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Ministry of Women and Child Development
Cabinet approves setting up of National Nutrition Mission
The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi yesterday has approved setting up of National Nutrition Mission  with a three year budget of Rs.9046.17 crore commencing from 2017-18.
Features:
- The NNM, as an apex body, will monitor, supervise, fix targets and guide the nutrition related interventions across the Ministries.
- The proposal consists of
· mapping of various Schemes contributing towards addressing malnutrition
· introducing a very robust convergence mechanism
· ICT based Real Time Monitoring system
· incentivizing States/UTs for meeting the targets
· incentivizing Anganwadi Workers  for using IT based tools
· eliminating registers used by AWWs
· introducing measurement of height of children at the Anganwadi Centres 
· Social Audits
· setting-up Nutrition Resource Centres, involving masses through Jan Andolan for their participation on nutrition through various activities, among others.
Major impact:
The programme through the targets will strive to reduce the level of stunting, under-nutrition, anemia and low birth weight babies. It will create synergy, ensure better monitoring, issue alerts for timely action, and encourage States/UTs to perform, guide and supervise the line Ministries and States/UTs to achieve the targeted goals.
Benefits & Coverage:
More than 10 crore people will be benefitted by this programme. All the States and districts will be covered in a phased manner i.e. 315 districts in 2017-18, 235 districts in 2018-19 and remaining districts in 2019-20.
Financial Outlay:
An amount of Rs. 9046.17 crore will be expended for three years commencing from 2017-18. This will be funded by Government Budgetary Support  and 50% by IBRD or other MDB. Government budgetary support would be 60:40 between Centre and States/UTs, 90:10 for NER and Himalayan States and 100% for UTs without legislature. Total Government of India share over a period of three years would be Rs. 2849.54 crore.
Implementation strategy and targets:
Implementation strategy would be based on intense monitoring and Convergence Action Plan right upto the grass root level. NNM will be rolled out in three phases from 2017-18 to 2019-20. NNM targets to reduce stunting, under-nutrition, anemia  and reduce low birth weight by 2%, 2%, 3% and 2% per annum respectively. Although the target to reduce Stunting is atleast 2% p.a., Mission would strive to achieve reduction in Stunting from 38.4%  to 25% by 2022 .
Background:
There are a number of schemes directly/indirectly affecting the nutritional status of children  and pregnant women and lactating mothers. Inspite of these, level of malnutrition and related problems in the country is high. There is no dearth of schemes but lack of creating synergy and linking the schemes with each other to achieve common goal. NNM through robust convergence mechanism and other components would strive to create the synergy.
Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation
Centre Committed to Clean Tributaries of Ganga as well
After Union Minister for WR, RD & GR Shri Nitin Gadkari holds review meetings along with Chief Minister of Delhi, Delhi Jal Board awards two more projects for Delhi today for Yamuna
In Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh, a proposal for Interception & Diversion  of 5 drains  merging into river Saryu approved by the Executive Committee of NMCG today
One sewerage management project in West Bengal approved for Jangipur municipality
After considerable success in sanctioning projects for main stem of river Ganga, the Centre has now shifted focus to the entire Ganga basin. Not only are new projects being taken up on the tributaries of Ganga, the existing approved projects on river Yamuna are also being expedited.
Just five days after the Union Minister for Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation Shri Nitin Gadkari along with CM Delhi Shri Arvind Kejriwal took a review meeting of projects on Yamuna in Delhi; two projects were awarded today in the Board meeting of the DJB. These projects are laying of pumping mains of 8137 m in Kondli area at an estimated cost of Rs. 59.13 crore and rehabilitation of rising mains in Rithala area at an estimated cost of Rs. 45.40 crore. The work on four other projects under Yamuna Action Plan-III  is already going on. These projects include rehabilitation of trunk sewer lines of 8498 m in Kondli, rehabilitation of trunk sewer of 7715 m in Kondli, rehabilitation of sewer lines of 5090 m in Rithala and rehabilitation and upgradation of existing 182 MLD in Rithala in Delhi.
