bihar has built the countrys largest microgrids, standalone systems cluster. The country could draw useful lessons from it. The experience of companies like Mera Gao Power and Husk Power in providing microgrid and standalone solutions to UN-electrified villages has not been good, mainly because of collection issues and interference from local powers.

58L tonnes paddy procured in Chhattisgarh

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A total of 58 tonnes of paddy have been procured in Chhattisgarh till Monday.

The procurement began on November 1 and will continue till January 31, 2023.

A total of 2,568 procurement centers have been set up and Rs 11,640 crore have been released to the 14.66 lakhs farmers, an official statement said.

The government has to procure about 110 lakh tonnes of paddy for the kharif Marketing year 2022-23.

The rice millers have lifted 35.77 lakh tonnes for custom milling.

State is committed for all round development of cities

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The is committed for the all-round development of the cities and providing basic facilities to the citizens. These are not just words, but continuous successful efforts are being made to implement it.

The all-round development of cities continues unabated under the able Leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the guidance of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan. In the urban body Elections held this year, 1761 corporators are below 35 years of age. This enthusiasm of the youth will become the pivot of the development of the cities.

Shivraj government has adopted new thinking and innovation from an open platform. Asias biggest Gobar Dhan plant to make CNG from waste in Indore is the result of this thinking. Apart from CNG, 100 tonnes of organic manure will also be manufactured daily. This is a living example of putting the words of Prime Ministers Waste to Best mantra into action.

Urban Development and Housing Department implements various schemes and missions for Infrastructure development, drinking water, sanitation as well as conservation and promotion of lakes and ponds in cities. While the Deendayal Rasoi Yojana is being implemented in the urban bodies for the needy, schemes like AMRUT, Housing for All, Smart City, Swachh Bharat Mission, National Urban Livelihood Mission and PM Self Fund are implemented to change the direction and condition of the cities. Our government has approved an amount of Rs 121 crores for the construction and renovation of about 770 Sanjeevani clinics for public welfare.

Our department is proving its worth across the country. Indore leads for the 6th consecutive time in the National Cleanliness Survey. At the same time, our state is also number one in cleanliness. In the implementation of Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana Urban, our state has received second place award from the hands of the Prime Minister in the category of Best Performing State Award. This scheme has also received the best state award for convergence with other schemes and for conducting promotional activities.

PMAY Awards-2021: Madhya Pradesh has received awards in total 9 categories on the basis of excellent performance in 150 Days Challenge. In the Swachh Survekshan 2022, Bhopal has been ranked as the cleanest self-sustainable capital of the country with a five-star rating. The state has received 16 national awards in the Swachh Sarvekshan 2022. Madhya Pradesh has got the second position in the India Smart City Contest-2020.

Along with this, the state has received 11 out of 20 awards in various categories. Four cities of Madhya Pradesh Indore, Jabalpur, Sagar and Ujjain were awarded among the first 11 cities in the country in the Eat-Smart Cities Challenge. Madhya Pradesh ranks first in the whole country in the implementation of PM Self Fund Scheme. Loans have been distributed to 6 lakh 87 thousand 192 street vendors under the scheme. Out of these, 2 lakh 26 thousand street vendors are active in digital transactions. As a result, they have received Rs 3 crore 43 lakh as cashback. Indore has been given the most prestigious Award of Excellence by the Government of India for innovative financial management in urban transport.

An Investment of Rs 12 thousand 600 crore has been made in all the bodies of the state (from the year 2005 to 2020) for the supply of drinking water through various schemes. In the last 5 years, 13 lakh 88 thousand water connections have been given. Drinking water and sewerage schemes will be extended to all urban bodies in AMRUT 2.0. About Rs 12 thousand 858 crore 71 lakh will be invested in this in the next 5 years. In the last 5 years, 3 lakh sewage connections have been given.

Rajasthan govt requests Chhattisgarh to make its coal blocks operational

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Facing a power crisis, Rajasthan government has again requestedChhattisgarhto expedite the process for making its captive mines operational.

Rajasthan govt stated that the desert state require at least 15 rakes of coal a day to keep 4320 MW thermal power generation units operational to ensure uninterrupted and affordable electricity to its close to eight crore consumers.

Banking on the committed coal supplies from the countrys largest producer Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan has commissioned 4320 MW of thermal power generation capacity at an of Rs 40,000 crore.

Agristack Project

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The Department has commenced the work for creating Agristack in the country. In order to create Agristack, the department has finalized the core concept of India Digital Ecosystem of Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture (IDEA) which lays down a framework for Agristack. For this, a Task Force was constituted and in furtherance, a concept paper on IDEA was prepared and comments were invited from subject experts, farmers, Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs) and general public.

Agristack is a federated structure and ownership of data is with the States only.

Access to federated Farmers Database is with Government only. No private company is involved in developing the federated Farmers database. As of now, the federated database is being built by taking the publicly available data as existing in the Department and in various data silos in Government.