Harendra Pratap, Chief Editor, Laghu Udyog Samachar, Government of India giving away Pandit Tilakraj Memorial Honour to Sulakshana Bhatia, Senior Programme Director, ICCR, Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India in Delhi.
Aluminium industry has a legacy issue of inverted duties on the primary inputs namely primary aluminium. ASMA (Aluminium Secondary Manufacturers Association) in association with IIFT, New Delhi, has done a study to understand the various anomalies associated with the tariff structure on the primary and secondary imports in the aluminum sector. Imports from both FTA and non-FTA countries are studied, claims ASMA. It is found that India does not gain much by exporting primary aluminum but surrenders competitiveness of its downstream sector by paying higher for primary aluminum (imported or domestically bought) due to premium induced by high tariffs on import to fulfill its requirements, states ASMA.
Located atop the Malangtoli Hills in Joda Block, Pidhapokhri village, with a population of around 200 households, has been facing acute scarcity of water since decades. Due to local hydro-geological factors, it was a challenge for district administration to provide drinking water to the Joda block. Water used to be supplied in tankers, twice a day, which barely met the minimum needs of people, leading to multiple development deprivations. It is in this context that a ‘Household Piped Water Supply Project’ for the village was sanctioned through District Mineral Foundation at a cost of Rs 2.63 cr in 2018 under the leadership of collector and DM, Keonjhar Ashish Thakare. Under the project, water sourced from a natural spring is lifted to a height of more than 300 feet using a 10 HP solar pump to an overhead tank and then supplied to households through individual tap connections, after filtration. Even though construction of the drinking water infrastructure was a major challenge, Rural Water supply and sanitation (RWSS) program which comes under Panchayati Raj and Drinking Water Department, Govt of Odisha successfully completed the project.
All the street lights of the metropolis will be rectified before the Holi festival i.e. March 28. For this, the Municipal Corporation Ghaziabad has started a campaign. There are about 65,000 street lights in all 100 wards of the metropolis. City Commissioner Mahendra Singh Tanwar informed that a team of lighting department headed by Additional Municipal Commissioner Shiv Pujan Yadav has been formed in this regard. It will monitor all the street lights to be fixed. Instructions have also been given to manage proper lighting in the parks and decorate the electrical poles. The city commissioner informed that Yogesh Srivastava, the in-charge of lighting, will inspect the internal lanes in all the five zones of the metropolis. He informed that to make this campaign a success, cooperation of RWA and councilors of various colonies is also being taken.
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Along with all the awareness programmes being run on cancer, the government has now directed to provide special OPD and day care facility for cancer victims in every district hospitals. For this, on behalf of the Director General, Medical and Health Services, a district doctor and two staff nurses have been directed to be deployed in all district hospitals of the State. Dr. Kiran Garg, NCD Clinic, has been nominated on behalf of Chief Medical Superintendent of Ghaziabad District MMG District Hospital, Dr. Anurag Bhargava, CMS. Apart from this, staff nurses Tanu and Gayatri Devi have been nominated for the day care facility being launched for cancer. Dr. Kiran is posted in the NCD (Non Communicable Disease Clinic) operating in the old building of District Women’s Hospital and has been instrumental in tobacco control programs for cancer prevention. In fact, the purpose behind the introduction of special OPD and day care facility for cancer in district hospitals is that the disease can be detected in the first stage itself.
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COVID-19 vaccination programme for front line workers started at Kasturba Gandhi Hospital of CLW from Tuesday as a part of National COVID-19 Vaccination Drive. District Health Authority and Nodal officer of CLW and ACMS/P Dr. J. Mitra jointly administered the vaccination programme. The available vaccines require a two-dose schedule to be administered two, three or four weeks apart. These vaccines are administered through the intramuscular route. About 120 front line workers from RPF, RPSF participated in the drive. After vaccination, all of them were observed for 30 minutes. Around 404 health workers had already received the first dose of the vaccine since the launch of the drive on February 1 in CLW. The beneficiaries who were given the first shot on Day 1 will be administered with the second dose from March 1. An exclusive observation facility under an anaesthetist and a physician is set up at the vaccination centre with beds, oxygen supply and ventilators to render supportive care.
Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) has won six awards for its efforts in field of communication at the PRSI National Awards-2020 conferred upon by the Public Relations Society of India. The awards were given away by Baby Rani Maurya, Governor of Uttarakhand and Dr. Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank, Union Minister for Education, Government of India, during a virtual ceremony on Sunday. SAIL has been awarded in the categories of House Journal (English), Best Communication Campaign (External Publics), Communications Campaign of the Year - Covid-19, Special/Prestige Publication, E-newsletter and Corporate Website categories.