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Delhi Government increases minimum wage for daily wagers

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New Delhi :  Delhi’s Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia released an order, increasing the dearness allowance for unskilled, semi-skilled, skilled and other workers in all scheduled employments, with effect from April 1, 2021.

Sisodia said, “These steps have been taken in the interest of the poor and working class who have suffered disproportionately due to the current pandemic. This order shall also benefit those in clerical and supervisory jobs, he said. He added that people in the unorganized sector who are employed on minimum wages should not be deprived of dearness allowance. Factoring in the dearness allowance, revised rates of minimum wages have been announced.”

Under the dearness allowance, the monthly wages for unskilled labourers have been increased from Rs. 15492 to Rs. 15908. For semi-skilled labourers, their monthly wages have been enhanced from Rs. 17069 to Rs  17537. For skilled labourers, the monthly wages have been increased from Rs. 18797 to Rs. 19291. 

Additionally, minimum wage rates for the supervisor and clerical cadre of employees have also been increased. The monthly wages for non-matriculate employees have been increased from Rs. 17069 to Rs. 17537 and for matriculate employees, from Rs. 18797 to Rs. 19291. For graduates and those with higher educational qualifications, monthly wages have been increased from Rs. 20430 to Rs. 20976. 

Sisodia said, “Although we have had to cut down on many expenditures, keeping in mind the interests of our working class, this decision has been taken”. Every section of the society has been adversely affected due to the pandemic. Adding to the woes of the masses is the soaring prices of daily essentials such as oil and pulses. “I hope that this increase in wages will provide some relief to our labour brethren.” He also shared that the minimum wages of Delhi are the highest in comparison to any other state in India.

(EW News Desk)

NTPC gears up for International Yoga Day 2021

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New Delhi: NTPC Limited, is all set to celebrate International Yoga Day on June 21 across its operational areas. The power warriors across NTPC are bringing out their yoga mats to gear up for the International Yoga Day and to raise awareness on the importance of a healthy lifestyle, even being at home.

Preparations are in full swing across all power stations. NTPC is preparing for webinars, competitions, lectures, conferences, LIVE Yoga sessions, Yoga training for all employees and their families ensuring Covid Appropriate behaviour & all protocols. 

The word ‘Yoga’ originates from the Sanskrit word ‘Yuj’, which means ‘to join’ or ‘to yoke’ or ‘to unite’. According to Yogic scriptures, yoga leads to a flawless harmony between the mind and body.

Practice of Yoga has been flourishing for years and is a success story for maintaining both physical and mental health. Each yogic activity is a key to improving flexibility, strength, balance and attaining harmony. 

COVID-19 pandemic has added stress and anxiety among people. Yoga can be the healer for both psychological and emotional along with physical well-being.

(EW News Desk)

 

 

 

Sisodia holds review meeting for Delhi Sports University

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New Delhi, Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi Manish Sisodia reviewed the progress of the Delhi Sports University, along with other officials.

Speaking during the meeting, Sisodia said, “Through Delhi Sports University, our vision is to train and prepare players who shall bring home to India 50 gold medals from the Olympics. The Delhi Sports University shall make India proud in the field of sports, globally. The University will have world-class facilities and provide exceptional training to budding sportspersons. It shall nurture players to showcase India’s sporting potential at international tournaments and bring umpteen medals to the country.”

Sisodia  said, “The Delhi Sports University shall be a unique institution in the world of sports, and shall confer degrees up to the PhD level. Till now, irrespective of the accolades they win in sports, sportspersons need to choose another discipline to get an academic degree. Otherwise, applying for a job becomes difficult. Now, sportspersons will not need a degree in any other discipline. They shall be conferred degrees based on their sporting performance. A team of the university shall decide on the course structures, after due consideration of various sports.”

It is worth noting that the objective of establishing such a sports university is to provide opportunities for world-class training, research, and academics in health, wellbeing and sports. The Delhi Government is committed to making sports training and education multi-dimensional so that sportspersons have varied employment opportunities. Along with popularising different kinds of sports, the Delhi Sports University shall also provide a boost to people’s health and wellbeing.

 

EW News Desk

Pharma park to be built on 50 acres of land in Chanho Ranchi.

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Ranchi: State’s participation in pharmaceutical business is only 1%. Government is constructing a pharma park seeing the steady growth in pharma business.
Pharma park will be built in Jharkhand. 50 acres land have been chosen for the same in Chanho, Ranchi. Pharma industry will be developed by developing industrial areas there. The department of industries has prepared a proposal related to this and sent it for the approval of The State Authorized Committee.

