Providing much-needed relief to economically impoverished families, the Manipur government has decided to bear all charges for the disposal and cremation ofdead bodiesof Covid-19 victims.
Earlier, Rs 15,000 was charged for cremation and disposal of dead bodies at Bazar Board cremation site in Minuthong and Rs 8000 by local crematoriums. Considering the trauma and financial burden faced by these families, the has decided to bear the cost of cremation.
Tezpur University (TU) students have designed an IoT (Internet of things) based portable ventilator to fight Covid-19, which can be life saving in case of respiratory failure.
As shortage of ventilators have been haunting the country since breakout of the Covid crisis, the electrical engineering department of TU has undertaken an initiative to design a portable ventilator- an essential instrument for patients who are unable to sustain the level of ventilatory necessary to maintain the gas exchange functions.
A senior functionary of the said the amendment will help authorities to monitor and regulate the activities of both the State and district level societies in a much better manner.
The Societies Registration Act, 1860 which was amended vide the Societies Registration (Odisha Amendment) Act, 2021 was notified vide Gazette number 743 dated 13.05.2021 and the appointed date for coming into force of the amended Act was notified on May 21.
For speedy disposal of grievances/ cases on intra-societal conflict, the present amendment empowers any member of the Society to file a petition in the Court of Senior Civil Judge having jurisdiction over the place at which the office of the society is situated, he said.
As per the present amendment, any society registered under the Act shall not distribute among its governing body members or general members in cash or kind, any profit or surplus that may have accrued from its activities. For non-submission of annual audit report with balance sheet to the Registrar of Societies, the registration certificate of the societies is liable for cancellation, the amendment stipulates.
A registered society is viewed as a separate legal entity, built for development of fine arts, science, or literature or for providing useful knowledge for charitable purposes, the statute describes.
Withoxygen availability in Maduraiand the southern region getting worse, hospitals and healthcare experts have demanded that the government take steps to provide a major portion of the lifesaving gas produced at the Sterlite plant to these districts.
The District Administration held talks with these liquid Oxygen refillers and asked them to adhere to the agreements signed with private hospitals and supply oxygen accordingly.
Major corporate hospitals in the city are trying to install storage facilities on their campus, but have been told by the installing firm that they would have to wait for two months as the demand is high.
The cost of installing an oxygen plant has doubled from Rs 5 crore before the pandemic, according to sources in a hospital.
The first session of the 15thKerala Legislative Assemblybegan here on Monday with the swearing in of newly elected MLAs, of whom 53 are fresh entrants, under strictCovid-19 protocols.
As many as 136 legislators of the 140-member-strong house took the oath of office during the over three-hour-long session which began at 9 AM.
Chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan, who scripted his name in the HISTORY of the house as the first chief minister in the last four decades to assume office for a second consecutive time, made a solemn affirmation, while some of his cabinet colleagues took oath in the name of the God.
With the surge in cases in rural Karnataka continuing despite more than 15 days of restrictions, and with villagers not turning out to take the Covid-19 test, the is deploying mobile clinics to conduct tests at doorsteps of villagers.
Daily cases in the rest of Karnataka (other thanBengaluru Urban) has been hovering around the 23,000-mark for the past 15 days, while the number of positive cases in Bengaluru has dropped from over 20,000 to 9,000 in the same period.
To bring the pandemic under control in rural areas, the government has hit on the idea of widespread testing. Each of its mobile clinics will have a doctor, lab technician and nurse, besides Asha and anganwadi workers. They will visit every household in villages and conduct rapid antigen tests (RAT).
The stateagriculture departmenthas stated that this rainy season an additional 28 lakh acres will be brought under cultivation. According to the plan of the department, a total of 1.62 crore acres will be brought under cultivation as against 1.34 crore acres last season.
The department has made it clear there is no need to follow regulated farming formula this time around aspaddy cultivationshould be brought down. According to the plan, thecultivation of cottonandred gramwill increase.
Paddy is generally the highest grown crop in the state during the rainy season and instructions were given to seed companies to supply BT seeds from June second week onwards.
The Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture department also suggested reducing paddy cultivation by 5 lakh acres compared to last years 53 lakh acres.
The plan aims to increase red gram cultivation by 13 lakh acres, thereby ensuring it is cultivated in 24 lakh acres as against 11 lakh acres grown last year. Maize, grown in 2.25 lakh acres last year, would be maintained at the around the same level at 2.29 lakh acres this year.
With no let-up in risingCovid-19caseload yet, the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) has decided to conduct various annual festivals at its temples located in Tirupati and elsewhere in ekanatham, that is, without the presence of devotees.
The three-day Padmavathi Parinayamannual festivalwas performed in eknatham. The annual Brahmotsavams underway at the ancient Govindraja Swamy temple in Tirupati is also being carried out within the main temple complex in the absence of devotees.
Theparents associationFORCE has demanded that the put in place a committee to decide on the plan for school reopening and future examinations, as the pandemic is showing no signs of relenting.
Convener Savio Lopessaid that the government has been caught napping. It waited till the eleventh hour to decide on the Class X public exams.
The government andeducation departmentshould have expected this situation and should have been prepared with an alternative. The same thing will be repeated next year also. The government/Education department has neither any plan norroadmapto go forward. A committee should be appointed as soon as possible to look into conducting of classes and exams, Lopes said.
TheMaharashtragovernment has directed all the , including the housing ones, to submit their audit reports inMarathilanguage.
The move, the circular says, is aimed at making it easy for majority of cooperative department officials, stakeholders, auditors and office bearers of the societies who speak and write in Marathi language in taking proper review and actions.
However, the circular allows English version for those societies which have made a required resolution in their general body (GB) while appointing the auditor.
As per the Marathi bhasha circular of May 07, 2018 and section 81 of the Maharashtra Cooperative Society Act, it is mandatory to have all official or statutory transactions in Marathi language so as to address larger section of people involved in the societies and for this it is mandatory for all the auditors appointed by the society to have a proper knowledge of the language.