22.12.21

Punjab will set up university chair to study Bible

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To woo the Christian community inPunjabfor their electoral support during the 2022 assembly , chief ministerCharanjit SinghChanni made a slew of promises to the community, including setting up a Chair at the university level for the study of the Bible.

A community hall would be constructed in each district of Punjab in order to enable the community to hold functions there, he said. Meanwhile,Christian Welfare Board, Punjab, chairmanSalamat Masihthanked the Punjab government for choosing Gurdaspur as the place for holding this state-level function.

Himachal adopts cluster school system for optimum infrastructure utilization

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The Himachal Pradesh Education Department has adopted cluster school system for optimum utilisation of manpower and to achieve the goal of quality education and notified 1023 clusters with enrolment of 4, 97,631.

Based on area and accessibility, cluster schools (middle, senior secondary and high) notified by the Higher Education Department included 1,878 Government Senior Secondary School (GSSS), 931 Government High Schools (GHS) and 1895 Government Middle Schools.

The maximum number of 182 clusters has been notified in Shimla followed by 161 in Mandi, 134 in Kangra, 121 in Chamba, 109 in Sirmaur, 84 in Solan, 63 in Hamirpur, 58 in Kullu, 42 in Bilaspur, 37 in Una, 23 in Kinnaur and 21 in Lahaul and Spiti.

Uttarakhand: Primary classes in govt schools to operate even on Saturdays

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TheUttarakhandEducation department has decided to allow government schools to call primary students along with secondary students on Saturdays to make up for the time lost in the current academic year. The decision has been taken in view of the “stable Covid-19 situation” in the hill state.

The education department, meanwhile, has released its annual holiday calendar for the next academic year. The state-run schools will operate for 244 days in winter prone areas while those located in summer prone areas like the plains, will operate for 243 days.
Though, the calendar for 2022 shows that schools will remain closed on Saturday. The principals will have the right to declare upto three holidays in the year for their respective schools. But, they will need to provide prior information to the concerned block education officer.

These three leaves will be counted as “discretionary leaves”. The same right for discretionary leaves have been given to all district magistrates.

Uttar Pradesh self-reliant in medical oxygen supply, 550 plants functional: Govt

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With a possible third wave of Covid-19 looming amid omicron threat, theUttar Pradeshgovernment has said that the state is working to become ‘self-reliant’ in generation of medical Oxygen. Over 550 oxygen Plants have been operationalized in the state while another 10 are expected to become functional very soon.

The government had made oxygen plants mandatory in all hospitals having more than 50 beds and district administrations are carrying out real-time monitoring of the work. Oxygen plants are also being set up at community Health centres and primary health centres.

An MoA was signed between Central Mine Planning & Design Institute (CMPDI) and Central Institute of Petrochemicals Engineering and technology (CIPET): Center for skilling and Technical support (CSTS), Ranchi on Tuesday for Providing Skill Development Training in the field of machine operation to 80 underprivileged/unemployed/underemployed youth from Jharkhand State through CIPET: CSTS under CSR of CMPDIL(HQ),Ranchi. CMPDIL has approved Rs 68 Lakh for the skill development program.

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Meanwhile, another Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) was signed between Central Mine Planning and Design Institute (CMPDI) and Ramakrishna Mission TB Sanatorium, Tupudana, Ranchi for ‘Installation of Ultrasound Color Doppler system in Ramakrishna Mission TB Sanatorium, Tupudana, Ranchi’ under CSR was organized on Tuesday at CMPDIL.

Bihar CM Nitish Kumar to begin social reform campaign

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Chief minister (CM)Nitish Kumarwill embark on his three-week-long campaign for social reforms, christened Samaj Sudhar Abhiyan, from Motihari.

As part of the campaign, he will visit all nine divisions across the state and hold public meetings to make people aware of the benefits of liquor and bad impacts of dowry system and child marriage on the Society.

As per an official order issued by the cabinet secretariat departments (CSD) additional chief secretary Sanjay Kumar, the CM will hold public meetings at 12 district headquarters as part of his campaign.
The CM will cover one district each in six divisions Saran, Darbhanga, Kosi, Purnia, Bhagalpur and Gaya. He will cover two districts each in three other divisions Tirhut, Patna and Munger.

CM launches ‘Gauthan Map’ mobile app

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Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel launched the ‘Gauthan Map’ (Gauthan Multi Activity and Livelihood Management) mobile app here.

The app has been developed by CHIPs for Gauthan Management. All details of cow dung procurement, gauthans along with information about activities of self-help groups and will be made available in the app.

This in-house app developed by Chhattisgarh Infotech Promotion Society (CHiPS) will have a Database of all the gauthans in the state. This will include details of Resources, activities, beneficiaries and Services available in the gauthans.

Digital mapping of Gauthans will be done through geo-tagging. A database of various activities conducted by self-help groups will be prepared for each Gauthan. This framework will enable accurate monitoring of key indices of Gauthans.

On this app, a Gauthan-centric database will be available for a robust digital evaluation mechanism for both Gauthan committees and self-help groups for the State Government.

The database will help in planning future activities in Gauthans. Through monitoring the trend and performance of income generating activities in Gauthan, new sources of livelihood will be identified.

Maximum demand in history in the State in power sector

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A new record was set for maximum demand of electricity in Madhya Pradesh on December 21. For the first time in the HISTORY of the state’s power sector, the maximum demand of electricity for a day was recorded at 15,427 megawatt. For the last five days, the maximum demand of electricity in the state is being recorded above 15,000 megawatt. Due to better management and strong Network of power companies, this maximum demand of electricity was successfully supplied and there was no power disruption anywhere in the state. It is noteworthy that in the last financial year 2020-2021, on December 31, the maximum demand of electricity in the state was 15,425.

Energy Minister Pradyuman Singh Tomar has appreciated the engineers, officers and employees of all the companies for successfully supplying the highest ever power demand. Madhya Pradesh Paschim Kshetra Vidyut Vitaran Company (Indore and Ujjain divisions) has maximum demand of 5,980 megawatt, Madhya Pradesh Madhya Kshetra Vidyut Vitaran Company (Bhopal and Gwalior divisions) has 5,005 megawatt and Madhya Pradesh Poorv Kshetra Vidyut Vitaran Company (Jabalpur, Sagar and Rewa divisions) 4,184 megawatt was recorded. The demand of the RAILWAY stood at 259 megawatt.

Export-oriented growth will strengthen economy: Gujarat CM

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Chief minister Bhupendra Patel on Monday said that export-driven Growth will strengthen the Indianeconomy.

Presiding over a pre-Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit (VGGS) event on Local Goes Global, he said exporting locally-produced goods will increase Foreign Exchange earnings and realize the vision of an Aatmanirbhar Bharat through the Vocal for Local initiative.

With facilities and assistance provided to exporters through the One District One Product programme, Gujarat has emerged as a leading exporter with a 30 per cent contribution to Indias total exports, the CM said.

Rajasthan: 43% Banswara kids between 0-6 years out of malnourished tag

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The state governments pilot project, Poshan Swaraj Abhiyan, launched in tribal-dominated Banswara district, has reduced the number ofmalnourishedchildren aged between 0-6 years by 43 per cent in less than 11 weeks.

Launched in August, the project is a collaboration with Banswara-based NGO Vaagdhara, which works on tribal livelihood issues. Under this campaign, children and adolescents in 750 villages of five blocks Kushalgarh, Anandpuri, Sajjangarh, Ghatol and Gangartalai were screened to identify malnourished and acutely malnourished children.

The Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) screened 16,000 children in Kushalgarh to figure out 4,045 children were malnourished and severely malnourished.