In the 12th Executive Committee meeting of NMCG held today, a proposal for interception and diversion of 5 drains  merging into river Saryu in Ayodhya has been approved by the Executive Committee at an estimated cost of Rs. 37.67 crore. It is noteworthy that in Ayodhya a Sewage Treatment Plant  of 12 MLD already exists and is operational. This project will ensure that the existing STP will be fully utilized as the intercepted drains, which now merge into river Ganga, will be diverted to the STP for treatment and would not be carrying sewage directly into Saryu river.
In West Bengal, one project costing Rs. 68.47 crore has also been approved in which 13 interception and diversion structures will be created, besides two sewage treatment plants . A laboratory for effluent testing and online monitoring is part of the proposal. Jangipur comes under the historical Murshidabad district which used to be the capital of West Bengal before Kolkata.
Ministry of Defence
Hybrid seminars organised during DefExpo 2022 to ensure greater participation
Ministry of Defence is hosting the 12th edition of prestigious biennial defence exhibition, DefExpo 2022, at Gandhinagar, Gujarat from March 10-14, 2022. This mega defence international exhibition is focussing on land, air, naval, internal homeland security and electronic systems. The Government, with policy initiative of ‘Make in India’ and ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat’ believes that India has tremendous potential to emerge as a global defence manufacturing hub. Therefore, the same theme has been adopted for Def Expo 2022.
The DefExpo seminars will be held in a hybrid format, enabling the speakers as well as the audience to participate in various seminars virtually. The seminars, which will be streamed worldwide, will be conducted by leading industry fora, international fora, think-tanks, media houses, Indian industry, DRDO, Ministry of Civil Aviation, state governments etc. The seminars are themed on exports, future of Civil Aviation in India, R&D, Future of Conflicts, Aero Engines and MRO, Outreach programs by the State Governments on investment opportunities etc. Leading international and national experts from defence and aerospace sectors have been invited as speakers for the seminars. The details of the seminars are available on DefExpo 2022 website  and DefExpo 2022 mobile app.
DEFEXPO 2022 SEMINAR SCHEDULE
PIB Headquarters
1.5 Kg Gold worth Rs. 63 lakhs seized by Customs at Chennai Airport
On Tuesday three lady passengers Saburammal,31, Samira,35, and Shakila banu,41,, all hailing from Tiruchirappalli, arrived from Colombo by Srilankan airline flight UL125, were intercepted at the exit . On persistent questioning, they admitted to have concealed gold paste in rectum . On personal search 9 bundles containing gold in paste form were recovered. On extraction , 1.1 Kg of gold valued at Rs. 46.65 lakhs was recovered and seized under Customs Act 1962.
In one case on Monday one Thajudeen, 28, hailing from Pudukkottai who arrived from Kualalumpur by Malaysian Airlines Flight No. MH-182, was intercepted at the exit.On persistent questioning the passenger admitted to have concealed bundles containing gold paste in his rectum and ejected four bundles through normal course.On extraction 401 grams valued at Rs. 16.34 lakhs was recovered and the same was seized under Customs Act 1962.
In total 1.5 Kg gold valued at Rs. 63 lakhs seized under Customs Act 1962.
Further Investigation is under progress, according to a press release issue by the Commissioner of Customs, Chennai International Airport, Chennai.
Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship
Skill Development Training to Migrant Workers
Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India launched Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyan  to provide immediate employment and livelihood opportunities to returnee Shramiks  and the rural population covering selected 116 districts across six States affected by Covid-19 pandemic by focusing on 25 categories of works/activities.
In order to support GKRA, Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship  has formulated a special programme under Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana  for the skill training of Shramiks . This component has covered 116 districts of 6 States, namely, Assam, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh. Under this initiative, as on 21.11.2021, 1.24 lakh persons have been trained. The State-wise number of Shramiks  trained under GKRA is given below:
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State
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Shramiks Trained
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Assam
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1,309
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Bihar
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51,876
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Madhya Pradesh
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18,828
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Odisha
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2,696
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Rajasthan
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19,719
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Uttar Pradesh
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30,178
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Total
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1,24,606
In order to fulfill the requirement of domestic industries, MSDE has launched demand-driven Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana 3.0  across the country. Further, employer-led training is being imparted to ensure captive placement of trained candidates under PMKVY 3.0. Additionally, under special project of PMKVY 3.0, private participation with their funding has been encouraged to ensure maximum placement of the candidates.
