Stepping up pressure on the government for more clarity on the pricing of covid-19 vaccines, Chhattisgarh chief minister Bhupesh Baghel on Thursday asked the Centre to make it clear whether it will provide vaccines to states free of charge and, if not, what will be the share of the Centre and the states. Addressing a session at the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit, 2020, Baghel, also a veteran Congress party leader, added that while the impact of covid-19 and lockdown was felt in different parts of the country, Chhattisgarh did not face an economic slowdown due to the pandemic. He added…
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Chhattisgarh government is trying to give all possible facilities to the farmers of the state. About 260 new paddy procurement centers in the state have been set up in this Kharif marketing year with the objective of facilitating farmers to sell the paddy produced by them around their residence or village. In the same sequence, farmers of remote Eelmidi area under Usur tehsil of Bijapur district are now happy that they got relief from going to a paddy procurement center 10 to 20 km away to sell paddy at support price. Now about 425 farmers from 14 villages of this region will have…
Village Kodegaon (R) in the Akaladongri Sankal Kendra of the submergence area of Gangrel reservoir in Dhamtari district of the state is a very small village, but the parents here are very aware and vigilant about education. Along with the teachers of the Dooban region, the parents are also showing their awareness, raising awareness among the children. The village sarpanch, Mrs. Lalita Vishwakarma is also playing an important role in educating the children. There are also some such spinach, who are taking time to teach children even after doing their compensation. When the time for paddy harvesting and minjai arrived, the volinteers were…
Both daily use water and drinking water supply became a major challenge for anSulochini family living away from the village’s main road. There was a shortage of drinking water due to the joint tribal family of 17 people with no permanent means of water, as well as it was compulsory to go to the water in the morning to get relief. Under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, the family, who got the diagnosis of the problem reached under the year 2017 Hamar Gaon Hamar Yojana, solved this problem by the well received under the Mahatma Gandhi NREGA scheme. The family…
The area and production of horticultural crops is increasing rapidly in the state. At present, 8 lakh 61 thousand 663 hectares of horticulture crops are being taken in the state of Chhattisgarh and their annual production has exceeded one crore metric tons. Several facilities and provisions have been made in the new industrial policy by the state government for setting up processing and value addition based units, so that farmers can get better prices for their produce. Due to the climatic diversity of the state of Chhattisgarh, there is immense potential for cultivation of all types of horticultural crops. Pears, grapes,…
Former Bihar deputy CM Sushil Kumar Modi on Wednesday released an alleged audio clip of jailed RJD chief Lalu Prasad asking BJP’s MLA from Pirpainti, Lallan Paswan, not to vote in the election for the state legislative assembly Speaker’s post. Lalu, in the alleged telephonic conversation, promised Paswan a ministerial berth after the fall of the NDA government in Bihar.BJP MLA Vijay Sinha has been elected the Speaker.“Paswanji, congratulations… you support us in the election of Speaker tomorrow (Wednesday) and we will take your career ahead. We will make you a minister as we will bring down the government as the Speaker will be ours,”…
The nationwide strike call, given by 10 different unions in protest against several issues, including privatisation of PSUs, commercial mining, changes in labour laws and farm laws, evoked a lukewarm response in over 80 mines of the district. Production remained almost normal in all the mines. Only road and rail despatch was affected to some extent in different areas like Kusudna, Bastacola, Block II, Block IV and Chanch Victoria area. Notably, the contractual workers working with different private contractors engaged by coal companies have been exempted from the strike by the trade unions. The Coal India management had also forewarned…
Banking, insurance and postal services in Jamshedpur and the entire Kolhan region comprising of three districts – East Singhbhum, West Singhbhum and Seraikela-Kharsawan were affected on Thursday as various trade unions joined the nationwide strike to protest the policies of the Narendra Modi government, including the new labour and farm laws. All public and private sector banks, except for the State Bank of India, remained closed. The offices of Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) and post offices also kept their shutters down and did not transact any business as workers joined the strike. Various central trade union organisations participated in the…
Archery Association of India (AAI) which got back the Union sports ministry recognition on Wednesday, after almost eight years, for failure to conduct elections in accordance with National Sports Development Code has made plans to involve sports science for enhancing performance of archers ahead of the 2021 Tokyo Olympics. Jharkhand MP from Khunti and former state chief minister, Arjun Munda, who took over as president of AAI in January this year, told The Telegraph that the federation will be soon be attaching sports psychologists, bio mechanist, video analyst and data analyst for the archery teams at the national camps. “We…
City-based leading CSIR lab-National Metallurgical Laboratory (NML), celebrated its 71st Foundation Day and the Constitution Day on a virtual platform on Thursday. To highlight CSIR-NML’s glorious journey since its inception in 1950, the program started with the NML film ‘Beyond the boundary’. The foundation day program was presided over by S. C. Mande, director-general of CSIR (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research). The chief guest of the function was T. V. Narendran, CEO and managing director of Tata Steel. Prof. Indranil Manna, vice-chancellor BIT Mesra was present as the guest of honour. Indranil Chattoraj, director of NML, in his welcome address,…