24-25.04.21

Haryana has buffer stock of 20 MT oxygen: Govt

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A day after it claimed to have started door-to-door supply of medicaloxygenforCovidpatients in Home isolation,Haryanagovernment, on Sunday, said the state has a buffer stock of10MToxygen for emergency use as the state stock has reached 262MT. The buffer stock has now gone up to 20MT and deputy commissioners have been directed to create 20 to 50bedsin their civil hospitals with provision of Oxygen.

As of now, more than 12,000 patients among 1.16 lakh active cases are on oxygen and ventilator support in Covid hospitals across the state. Many of them are in Gurgaon, Faridabad, Rohtak and Hisar districts.

Supply of oxygen has been a major challenge for the in the wake of the Covid surge. Deaths have been reported largely due to non- availability of oxygen in private hospitals of Rewari, Faridabad and Hisar. Many SoS calls for oxygen have been received from desperate kin of critical patients.

Punjab: Rs 2.7 crore action plan approved to promote fish farming in Patiala

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To promote fish farming inPatialadistrict, an action plan of Rs.2.7 crore has been approved for the year 2021-22.

Additional deputy commissioner (Development) Preeti Yadav, who chaired a district-level meeting on Tuesday, said that funds for the action plan have been allocated.

Yadav allocated Rs 84 lakh for construction of new ponds, Rs 48 lakh for first year fertilizer feed, Rs 7.50 lakh for re-circulatory aquaculture system, Rs 60 lakh for biofloc and Rs 7.50 lakh for motorbikes with ice boxes under the action plan.

She said that the main objective of these projects were to promote fish farming in Patiala district by adopting it as a mean of livelihood and to increase the income of the farmers.

Himachal Pradesh records GST collection of 429 crore in April 2021

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Chief minister Jai RamThakursaid the department registered its highest ever GST collection of Rs 429 crore in April 2021. GST collection was recorded at Rs 43 crore and Rs 333 crores in April 2020 and April 2019 respectively. The CM said the state excise departement also registered revenue collection of Rs 142 crore in April 2021 as against Rs 8 crore and Rs 155 crore in April 2020 and April 2019 respectively.

He said thestate excise and departmenthas collected revenue of Rs 642 crore in April this year as against Rs 76 crore collected during the corresponding period last year.
The department has registered a Growth of 9 percent in April 2021 in comparison to April 2019 (Rs 590 crores).

Thakur said that the initiative of the department, especially regular interaction with taxpayers and recognising their contribution towards thestate economy in pandemic periodis leading to better and timely compliance by taxpayers.

Ukhand police to set up plasma banks in each district

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TheUttarakhandpolice has announced to set up plasma banks in each district of the state. The personnel of the Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) and the Indian Reserve Battalions (IRB) who have recuperated from Covid-19 will also donate their plasma for these banks.

It is to be noted that almost 1,000 Police personnel have contracted Covid-19 during the second wave of coronavirus in the state. Last year, nearly 2,000 cops were tested positive for Covid-19.

Uttar Pradesh government’s plantation drive to also bring income to ‘gaushalas’

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Plantation of 30cr trees in the state in coming July would be an`organic’ exercisecompletely with no chemical Fertilizers and pesticides being used. Organic compost and`jeevamrut’ will be used instead of chemical formulations. It will be an extra Source Of Income for `gaushalas’ as is keen to make them self-reliant.

Gaushala’ products were used for plantation for the first time, on a large scale, last year. State nurseries had prepared `jeevamrut’ on their own. This time the move is being repeated.

There are about 1,700 nurseries in the state and last year, forest department had raised 44cr saplings to plant 25cr trees in a day. This time, nurseries may raise a higher number of saplings.

CAR-Indian Institute of Agricultural Biotechnology (IIAB), Garhkhatanga, Ranchi successfully organized International Symposium on Advances in Plant Biotechnology and Genome Editing (APBGE-2021), held virtually. More than 450 delegates from 11 different countries participated in the three-day Symposium (Apr 8-10).

