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State Scan: List of noteworthy events last week

State Scan: List of noteworthy events last week

Published: Published Date – 04:53 PM, Sun – 20 March 22

Telangana: Leaders cutting across political affiliations paid their last respects to veteran communist leader Mallu Swarajyam, who passed away at the age of 91. Mallu Swarajyam was a member of the central committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). Her body was handed over to Nalgonda Government Medical College as per her wishes. Born into a feudal family in 1931 at Karivirala Kothagudem village of Nalgonda district, Mallu Swarajyam was attracted towards communism in her teens. Inspired by her brother Bheemireddy Narasimha Reddy, Mallu Swarajyam participated in Telangana People’s Armed Struggle (1946-51) against feudal lords. As a candidate of CPI(M), she was elected to Legislative Assembly of united AP from Thungathurthy Assembly constituency for two terms – 1978 and 1983.

Jammu & Kashmir

From a photojournalist and an artists’ point of view, the exodus in Kashmir had all the elements that good journalism offered, but being a victim himself and living like a refugee brought out the pain in his works. For Vijay Kaul, the trauma of exodus will never ebb. He carries his pain in his umpteen photographs that he clicked during the exodus period and the oil canvas that he paints. His pictures present the story of helpless people who were overnight turned into refugees in their own country. He clicked tattered tents, dazed faces, sufferings, and struggles even as he himself was trying to find space among the thousands in camp. Kaul fled the Valley a month before the mass exodus erupted on January 19, 1990.

Gujarat

The Gujarat government launched the fifth phase of its Sujalam Sufalam Jal Abhiyan, a water conservation campaign, from Kolavada village in Gandhinagar district. Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel formally launched the project with the deepening of a lake in the village, with the State aiming to carry out around 13,000 water conservation works by May 31. This year, the projects are estimated to increase the State’s water storage capacity by 15,000 lakh cubic feet and provide more than 25 lakh mandays of employment to workers under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA).

Nagaland


Governor Prof Jagdish Mukhi referring to the Naga peace talks with the Central government, said that with the concern being shown by everyone, the long-cherished solution would soon become a reality and a new era of peace and prosperity would begin in the State. Addressing the 11th session of the 13th Nagaland Assembly, the Governor referring to the March 9 consultative meeting on Naga peace process, said that the resolution adopted in the meeting called upon all the negotiating parties to arrive at a political solution that is honourable, inclusive, transparent and acceptable to the people.

Karnataka


Following death threats to the three Karnataka High Court judges, including the Chief Justice, who delivered the hijab verdict, and arrest of a person in Tamil Nadu in this regard, Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai said his government has decided to provide ‘Y category’ security to them. Stating that his government has taken the matter seriously, he has ordered the Director-General of Police to look into the case and take the person arrested in Tamil Nadu into custody for investigation, and questioned the silence of ‘pseudo seculars’ on the matter. FIR was registered by Vidhana Soudha Police on Saturday against an unknown individual over a video clip circulating on social media platforms of a man speaking in Tamil and issuing death threats to the three judges.


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State Scan: Noteworthy events took place in last week across India

State Scan: Noteworthy events took place in last week across India

Published: Updated On – 05:02 PM, Sun – 27 February 22

Telangana Instead of waiting for the government’s help, some remote villages of Kumram Bheem Asifabad district are literally converting waste into gold by making profits by adopting efficient waste management practices and are able to achieve financial empowerment.

The villages are segregating dry waste as part of the novel initiative Palle Pragati programme implemented by the government and Swachch Bharat Abhiyan. The remote Mandaguda village of Tiryani mandal alone earned Rs 5,224 by selling plastic, damaged glass, and empty beer bottles. Similarly, Dhaboli village in Jainoor mandal recorded Rs 13,015 by vending dry waste. Many villages are earning money by producing vermicompost fertilizer, branded as ‘Panta Siri.’

Andhra Pradesh

To facilitate darshan for more common devotees at the Lord Venkateswara temple, the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) has cancelled the VIP break darshan on Saturdays and Sundays. Earlier, the TTD had cancelled VIP darshan on all Fridays. By reallocating the time slot for VIP darshan, the temple body will be able to save at least two hours on the said days, enabling them to provide darshan to at least 3,000-3,500 additional devotees per day. The TTD recently increased the special entry darshan tickets quota as well as the slotted sarva darshan tickets quota to devotees under online and offline modes.

Assam


President Ram Nath Kovind took an elephant safari in Kaziranga National Park on the last day of his three-day visit to Assam. Kovind and his daughter Shweta together rode an elephant, admiring the wilderness and spotting the animals in their natural habitat. Kovind was accompanied by several Assam ministers. They took the ride from Mihimukh point in Kohora range of the national park. The President has also inaugurated a photo and archival exhibition on conservation at Kaziranga. Kovind had arrived in Assam on Friday to participate in a programme launching the 400th birth anniversary celebration of legendary Ahom general Lachit Borphukan at Guwahati.

New Delhi
Popular online discussion platform Reddit, which acquired short-form video social platform Dubsmash late last year, has finally shut down the platform. Dubsmash will not be available to download through the App Store or Google Play. Also, downloaded apps will stop functioning on the same date. “The Dubsmash team has been accelerating Reddit’s video, so parts of Reddit will feel familiar to Dubsmashers,” the company said in the blogpost recently. “Dubsmashers can continue connecting with each other at r/dubsmash and hop over to Reddit to discover an endless stream of new creators and communities that match their many interests and talents,” it added. When Reddit acquired Dubsmash, the app was drawing more than 1 billion video views per month.