This information was given by the Minister of State for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Shri Rajeev Chandrasekhar in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha today.
Ministry of Labour & Employment
Financial assistance being provided to released bonded labourers for rehabilitation
The Government is aware of the low conviction rate under the Bonded Labour  Act, 1976.
Possible reasons for low conviction, as discussed in different forums are as under:
 General social bias.
 Nature of bonded labour being migrants, absentism of Witnesses due to their migratory
Nature.
 DM/SDM Courts not as proficient in trial as judicial Courts.
The Bonded Labour System  Act 1976 is being implemented by the concerned State Govts./UTs. The Act provides for an institutional mechanism at the district level in the form of Vigilance Committees. For the purpose of implementing the provisions of this Act, the State Governments/UTs may confer, on an Executive Magistrate, the powers of a Judicial Magistrate of the first class or second class for trial of offences under this Act. Government of India has introduced a revamped Central Sector Scheme for Rehabilitation of Bonded Labourers- 2016, under which financial assistance to the tune of Rs.1.00  lakh, Rs.2.00  lakhs & Rs. 3.00  lakhs are provided to released bonded labourers based on their category and level of exploitation along with other non-cash assistance for their livelihood.
This information was given by Shri Santosh Kumar Gangwar, Minister of State  for Labour and Employment in written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha today.
Ministry of Finance
FM launches facility of Instant PAN through Aadhaar based e-KYC
In line with the announcement made in the Union Budget, Union Minister for Finance & Corporate Affairs Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman formally launched the facility for instant allotment of PAN  here today. This facility is now available for those PAN applicants who possess a valid Aadhaar number and have a mobile number registered with Aadhaar. The allotment process is paperless and an electronic PAN  is issued to the applicants free of cost.
It may be recalled that in the Union Budget, 2020, Finance Minister Smt. Sitharaman had announced to launch instant PAN facility shortly. In para 129 of the Budget Speech, the Finance Minister had stated, “In the last Budget, I had introduced the interchangeability of PAN and Aadhaar for which necessary rules were already notified. In order to further ease the process of allotment of PAN, soon we will launch a system under which PAN shall be instantly allotted online on the basis of Aadhaar without any requirement for filling up of detailed application form.”
The facility of instant PAN through Aadhaar based e-KYC has been launched formally today, however, its ‘Beta version’ on trial basis was started on 12th Feb 2020 on the e-filing website of Income Tax Department. Since then onwards, 6,77,680 instant PANs have been allotted with a turnaround time of about 10 minutes, till 25th May 2020.
It may also be noted that as on 25.05.2020, a total of 50.52 crore PANs have been allotted to the taxpayers, out of which, around 49.39 crore are allotted to the individuals and more than 32.17crore are seeded with Aadhaar so far.
The process of applying for instant PAN is very simple. The instant PAN applicant is required to access the e-filing website of the Income Tax Department to provide her/his valid Aadhaar number and then submit the OTP received on her/his Aadhaar registered mobile number. On successful completion of this process, a 15-digit acknowledgment number is generated. If required, the applicant can check the status of the request anytime by providing her/his valid Aadhaar number and on successful allotment, can download the e-PAN. The e-PAN is also sent to the applicant on her/his email id, if it is registered with Aadhaar.
The launch of the Instant PAN facility is yet another step by the Income Tax Department towards Digital India, thereby creating further ease of compliance to the taxpayers.
PIB Headquarters
Aadhar enrolment cum updation centres at 33 Post Offices in Chennai City North Division
For the benefit of public, 33 post offices in Chennai City North Division including Park Town HO, Perambur Barracks, Rippon Buildings, Egmore NDSO, Koyambedu, Kilpauk, Vepery, Annanagar East, Vyasarpadi, Perambur, Royapuram, Annanagar West Extn, Tondiarpet, Aminjikarai will offer Aadhar Enrolment and updation services.
