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Ineligible farmers not turning up to return aid under kisan yojana

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Nearly 3,300 farmers in the district were found ineligible under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana (PMKSNY) in the district, and were asked to refund the financial aid of around Rs 3.82 crore Just over Rs 38 lakh have been recovered so far.

As per the data procured from the Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Department, as many as 3,296 ineligible farmers, majority of whom were payee, were detected, but only 386 farmers have refunded Rs 38,32,000 so far.

The income tax-payee farmers and those who get pension over Rs 10,000 are not eligible to get the financial aid under the scheme that aims at providing Rs 6,000 per annum in three installments for agricultural works. Only those farmers, having land in their name in the revenue records are eligible to receive the aid.

Punjab rural household indebtedness rose from 33% to 35% in 6 years, Parl told

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As per the latest All-India Debt and Survey (AIDIS), the rural household indebtedness inPunjabhas increased from 33.1% in the year 2012 to 35.1% in 2018, Union finance minister for state Pankaj Chaudhary informed Lok Sabha on Monday. Similarly, the urban household indebtedness in Punjab has also witnessed nearly 2% increase from 18.3% to 20.6% during the same period.

The Average national rural household indebtedness was recorded at 35% and the average national urban household indebtedness at 22.4% in 2018. Chaudhary was responding to a question put by Congress MP from Ludhiana Ravneet Singh Bittu.

Similarly, in the hill state of Himachal Pradesh, the rural household indebtedness witnessed an escalation from 26% to 27.3% and the urban household indebtedness an increase from 21.9% to 23.9% between 2012 and 2018.

100 government elementary schools of Himachal Pradesh to get Rs15 cr

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As many as 100 government elementary schools have been approved by the government under the Swaran Jayanti Gyanodaya Cluster Shrestha Vidayalaya Scheme for improving the quality of Education so that the students and parents could repose confidence in these.

Under the scheme, a budgetary provision of Rs 15 crore, (Rs 15 lakh per school) has been made for 2021-22 for providing the improved toilets, electricity, library, better drinking water facilities, adequate and smart classrooms, Sports facilities and furniture.

Financial limits have been fixed for each component and Rs 8 lakh has been earmarked for the school

campus development, need-based constructions, renovations and renovation of buildings, toilets, water supply, electricity and fans, playground, boundary walls, lawns, benches, open air gym, stage, waste disposal, botanic garden, Environment-friendly features and solar Light panels.

Cluster schools will be permitted to spend Rs 1.50 lakh on items for cultural programmes, dress, , band and public address system.

A provision of Rs 1.25 lakh per school has been made for thermal scanners, pulse oximeters, material for sanitisation and other activities to combat Covid and Rs 75,000 for procurement and upgrade of sports equipment.

A defence focused incubator will be set up in the premises of Veer Madho Singh Bhandari Uttarakhand Technical University (UTU). The incubator will be set up with the help of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Technology Park (ARTPARK), an organisation that is supported by the Science and Technology department of the Central Government.

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After the establishment of the incubator, the administration can promote AI and Robotics culture in the state. Banerjee also said that ARTPARK aims to establish not just a good product but a technology that can help the Indian army in resolving the problems causing due to the challenges faced in the current global scenario.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will unveil the Kashi Vishwanath corridor in Varanasi during a two-day visit to his Lok Sabha constituency on December 13 and 14. Before that, he is also expected to visit Gorakhpur on December 7 to inaugurate AIIMS, nine hi-tech ICMR laboratories at BRD Medical College, and a fertiliser plant. The fertiliser plant, once operated by a central PSU, was closed for the last three decades.

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On December 13, Modi will be inaugurating his dream project, Shri Kashi Vishwanath Dham, following which each house in Varanasi will receive prasad from the temple as also a book on the project. Also, a programme, Bhavya Kashi Divya Kashi, will be organised on both days of his visit.

Significantly, during the 2017 , Modi had campaigned in Varanasi for three days and attended different programmes. This time too, he will be taking part in more than a dozen events during his visit.

The fertiliser plant will ensure large-scale supply of neem-coated urea in eastern Uttar Pradesh as well as in adjoining states and even in Nepal. The trial production in the plant will begin on November 30.

Expressing a need to digitalise safety, Gopal Kumar, chief inspector of factories, Jharkhand, on Monday said that over 1000 severe incidents got registered in 2020 and led to avoidable human deaths. Addressing the 3rd Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Jharkhand Safety Conclave at Beldih Club, he said that safety is multidimensional and cannot be defined. Since the formation of Factories and Mines Act, lots of work has been done in the field of Safety and yet many more things need to be done. Around seven per cent of the world’s population are working as engineers or as workers on sites which need to be alert and cautious during their work at shop floors.

