23.11.22

Northeast Green Summit begins in Umsaw

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Ways to deal with the challenges that https://exam.pscnotes.com/Climate-change”>Climate Change poses for the Northeast will be deliberated at the seventh edition of the Northeast Green Summit which got underway near here on Sunday. The theme of the three-day event at the North Eastern Police Academy (NEPA) in Umsaw, around 20 km from Shillong, is ‘Balancing People, Planet, Profit: Sustainable Northeast India and BIMSTEC region’.

According to the organiser — Vibgyor NE Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation that specialises in green issues of Northeast India — the event will bring together policy makers, green professionals and budding entrepreneurs.

Assam CM to transform Assam Medical College as ‘state-of-the-art institute’

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The Assam government is planning to transform the Assam Medical College (AMC) in Dibrugarh into a state-of-the-art research institute for dealing with new age ailments, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said

The premier institute needs to upgrade itself into a state-of-the-art medical institute with an adequate thrust on research to deal with acute diseases. He also asked the medical college authority to coordinate the PARTNERSHIP between the and IIT Guwahati for high-end medical research.

DBCL launches Project Hastakala

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The Dalmia Cement (Bharat) Ltd (DCBL) launched Project Hastakala, an innovative economic upliftment programme for the Women in Jhagarpur village under Rajgangpur block.

The project will impart the women of Jhagarpur with the knowledge and skilled application of the globally appreciated batik art form.

The project is being spearheaded by the R and R team of DCBL through collaboration with Kalayatan Institute of Art and Craft, Sundergarh.

The programme will be rolled out in phases, with the first phase kickstarting through a pilot with around 33 women. The scale-up of the programme will be done through imparting training to additional 170 beneficiaries from peripheral communities with the target of providing a regular income of Rs 8,000 to Rs10,000 to each.

State releases new protocol for surgeries

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A week after teenage footballer Priya R died of medical negligence, more than 600 surgeons from government hospitals across Naduhave gathered at Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital in the city to brainstorm mandatory medical checklists and protocols for all surgeries.

The State Government has announced it will form a surgical death audit committee to review random and special cases to prevent repetition of errors and initiate corrective measures. Four such committees in Chennai (north),Trichy(central), Coimbatore (west) andMadurai(south) would be formed with doctors from medical, surgical, anaesthetic and orthopaedic teams, Health ministerMa Subramaniansaid. Although all hospitals have a death audit committee, the surgical committee will periodically review selective deaths, he said.

Earlier, the minister released a 65-page handbook State Surgical Protocol and Checklist for doctors to adopt international protocols and guidelines to standardise safety norms before surgery, during the procedure, post-surgery and after discharge.

Karnataka hits back, vows special aid for Kannada schools in Maharashtra

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With theSupreme Courtset to hear petitions on Karnataka-Maharashtra border dispute from Wednesday, the one-upmanship between the two states has escalated, withKarnatakachief minister BasavarajBommaion Tuesday announcing his governments decision to offer special grants to Kannada-medium schools inMaharashtraand pension to Kannadigas in the neighbouring state who fought for unification of the state.

The move comes close on the heels of Maharashtra chief minister Shinde promising pension to freedom fighters from Belagavi and other parts in Karnataka, which are claimed by Maharashtra. Shinde also spoke of extending benefits of Mahatma Jyotirao Phule Jan Arogya Yojana (cashless medical care) for such freedom fighters.

Maharashtra, since its inception in 1960, has been entangled in a dispute with Karnataka over the status of Belgaum (renamed Belagavi) and 80 other Marathi-speaking villages in the southern state.

Govt urged to list biodiversity heritage sites in Telangana

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The was on Tuesday urged to list potential Biodiversity heritage sites if it wanted its biodiversity strategy to succeed.

Addressing a workshop organised by theTelangana State Biodiversity Board(TSBB),J Austin Mohan, secretary ofNational Biodiversity Authority, asked the state to create a mechanism to demarcate environmentally sensitive areas as they prepare the State Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (SBSAP).

