21.05.21

Haryana CM announces aid for BPL families

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The Haryana Government has decided to pay the premium of the Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana under which the BPL families are paid Rs 2 lakh after the death of the insured person.

Besides the poor, who have lost their family members prematurely during the second Covid wave and for some reason could not fill the form for the benefit of this scheme, will be given Rs 2 lakh by the state.

For this, the first instalment of the premium must be in the account of the holder. As soon as the instalment is deducted from the account, the premium would be deposited in it by the government, he said. The scheme was for people aged 18 to 50 years with an annual premium of Rs 330, he said.

Free uniform for govt school kids

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School Education Minister Vijay Inder Singla has said 13,48,632 government school students will receive free uniform at their Home for the academic session 2021-22 as a grant of Rs 80.92 crore had been released by the Education Department.

He said after sanctioning the required grant, directions had been issued to district education officers for proper arrangement of uniform and have been asked to follow the safety protocol while distributing these among students. He added funds would be credited to the school management committees for the purchase of uniform.

Himachal’s 10 private universities offer space for isolation centres

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Private universities in the state have volunteered to provide space for micro Covid and quarantine centres with the assistance of the .

As most of the students have returned Home and online studies are going on, the accommodation at the private universities are vacant and they are ready to help the government in this time of crisis.

Ten private universities are willing to provide space to set up Covid and quarantine centres, said Chairman of the Himachal Pradesh Private Educational Institutions Regulatory Commission (HPPEIRC) Maj Gen Atul Kaushik (retd), who had an interaction with the chancellors and vice-chancellors of these universities.

Uttarakhand government to give Rs 3,000 per month to Covid orphans

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TheUttarakhand governmenton Saturday announced the Chief Minister Vatsalya Yojana to take care of those children, who lost their parents or the sole earning member of the family toCovid-19infection. Under thescheme, the government would make arrangements for the Education and training of thesechildrentill they attain the age of 21 years.

According to the provisions of the scheme, an amount Rs 3,000 per month would be given to them. Besides, the district magistrates have been asked to ensure that their share of ancestral property is not sold till they turn adults. Also,such kidswill be provided with 5% horizontal reservation in Uttarakhand government jobs.

Before Uttarakhand, several other states/UTs including Andhra Pradesh, Punjab, and Delhi, among others have announced such schemes. Earlier this week, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath also announced that his government will take responsibility of those children who have lost their parents during the second wave of the Covid-19 in Uttar Pradesh.

A day after the Allahabad High Court slammed the state government commenting that healthcare services were Ram Bharose in Uttar Pradesh, government spokesman Shishir Kumar said that Chief Minister Yogi Adityanaths primary thrust was not only to improve the states healthcare system but also to provide latest technology for treating patients.

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In view of the increase in the number of patients due to rising road accidents in the state, beds were expanded in the trauma centers of Level-1. Considering the SGPGI and KGMU’s Trauma Center, the number of beds and ventilators has been increased. With the commitment to provide affordable and up-to-date medical facilities to the people of Uttar Pradesh, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has planned to construct a medical college in each of the 75 districts of UP. Also his novel concept of Jan Arogya Mela is also a similar endeavour to take Health Services close to the homes of the people. In this sequence, the government has planned to open medical colleges on the public-private-PARTNERSHIP (PPP) model in 16 districts of the state that do not have any college till now,

The growth rate of Covid-19 in Jharkhand dropped below the national average on Tuesday after almost a month as the State reported at least 4,859 recoveries against 2,925 fresh cases in the past 24 hours, which brought the active caseload down to 31,528, figures compiled by the health department highlighted.

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As per bulletin released by the National Health Mission (NHM), the Growth rate of Covid-19 in the State was 0.91 per cent against the national Average of 0.93 per cent on Tuesday, while the doubling rate of cases in Jharkhand also improved in comparison to the national average. As per NHM data, it would take 76.68 days for the cases to double in the state against the national doubling rate of 75.03 days.

While the Covid recovery rate in the State also surpassed the national average of 85.60 per cent and reached 88.74 per cent with recoveries outnumbering fresh cases every day in the past fortnight, Jharkhands Covid mortality rate continued to be higher than the national average 0f 1.10 per cent. As per NHM data, the Covid mortality rate in Jharkhand was 1.43 per cent.

Bihar CM Nitish Kumar reviews facilities at six community kitchens

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A day after taking stock ofarrangementsat different community kitchen centres in 22 districts, CMNitish Kumar inspected the facilities at six places in the state capital through videoconferencing. The CM asked the officials to ensure that no outsiders, other than people coming to take meals, get entry inside the centres and unnecessary crowd such places.

The six kitchen centres inspected are located at the Bankipore Girls High School, Patna High School, Saidpur canal Rain Basera, NMCH, Rajkiya High School, Mangal Talab, and theCollege of Commerce.

The CM also spoke to some of the beneficiaries about the facilities andqualityoffoodsbeing provided to them.

All the beneficiaries to whom the CM spoke to through videoconferencing lauded the food quality and other arrangements made at the centres.

The Chhattisgarh cabinet approved the launch of the ‘Chief Minister Plantation Promotion Scheme to promote plantation in the state.

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Under the scheme, in private land and village panchayat land, commercial and non-commercial species of tree plantation will be promoted.

In Kharif year 2020-21, farmers have been given the option of plantation instead of paddy in their field. Those opting for the scheme will be given Rs 10,000 per acre for next three years as incentive.

Joint forest management committees will be given Rs 10,000 per acre as incentive after one year if plantation is done in revenue land. The right to cut the trees and its sales will be with the Committee.

In another major decision, the cabinet cleared a proposal to provide Rajiv Gandhi Kisan Nyay Yojana assistance in four installments for Kharif season 2020. The farmers having registered for paddy sale and paddy-seed producer farmers will be covered.

Provision has been made for Kharif season 2021 under the scheme to promote agro-Forestry. In the first two years, the land holding farmer will be given Rs 9,000 per acre in four instalments as input .

2.26 lakh vaccination doses take Madhya Pradeshs tally past 1.04 crore

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In all 2.26 lakh doses were administered during the day acrossMadhya Pradesh, according to the Health department data.

Most doses were administered inIndorewhere 34,376 people were inoculated. In Bhopal, 19,533 got thejab, followed byJabalpur(15,989),Gwalior(10,466) and Ujjain which reported 9,366 people getting administered thevaccineto protect against Covid-19.

Around 1,04,06,711 doses have been administered in MP, since vaccination began on January 16. 17,71,997 have received both the doses of the vaccine.

Gujarat in talks with Bharat Biotech to scale up Covaxin production, says DBT

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The state governmentsGujarat Biotechnology Research Centrealong with Hester Biosciences andOmniBRxhas firmed up its discussions withBharat Biotechto scale up the Covaxin technology and to produce minimum 20 million doses per month, said the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), under theUnion ministry of Science and Technology.

A triparty consortium has been formed with the government of Gujarat as the lead partner, to explore the prospects of manufacturing theCovidvaccine through technology from Bharat Biotech.