13-14.02.22

NDRI to set benchmark for milk cells across India

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After the success in setting standard limits of somatic cell counts (SCC) in the milk of indigenous cattle and Murrah buffalo of the National Research Institute (NDRI) farm, the scientists of NDRI, here, have started work on developing a set of reference values of SCC of all dairy breeds of the country.

The Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India, has sanctioned project Generation of milk somatic cell reference values and intelligent predictive modelling for monitoring mammary profile and milk quality of indigenous dairy animals.

Scientists will screen high and low-producing dairy animals from various parts of the country to set desirable milk SCC levels in the indigenous breeds. They will also set a computer-stimulated predictive model to identify the risk factors associated with higher somatic cells.

Plastic, thermocol to be banned from July 1: PCB

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Thermocol and plastic related items will be banned from July 1. The State Pollution Control Board ordered this and said that action will be taken for violating the rules.

The board has already given instructions to the state for this and restrictions will also be imposed in Jharkhand. The State Pollution Control Board Chairman, AK Rastogi gave this information during a meeting with representatives of the apex traders body of the State Federation of Jharkhand Chamber of Commerce and Industries (FJCCI) on Wednesday.

This decision will heavily affect the common man because plastic and thermocol has become an integral part of every bodys life. Preventing complete use of these items will not be easy. Thermocol plates are most common in current time because mostly the street food vendors use it and they will get highly affected by it. It may be mentioned here that both the items banned by the Board are very harmful because the takes a very long time to get destroyed.

In the course of the talks, Rastogi also said that it is mandatory for all categories of hotels to obtain Consent to operate from the Pollution Control Board within two months, otherwise, action will be taken against the hotel operators. This provision also applies to all clubs and banquet halls, convention centres, hospitals and educational institutions where the waste water of the above capacity is generated, he added.

BIA incubator to get 3 crore central fund

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The business incubation centre, known as VenturePark, of Bihar Industries Association (BIA) will get financial assistance grant of Rs3 crore under the Seed FundScheme by the Centres Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT). The association will facilitate the allotment of seed funds to eligible early-stage startups.

He announced that the BIA will hold the annual Bihar StartupConclave 2022 under the cooperation and guidance of the department of industries at Gyan Bhawan on March 12. The event will provide a platform to budding entrepreneurs, students and innovators with new startup ideas.

Education Minister launches Auro Scholar, Project Inclusion

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Chhattisgarh Education Minister Premsai Singh on Friday launched Auro Scholar and Project Inclusion programmes for school students. The programmes, to be conducted with the help of Aurobindo Society, will help achieve excellence in education.

Premsai Singh launched both the programme at a function here in Shankar Nagar.

The Auro scholar will provide school students a chance to win scholarships through a quiz competition. The Project Inclusion will help differently abled students to take education at the IQ level that normal students do, a government press release said.

Both the programmes are important for Chhattisgarh and both will benefit the students of the state, the Minister said in a statement.

The Minister said that students could earn Rs 1,000 a month by answering 80 percent of the answers in 20 quiz competitions to be held each month.

CM transfers insurance claims of Rs 7618 cr in farmers accounts

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Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that we have performed a miracle of depositing Rs one lakh 76 thousand crore in the accounts of farmers in 22 months. This is a government of the farmers, no stone will be left unturned in the welfare of farmers. By laying a Network of Irrigation schemes in the state, the is working incessantly to make crops flourish in every dry field of the state. Chouhan was addressing the state level crop damage claim distribution programme held at Betul. He transferred an amount of Rs 7618 crore in 49 lakh claims of Kharif 2020 and Rabi 2020-21 to the account of farmers with a single click.

Chouhan inaugurated the programme by performing kanya pujan and lighting a lamp. Union Minister for Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Narendra Singh Tomar took part virtually from New Delhi. State’s Farmers’ Welfare and AGRICULTURE DEVELOPMENT Minister Kamal Patel, MP Durgadas Uike and other public representatives were present in the programme.

The Chief Minister also visited the exhibition of Agriculture, Horticulture, Public Health Engineering, Energy, AYUSH, Women and Child Development and Self Help Groups. The Chief Minister inaugurated the development works worth Rs 381 crore of Betul and also performed bhoomi-pujan. All the districts of the state participated virtually in the programme. The programme was telecast live on DD MP, regional channels, AIR as well as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

Chouhan said that today is a historic day for the state. Under the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana, the largest amount of Rs 7618 crore has been distributed in the country with a single click today. Earlier also, Rs 2876 crore were deposited in the accounts of farmers following crop failure. So far, an assistance of Rs 10,494 crore has been released by the state government to the farmers.

New genetically improvised pearl millet for Guj released

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Nearly a decade-and-a-half after it was first released for cultivation, a popularpearl millethybrid has made a comeback in an improved avatar inGujarat.

Christened Maru Sona or desert gold, the new version is equipped with the genes to fend off devastating downy mildew (DM) disease. It has been released for cultivation in Gujarat.

Maru Sona is Gujarats first hybrid cultivar that is developed through genomics-assisted breeding.

The original hybrid GHB 538 was first released for cultivation in 2006-07 during rainy, post-rainy and summer seasons in dry regions of Rajasthan, Gujarat and Haryana. It quickly became popular.

Raj to seek 40cr labour budget for next fiscal

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The will urge the Centre to increase the states labour budget forMGNREGAscheme from 30 crore to 40 crore for the next financial year (2022-23) looking at the huge demand for work under the scheme in rural areas.

For this financial year, the Centre had revised the labour budget to 37.35 crore looking at the huge demand for MGNREGA work in the state in view of the Covid situation. Last year (2020-21), the labour budget amounting to 46 crore was utilised in the state.

However, there has been no increase in allocation for MGNREGA in the union budget 2022-23, with the central government retaining it at Rs 73,000 crore for 2022-23.
So far,Rajasthanhas generated persondays amounting to 36.65 crore.