The central government has sanctioned the development of synthetic turf football ground and running tracks for sportspersons in Bastar
The central government has sanctioned Rs 5 crores for the development of synthetic turf football ground and running tracks for sportspersons in Bastar District Headquarters.
The development of synthetic turf football ground is a golden opportunity for the sports talent of Bastar to polish themselves. It is noteworthy that the vision of khelbo-jeetbo-gadhbo Nava Chhattisgarh to promote sports and to ensure the development of sports infrastructure in the state is taking the shape of reality under the leadership of chief minister Bhupesh Baghel.
Directorate of Sports and Youth Welfare had sent a proposal to the central government for construction of synthetic football ground and running track in Jagdalpur, Bastar under Khelo India Yojana.
As a result of chief minister’s consistent efforts, the Government of India has given administrative approval for the construction of synthetic turf football ground and running track in Jagdalpur at the cost of Rs 5 crores, on Friday.
Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel and sports minister Umesh Patel have congratulated all the officials and employees of the sports department. Chief Minister has said that the best possible facilities will be provided for sportspersons of Bastar region.
Union Power Minister RK Singh on Monday announced historic power reforms in the sector for consumers, asserting that the new rules will empower them.
The new set of rules, which will ensure the rights of electricity consumers, provides for penalties for power distribution utilities (discoms) for not maintaining mandated standards of services under the Electricity (Rights of consumers) Rules.
RK Singh said that these rules will empower the consumers of electricity as the entire power system is for them. “We are the representatives of the people. We will fight for the rights of the people. The rules we have made it clear for the first time that the entire power system is for the consumer and not the consumers for the system. You have to serve the consumer. You have to give rights to the consumer,” RK Singh said.
“Now there is no need that the consumer will apply for the connection and run to local power office. Consumers will submit an application to complete all the formality. This can be done online also. Power companies have to give the connection within the fixed time,” he said.
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The Union Minister said that consumers’ complaints should be resolved quickly else penalties will be imposed. “If there is any complaint about the meter, then it has to be tested within the fixed time. If there is any complaint of consumers, then action has to be taken within these days, or else penalty will be imposed because consumers are empowered now. The company does not have the rights that is why it was needed. We are also setting the standard,” he said.
“If the power supply is below standard, then you will incur a penalty. The penalty will be incurred if you do load setting for a long time also. This is the rule. The government has the right to make the rule. We drafted and consulted all the stakeholders and put it on the internet. Keeping the suggestions in mind, we made rules in consultation with the Law Ministry, and that rules were made,” Singh said.
“Now we have to put it on the table of the Parliament and it will remain on the table of the Parliament for 60 days and if the Parliament did not make any amendments to it, then it will be implemented like this,” he said. Singh said that the Central government had approved a plan of Rs 2.2 lakh crore under Deendayal Vidyut Yojana and Saubhagya scheme to improve the power system.
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“60 percent of which has been given by the Government of India as a grant and 30 percent loan. Only 10 percent state has to bear it. This has strengthened the distribution system of the power supply in states,” he added.
Rights of consumers and obligations of distribution licensees, the release of new connection and modification in existing connection, metering arrangement, billing and payment, disconnection and reconnection, reliability of supply, consumer as prosumer, standards of performance of licensee, compensation mechanism, call center for consumer services, grievance redressal mechanism are key areas covered in the Electricity (Rights of Consumers) Rules.
These rules emanate from the conviction that the power systems exist to serve the consumers and the consumers have rights to get the services and reliable, quality electricity, according to a release by the Ministry of Power.
Congress leader and former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Motilal Vohra passed away at a hospital in New Delhi on Monday at the age of 93.
“Motilal Vora was hospitalized with urine infection two days ago but it was not the cause of his death,” Congress sources said. Fortis Escort Hospital where he was admitted is yet to inform about the actual cause of the Congress leader’s death. Vora was a Rajya Sabha member from Chhattisgarh from April 10, 2002, to April 9, 2020.
