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Air Quality Shows Slight Improvement, Dr. Harsh Vardhan Directs Agencies to Contain Dust, Check Garbage Burning Air quality of Delhi and NCR, which worsened on June 12-13, 2018, due to the incoming dust from Rajasthan, has shown a slight improvement today, with PM10 declining to 759 µg/m 3  at 4.00 p.m from a peak of 823 µg/m 3  at 5.00 p.m.yesterday.   In view of the seriousness of the situation, Union Minister of Environment, Forests & Climate Change, Dr. Harsh Vardhan has directed concerned agencies to be on maximum alert and to ensure all necessary measures to contain sources of dust and to check garbage burning.  He also appealed to the people to avoid unnecessary exposure, given the prevailing situation. Consequently, the Task Force under the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) met in CPCB and recommended that construction activity-related enforcement measures under the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP)be brought into operation immediately.  The Task Force also

भारत माता की जय, भिलाई स्टील प्‍लांट छत्तीसगढ़ महतारी   के कोरा के अनमोल रत्‍न हैं। छत्तीसगढ़ महतारी के प्रताप के चिन्‍हारी हैं।छत्तीसगढ़ के यशस्‍वी और लोकप्रिय मुख्‍यमंत्री हमारे पुराने साथी डॉ. रमन सिंह जी, केंद्र में मंत्री परिषद के मेरे साथी चौधरी बीरेंद्र सिंह जी, मंत्री श्री मनोज सिन्‍हा जी, इसी धरती की संतान केंद्र में मेरे साथी श्री विष्‍णु देव सहाय जी, छत्तीसगढ़ विधानसभा के अध्‍यक्ष श्रीमान गौरीशंकर अग्रवाल जी, राज्‍य सरकार के सभी वरिष्‍ठ मंत्रीगण और छत्तीसगढ़ के मेरे प्‍यारे भाईयो और बहनों। दो महीना पहले वो भी 14 तारीख थी। आज भी 14 तारीख है। मुझे दोबारा एक बार आपके आर्शीवाद प्राप्‍त करने का अवसर मिला है। जब मैं 14 अप्रैल को आया था यहीं की धरती से  आ युष्‍मान भारत योजना  के पहले चरण की शुरुआत की थी। आज दो महीने बाद 14 तारीख को भिलाई में आप सभी से आर्शीवाद लेने का सौभाग्‍य फिर एक बार मुझे प्राप्‍त हुआ है। छत्तीसगढ़ के इतिहास में, छत्तीसगढ़ के भविष्‍य को मजबूत बनाने वाला एक और सुनहरा अध्‍याय आज जोड़ा जा रहा है। अब से कुछ देर पहले भिलाई में स्टील प्‍लांट के विस्‍तार और

NITI Aayog has been engaging with State Governments to evolve a shared vision of national development and strategies from time to time to share the best practices. In this context, India Consensus - a partnership between Tata Trusts and Copenhagen Consensus which has undertaken more than 160 cost-benefit analyses across all main policy areas in Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthan presented their findings on 14 th  June 2018 in NITI Aayog. The presentation on evidence-based policy prioritisation model was chaired by Dr Rajiv Kumar, Vice-Chairman, NITI Aayog. It was attended by Chief Secretaries, Additional Chief Secretaries/Principal Secretaries/Secretaries dealing with the Planning Department of 32 States and Union Territories, Joint Secretaries from 14 Ministries, senior officers from NITI Aayog, eminent economists and researchers. Copenhagen Consensus President, Dr Bjorn Lomborg presented the policies and interventions which generate the most social, economic and environmental good for

Government committed to bring development in NE at par with other developed states: Dr Jitendra Singh The Union Minister of State for Development of North Eastern Region (I/C), Prime Minister’s Office, Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr. Jitendra Singh today reiterated the Government’s commitment to ensure fast-track development in the North east region.  He was addressing the media after chairing the Consultative Committee meeting for Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER) in Jammu. Dr. Jitendra Singh said that the Government has taken major strides in the development of the North Eastern Region in last four years. While addressing the members of the committee, Dr. Jitendra Singh said that there was a need to highlight special qualities of each state for developing its unique identity alongside the collective identity of ‘North East’. He said that this will provide developmental, economic, cultural and political ident

Ph.D Degree will be mandatory for direct recruitment to Assistant Professors in Universities w.e.f. 01.07.2021- Shri Prakash Javadekar In order to attract and retain the best quality teachers and other academic staff in Universities and Colleges, the UGC has brought out new regulations. This was disclosed by Union Minister for Human Resource Development, Shri Prakash Javadekar while addressing media persons in New Delhi today. The Highlights of the Regulations are as below: Incentives to teachers as provided in the earlier Regulations of 2010 and subsequent amendments have been retained.   These include incentives for M.Phil/Ph.D. API based PBAS System has been removed. A new simplified teacher evaluation grading system has been introduced and research score added for Universities to improve research output. Promotion criteria under CAS for University teachers has been made more research oriented while in case of College teachers, CAS criteria is more focused on teaching

Dusty Conditions likely to Prevail over Next three Days The high pollution levels during this time of the year in Delhi are unusual and primarily due to dust storms from Rajasthan.  Rajasthan is facing extremely dry weather conditions, with high temperatures and wind speeds. The wind direction in Delhi since June 10 has changed to West and North West and then since June 12 to West and South West, due to which hot air, along with dust from Rajasthan has started moving into Delhi.  According to Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), the current surface winds in Delhi are in the range of 5-6 m/sec and wind direction is West to South West, which is likely to continue over the next three days.  Therefore, it is expected that dusty conditions will prevail in Delhi over the next three days.   Major construction agencies, municipal corporations and Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) have been alerted to ensure water sprinkling, as required.  Ministry of Environment, Fores