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Nine scientific sessions were organized during these days with keynote lectures delivered by renowned national and international experts working in the domain.

There was a timely workshop on Genome Editing Technology, partnering with the industries, for the benefit of young researchers and students.

The symposium extensively covered recent advances in plant Tissue Culture, system biology and Biotechnology in plant sciences with focus on plant Stress induced by impending Climate changes.

Bihar: Now, buy fresh vegetables from cooperative departments portal

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The state cooperative department on Thursday launched a web portal www.tarkaarimart.in to supply locally grown fresh vegetables to the residents of the state capital and East Champaran district. Launching the webportal, cooperative department secretary Vandana Preyasi said the project was preponed to discourage people visiting vegetable markets putting their lives at risk.

The project aimed at providing fair price of their produce to the farmers and vegetables to the consumers at a reasonable rate compared to the open vegetable markets. It will also fulfill the much ambitious project Har thaali mein Bihari Tarkari, (vegetable grown in Bihar in each platter in the country)” she added.

Around 12,000 vegetable growers of Patna, Vaishali, Samastipur, Begusarai and have got registered with the primary vegetable cooperative Society set up at the panchayat level for collection and Marketing of the produce.

Chhattisgarh: Bhupesh Baghel govt to give 1112 crore to farmers

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TheChhattisgarhgovernment will on Sunday transfer more than Rs 1,112 crore directly to the accounts of farmers towards the fourth instalment ofRajiv Gandhi Kisan Nyay Yojanaand the unique Godhan Nyay Yojana, under which the state procures cow dung from cattle rearers.

Rajiv Gandhi Kisan Nyay Yojana was launched on May 21 last year to provide agricultural input assistance to farmers and to increase production and the productivity of major crops of the state. Besides paddy in the kharif season, 13 other crops such as maize, soyabean,groundnut, sesame, pigeonpea, moong, urad, kulthi, ramatil, kodo, kutki, ragi have also been included along with sugarcane in rabi season.

Under Rajiv Gandhi Kisan Nyay Yojana, farmers who cultivated paddy in Kharif 2019 are being paid in instalments directly in their bank account at Rs 10,000 per acre on the basis of acreage obtained through .

Nearly 18.4 lakh farmers including 9.54 lakh marginal farmers, 5.60 lakh small farmers and 3.21 lakh large farmers have been paid Rs 4,500 crore in three instalments as input assistance and 4,777 certified seed growers have been paid over Rs 23.6 crore in three instalments.

In this way, Rs 4,523.62 crore has been paid to a total of 18.43 lakh farmers.

Godhan Nyaya Yojana the only such scheme in the country was started for the purchase of cow dung at the rate of Rs 2 per kg to provide additional income to Livestock rearers. More than 70,000 landless people constitute 44.5% of the beneficiaries under this scheme.

Radio programme for women safety

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One-hour radio programme for awareness of Women safety would be organised by joint efforts of State Police and public relations department.

Under the Women’s Awareness Campaign ‘Samman’, a joint innovative effort of Madhya Pradesh Police and Public Relations Department is organising awareness programs for citizens of Bhopal.

In this programme, the experiences of the girls, stories of real heros, opinions of experts as well as the views of citizens would be discussed and shared.

IFFCO to set up O2 plant in Paradip

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The Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative Limited (IFFCO) has decided to set up anoxygen planton the factory premises inParadip. It will make Oxygen available free of cost to hospitals treatingCovidpatients.

To help the governments efforts to augment availability of oxygen in the country, IFFCO has taken steps to set up oxygen Plants at its fertiliser units for meeting the requirement of patients affected by Covid. The cooperative body has already placed an order for setting up of one oxygen plant at itsKalolunit inGujarat. This plant will be made operational within two weeks. It will have a capacity to produce 700 oxygen cylinders per day.

Each cylinder has capacity of 46.7 litres with medical grade oxygen of 99.5% purity.
IFFCO has also placed orders to set up three similar plants at its fertilizer units in Aonla andPhulpurin Uttar Pradesh and Paradip inOdisha.