कांग्रेस परिवार के वरिष्ठ सदस्य पूर्व मुख्यमंत्री श्री मोतीलाल वोरा जी के निधन पर सादर श्रद्धांजलि।
केंद्रीय मंत्री से लेकर मध्यप्रदेश के मुख्यमंत्री तक जनहित ही वोरा जी के जीवन का उद्देश्य रहा।
The late Congress leader became the 13th chief minister of Madhya Pradesh on January 25, 1989, and was in office till December 8, 1989. Vora also held the office of Governor of Uttar Pradesh between 1993 and 1996. Vora was born on December 20, 1927, at Nimbi Jodha near Jodhpur in Rajasthan.
We offer our heartfelt condolences on the sad demise of stalwart Congress leader, former Union Cabinet Minister, and former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, Shri Motilal Vora. Congress has lost a guiding light. May his soul rest in peace,” Indian National Congress (INC) tweeted.
C Milan’s Rafael Leao on Sunday scripted history during the Serie A clash against Sassuolo. AC Milan secured a 2-1 win over Sassuolo in the match.
Leao scored the opening goal of the match, just six seconds after the kickoff. This is the fastest ever goal in Serie A, overtaking the previous record set by Paolo Poggi in December 2001 with Piacenza (8 seconds). “6.2 seconds: new fastest goal in #SerieATIM! What a start to #SassuoloMilan, flame on,” AC Milan tweeted.
Alexis Saelemaekers then added another goal to AC Milan’s tally as the first half concluded on 2-0. In the 89th minute, Domenico Berardi netted a goal but it was not enough for Sassuolo to stop AC Milan from securing three points from the game.
With this, AC Milan also got back to the winning ways as they witnessed two back to back draws in their previous games. In addition, the victory ensured that AC Milan remains unbeaten in this season of Serie A. AC Milan holds the top spot on the Serie A table with 31 points, one point ahead of the second-placed Inter Milan. The club will now take on Lazio on Thursday.
The Industrial Promotion and Investment Corporation of Odisha Ltd nominated as the top performer among 20 state investment promotion agencies
The Industrial Promotion and Investment Corporation of Odisha Ltd (IPICOL) have been categorised as a top performer among 20 state investment promotion agencies with an overall score of 98 per cent.
The assessment by Invest India in collaboration with the World Bank Group was meant to measure the preparedness of Indian investment promotion agencies to attract and facilitate investment projects. Invest India undertook a survey with 74 questions across eight pillars. These pillars included mandate and organisation, strategy and marketing, targeting investors, winning investment projects, facilitating investments, after-care systems, infrastructure and website.
The states were classified into four categories: top performers, aspiring leaders, promising developers and emerging potential.
“We congratulate IPICOL for taking remarkable measures that have resulted in it becoming one of the leading investment promotion agencies in India,” said the Invest India report.
“We commend the far-sightedness of the state investment promotion agency and its leadership for taking the steps to prove its relevance in this competitive landscape.”
The report said that a noteworthy initiative taken by the state to strategically decide its focus sectors and sub-sectors, and curate its investment promotion and targeting approach accordingly will play a critical role in positioning Odisha as an attractive investment destination.
Over the past few years, IPICOL has worked extensively to make the business environment in Odisha conducive and hassle-free by bringing in institutional, systemic and technological reforms. This was reflected in the pillar-wise scores in which it scored 100 per cent in seven pillars while scoring 80 per cent in the remaining one.
Schools have been instructed to strictly adhere to the COVID-19 guidelines, “No assembly will take place at the school”
With schools for class 10th and 12th reopening in Jharkhand from Monday, schools have been instructed to strictly adhere to the COVID-19 guidelines.
Oxford Public School in Ranchi has introduced the “odd-even system” to maintain social distancing following which students having odd roll numbers will be allowed to attend the class on Monday, Wednesday and Friday while students having even roll numbers will be allowed to come on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. However, parents need to give written approval that they are willing to send their children to school and they will follow all the COVID-19 related rules.
“If all the students attend classes together, it will become difficult to follow social distancing and ensure other rules. So, we have introduced the odd-even system and the parents have also been informed about the same,” said Principal, Suraj Sharma.
Amid #Covid19, when many state governments are postponing the decision to reopen schools, regular #classes for students of 10th to 12th will resume from today in #Jharkhand.https://t.co/2I3WmVWNsQ
“No assembly will take place at the school,” he added.
Other offline classes will continue as they were during the lockdown, for all the classes.