Aadhar Enrolment will be done at free of cost for those who apply for a fresh Aadhar card. Updation services like addition/deletion/modification if any in the particulars of Name/Address/DOB/Phone number will also be done for those who have already enrolled and having Aadhar card and Rs.50/-  will be charged for every updation. Students in Educational Schools/ Colleges/Department and the Professionals/Employees in offices/industries from Chennai North Division can avail the Aadhar services in their premises itself. To avail this service, please contact Office: 044-28273635, Inspector of Posts: 8939646460, Sr. Superintendent of Posts: 9940089436, according to a Press Release issued by Ms. R.P. Chitra Devi, Sr. Superintendent of Pos, Chennai City North Division.
Ministry of Coal
Coal Ministry Reviews Production from Captive Coal Blocks
Forty Seven Coal Blocks Receive Mine Opening Permission; Likely to Increase to 60 Blocks During 2022-23
The Nominated Authority, Ministry of Coal has reviewed the production of coal with allocattees of captive coal blocks whose coal blocks have either commenced production or are likely to commence production during the financial year 2022-23. The meeting was chaired by the Secretary, Coal, Dr. Anil Kumar Jain. It was appreciated that coal production from captive coal blocks during 2021-22 was 85 Million Ton , an increase of around 35% over 63 MT produced during the previous year 2020-21. The enhanced coal production helped in shortening the demand-supply gap in domestic market.
The Ministry of Coal has taken consistent initiatives to increase the production of coal from captive mines like various amendments in laws & rules liberalizing the coal sector, regular review meetings with project proponents and State Govt. for operationalization of coal mines, appointment of a Project Management Unit for facilitating in obtaining various statutory clearances leading up to starting of coal mines etc. These initiatives have started yielding results now.
Presently, 106 coal blocks have been allocated by the Nominated Authority of the Ministry under CMSP Act, 2015 and mine opening permissions have been received for 47 coal blocks. It is expected to increase to 60 coal blocks during fiscal 2022-23. Annual peak rated capacity of operational coal blocks will be around 230 MT and coal production will be enhanced substantially to more than 140 million ton during FY 2022-23. These measures will lead to substantial reduction in import of thermal coal and considerable foreign exchange will be saved.
During the meeting, Dr. Anil Kumar Jain stated that the coal block allocatees have a golden opportunity for increasing coal production as the price of imported coal is very high at the moment and demand of thermal coal will increase due to increase in electricity demand of country. 50% sale of coal has been allowed for captive coal blocks and coal production will not be hampered even in cases where end -use-plants are not operational. New coal blocks are being allocated for commercial mining and prospective bidders have shown encouraging responses for these blocks. Some of these blocks have started coal production within one year of allocation.
Ministry of Civil Aviation
Thermal Screening of passengers arriving from China including Hong Kong expanded to Seven airports now
Passengers to fill up ‘Self Reporting Form’ before disembarkation
Advisory issued for Strict implementation at Seven identified airports on ‘Novel Corona Virus Disease’
Ministry of Civil Aviation  has directed for all logistics support and arrangements to be made immediately with regard to screening of passengers arriving in India from China including Hong Kong at the identified airports i.e. Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Cochin apart from three airports at Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata identified earlier. This is in continuation to the Advisory from Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and National Centre for Disease Control, Directorate General of Health Services, under Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India regarding threat of ‘Novel Corona Virus Disease  in Wuhan, Hubei province of China.
MoCA has called for immediate implementation of the action plan and strict adherence by identified airports and all concerned airlines. The action plan among others includes the following
- In order to facilitate early isolation, In-flight announcements to be made by the airlines  requesting passengers with history of fever and cough and history of travel to Wuhan City in last 14 days to self-declare at port of arrival or to State Health Authorities.
- Airlines staff to guide the passengers in filling up the self-reporting forms before disembarkation so that the filled up format can be checked by APHO staff on arrival.
