21.01.22

Adi Badri Dam

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The governments of Haryana and Himachal Pradesh signed an agreement to build a dam at Adi Badri in Yamunanagar district.

The Dam will rejuvenate the mythical Saraswati River.

It is situated in Haryana near Himachal Pradesh border.

The place is considered as rivers origin point.

With the rejuvenation of Saraswati River, religious beliefs will also be revived.

The area will also be developed as a pilgrimage site.

The Dam will be built on 31.66 hectares of land in Himachal Pradesh. It has a width of 101.06 metres and height 20.5 metres.

Himachal Government is providing social security pension to 6.35 lakh persons in the state.

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About 4,15, 993 senior citizens, 125343 widows, single Women and destitute women, 1482 leprosy patients and about 150 transgender are being covered under the social security scheme in Himachal, said an official spokesman of the .

He said that the State Government is giving utmost priority to the upliftment of senior citizens, women and specially abled persons. Under the various initiatives of the State Government towards welfare of this section of the Society, the government laid special emphasis on expansion of social security schemes.

The expenditure on social security pension has been enhanced upto Rs 1037 crore in 2021, which was Rs 436 crore in 2017. The State Government reduced the age limit of the old age pension scheme from without any income limit from 80 years to 70 years. The age limit for availing the old age pension for women, has also been lowered to 65 years. These decisions of the government have benefited several senior citizens of the state, the spokesman said. The present State Government has sanctioned 1,95,003 new applications under social security pension, providing economic and social security to the people of the state, he said.

Akshaya Patra kitchen to be built in Hazaribag at a cost of Rs 27 crore

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The project of Akshaya Patra kitchen in Hazaribagh is taking shape with the efforts of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance and Hazaribagh MP cum Chairman Jayant Sinha. The project is likely to be completed in the next 8-9 months. This kitchen being built at Demotand at a cost of Rs 27 crore will provide nutritious mid-day meals to about 1 lakh children of 565 government schools in the district daily. This Akshaya Patra will be the 5th largest kitchen in the world.

With the efforts of Hazaribag MP Jayant Sinha, now a huge kitchen of Akshaya Patra is being built in Ramgarh on the same lines. For this he was trying for a long time. He urged CCL for its construction and operation and got an amount of Rs 22 crore approved through CSR. An amount of Rs 15 crore will be spent for the construction of this kitchen and Rs 7 crore on its operation. They are continuously working to take this project on the ground and are providing necessary guidelines and support to Ramgarh District Administration, CCL and Akshaypatra’s team in this regard. By the efforts of Jayant Sinha, MoU was signed on 17 January 2022 for this huge project.

The kitchen will provide nutritious mid-day meals daily to 50,000 children of government schools. This kitchen is unique in itself, as it will increase the capacity and quality of food availability. Also, it will be equipped with world class facilities. Equipment will be imported from all over the world for its manufacture and many things will be made from steam instead of gas. It will be ready in the next 2 years. Jayant Sinha has envisaged this project keeping in mind the Human resource development and then children will get quality food regularly, their Health will improve and school attendance will increase.

Bihar: Separate link to be created to vaccinate children above 12

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A separate link will be created on the state Health societys website, where heads of the schools will have to upload the micro planning for the vaccination of children in their respective institutions.

Preparation in this regard is going on, especially keeping in mind the vaccination of children above 12 years, which is supposed to start from March.

State health Society additional executive director Animesh KumarParasaron said the data hosting work was going on and once completed, each school head will give the micro planning for vaccination in their schools.

Three-tier Panchayat polls peaceful, 72.12% voting

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Seventy-two percent of the electorate voted on Thursday to elect three Zilla Panchayat and 27 Janpad members as well as fill posts of 152 Sarpanch and 330 Panch in Chhattisgarh.

The polling was by and large peaceful across the state.

State Election Commissioner Thakur Ram Singh said no untoward incident took place at any place. He patted the officers and employees for the successful conduct of the polls.

He said along with youth, elderly and differently-abled voters actively participated in the voting.

There were 4,37,282 voters for the three-tier Panchayat , out of which 3,04,450 exercised their franchise. The number of male voters was 1,55,039 and females 1,49,411.

Gujarats credit potential at Rs 2.46 lakh crore

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TheNational Bank for Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture and Rural Development(NABARD) on Tuesday announced thatGujarats priority sector credit potential stood at Rs 2.46 lakh crore for the upcoming financial year 2022-23.The announcement was made as part of the annual state credit seminar organized at the chief ministers officein Gandhinagar.

According to estimates provided by NABARD, the estimated credit potential has gone up from Rs 2.24 lakh crore in 2021-22 up 10%. Of the total credit potential estimated for priority sector, agriculture and allied sectors account for Rs 1.13 lakh crore,MSMEsector accounts for Rs 1.09 lakh crore and other priority sectors account for Rs 26,255.2 crore.

NABARD has been regularly monitoring the potential flow of bank credit towards priority sector across all the districts of Gujarat through its potential linked credit plans. NABARD officials appealed to banks to ensure credit flow in priority sector advances to meet the targeted credit disbursals.

Rajasthan govt committed to provide quality education to all: Ashok Gehlot

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Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot said his government is committed to provide quality Education to students in the state and various steps have been taken in this regard in the last three years.

The chief minister asserted that it is the ‘s endeavour that boys and girls get better and equal opportunities in the field of education.

He also announced Rs 5 lakh from the Chief Minister’s Relief Fund for the hostel and assured to provide more financial support through CSR fund. He also called upon the people of the Society to extend their cooperation in this noble cause.

About 775 hostels for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Other Backward Classes and Most Backward Classes are being operated in the state. More than 36,000 students are benefiting from these hostels.

Star Rating System Of Environment Ministry

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The “Star Rating System” was just created by the Ministry of Environment, Forestry, and https://exam.pscnotes.com/Climate-change”>Climate Change. The mechanism clears the surroundings in a short amount of time.

Highlights:

With this new method, the Environment Ministry will rate and incentivize the states.

The ministry will identify states that efficiently provide environmental clearances in a short period of time. It will then provide incentives for such states.

The star rating system assigns states points on a scale of one to seven for this. For completing a project in less than 80 days, the states gain two points.

One point for clearing in less than 105 days. If you clear more than this amount of time, you’ll get a zero.

Chinese bridge at Pangong Tso

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Amid the ongoing standoff between India and China in eastern Ladakh, China is building another bridge on the Pangong Tso. Construction of new bridge was spotted in satellite images.

China is building the bridge near to friction points on north bank of Pangong Tso and Chushul sub-sector on south bank. The bridge is around 400 m long and 8 m wide.

This bridge is being constructed at around 20 km east of Finger 8 on the north bank.

In Indias perception, theLine of Actual Controllies at Finger 8.

Site of the bridge is within Indias claim line. However, this area has been under Chinese control since 1958.

Pangong Tso is a 135-km-long landlocked lake. Around two-thirds part of the lake are under Chinese control. This bridge is near the halfway mark.