21.02.23

Punjab becomes first state in India to start a bio-fertilizer lab

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To bring latest horticultural techniques to the farmers fields and to make horticultural crops competitive at the international level, Punjab and Food Processing Minister Chetan Singh Jauramajra on Friday inaugurated the Biofertilizer Laboratory under Horticulture Department at Citrus Estate, Hoshiarpur.

The laboratory has been built at a cost of Rs 2.50 crore under Rashtriya Krishi Vigyan Yojana to reduce the cost of chemical Fertilizers of the landlords in the state and to protect the Soil from contamination from chemical fertilizers, said Jauramajra.

The Minister said that in this laboratory, 10 types of organic fertilizers such as Azotobacter Carrier based, PSB Carrier Based, Azotobacter liquid formulation, PSB liquid formulation, Potassium solubilizing bacteria) have been produced in this laboratory through an MoU with ICAR-IARI. KSB liquid formulation, Zinc solubilizing bacteria (ZSB) liquid formulation, NPK providing liquid formulation, AM Fungi, IARI Compost inoculant, Trichoderma virdi) will be prepared, which will be made available to the farming community at district level at reasonable rates as per demand.

Apart from this, the Horticulture Department will also provide necessary technical information to the landlords regarding the use of these organic fertilizers by organizing awareness camps.

Himachal targets to be 1st Green Energy State by 2025, says CM

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Aiming at preserving the Environment of the State, the Government intends to make Himachal Pradesh as 1st Green Energy State by the end of 2025 by harnessing hydro, hydrogen and and switch on to green products which will enhance the premium and advantage in export,Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu said.

He said that refurbishing the present system is essential and the departments should focus on harnessing green energy in the best interest of the State. To ease the norms, Chief Minister directed the officers to make necessary amendments in the existing power policy and open all the solar projects upto 5 MW capacity for allotment. The State Government would also invest in Solar Plants and will install 500 MW Solar projects during the year 2023-24, out of this, 200 MW would be installed by HPPCL for which land has been identified for 70 MW capacity and the rest of the sites will be finalized soon.

Solar projects upto 150 MW capacity would be installed by HIMURJA through private participation and priority would be given to Himachali’s in awarding these projects, said the Chief Minister. The capacity of the projects will range from 250 KW to 1 MW, he added.

Eco panel to boost tourism activities in Uttarakhand’s forest areas

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With 72% area of the state under forest cover, theUttarakhand cabinethas decided to promotetourism activitiesin certain areas that come under the forest department.

A committee headed by the chief secretary and comprising members of the forest and tourism department was approved by the cabinet, which would explore the prospects and take a call on tourism activities that can be started in forest areas.

The committee would also handle issues related to mountaineers and trekkers coming to Uttarakhand. Besides, the chief secretary, the committee would also comprise principal secretary forest, secretary tourism, secretary forest and chief wildlife warden.

Yogi orders speedy implementation of SVAMITVA scheme

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As part of its ongoing mission to make the rural Population self-reliant, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has issued strict directives for speedy and transparent implementation of the .

For this, the chief minister has instructed the senior officials to complete the drone survey under the scheme before the stipulated time.

The State Government, which is committed to benefiting the people of the state the most from the Central schemes, is at the forefront in implementing the Pradhan Mantri SVAMITVA scheme (Survey of Village Abadi and Mapping with Improvised Technology in Village Areas scheme).

Along with this, the gharaunis of 34,193 villages have been prepared. Thus, so far a total of 50,58,229 gharaunis have been prepared, out of which 34,69,879 gharaunis were distributed till June 25, 2022. At the same time, after June 25, 15,88,350 new gharaunis have been prepared.

He said that by June, the drone survey would be completed in all the villages.

The Pradhan Mantri SVAMITVA scheme was started by the Central government in April, 2020. The objective of the scheme is to make rural India economically strong and self-reliant. Through this scheme, the government wants to empower villagers by using technology.

Thus, the Pradhan Mantri SVAMITVA scheme is no less than a boon for the people living in rural areas. Through this, those people of the village are getting the ownership rights of their land, whose land is not registered in any government record.

Budget session to begin from Feb 27, proposal sent to guv

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TheJharkhandcabinet gave its post-facto approval to convene the budget session of the assembly session from February 27 and its proposal will now be sent to governorRamesh Baisfor approval.

Among them is a proposal by the state tourism department to rope in a consulting firm as transaction advisors for building and its operation by private companies under the public-private-PARTNERSHIP (PPP) mode across the states prominent tourist locations.

In another decision, the cabinet approved a proposal to issue Bonds to trainee nurses at government-run Nursing colleges.

The cabinet further approved the disbursement of Rs 268.14 crore from the state contingency fund for payments to farmers across 226 drought-hit blocks under the Mukhyamantri Sukhar Rahat Yojana.