Though students are excited to attend the school after a long span, at the same time they will be experiencing a total change in the classes that will be held from now onwards amid the pandemic.
“Everything is changed. We are used to off online classes now but we are ready to attend the regular classes after a long period,” said a student. Medical, dental and nursing colleges outside the containment zones have also been permitted to open.
Concluding his two-day visit to West Bengal, Union Home Minister Amit Shah departed for Delhi from Durgapur here on Sunday night.
Shah’s much-anticipated visit to the state began on Saturday. On the same day, eleven MLAs, an MP, and a former MP joined Bharatiya Janata Party at the rally of the Union Home Minister.
Suvendu Adhikari, Tapasi Mondal, Ashoke Dinda, Sudip Mukherjee, Saikat Panja, Shilbhadra Dutta, Dipali Biswas, Sukra Munda, Shyamapda Mukherjee, Biswajit Kundu, and Banasri Maity joined the BJP ahead of State Assembly elections in 2021.
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Speaking at a press conference in Birbhum here on the concluding day of his two-day visit to the state, Shah welcomed Adhikari into the BJP fold and said all those leaders are welcome into the party who raise their voice against injustice.
“Many leaders from TMC and Congress have joined BJP. I welcome Suvendu Adhikari into the BJP fold. We believe that whoever raises their voice against injustice should join BJP,” he said.
Shah on Sunday said that the turnout of a sizeable number of people in his roadshow at Birbhum indicated that people of West Bengal are “angry” with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and want a change. West Bengal is scheduled to go for assembly polls in mid-2021. The dates have not been announced yet.
Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh visited DRDO’s Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Missile Complex during his visit to Hyderabad
Hon’ble Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Shri G Kishan Reddy and Dr G Satheesh Reddy, Secretary, Department of Defence R&D and Chairman, DRDO accompanied Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh during the visit. Cluster DGs, Lab Directors, and Programme Directors briefed the dignitaries about the ongoing projects and technological developments. On this occasion, Hyderabad-based DRDO labs showcased various indigenously developed systems and technologies in wide-ranging areas including missiles, avionics systems, advanced materials, electronic warfare, quantum key distribution technology, directed energy weapons, Gallium Arsenide, and Gallium Nitride technology capabilities.
During his visit, two anti-drone technologies were demonstrated by DRDO labs to Raksha Mantri. DRDO Young Scientists’ Laboratory – Asymmetric Technologies (DYSL-AT) and RCI demonstrated drone and innovative anti-drone technologies. It has multiple capabilities including neutralizing ground targets and anti-drone applications to counter stationery as well as high-speed moving targets. Key features of the weapon system include secure communication link, effective recoil management system, high firing angular resolution, and vision-based target detection and tracking.
Hon’ble Raksha Mantri inaugurates the Advanced Hypersonic Wind Tunnel (HWT) test facility at Hyderabad DRDO complex. It is an indigenous development and an outcome of synergistic partnership with Indian industries. @DefenceMinIndiapic.twitter.com/fJWpNRXhN8
On this occasion, Raksha Mantri inaugurated the advanced Hypersonic Wind Tunnel (HWT) test facility. The state-of-the-art HWT Test facility is pressure vacuum driven enclosed free jet facility having nozzle exit diameter of 1 meter and will simulate Mach No 5 to 12 (Mach represents the multiplication factor to the speed of sound). After USA and Russia, India is the third country to have such a large facility in terms of size and operating capability. It is an indigenous development and an outcome of synergistic partnership with Indian industries. The facility has the capability to simulate hypersonic flow over a wide spectrum and will play a major role in the realization of highly complex futuristic aerospace and defence systems.
During the exhibition of a range of missile systems, various avionic systems and other technologies, scientists explained all the systems and technologies in detail and Hon’ble Raksha Mantri showed keen interest in the technical explanations and demonstrations.
Shri Kishan Reddy laid the foundation stone of the Explosive Test Facility for Propellant and Explosive Systems. This facility will be used for design validation and evaluation of missile sub-systems under different environmental conditions. He appreciated the efforts of DRDO for developing such a large number of systems. He said that he is happy that so much of high technology work is happening in the Hyderabad region, the region where he belongs.