The event was organised in a bid to ensure that various aspects of Biodiversity conservation were considered in Telanganas SBSAP. As of date, only nine states have their own SBSAP in the country.

Andhra Pradesh’s own tax revenues go up by 100% since bifurcation

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After recovering from the Covid-19 shocker, the state has improved itstaxrevenues in the last fiscal. As per the latest report released by theRBI, the state reported a healthy Growth rate of over 50-60 per cent in both state’s own tax revenues and non-tax revenues.

Interestingly, the state’s own tax revenues soared by nearly 100 per cent since the bifurcation of the state. The state own tax revenues stood at 42,168 crore in the first year of the bifurcation 2014-15. However, the tax revenues witnessed a drop by next year as the systems were not completely settled in the new state.

The revenues dipped to 39,907 crore in 2015-16. However, the tax revenue started picking up from 2016-17 when state pooled up 44,181 crore. However, these revenues were not found sufficient to handle the expenditure of various welfare schemes and proposed capital city projects.

Though the state’s own tax revenues moved upward in the consecutive years, they were never on the expected path. The tax revenues which were around 52,000 crore in 2017-18, reported just around 10 per cent growth rate by 2018-19. The state mopped up around 58,677 crore in 2018-19 in the penultimate year of TDP regime.

The state had pooled up around 57,601 crore in 2019-20 and 57,359 crore in 2020-21. “The state witnessed a slight fall in the tax revenues in two successive years only due to the Covid-19.

Goa government to spend 3cr for travel marts in Portugal, Germany, Spain, UAE in 2023

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The tourism department will spend over Rs 3 crore to participate in international travel marts in Madrid, Lisbon, Berlin and Dubai next year.

The target is to attract international tourists to Goa for various segments of tourism, including first itinerary travelers, wellness, MICE, leisure, monsoon, and medical tourism. Accordingly, the agency will have to evolve a strategy to achieve these goals.

Traditionally, most of Goa’s foreign tourists have come from Russia and the UK, and tourism minister Rohan Khaunte recently said that the state now can’t depend on only these two countries.

No Maharashtra village will merge with any other state, says CM Eknath Shinde

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Chief ministerEknath Shindesaid that no village of Maharashtra will be allowed to merge with any other state.

Shinde’s statement comes against the backdrop of his Karnataka counterpart Basavraj Bommai’s comment.

Bommai had said that his government is actively considering the resolution of the Jath taluka villages to merge with Karnataka, as the Maharashtra government had allegedly failed to address the water and Irrigation problems there.

The resolution adopted by those villages was way back in 2012 when they faced water problems. However, since then, schemes have been planned in the Jath taluka villages, and some of them have been already been implemented. Others will be implemented in due course of time.

Haryana to maintain digital record of every inch of land, says CM Khattar

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Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Thursday said that digital records of every inch of land in the state will be maintained to have real time data about the number of ponds, roads or .

Chairing a meeting with the officers concerned associated with this project, Khattar directed the Survey of India and the Revenue Department to complete the large scale mapping project for this work at the earliest. The department concerned should complete the technical works related to the large scale mapping project in each village sequentially so that no work remains pending in any village, Khattar added.

The CM directed the officers that complete mapping should be done outside the villages as well while executing large scale mapping. This should also include houses and other infrastructural constructions built in the fields outside the village, he said.

He further directed the officers of Survey of India to complete this large scale mapping work at the earliest by increasing the workforce of the employees. During the meeting, the team of Revenue and Survey of India apprised the CM that the work of large scale mapping has also been completed in eight urban areas of Jind, Karnal and Sonipat districts.

With this, each property in these areas can now be identified. In this, information about the area of the property, its location on the map and details of the property owner can also be easily obtained. The Chief Minister also congratulated the officials on the completion of this work.

Notably, Haryana is the first state to create a separate corporation to speed up the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) driven Governance application.