Maharashtra

Many parts of Mumbai faced a power outage, which also resulted in the halting of local train services on one of the lines. After over an hour of disruption, the power supply, which had been impacted in south and central Mumbai, started getting restored from around 11 am. The local train services, considered as the lifeline of the country’s financial capital, were halted for an hour. They blamed supply disruption from Tata Power for the difficulties. The city had last faced a major outage in October 2020, which took over 18 hours for the full restoration of services and was blamed on a cyber attack in some quarters.


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Telangana The Central government has convened its first meeting of a panel constituted to resolve the bilateral issues between Andhra Pradesh and Telangana on February 17. The meeting of the dispute resolution sub-committee will be held via video-conference to discuss the pending issues between the two Telugu States. This was announced by the Ministry of Home Affairs on Saturday.

The Ministry on February 8 constituted a committee under the chairmanship of Joint Secretary to carry out the preparatory work and recommend practical ways to resolve the bilateral issues arising out of the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014. The Ministry had invited Andhra Pradesh Chief Secretary Sameer Sharma, Telangana Chief Secretary Somesh Kumar, Andhra Pradesh’s Principal Secretary (Finance) and Telangana’s Special Chief Secretary K Ramakrishna Rao to attend the meeting.

The agenda of the meeting includes special category status, which was promised to the residuary State of Andhra Pradesh. The items on the agenda include division of Andhra Pradesh State Finance Corporation, settlement of power utilities of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, removal of anomaly in taxation matters, division of cash balance and bank deposits, cash credit by APSCSCL and TSCSCL, resource gap, development grant for seven backward districts of Andhra Pradesh covering Rayalaseema and north coastal region and tax incentives.

West Bengal
In a significant development, Trinamool Congress Chairperson and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee last Saturday dissolved all the existing posts in the party and formed a 20-member national working committee after holding a meeting with some senior party leaders at her Kalighat residence.

The significant announcement came at a time when there were rumours that the party’s All-India General Secretary, Abhishek Banerjee, is likely to step down from all organisational responsibilities allegedly because of differences with some senior party leaders. Senior Trinamool leader Partha Chatterjee said, Banerjee will later appoint the new office-bearers and accordingly it would be sent to the Election Commission of India.

Among the leaders who found a place in the national working committee are Amit Mitra, Partha Chatterjee, Subrata Bakshi, Sudip Bandopadhyay, Abhishek Banerjee, Anubrata Mondal, Aroop Biswas, Firhad Hakim, Yashwant Sinha, Asima Patra, Chandrima Bhattacharjee, Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay, Sukhendu Sekhar Roy, Moloy Ghatak, Jyotipriya Mallick, Goutam Deb, Buluchik Baraik and Rajesh Tripathi. Interestingly, most of the members of the national working committee belong to Mamata camp, indicative enough that the Chief Minister is keen to establish her control over the party.

Madhya Pradesh
In a bid to attract tourists to the State, the Madhya Pradesh Tourism Department has decided to organise two events — ‘Forsyth Trail Run’ and ‘Dhoopgarh Rock Climbing’ in the dense forests of Satpura at hill station Pachmarhi.

The first event, Forsyth Trail Run, will be held on February 12 and it will be the first-of-its-kind marathon in India. The second event will be Dhoopgarh Rock Climbing, which will be held on March 5. The events will be jointly organised by India’s leading adventure tourism agency ‘Moustache Escapes’ and the State Tourism department.

The State government has tied up with Moustache Escapes for the events. The Forsyth Trail Run will be organised on Saturday from Pachmarhi in Hoshangabad district. The run will start from Singnama and end at Bison Lodge Pachmarhi. Tourists from Mumbai, Delhi, Jaipur, Vidisha and Indore will participate in the run, covering a distance of 30 to 40 km in the forest area.

Jammu & Kashmir
Jammu and Kashmir Lt Governor Manoj Sinha last Saturday laid the foundation of the Tawi riverfront development project here and said it would generate employment opportunities for local communities. The Lt Governor said planned urbanisation while respecting and restoring the delicate balance of nature can influence inclusive development.

In the first phase, embankments, interceptor drains, sewerage treatment plants, cycling track, jogging track, walkways, green spaces, and other wayside amenities would be developed. The complete project is prepared on the lines of the Sabarmati riverfront in Gujarat. The infrastructure would also include river plazas, promenades, parks, gardens, sports and entertainment venues, commercial and residential spaces that will transform Tawi as the center of the economic engine of Jammu.

The Lt Governor said 109 projects which were pending for years have been completed in the Jammu division at a cost of Rs 455 crore, including 14 new bridges which have made connectivity easier.

New Delhi
Senior Congress leader and former Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh on Saturday said the Wildlife Protection (Amendment) Bill, which has been sent to the parliamentary standing committee headed by him, is poorly drafted and has huge shortcomings.

Ramesh, who heads the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Technology, Environment, Forest and Climate Change, said he is overwhelmed by the over 70 responses received from experts and institutions on the Wildlife Protection (Amendment) Bill, 2021.

Now the Standing Committee has a very complicated task of examining the 50 amendments proposed.


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