Kala-azar eliminated from all blocks of Bihar

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WhileBiharhas over 67% ofkala-azar casesin the country, but all the blocks of state achieved the target of its elimination in 2022, for the first time ever. However, in order to be declared kala-azar free, the state has to maintain this target for three consecutive years.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation country lead (neglected tropical diseases),Bhupendra Tripathi, praised the states efforts in achieving this target. Explaining the concept behind becoming kala-azar free, Tripathi said if any block has less than one case per 10,000 of its Population, then it is said to have achieved the elimination target. However, validation is done after three years.
In Bihar, Isuapur in Saran and Goriakothi in Siwan were the two blocks in the category of endemic. However, by the end of 2022, both managed to reduce the number of kala-azar cases as per the standard set.

Even though Bihar has managed to reduce the numbers and come out of the category of endemic, it has the highest cases of kala-azar as well as the deaths due to it in the country.

As per the data shared by the National Centre for Vector-borne Diseases Control, there were 547 cases of kala-azar in Bihar till December 2022, out of total 810 cases across the country. Also, out of total 39 kala-azar deaths reported in 2022, maximum 26 were in Bihar.

But, states own journey shows tremendous improvement. For instance, it had 7,615 cases in 2014, which came down to 3424 in 2018 and to 547 in 2022.

New rural industrial policy soon in Cgarh

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Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel on Monday pledged to formulate a new rural Industrial Policy soon to link Rural Industrial Parks (RIPAs) and to generate EMPLOYMENT to rural folk.

Baghel was addressing the online distribution against cow dung and dividend paid to cattle owners, Women groups and Gauthan committees.

Expressing happiness over the power units started for generation of electricity from cow dung, he said the power generated from these units should be connected to the power grid.

Suraj Policy-2023 approved for the welfare of homeless

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The State Cabinet gave Shradhya Malviy was given appointment on compassionate grounds despite her being non-eligible. She is the married daughter of RS Rathore, Additional Director, Economics and Statistics, who had died on April 19, 2021 due to Corona infection. The Cabinet considered it a special case in the sequence of the decision of the , Bench, Indore, on humanitarian grounds.

In the provisions of the order related to compassionate appointment issued by the General Administration Department on September 29, 2014, a policy based decision was also taken by the Council of Ministers that both sons and daughters have equal rights for compassionate appointment, even if the daughters are married. In this regard, necessary amendments should be made in the General Administration Department policy.

A budget provision of Rs 150 crore has been made by the Council of Ministers in the Animal Husbandry and Dairy Department for the year 2022-23 under the Chief Ministers Animal Husbandry Development Scheme. The Chief Ministers Milching Cattle Supply Programme was included in the Animal Husbandry Development Scheme to implement the pilot project to connect the special backward tribes of the state, especially the Baiga tribe, with animal husbandry and to provide milching cattle to the beneficiaries.

The objective of the programme is to provide new EMPLOYMENT opportunities to the special backward tribes of the state by linking them with animal husbandry. After the implementation of the programme, special backward tribes of the state will get new employment opportunities. Along with this, complete nutritional food will be received in the form of milk.

Gujarat likely to reduce stamp duty, registration fee through finance bill

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Even as theGujarat governmentwill implement revised jantri rates from April 15, it is actively considering a proposal to reducestamp dutyand registration fee on purchase of properties, top sources in said. A finance bill listing out revised stamp duty and registration fee rates is expected to be introduced in the budget session of theGujaratassembly, which begins later this month.

Reduction in stamp duty and registration fee has been a long-standing demand of the real estate sector, which has made several representations to the government over this concession. At present, property registration attracts a stamp duty of 4.9% and a registration fee of 1%. Female buyers are exempt from the 1% registration fee.

Government revenue from stamp duty and registration fee recorded a healthy 19% rise in 2022 as compared to the previous year. The number of properties registered in 2022 in the state stood at 15,97,188, 11% higher than 14,29,607 properties that were registered in the state in the preceding calendar year. Government revenue from stamp duty and property registration also shot up from 7,337.9 crore in 2021 to 8,769 crore in 2022.

CM asks Centre to declare 50 roads of Rajasthan as NH

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Chief ministerAshok Gehlot, during the inauguration of the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway, once again requested PM Narendra Modi to issue gazette notification soon regarding declaring 50 roads of the state as national highways.
Gehlot said that NHAI is preparing the DPR of Jaipur Ring Road, Jodhpur Elevated Road, Lalsot-Pachpadra Road and Hanumangarh-Sadhuwali Road and construction of these should begin soon. The chief minister said that with the development of the refinery at Pachpadra and with the construction of Amritsar-Jamnagar Expressway, traffic pressure will increase from Jodhpur to Pachpadra. Therefore, a 6-lane road should be constructed to connect Jodhpur and Pachpadra refinery with Amritsar-Jamnagar Expressway.

Gehlot said that availability of water is very important for drinking and Irrigation in 13 districts of Rajasthan. The with its Resources is carrying forward the work ERCP.