20.07.21

Haryana Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala on Monday said that about 27 lakh families in the state are being given food grains free of cost under the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana.

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The has emerged as a well wisher of the underprivileged during the Coronavirus period. Lakhs of underprivileged families of the state could neither work as a daily-wager nor take up small jobs during this period. In such circumstances, the State Government provided 5-kg wheat per member door-to-door through Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY), Dushyant said,

Divulging figures for the month of July, he said that about 60,391 metric tonnes of wheat is being distributed to 27,04,846 ration card holders of the state.

The Deputy Chief Minister, who also holds the portfolio of Department of Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs, said that due to the ongoing Corona infection, a country-wide lockdown had been imposed on March 26, 2020. To ensure that the people from the economically weaker sections of the Society like road dwellers, rag pickers, hawkers, rickshaw pullers, migrant labourers etc. do not face scarcity of food and in view of the pro-poor approach of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana was started from April 2020.

Under this scheme, 5-kg wheat per member was provided free of cost to AAY (Pink Card), BPL (Yellow Card) and OPH (Khaki Card) holders, he added.

Ludhiana industry can employ 20,000 youngsters in next few months, claims Bindra

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Punjab Youth Development Board(PYDB) chairmanSukhwinder Singh Bindraon Sunday claimed that the Ludhiana has assured more than 20,000 jobs to local youth in the next few months. He also lauded the contribution of Ludhiana industry for always supporting Punjab governments flagship Ghar Ghar Rozgar scheme.

The PYDB chairman held a meeting with several representatives of Ludhiana industry at the Chamber of Industrial & Commercial Undertakings (CICU) complex. The meeting was attended by all office bearers of CICU including president Upkar Singh Ahuja, general secretary Pankaj Sharma along with representatives of associations related to knitwear, shawl, blanket, plywood, dyeing, processing and furnace industries.

Himachal Pradesh: IIT Mandi develops device to detect diseases in potato crop

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Scientists fromIIT Mandihave developed a computational model for automated disease detection in potato crops using photographs of its leaves. The research led by Srikant Srinivasan, associate professor, School of Computing and Electrical Engineering, IIT Mandi, in collaboration with the Central Potato Research Institute, Shimla, uses (AI) techniques to highlight the diseased portions of the leaf.

The computational tool can detect blight in potato leaf images. The model is built using an AI tool called mask region-based convolutional neural Network architecture and can accurately highlight the diseased portions of the leaf amid a complex background of plant and Soil matter.

In order to develop a robust model, healthy and diseased leaf data were collected from fields across Punjab, UP and Himachal Pradesh. It was important that the model developed should have portability across the nation.

MahalaxmiYojana, theUttarakhandgovernments ambitious scheme for new mothers and the newborn girl child, was inaugurated by chief minister Pushkar SinghDhami.

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The scheme has seen quite a few twists and turns since it was announced by formerCM Trivendra Rawata couple of months ago. He had named the scheme Soubhagyawati Yojana and was all set to inaugurate it when he had to step down.

His successor,Tirath Singh Rawatchanged the name of the scheme to Mahalaxmi Yojana and was gearing up to launch it. But on the very day he was to inaugurate it, he was summoned to Delhi and subsequently had to let go of the CMs chair.

Under the scheme, the new mothers and newborns would be provided with clothes and other accessories by the Women and child welfare department.

A total of 16,929 women have been initially identified to be benefitted across the state as part of the scheme. The Mukhyamantri Mahalaxmi kit is being provided to the mother and the newborn girl child on the birth of the first two girls or twin girls.

For mothers, the kit has dry fruits, two pair of socks, one scarf, two towels, one blanket or sheet, two bedsheets, two packets of sanitary napkins, nail cutter, four bathing soaps, four detergent soaps and 500ml mustard oil.

35 lakh households got power every year between 2017-21 in Uttar Pradesh

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Electrification of households during theBJPregime increased by four times in comparison to that in the SP regime, an internal report of UP Power Corporation Limited (UPPCL) has stated.
According to the report, an Average of 9.55 lakh households were electrified every year between 2012 and 2017, when the SP government was in power. In four years of the BJP rule, an average of 35.2 lakh households have been electrified every year.

