Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar congratulated the people of State and officers of the Department for making consistent efforts so as to ensure a clean and green Environment and urged them to aim for the first position in the next Survey. Union Minister for Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Hardeep Singh Puri felicitated officials who had come to receive the award on the behalf of the State in a ceremony in New Delhi. The State Govt had taken steps including establishment of a Plant for disposal of waste in Sonepat from which 8 MW of power is being generated per day et al. due to which the State has been able to accomplish this milestone. Besides this, under the new category, Prerak DAUUR Samman (which will categorize cities on the basis of six select indicators) Gurugram, Rohtak and Karnal were recognized under Anupam (Gold) Category, Panchkula, Faridabad and Nilokheri have been recognized under Ujjwal (Silver) Category and Ambala has been recognized under Aarohi (Aspiring) Category.
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Punjab to give Rs 17,000 per acre compensation for pink bollworm attack on cotton
To provide relief to the growers and farm labourers who suffered losses due to pink bollworm pest attack on cotton crops,Punjabchief ministerCharanjit Singh Channi announced increasing of compensation from Rs 12,000 to Rs 17,000 per acre, besides 10% of the relief to the farm labourers involved in picking of cotton additionally.
Channi said the enhanced compensation amount will add up to nearly Rs 200 crore expenditure, in addition to the already approved Rs 416.18 crore on account of compensation at Rs 12,000 per acre.
In the meanwhile, the State Government has agreed to resolve the issue of issues of land mapping. The payment of nearly 70,000 farmers has been stuck due to double entries of same khasra numbers for not fragmenting of land between siblings and they going to different arhtiyas for selling crop.
Diabetes prevalence alarming in Himachal, 7th highest in country
Diabetes is the most common co-morbidity among those dying of Covid complications in the state. Thats a worrying finding as the prevalence of diabetes quite high in the state.
As per the finding of the Indian Council of Medical Research (Icmr) a while back, 11.5 per cent people have diabetes in the state. The national Average for diabetes is 9.8 per cent.
Apart from screening for the disease, the frontline workers and ASHA counsel people to adopt healthy diet and perform physical activity and give up alcohol and tobacco.
As per ICMR finding, 11.5 per cent persons have diabetes in the state against the national average of 9.8 per cent.
Health Minister Dhan Singh Rawat has said that there is a tremendous potential for pharmaceutical industries in Uttarakhand and the State can become leading State in the country in this discipline.
He was addressing a programme organised by Association of Devbhoomi Pharma Industries here on Wednesday. Rawat said that pharma can play a vital role in strengthening the Health Services and for this the people associated with this industry and government should work in tandem.
He said that there is a big demand for the safe, effective and high quality medicines at national and international levels and in such a scenario the pharma industry of the state has a golden opportunity at hand. On the problems associated with the industry the minister assured the members of the association that all their issues would be resolved. He said that soon a high level meeting would be convened in which the office bearers of the association and the officers concerned with the pharma industry would be invited so that the problems are resolved on the spot.
He said that the department officers have been directed to ensure uninterrupted power supply to the pharma units, provide land for setting up common drug testing lab, provide necessary concessions in
purchase of alcohol for synthesis of sanitisers and treatment and disposal of the harmful waste generated by the industrial units with the approved agency of the pollution board.
Swachh survey: 18 Uttar Pradesh cities bag awards
Lucknow won the award for Best State Capital In Citizens Feedback. Overall, it secured 12th rank and retained its previous years ranking to become top-tanked UP city in Population of 10 lakh and above category. Among other seven UP cities in top 30 were Ghaziabad (18th), Kanpur (21st), Agra (24th), Prayagraj (26th), Meerut (27th) and Varanasi (30th).
Three of these Ghaziabad, Kanpur and Meerut have improved their rankings while three others — Varanasi, Prayagraj and Agra have slipped a bit, but have retained their position in the top 30. Last year, six UP cities were in the top 30. This year, the number has risen to seven. Urban development minister Tandon and additional chief secretary, urban development, Rajnish Dubey, have congratulated the officials and representatives of award-winning municipal bodies for their good work.
Patiali won the Best City in Maximum Citizens Participation award in the category of cities with less than 1 lakh population. Hasanpur won the Fastest Mover City in the category of 50,000 to 1 lakh population while Awagarh and Gajraula won the Best City in Citizens Feedback award in their respective categories.
Despite the Covid-19 pandemic crippling school education for almost two years the number of six to 14 years old students enrolled in Government schools rose by over 2 per cent in Jharkhand from 2018 to 2021, the latest Annual Survey of Education Report (ASER) has revealed. According to ASER, 76.1 per cent students were enrolled in schools back in 2018, while 78.6 per cent of eligible students were enrolled in schools in 2021.
The also ensured that textbooks and other study materials were provided to school students during the lockdown in 2021. The Percentage of school students with access to textbooks of their respective grades increased in the state from 2018 to 2019, highlighted the ASER survey. As per ASER data, 77.1 per cent Jharkhand students had access to textbooks of their class back in 2018. In 2021, 89.8 per cent students had access to textbooks of their class.
In-person classes in all Jharkhand schools remained suspended from March 2020 to late 2021 owing to the Covid-19 crisis. The government launched several campaigns during this period to encourage online Education for students.
As per government data, there are over 42 lakh students studying in classes 1 to 12 in about 35,000 government schools across the state.
