14.04.21

Striving to bring radical changes in the education sector, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal on Friday dedicated projects worth more than Rs 10.60 crore to various districts of the state.

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The Chief Minister inaugurated four projects digitally. These included project E Lakshyvahini worth more than Rs 1.18 crore in collaboration with Rural Electrification Corporation Ltd Foundation, through which about 10,000 students from five districts including Ambala, Jhajjar, Jind, Kaithal and Yamunanagar will be provided training through Common Service Centres Training for more than 100 competitive exams.

In the second project under CSR, 70 smart classrooms will be set up in government schools in district Gurugram and Mewat in collaboration with the RITES Ltd, at a cost of about Rs 1, 31, 60,000 crore.

Under another project, 330 similar smart classrooms will be set up in 165 other government schools in the state in collaboration with the Power Grid Corporation of India Limited. The Power Grid will spend more than Rs 7,80,90,000 on this project, under which smart classrooms will be set up in 10 districts including Gurugram in Haryana.

These include 80 smart classrooms in Gurugram district, 60 in Faridabad district, 20 each in Hisar, Karnal, Ambala, Panchkula and Yamunanagar districts, and 30 in each in Panipat, Rohtak and Sonipat districts.

Himachal leading in development, says Edu Minister

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Education Minister Govind Singh Thakur unfurled the to commence the district-level celebrations of 74th Himachal Day at the Dhalpur Maidan here today and took the salute from an impressive parade.

He said that Himachal is the leader in terms of development. When it became a full-fledged state in 1971, the Literacy rate was 31.96 per cent and there were 4,693 educational institutions and 587 Health institutions. He added that at present, the literacy rate is 82.80 per cent, and there are 15,553 educational institutions and 4,320 health institutions.

The Union minister for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, MN Pandey, Union Education minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank, Union minister of State for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, RK Singh along with chief minister Tirath Singh Rawat and Uttarakhands Skill Development and Entrepreneurship minister Harak Singh Rawat digitally launched the government of Indias Skill India pavilion at the ongoing Kumbh Mela in Haridwar. Pandey and the CM also interacted with youths participating in the Skill India event, asking them to motivate others too for skill development.

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The CM stressed on the need for special focus on Skill development of Women and linking the skill development programme with Atmanirbhar Bharat and vocal for local campaign. He appreciated the Skill India mission being undertaken under the Leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and expressed confidence that the event in Haridwar will help spread the message further to facilitate skill development. He said that focus can be laid on Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture, Horticulture, Food Processing, tourism- especially adventure tourism and the IT sector under the mission. Skill development programmes should be conducted for these sectors with focus on their monitoring also, he added.

Union Education minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank appreciated the skill development pavilion as a commendable effort to spread awareness on the subject.

In the wake of the spike incorona positive cases, Health Minister Banna Gupta convened a meeting to discuss its prevention and treatment. A future action plan was discussed for prevention and treatment of coronavirus. The Minister gave necessary guidelines on various subjects including better arrangement of increasing testing capacity, increasing number of beds. The Minister said that the government is making every effort to protect people from corona infection and that the infected should get better medical facilities.

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Gupta said that in view of Covid-19, the is continuously expanding medical facilities. There is an effort to improve food, sanitation and Health facilities for the patients.

Availability of vaccines, data entry operators worry for state

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Bihar is left with around 8 lakh doses of Covid-19 vaccine as it prepares to vaccinate the target group of 1.80 crore Population of 45 years and above.

The states immediate concern remains availability of Vaccines as well as sufficient number of data entry operators as it plans to ramp up its vaccination session sites from existing 1,700 to 2,500 in the next few days to meet the vaccination requirement of the 45 years and above age group.

Given the shortage, the state is rotating vaccines from underperforming cold chain points to districts where vaccine utilisation was more, adding to issues.

The Health department plans to use its existing health sub-centres as session sites. Of the 10,800 health sub-centres, there are only around 3,000 facilities housed in three-room accommodation, which is the minimum requirement for a vaccination session site.

In view of a sudden spike in Covid-19 cases and deaths, 80 percent of the total oxygen produced in Chhattisgarh will be supplied for medical purposes to hospitals in the state, it was announced on Sunday.

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A notification to this effect has been issued by the Health Department under the Epidemic Diseases Act following a directive of Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel.

In case of further requirement, the remaining 20 percent of the Oxygen produced will also be given to the hospitals.

The manufacturers have been asked to ensure uninterrupted production of oxygen in their units.

Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has released an amount of Rs one crore from the Chief Minister’s Relief Fund to each district for the prevention of the Covid-19 pandemic.

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An amount of Rs 52 crore released for 52 districts of the state, purchase of necessary equipment for Covid-19, provision of food and clothes in rehabilitation camps, operation of medical camps, supervision-operation of camps, of employees deployed in essential works. For safety, expenditure can be spent on purchasing materials and cleanliness etc.

An interdepartmental committee will be set up under the chairmanship of the District Collector in relation to the expenditure made available from the Chief Minister’s Relief Fund. This committee will be able to test, supervise and approve the expenditure incurred for the prevention of Covid-19. Rastogi informed that the expenditure related to the prevention of the Covid-19 epidemic is in the category of emergency expenditure.

Gujarat billion-dollar club grows bigger at 22

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Gujarats billion-dollar-plusmarket capclub has grown bigger on the back of stock markets rally since last June. The number of listed companies having m-cap of more than a billion dollar (approximately Rs 7,532 crore) has now increased to 22 from 17 within a year since April 2020.

According to analysis of the Gujarati firms listed on BSE, the entities that made it to the billion-dollar (one billion dollar is approximately Rs 7,532 crore considering the value of rupee against dollar at 75.32) m-cap club in past one year are Deepak Nitrite Limited, Ratnamani Metals and Tubes Ltd, Gujarat Fluorochemicals Limited, Symphony Ltd and Eris Lifesciences Limited.

Adani Group tops the list of Gujarats most valued companies with its all the six companies being part of the billion-dollar m-cap club for long. In fact, the groups four companies, exceptAdani Powerand Adani Transmission, have of more than Rs 1 lakh crore or $ 13.2 billion.

Rajasthan 2nd state to vaccinate 1 crore people

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Amidlimited supplyof Covid Vaccines, Tika Utsav launched by the Centre from April 11 has been affected.

Though thestate governmenthad to scale down vaccination drive due to limited supply of vaccines, it achieved milestone of vaccinating 1 crore doses to beneficiaries on Monday, the second state to achieve the mileston after Maharashtra. In the first two days of Tika Utsav, 3,12,300 vaccinations have been done.

According to Health department officials, the state has received 1,12,07,360 doses from the Centre from the day of launch (January 16). Out of those, 66,500 doses of vaccines have arrived in Udaipur, from where it will be distributed to nearby districts.