The report also claims that the aggregate transmission and commercial (AT&C) losses, which also signify incidents of power theft, saw reduction from around 40% during the previous SP regime to around 24% at present.

Under the Saubhagya scheme alone, more than 1.4 crore households have been electrified by the since September 2017.

The report points out that around 4,130 circuit Km (cKm) of underground cabling works have been carried out in 636 towns under the Centres flagship IntegratedPower Development Scheme. In fact, 7,200 cKm overhead lines have been replaced with underground cabling, the report said.

For redevelopment of stations under Station Redevelopment Project Indian Railways is carrying out redevelopment work of 123 stations across the country with private sector participation under Public Private Partnership Project. In this series, five railway stations of East Central Railway are to be developed as world class, which include Gaya, Rajendra Nagar Terminal, Muzaffarpur, Begusarai and Singrauli stations.

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The main objective of the station redevelopment is to provide safety, better and pleasant travel experience and world class passenger amenities to the passengers. Equipping the station with world-class and state-of-the-art facilities, the station will be given the form of a green building, where there will be adequate arrangements for ventilation etc. Mall and multipurpose building will be built on RAILWAY land. The station will be developed according to , Energy Efficiency equipment and green building standards.

Eight power substations in rural Gaya soon

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Eight new power substations are being set up in BodhGaya, Manpur, Khizarsarai, Banke Bazar andWazirganjblocks of the district,South Bihar Power Distribution Company Limited(SBPDCL) executive engineer (project) Balvir Prasad Bagish said.

While power supply will start from two substations at Mahkar (Khizarsarai) and Bakraur (Bodh Gaya) from July 20, the other six would be functional by the end of this year. The power substations are being set up at an estimate cost of Rs4 crore each under the Union governmentsDeenDayal Gram Jyoti Yojana and the state plan.

The other power substations are being set up at Alipur and Bhore (Manpur), Sakardas Nawada and Tarwan (Wazirganj), Dhangain (Barachatti) and Karchoi (Banke Bazar). Those at Mahkar, Bakraur, Alipur and Sakardas Nawada are being set up under Deen Dayal Gram Jyoti Yojana and the remaining from the funds made available by the .

Chhattisgarh Higher Education Minister Umesh Patel called for completing the preparations for the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) evaluation of colleges on a mission mode.

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The evaluation reflects broader thinking and quality in higher Education.

Addressing officers of the Higher Education Department, college principals, professors and non-TEACHING staff, Patel said all the colleges of the state should be graded by 2022, an official Communication said.

As part of the process, seminars and training on NAAC evaluation is being done to the staff of all government colleges through virtual mode, he said.

The Higher Education department has constituted a three-tier monitoring team at the Directorate, University and District level. Of the 170 qualified colleges in the state, 25 have submitted the Self Study Report (SSR).

IT conclave in September to draw investment

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TheMadhyaPradesh government is planning to organise an information technology (IT) conclave inIndorein September that will be aimed at showcasing the city as an emerging hub for IT/ITES Services and attract investments.

The IT conclave is expected to be held in the first week of September, according to official sources. The conclave will be divided into different sectors to address major domains.

The conclave will have sessions on IT/ITES, fintech, edtech, data centre, startups, E-Commerce and hardware. A few initial rounds of meeting between senior officials, representatives from Indian Institute of Technology, Indian Institute Of Management, Shri Govindram Seksaria Institute of Technology and Science and other institutes have been held to discuss on the agenda and planning of the upcoming conclave.

IT players from across the country are expected to participate in the conclave.
MPIDC, Indore has constructed two IT parks in the city and a third one is in the pipeline.

Gujarat university sports city gets Rs 50 crore booster dose

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The upcomingGujarat universitysports city construction that was stalled during the pandemic is now all set to start churn concrete.

Recently the university has called for Rs 50.2 crore worth of construction work at the Sports city which is spread over 34.8 acres.

The plan for the sports city was first floated in 2018, but work was delayed till early 2017, when construction had picked up momentum. But by 2019 December there has been a lull in the construction activity.