The northeastern state, where individual fish consumption stands at 19 kg on an Average every year, produces 8,284 MT of fish annually against its annual demand of 1,11,714 MT.
At present, the state has functional water bodies for fish production spread over 37,957 hectares. A target has been fixed to develop pisciculture in water bodies covering an area of 100 hectare.
The Neyveli Uttar Pradesh Power Ltd (NUPPL) and theAssam governmenton Tuesday signed apower purchase agreement(PPA) to ensure 492 megawatts (MW) power supply to Assam fromGhatampur Thermal Power Plant.
Under this agreement, NUPPL, a joint venture subsidiary ofNLC India Ltd(NLCIL), will supply 492.72 MW of power to the Assam government.
Based on the revision, Uttar Pradesh and Assam have been allocated with 1,487.28MW (75.12%) & 492.72MW (24.88%) of power supply respectively.
Construction of the Jhartarbha-Sonepur section ofKhurdaRoad-Balangir new line will be over by August-end. This 21.7 km section will bring this western Odisha town on the RAILWAY map. FromBalangir, the railway line has been completed tillJhartarbha.
The project sanctioned in 1994-95 has been delayed due to several reasons, including court cases and lack of forest clearance. So far, the railways has commissioned 115 km of railway line out of 301km. It has completed 90.4km from Khurda Road toNuagaonand 24.9km from Balangir to Jhartarabha.
East Coast Railway (ECoR) sources said the Jhartarbha-Khambeswarpalli stretch (11.4km) from Balangir side will be ready by June-end. Similarly, the 10.3 km section from Khambeswarpalli toSonepurwill be completed by August-end.
In December , the government handed over land of 99 villages in Nayagarh district for the railway project work. Around one lakh trees will be felled for this rail line.
ATamil inscription engravedon a broken slab has seen Light inPunganurtown ofAndhra Pradesh’s Chittoor district.
The stone has been found to belong to regnal year 3 (1072 CE).
M Anjaneya Reddy, a HISTORY lecturer at Punganur, has found the stone fixed on the tank bund, west of the forest in the erstwhile village of Punganur, now a constituency headquarters.
The Punganur region was once known as Puli Nadu.
The impact of the globalised finance has become so powerful in the contemporary world that the nation-states are forced to play a subservient role and are deprived of the opportunities to pursue independent policies, according to economist and former vice-chairman ofKeralaplanning board Prof Prabhat Patnaik.
The finance capital blocks the possibilities of the Growth in EMPLOYMENT and real wages even while drastically pushing up labour productivity, through the introduction of technologies. This also leads to cutting down the bargaining power of the labour, he said. Privatisation of public sector enterprises aggravates the erosion in the bargaining power of labour.
A major consequence of the growing influence of globalised finance is the crisis it unleashes on petty production, including peasant Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture. The finance capital forces the nation-states to withdraw the support given to the peasant agriculture and other informal sectors, and numerous such instances can be seen in the Indian context also. The government is sometimes forced to withdraw such measures because of the farmers protests, Prof Patnaik said. According to him the nation-states are being pressured to fix a limit on by the finance capital. Many nation states are embracing neo-fascist policies to address the issues like over production and crisis in petty production, precipitated by finance capital, Prof Patnaik said.
A study conducted by LocalCircles, a community Social Media platform that encourages citizens to strive for policy changes, found that 7% of the participants fromKarnatakaended up wasting 50-70% of the drugs they had purchased in the past three years, whereas 9% did not use 30-50% of the medicines they bought some of them expired and had to be thrown away.
Drug wastage, to a great extent, can be avoided. For instance, 47% of the participants from Karnataka attribute it to chemists selling a higher minimum quantity than what is required. E-pharmacies also sell a higher minimum quantity than what is needed.
These strips will have manufacturing and expiry dates on each segment, making it easier to sell the remaining medicine and avoid wastage. The possibility of printing QR code on each tablet is also being explored.
, which has identified gems & jewellery sector as one of the 14 thrust areas, has already bagged investments of over 1,000 crore in gold refining and is gunning for more.
Speaking at the inaugural of the 15th edition of the Hyderabad Jewellery Pearl & Gem Fair (HJF), Telangana Industries principal secretary JayeshRanjansaid the State Government has successfully convinced new players to invest in the state and is open to assisting overseas investors keen on setting up operations in India.
Venkata Sekhar, industrial promotion officer and director of gems & jewellery, Telangana, said major jewellery manufacturers are investing over 1,000 crore in refinery activities in Maheshwaram.
entral Electricity Authority (CEA) has accorded permission for the 1,350 MW Upper Sileru Pumped Storage Project (PSP) in a record time of 70 days against the stipulated 90 days.
The PSP will be constructed using the existing Guntawada and Donkarayi reservoirs of the Sileru project. At least 3,501.89 million units of energy will be generated during peak hours from this PSP in a year, which will be built at an estimated cost of 11,154.39 crore.
The permission for the Upper Sileru PSP (9×150 MW) came at a meeting CEA chairman Ghanshyam Prasad held in New Delhi. APGENCO managing director K.V.N. Chakradhar Babu spoke on the necessity to establish the pumped storage project and proposed other PSPs.
Chakradhar Babu said the Government of India has revamped the approval process for pumped storage projects (PSPs) in the country. He explained that the AP GENCO is also in the process of signing an MOU with NHPC Ltd. to form a joint venture for setting up 1,950 MW of PSPs (Yaganti 1,000MW and Kamalapadu 950 MW) in the state.
In a major boost to hinterland tourism in the state, Goa has witnessed over 50% rise in domestic tourists and 1,000 times increase in international tourists in the four Western Ghats bordering talukas – Sattari, Canacona, Dharbandora and Sanguem.
Government data shows that in 2021, over 65,000 domestic and over 1,300 international tourists explored Goa’s hinterland, while in 2022, over 1.1 lakh domestic and over 14,000 foreigners visited the areas
The has invited agencies to conceptualise tours and trails in Goa like nature trails, architecture tours, heritage trails, village walks, spiritual trails and bird watching trips to further boost hinterland tourism, the officer said. The government is also keen to conceptualise camping, bike tours, food and culinary tours, brewery tours and so on to bring out the unexplored tourism aspects and various points of interest in Goa. It wants to market and promote the experiential tours through various channels for popularising these tours among tourists, agents and channel partners in both domestic and international markets. Goa has over 70 big and small waterfalls.
The rising demand for nagli (finger millet) seeds has prompted theMaharashtraSeeds Company Limited (Mahabeej) to promote seed production among tribals, who produce nagli only for personal consumption, in the Nashik district.
The tribal farmers have stayed away from large-scale Nagli production as it does not fetch an attractive price in the market. However, the announcement of the International Year of Millet has pushed the demand for nagli seeds.
Currently, the organization is training farmers in the Trimbakeshwar, Surgana and Peth tehsils, where nagli is produced.