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He further stated that digitisation is the need of the hour for safety as it bridges the gap between man, process uncertainty and safety officers. Through the help of digitalisation, we can get insights of uncertainty and can get enough time to handle and avoid it. In coming times, Digitisation would not be an option, it will be obligatory and part of our life.

CII Jharkhand organised its third edition of Industrial Safety Conclave today with the theme of Leveraging Digital Initiatives for Improving Industrial Safety. The objective of the CII Jharkhand Industrial Safety Conclave was to inspire the stakeholders towards building an even stronger culture of safety in their organisations. This conclave acted as a forum wherein the participants got the opportunity to interact with the safety professionals, thought leaders to learn the best practices.

Bihars share of poor highest, Keralas least, says Niti index

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Bihar, with its dismal scores across key development indicators such asnutrition, child andadolescent mortality,maternal Health, years of schooling,sanitationandelectricity, has topped the list of states with the largest share of Population who arepoor, according to think tankNiti Aayogs report, which has identified 25.01% of the countrys population as multi-dimensionally poor.

More than 50% of Bihars population has been classified as poor under the national Multi-dimensional POVERTY Index (MPI), followed by Jharkhand (42.2%), Uttar Pradesh (37.8%), Madhya Pradesh (36.7%) and Meghalaya (32.7%).Keralahas the least number of poor with only 0.7% of its population classified as such. Among the Union territories, 27.4% of Dadra and Nagar Havelis population is poor, according to the MPI parameters.

The data showed 51.9% of the population in Bihar is deprived of Nutrition, followed by Jharkhand (47.8%), MP (45.5%) and Uttar Pradesh (44.5%). has the lowest Percentage of population deprived of nutrition at 13.3%.

According to the report, a household is considered deprived if any child between the ages of 0 to 59 months, or woman between the ages of 15 to 49 years or man between the ages of 15 to 54 years for whom nutritional information is available is found to be undernourished.
The national MPI baseline report based on the National Family Health Survey-4 (2015-16) has been developed by NITI Aayog in consultation with 12 ministries and in PARTNERSHIP with state governments and the index publishing agencies Oxford Universitys Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

Uttar Pradesh is on top of the list with a population of nearly 5% categorised as deprived under child and adolescent mortality, followed by Bihar (4.6%), Madhya Pradesh (3.6%), Chattisgrah ( 3.3%) and Jharkhand (3.3%). Under maternal health, Bihar tops the chart with 45.6% categorised as deprived, followed by UP (35.5%), Jharkhand (33.1%) and Nagaland (33.1%).

Govt move to ensure grazing land for cows available in Madhya Pradesh

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District collectors will need to take Consent from theMadhya PradeshGaupalan and Promotion Board before allotting any government land that is used for cow grazing, for any development project. It has been done to ensure grasslands for cows are readily available.

The state has four native breeds of cattle – Malvi, Nimari, Kankatha and Gaolo. There are around 2,200 cowsheds that are functioning across state. Of them, close to 650 are run by non-government organisations and existed even before the cow cabinet was formed a year back, yoking together six departments animal husbandry, Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture, panchayat, forests, Home and revenue. The remaining cowsheds are run by the panchayats. The State Government had made a provision of Rs300 crore for cows in the last budget.

The state government has also decided that the eight gau sadans that were shut down will be operational again. There were eight gau sadans in undivided MP with total land of 7,200 acres. Of the eight, two went to Chhattisgarh when the state was carved out while the state still has land of 6,700 acres.

A van vihar is being set up at Gangaivir in Jabalpur district. Authorities said that 530 acres of land of the animal husbandry department is available and 2,000 cows can be given shelter there in a systematic manner.

Gujarat high court to take steps to cut plastic waste

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TheGujarathigh court on decided to take up the issue of curbing plastic waste menace and said public awareness should be created to do away with excessive usage of plastic. Putting a question about bringing in deterrence to resolve this growing problem, it said, This is going to be an uphill task, but there is always hope.

The court has been hearing two litigations filed in 2018 seeking strict implementation of plastic Waste Management rules and complete ban on paper cups and dishes, in which multi-layered plastic material is used. Besides, the petitions seek on manufacturing and sale of plastic products that are not recyclable.