Tag: Jharkhand

Jharkhand starts immunization drive for 44K kids of migrant workers

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.

New Building of IARI, Jharkhand titled after Dr.Shyama Prasad Mukherjee

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.

Job Guarantee Scheme for Urban Poor to be started by the Jharkhand Government

June 22, 2020

• Jharkhand is ready to become the first state to start an employment guarantee scheme for urban poor on the lines of the Mahatma Gandhi Employment Guarantee Act to give an unemployment allowance if the state fails to give 100 days of work.

Petroleum Minister gives to the nation, 56 CNG stations

May 31, 2020

• Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan committed to the nation, 56 CNG stations scattered over 11 States and Union Territories. These stations are in Gujarat, Haryana, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, New Delhi, Punjab, Rajasthan, Telangana and Uttar Pradesh.

Jharkhand’s Sohrai Khovar painting & Telangana’s Telia Rumal receives GI-Tag

May 13, 2020

• The Sohrai Khovar painting of Jharkhand and Telia Rumal of Telangana has got the Geographical Indication (GI) tag from the Geographical Indications Registry.

Jharkhand govt bans Pan Masala for 1 year

May 9, 2020

• The Jharkhand government has banned 11 brands of Pan Masala for one year in the state. The order was stated by the Commissioner of Food Safety in the state, Nitin Kulkarni.

Jharkhand govt begins three schemes to promote rural employment

May 6, 2020

• Jharkhand government on 4th May started three schemes under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in a bid to “strengthen the rural economy”.
• Birsa Harit Gram Yojana for rural plantations: Under the Birsa Harit Gram Yojana, over two lakh acres of land will be utilized for afforestation.
• Jal Sammridhi Yojna: Under the Jal Sammridhi Yojna, water storage units will be built to save rainwater and runaway groundwater.
• Veer SahidPotoHoKhelVikas Scheme: Under the playground scheme, the government targets to make 5,000 grounds, with at least one in one Panchayat.

Jharkhand becomes the first state to bring back its migrant workers

May 1, 2020

• Jharkhand has become the first state in the whole country to bring its workers. students ad labourers by train who were stranded in other states and were not able to make there way back home due to nation-wide lockdown imposed because of COVID-19.

Robots to provide food, medicine to COVID-19 patients in Jharkhand

April 15, 2020

• Robots will provide food and medicine to COVID-19 patients in two hospitals in Jharkhand’s West Singhbhum district, in a step to preventing doctors and health workers from getting infected.
• Started by District Deputy Development Commissioner (DDC) Aditya Ranjan, the remote-controlled COBOT-Robotics will serve food and medicine to patients without human intervention.

Jharkhand govt starts PRAGYAAM app to issue e-passes

March 31, 2020

• The Jharkhand Government has released a mobile app PRAGYAAM to issue e-passes.
• The app targets to issue e-passes associated with the delivery of essential services during the nationwide lockdown to check COVID-19.