State Wise Current Affairs

July 11, 2020

Rajasthan launched a week long campaign named ”Pure for Sure” to ensure purity of milk and its products.
Under the campaign samples of milk and dairy products will be collected for testing at Food Testing Laboratory available at the divisional level and the food safety officers have been directed to send the campaign report to the headquarters on daily basis.

July 11, 2020

Himachal Pradesh Nadaun Police Station is declared as one of the best in the country.
The ranking of police stations is carried out by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs. Himachal DGP Sanjay Kundu presented this certificate of excellence received by him from the Union home minister to the CM.

July 11, 2020

The state Cabinet cleared the new Uttar Pradesh Startup policy 2020.
The objective of the policy is to promote start-ups in the state, establish at least one incubator in each district and 100 incubators across the state, create an ecosystem for establishment of 10,000 staround artups etc.
The new policy will be applicable for the next five years.

July 11, 2020

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the nation the 750 MW Solar Project set up at Rewa, Madhya Pradesh on 9^th July 2020.
The Project comprises of three solar generating units of 250 MW each located on a 500-hectare plot of land situated inside a solar park (total area 1500 hectare).The Rewa Solar Project was the first solar project in the country to break the grid parity barrier. This project will reduce carbon emission equivalent to approx. 15 lakh ton of CO2 per year.
The entire cost of the Solar Power Project is worth around Rs 4000 crore.
24 percent of the power generated by the Rewa Ultra Mega Solar Plant will be supplied to Delhi Metro while the remaining 76 percent of energy will be supplied to the state DISCOMs of Madhya Pradesh.

July 10, 2020

According to data from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), Tamil Nadu (TN) has topped market borrowings among States in India with a collection of Rs.30,500 crore in the fiscal 2020-21(FY 21).
TN, which has accounted for 17% of the borrowings done through the issue of bonds has been topped the list.

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July 9, 2020

Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on July 8 released Bhubaneshwar Land Use Intelligence System (BLUIS) to observe changes in all the government lands in Bhubaneshwar.
Odisha has become the first state in the country to hit artificial intelligence (AI) and space technology for safeguarding the government land.

July 8, 2020

The Jharkhand health department has started a major drive to immunize the deprived children. They recognized the children during an intensive door-to-door survey.

July 8, 2020

The new administrative and academic building of the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), located at Gouria Karma in Hazaribagh, Jharkhand is titled after Shyama Prasad Mukherjee the originator of Bharatiya Jan Sangh, on the occasion of his birth anniversary.

July 8, 2020

The state of Andhra Pradesh is commemorating July 8 as Rythu Dinotsavam (Farmers’ Day) as it signifies the birth anniversary of YS Rajasekhara Reddy, the 14th chief minister of Andhra Pradesh who worked from 2004 to 2009. On the first day of his term in 2004, YSR Reddy gave free electricity to farmers in a campaign project.

July 7, 2020

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee released a mobile app ‘Self Scan’, indigenously made by the state information technology department, for document scanning.

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