There will be four types of plots in the park:
Plots will be allocated to pharmaceutical companies in the proposed pharma park. 29 for micro, 14 for small, 7 for medium and 4 plots have been marked for large companies. Apart from this road, bank, post office, administrative building, canteen, creche will be also arranged there in the pharma park. 1.59 acres open space has been left in the proposed park. There will also be a system for making medicine, doing research, discovering new drugs, clinical data management. A provision of giving discounts to the pharmaceutical manufacturers has been made by the state government for setting up industries in the pharma parks. In this 20% subsidy will be given on project investment. 100% discount on stamp duty & registration. Provision has been made to provide assistance up to rupees 10 lakh on quality certification. Apart from this 5% interest subsidy will also be provided with a rebate of 75 to 80% as GST grant.

KVIC records highest ever turnover in 2020-21 despite Covid-19 pandemic

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New Delhi, Despite the over year long lockdown in 2020-21 due to Covid-19 pandemic, the Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) has recorded its highest-ever turnover of Rs 95,741.74 crore, as compared to Rs 88,887 crore in last financial year thus, registering an increase of 7.71 percent.

KVIC’s record performance in 2020-21 assumes great significance as production activities remained suspended for more than three months during the nationwide lockdown announced on March 25 last year.

During this period, all Khadi production units and sales outlets too remained closed that severely affected the production and sales.

The innovative marketing ideas of Minister for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Nitin Gadkari further diversified KVIC’s product range, scaled up local production and paved the way for Khadi’s successive growth.

Compared to the year 2015-16, the overall production in Khadi and Village Industry sectors in 2020-21 has registered a whopping growth of 101 percent while the gross sales during this period increased by 128.66 percent.

A host of initiatives like launch of Khadi e-portal, Khadi masks, Khadi footwear, Khadi Prakritik Paint, Khadi hand sanitizers, etc., setting up of a record number of new PMEGP units, new SFURTI clusters, Government’s push to “Swadeshi” and KVIC’s historic agreements with Paramilitary forces for supply of provisions increased the turnover of village industry sector during the pandemic. Compared to the production of Rs 65,393.40 crores in 2019-20, the production in village industry sector increased to Rs 70,329.67 crores in 2020-21. Similarly, in FY 2020-21, the sales of village industry products stood at Rs 92,214.03 crores as compared to Rs 84,675.29 crores in 2019-20.

The production and sales in the Khadi sector, however, slightly declined as spinning and weaving activities across the country took a major hit during the pandemic. The overall production in the Khadi sector in 2020-21 was recorded at Rs 1904.49 crores as compared to Rs 2292.44 crores in 2019-20, while the overall Khadi sales stood at Rs 3527.71 crore as compared to Rs 4211.26 crore in the previous year.

KVIC Chairman Vinai Kumar Saxena said that during the Pandemic people responded enthusiastically to the calls of “Aatmanirbhar Bharat” and “Vocal for Local”.

He said that during this period, KVIC’s main focus was to create sustainable employment for artisans and unemployed youth. Faced with economic distress, a large number of youths took up self-employment and manufacturing activities under PMEGP which increased the production in the village industry sector. At the same time, the sales of Khadi and village industry products grew significantly following the Prime Minister Narendra Modi ’s appeal to buy Swadeshi products

(EW News Desk)

 

Tax collection declined due to second wave: Sisodia

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New Delhi, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Thursday said the Delhi Government’s tax collection has declined due to second wave of COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown, while the expenditure has increased in comparison with the previous years for implementation of various relief and other measures to check the spread of COVID-19.

He informed that the expenditure of Delhi Government has increased around 80 per cent during the first two months of the financial year 2021-22 as compared to the corresponding period of previous financial year.

Delhi Government issued an order on Expenditure Management and Rationalisation of Expenditure – COVID-19 outbreaks.

Mr Sisodia, who is also the Delhi Finance Minister, announced that this memorandum has been released to rationalise Government’s expenditure and keep it within the resources, in times of COVID-19 pandemic, the Delhi government said in a statement.

He further stated that revenue receipts of Delhi has been Rs 5,273.26 crore during the first two months of the current financial year, while its expenditure has reached Rs 8,511.09 crore.

Delhi has incurred Rs 3,237.83 crore more than its receipts which were met from last year’s savings.