- Airport signage to be displayed boldly at the strategic locations of these seven identified airports
- Health Screening at Airports: Thermal Screening of passengers to be undertaken. Provision of space at the pre-immigration area with logistics to install the thermal cameras to be made at these airports. Airlines staff to bring the passengers to the Health counters before the immigration check.
- Operational procedures recommended by International Air Transport Association  with regard to managing suspected communicable disease on board an aircraft.
- All passengers and crew who are otherwise healthy should be allowed to continue their onward journey. If the ill passenger or crew member is confirmed as a probable case of Wuhan Corona Virus, public health authorities should be notified about the contacts using the Passenger Locator Form.
NOVEL CORONA VIRUS ALERT
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For All Travellers
Who Have Visited China,
particularly through Wuhan City,
Hubei Province of China
during past 14 days and
- are having one or more of the following symptoms:
Acute onset of Fever, Cough, Shortness of Breath
SHOULD REPORT TO AIRPORT HEALTH UNIT
- for other Travellers 
Travellers, who have visited the affected CITY and do not have any symptoms on arrival, but develop above mentioned symptoms within 28 days of arrival in India, should visit nearest hospital facility and report to the State/District Health Authorities and concerned Airport Health Officer.
RJ/PS
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Ministry of Railways
RESTORATION OF PURI-DIGHA EXPRESS AND PURI-HOWRAH SHATABDI EXPRESS
Kolkata, August 4, 2022
The South Eastern Railway  authority has decided to restore the services of the following trains as per the schedule given below:-
· The 22890/22889 Puri-Digha-Puri Weekly Express from August 6, 2022 from Puri and from August 7, 2022 from Digha.
· The 12278/12277 Puri-Howrah-Puri Shatabdi Express from October 2, 2022 both from Puri and Howrah.
22890/22889 Puri-Digha-Puri Express
The 22890 Puri-Digha Express will leave Puri every Saturday at 9.05 pm at night and will reach Digha at 6.35 am, the next day. In the return direction, the 22889 Digha-Puri Express leaving Digha every Sunday at 5.25 pm in the evening will arrive at Puri at 2.55 am, the next day.
12278/12277 Puri-Howrah-Puri Shatabdi Express
The 12278 Puri-Howrah Shatabdi Express will leave Puri daily at 5.45 am and will reach Howrah at 1.45 pm, the same day. In the return direction, the 12277 Howrah-Puri Shatabdi Express leaving Howrah daily at 2.15 pm will arrive at Puri at 9.50 pm, the same day.
Special Service and Features
SSC invites applications for Stenographer Grade "C" and "D" Examination
Staff Selection Commission  will conduct open competitive and computer based ' Stenographer Grade "C" and "D" Examination- 2022 in November 2022 . The exact date of exam will be announced later through the SSC website. Candidates may apply before 05 September 2022 till 11 PM. The number of vacancies will be decided later.
Fee is exempted for women/SC/ST/PwD/Ex-Serviceman categories. Salary will be around Rs 70,000 at 'A' class cities.
For application submission and more details, interested candidates may visit http://ssc.nic.in and www.ssckkr.kar.nic.in. Candidates may also contact helpline numbers 080-25502520 and 9483862020 between 10 am and 5 pm from Monday to Friday.
-NS-
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Ministry of Defence
JOINT PRESS RELEASE OF THE 6TH ROUND OF SENIOR COMMANDERS’ MEETING BETWEEN INDIA AND CHINA
On September 21, the Indian and Chinese Senior Commanders held the 6th round of Military Commander-Level Meeting. The two sides had candid and in-depth exchanges of views on stabilizing the situation along the LAC in the India - China border areas. They agreed to earnestly implement the important consensus reached by the leaders of the two countries, strengthen communication on the ground, avoid misunderstandings and misjudgments, stop sending more troops to the frontline, refrain from unilaterally changing the situation on the ground, and avoid taking any actions that may complicate the situation. The two sides also agreed to hold the 7th round of Military Commander-Level Meeting as soon as possible, take practical measures to properly solve problems on the ground, and jointly safeguard peace and tranquility in the border area.
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ABB/AA/BSC/KC
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