Now, with schools gradually reopening, the School Education and Literacy Department has shifted its focus on improving attendance in classes. In a campaign named Back to School Campus, the education department will ensure enrollment of such children who stopped going to school after the lockdown and build trust in parents that it was safe for their children to attend in-person classes at schools. In the third step, the education department plans to run fun activities at schools to ensure that children develop an interest in going to schools and do not feel that it is forced upon them.
As many as 2,535 children in the age bracket of five years to 16 years participated in the ASER survey conducted in September and October, the official website of ASER stated. At least 461 of the surveyed students studied in class 1 to 2, 631 in class 3 to 5, 646 in class 6 to 8 and 497 in class 8 to 12.
Bihar government to launch campaign to promote cleanliness
Even as Bihar was officially declared an open defecation-free state a couple of years back, the behaviour of most rural people towards proper sanitation is yet to change. The has, consequently, decided to begin an awareness campaign after the ongoing panchayat Elections as part of which the villagers will be told about the advantages of using toilets and maintaining cleanliness.
State rural development departments principal secretary Arvind Kumar Chaudhary told this newspaper, As sufficient number of toilets have been made available in almost all the villages under the Lohiya Swachh Bihar Abhiyan launched by the government, concerted efforts are being made to ensure their use by the people. An intensive campaign in this regard will be launched in different parts of the state after the elections are over and new panchayat committees constituted, he said.
He further pointed out that the government organised weeklong awareness campaigns at the village level every month to motivate the people to use toilets. However, they were temporarily stopped due to the panchayat elections.
Keeping the interest of fishermen on top priority, work is in progress on a fisheries policy in Chhattisgarh and will be announced soon, Agriculture Minister Ravindra Choubey said.
The after giving the status of Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture to Fisheries had given exemption in electricity and other equipment, he said.
Within a year, 2,500 fishermen have derived the benefit of Kisan Credit Card, said Choubey.
He added that recently an agreement was signed to supply 100 tonnes of tilapia fish to England. In lines of several online food supply, the fish farmers can work to supply fresh fishes to customers directly.
Farmers can look at these opportunities. He assured to fulfil the demands of fishermen and handed over equipment to beneficiaries under government schemes.
The rankings released by the Union ministry of housing and urban affairs (MoHUA) on Saturday are based on a cleanliness survey done across the country after segregating cities and towns based on their Population.
Overall, 4,320 Urban Local Bodies, including cities, towns, municipalities, and cantonments, in various categories were assessed. Of them, two major categories were 372 cities/towns with population between 1-10 lakh, and 48 big cities with10 lakh or above population.
The Swachh Bharat Survey 2020 had four parameters Citizen Feedback (1,500 marks), Certification (1,500 marks), Direct Observation (1,500) and Service Level Progress (1,500).
However, this year, the assessment was done on three scales Citizen Feedback (1,800 marks), Service Level Progress (2,400 marks) and Certification (1,800 marks). Total marks up for grabs were 6,000. Meerut was the star performer, recording a big jump of 14 rungs from 41st rank last year to 27 this time with an aggregate score of 3,598, a substantial increase in comparison to last year.
On the other hand, the biggest drop in ranking among UP cities was recorded by Agra, which slipped from rank 16 last year to 24 this year. Agras net score also plunged to 3,715 from 4,391 last year. Prayagraj also lost six spots from rank 20 last year to 26th this time. Its net score in 2020 was 4,141, which came down to 3,613 this year. Varanasi, too, slipped three rungs from 27th rank last year to 30th this time, with its score dropping to 3,532 from 3,684 last year.
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that he is proud and happy to inform that Madhya Pradesh has realized the dream and resolve of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. This year Madhya Pradesh has received total 38 awards in the Swachchhata Sarvekshan 2021 Award. Last year, the State had received 27 awards.
The State received 21 Awards in the main program held in New Delhi on Saturday. Chouhan saluted the residents of Indore and congratulated them. It may be noted that Indore ranks first in the country in cleanliness for the fifth time in a row.
Chouhan said that Indore is also on the first place in the Safai Mitra Suraksha Challenge. Bhopal and Dewas have also received the award. Apart from Indore, Bhopal, Ujjain, Pachmarhi Camp, Hoshangabad, Dewas and Barwaha have also received awards in Cleanliness Survey. In Garbage Free City category, Ujjain, Gwalior, Dewas, Singrauli, Mundi, Burhanpur, Rajgarh, Dhar and capital Bhopal apart from Indore have received awards. Madhya Pradesh has been made proud with cleanliness awards being bagged by its cities. Chouhan congratulated all the residents, public representatives and local administration.
Ahmedabad drops to 10th spot in Swachh Survekshan
Over the last three years, Ahmedabad has dropped by four ranks to land on the tenth spot since 2019 in the latestSwachh Survekshanranking 2021.
Gujaraton the other hand has ranked third with 931 points in the latest 2021 cleanliness survey.
It is worth pointing out here is that the city had ranked 14 in 2016 and 2017 in a row and then in 2018 it ranked twelfth. The issue is significant as it was in this city between 1917 and 1919 that Mahatma Gandhi had launched one of the longest running cleanliness drives with Dr Hariprasad Desai in the Walled City, when he had returned from South Africa to set up the Satyagraha Ashram in Ahmedabad.
Another major blow to Gujarat in the cleanliness ranking was Bapus birthplace Porbandar, which dropped to the 146 rank among 695 districts that were assessed by the Union ministry of urban development. Back in 2016 it ranked 187 and it was only in 2020 that Bapus birthplace had risen to the rank 100. The state urban development department had asked Porbandar Nagarpalika and the District Administration to come out with a detailed plan for improving the situation of Bapu;s birthplace