Historically, during the first two months, the expenditure used to be Rs 4705.14 crore in FY – 2019-20

and Rs 4965.58 crore in FY – 2020-21, however, due to unprecedented COVID surge, the expenditure during the first two months has jumped to Rs 8511.09 crore in current FY.

The order has been issued to curtail the expenditure of the Government, beyond the expenditure for essential and day to day functions. Further, the various welfare schemes being run for the citizens of Delhi will remain unchanged.

(EW News Desk)

 

West Bengal Governor to meet Union Home Minister Amit Shah

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New Delhi,  Amid the verbal spat with the Mamata Banarjee led Government in West Bengal, the state Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar will meet the Union Home Minister Amit Shah at later’s residence at 1900 hrs on Thursday.

Mr Dhankhar is likely to discuss the affairs of state with Home Minister including the incidents of political violence allegedly by the ruling Trinamool Congress cadres in the state.

This is his first visit to the national capital after the State Assembly poll result.

Earlier today, West Bengal Governor and his wife Sudesh Dhankhar called on President Ram Nath Kovind and First Lady Savita Kovind at Rashtrapati Bhawan. Dhankhar had earlier taken to Twitter to inform about his meeting with the President.

Mr Dhankhar, who is on a two-day visit of national capital, arrived here on Tuesday night, met Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Prahlad Joshi on Wednesday.

Since the recently concluded Assembly polls, Mr Dhankhar has raised concerns regarding the alleged incidents of political violence in West Bengal.

(Agencies) 

Paras elected national president of LJP, claims full support in party

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Patna,  Mr Pashupati Kumar Paras, LJP MP from Hajipur and uncle of party leader Chirag Paswan, was  declared elected national president of LJP in executive committee meeting called by Paras faction at the residence of former MP Surajbhan Singh here today, which further increased the grip of Mr Paras over the party in a tussle with Chirag.

Mr Surajbhan Singh, who was made working president of LJP by Paras faction, declared Mr Pashupati Kumar Paras, elected as national president of the party.

Mr Singh said that Mr Paras was the only candidate to file a nomination paper for the post of national president of LJP during the scheduled period from 11 AM to 3 PM. Mr Singh was appointed as returning officer for conducting the election of party president.

Later, Mr Paras told media persons that his unanimous election as national president of the LJP proved the fact that he had full party support. He assured that his party would grow and strengthen further under his leadership as the per vision of his elder brother Ram Vilas Paswan who had founded LJP 21 years back.

(Agencies)

495 new Covid cases in Manipur, 458 recover

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Imphal, Manipur  recorded 495 new Covid cases and recovery of 458 persons. In the past twenty-four hours, 492 persons (266M, 226F) from general and three personnel from Central Armed Police Force (CAPF) were confirmed as new COVID19 positive cases.

They were from Imphal East (106), Imphal West (143), Thoubal (45),

Bishnupur (48), Kakching (18), Ukhrul (19), Churachandpur (54),

Chandel (4), Senapati (3), Tamenglong (29), Tengnoupal (10), Kangpokpi (6) and Pherzawl (7).

In the last 24 hours, the State Level Covid 19 Deaths Audit Committee has reported 13 Covid 19 deaths.

The District-wise distributions were Imphal West (2), Imphal East (6), Kakching (1), Bishnupur (1), Kangpokpi (2) and Ukhrul (1). The cumulative number of deaths was 1021.

Today, 458 persons were discharged, out of which 376 were from home isolation, 5 from RIMS, one from JNIMS and the rest 76 from other Covid care facilities.

The cumulative number of positive cases was 62,343 (General Population 58,547 and Central Security Personnel — 3,796). The cumulative number of recovered cases was 52,220 (General Population— 48,459 and Central Security Personnel — 3,761). The number of active cases was 9,102 (General Population — 9,072 and Central Security Personnel 30). The recovery rate was 83.76 percent.

(Agencies)

 

 

Jharkhand HC directs Ranchi Police to provide security to Rupa Tirkey family members

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Ranchi, The Jharkhand High Court has directed the Ranchi Police to provide security to the family members of late Sub Inspector Rupa Tirkey.
The court of justice Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi while hearing the criminal written petition filed by the father of Rupa Tirkey on Thursday directed Ranchi SSP to provide security to the family members. The court also directed the state government to file a counter affidavit within four weeks and fixed July 29 as the next date of hearing in the case.
During the hearing which was held through video conferencing, the government said that a committee has been set up under former Chief Justice Vinod Kumar Gupta to probe the incident.
The father of the late Sub Inspector has approached the court demanding a CBI probe into the death of his daughter.

(EW News)