ODISHA
Centre allocates Rs 3,323 crore to Odisha under Jal Jeevan Mission for 2021-22 FY
The Centre has allocated Rs 3,323 crore to Odisha under the Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) for the current 2021-22 financial year. The central scheme aims to provide clean tap water to every rural households by March 2024.
The grant to the state during the current financial year is a four-fold increase as Odisha had received Rs 812 crore in the previous 2020-21 financial year.
In Odisha, only 3.10 lakh households of total 85.66 lakh rural households had tap water connections, accounting to 3.63%. In the past three years, over 22.84 lakh households in the state have been provided with tap water connections under JJM while total 30.3% rural households with tab water connection.
While the panchayati raj and drinking water department has been the implementing agency for JJM in the state, it has targeted to provide tap water connections to 21.31 lakh rural households during the current financial year. Similarly, additional 22.53 lakh tap water connections are planned in the year 2022-23 and another 18.87 lakh tap water connections in 2023-24.
As the scheme is being implemented with 50:50 fund sharing pattern between the Centre and the state government, total fund available for ensuring piped dinking water to all rural households for 2021-22 financial year will be over Rs 6,500 crore (with state’s matching share).
Apart from allocation under the JJM, the 15th finance commission has also sanctioned Rs 1,002 crore to the panchayati raj institutions of the state to manage water supply in villages and to ensure improved sanitation in villages.
Besides tap water connection to rural households, the Centre has also been emphasizing on providing tap water to children in schools and anganwadi centres. In Odisha, as many as 25,820 schools (47%) and 11,913 anganwadi centres (22%) have been provided tap water connections.
INTERNATIONAL
World Chocolate Day – 7th July
World Chocolate Day is observed on 7th July every year. Chocolate day celebrates the existence of chocolate in our lives. The day is marked by eating chocolates and sharing the chocolates with dear ones.
The Chocolate Day was first celebrated in the year 2009. However, some even believe that people started marking July 7 as International Chocolate Day because it was the day when chocolate was first introduced to Europe in 1550.
NATIONAL
PM Inaugurates the CoWin Global Conclave
The Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated and addressed the CoWin Global Conclave, virtually. The world meeting was participated by way of representatives from 142 countries.
The Conclave was mutually geared up through the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (MoHFW), Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) and National Health Authority (NHA) with a goal to extend the Co-WIN platform as a digital public good to the globe.
India has supplied its indigenously developed cloud-based CoWIN platform to be made open-source so that it is on hand to any and all countries.
Bamboo Oasis on Lands in Drought – BOLD
The Bamboo Oasis on Lands in Drought (BOLD) project is launched.
About Project BOLD:
It is a KVIC project that was launched with the goals of reducing desertification as well as providing livelihood and multi-disciplinary rural industry support.
It was first introduced in the tribal village of Nichla Mandwa in Udaipur, Rajasthan.
Over 25 bighas (16 acres) of vacant arid Gram Panchayat land, 5000 saplings of special bamboo species – Bambusa Tulda and Bambusa Polymorpha brought from Assam – were planted.
Project BOLD aims to establish bamboo-based green patches in arid and semi-arid areas.
By August of this year, KVIC plans to replicate the project in Village Dholera in Gujarat’s Ahmedabad district and the Leh-Ladakh region.
Export of Mirshi Cherry Exported to Dubai
First Commercial cargo of Mishri variety of cherries used to be exported to Dubai from Srinagar in order to increase horticultural exports.
In June, a sample consignment was despatched to Dubai from Sri Nagar before this shipment.
♦ Later, an encouraging response from consumers in Dubai, first business shipment was exported to Dubai.
♦ Mishri variety of cherries is delicious in style and contain vitamins, minerals & plant compounds with fitness benefits.
♦ Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) produces more than 95% of India’s complete production of business varieties of cherries.
♦ J&K produces 4 varieties of cherry particularly Double, Makhmali, Mishri and Italy.
Significance of export: Commencement of business cargo of cherries will supply better possibilities for exports of other temperate fruits such as pears, plums, apricot and apples from Kashmir to Middle East international locations in imminent seasons.
Indian Army Inducts Bridging System by DRDO
The Army inducted the first manufacturing lot of 12 Short Span Bridging System (SSBS)-10m, designed and developed through the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) in affiliation with Larsen & Toubro Limited, the manufacturing agency. The SSBS-10m plays an indispensable position of bridging the gaps up to 9.5m as a single span sup plying a 4m wide, entirely decked roadway, ensuring quicker motion of the troops.
The bridging system is compatible with the Sarvatra bridging machine (75 m), the place the closing span required covering gaps less than 9.5 m.
♦ The DRDO has developed a vary of bridges for the Army that have already been inducted.
Mithali Raj Became the Highest Run-Getter
India captain Mithali Raj grew to become the highest run-getter in women’s cricket across formats, overtaking former England skipper Charlotte Edwards.
Mithali grew to be the world’s most prolific batter in women’s internationals, overtaking Edwards’ 10,273 runs. Suzie Bates of New Zealand is 1/3 with 7849 runs. Stafanie Taylor (7832) and Meg Lanning (7024) spherical up the top five.
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