Raksha Mantri addressed the DRDO fraternity and applauded the phenomenal technological achievements and recent series of successful missions and technological achievements by various clusters of DRDO including Hypersonic Technology Demonstration Vehicle (HSTDV), Anti-Radiation Missile (RUDRAM), Quick Reaction Surface to Air Missile (QRSAM), Supersonic Missile Assisted Release Torpedo (SMART) and Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) technology during last six months. He lauded DRDOs contributions, despite COVID pandemic conditions, towards strengthening Atmanirbhar Bharat and for leading the indigenous development of state-of-the-art technology products and innovative solutions. He congratulated Dr. G Satheesh Reddy for DRDO’s contribution to the development of technologies and products for combatting the COVID-19 Pandemic. Also, he acknowledged the tremendous efforts in the establishment of COVID-19 hospitals at Delhi and Bihar, development of indigenous ventilators, PPE kits, and other protective equipment in a short span of time.
Shri Rajnath Singh appreciated the endeavors of contributions of DRDO Young Scientist Labs and said DRDO needs to focus on next-generation needs including cybersecurity, space and artificial intelligence, and evolve roadmaps. The immense potential available in DRDO has been a catalyst for the development of industries and the defense manufacturing sector. RM urged DRDO scientists to make India a Super Military Power thereby making India a Super Power.
Farmers at Delhi’s Ghazipur border have started using solar panels to charge their phones, tractor batteries and to carry out other important works
New Delhi [India]: Amid the lack of facilities, farmers protesting against the new farm laws at Delhi’s Ghazipur border have started using solar panels to charge their phones, tractor batteries and to carry out other important works. After using washing machines and chappati maker machines at the Singhu border, farmers at the Ghazipur border are now making arrangements for themselves.
“We have brought solar panels with us to charge our phones and tractors battery. Work is underway at our lands in our villages so we have to contact our family on regular basis via phone,” said an agitating farmer, Amrit Singh.
“We don’t know for how long we will have to sit here, the government is not listening to us so we have to make arrangements for ourselves till the time we stay here,” he added.
Meanwhile, a group of volunteers launched a newsletter named ‘Trolley Times’ on Friday, at the Singhu and Tikri borders of the national capital. The bi-weekly newsletter Trolley Times aims at providing information to farmers, the latest developments in talks with the government and other such reports are easily accessible to the agitating farmers.
Protesting farmers at the Singhu border are also making arrangements to install waterproof tents to protect them from the cold weather conditions.
A score of farmers have been protesting on different borders of the national capital since November 26 against the three newly enacted farm laws- Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020, the Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act, 2020, and the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020.
Australia pacer Josh Hazlewood feels the visitors might find it hard to have a replacement for the “class-bowler” for the rest of the Test series.
India pacer Mohammad Shami retired hurt while batting in the second innings at the Adelaide Oval after he was hit on the right arm. Shami’s injury has put his participation in the Boxing Day Test in doubt. After the match, India skipper Virat Kohli said the bowler was in a lot of pain. Hazlewood, who turned the third afternoon of the pink-ball Test into a nightmare for the Indian batsmen, said Australia too wants to know the extent of Shami’s injury.
“It’s obviously a blow, we gonna see how bad it was. He will undergo scans to see if there is any fracture or bruising. We wanna find out how much damage is done,” Hazlewood said during the virtual post-match press conference.
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“He is a class-bowler and he showed this in the game. So India might have to dig deeper in their arsenal to try and cover and him but we probably expect him to play, I am not sure how bad the injury is,” he added. India had claimed the advantage on day two after dismissing the Australian top-order, but skipper Tim Paine fought hard and added 80 runs with the tail.
“The partnership last night was hugely important, we were seven down and then last three wickets to put on 80 runs hugely important in a low scoring game. Paine batted beautifully with the tail and few of our guys chipped in here and there,” said Hazlewood.
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After India was bundled out on 36 on day three, Joe Burns smashed a career-saving unbeaten 51 and Matthew Wade hit 33 as the duo put on 70 for the opening wicket to extinguish any hopes India had of staging a fightback.
“For Joe Burns, I think it was a perfect scenario today chasing a low score, so it freed him up and India had set attacking field so there were plenty of gaps, so he got on a roll and get the confidence back. We always have faith in him and we want to give him a long run as possible,” said Hazlewood.
