State PCS

• 06 Mar 2023

5 Rural Learning Centers will be Built in Bareilly Division of Uttar Pradesh

Why In News?

• On March 5, 2023, D.D Mahendra Singh of Panchayati Raj Department of Uttar Pradesh told that five learning centers will be set up in Bareilly division of the state, in which training will be given to the villagers at the village level.

Key points

• D.D. Mahendra Singh of the Panchayati Raj Department said that in order to strengthen the villagers at the economic level, five model panchayat houses of the four districts of Bareilly division are being made learning centres. Under this, learning centers will be set up one each in Bareilly, Pilibhit and Badaun and in two-gram panchayats of Shahjahanpur. Villagers will be taught the nuances of farming and becoming entrepreneurs at the learning center.
• The government has released a budget of Rs 25 lakh to make the Panchayati Raj Department a learning center. Five lakh rupees will be spent to develop a center. All necessary equipment will be provided for training, including projectors.
• Mahendra Singh said that the government is implementing the plan to effectively implement development schemes at the village level. The participation of villagers is being decided in this. The people of the village will be explained how to take advantage of the government's schemes with information about them.
• He said that such gram panchayats were selected for learning centres, where panchayat building, and community center building were good. Computers, internet, electricity and boundary wall were built in the panchayat house. Health centers, primary and junior schools, Anganwadi centers were present.

International Women's Day Organized in Patna

Why In News?

• According to the information received from the media on March 5, 2023, the Excellence Award Ceremony-2023 of Let's Inspire Bihar-Gargi Chapter was also organized on International Women's Day organized at Vidyapati Bhawan, Patna, Bihar, in which 150 women from different fields were honored. Awarded for setting the best example in the society by exemplary role.

Key points

• The event also saw some wonderful cultural performances like Jhijhiya and runway walk for the ladies. Apart from this, the best performing members of Let's Inspire Bihar, who have worked selflessly for the society, were also felicitated.
• Gargi Excellence Awards Mumbai were also given to Bihari women living in Noida, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Bengaluru, Delhi and outside the country. Apart from this, Ruhi Singh, who has been Mrs. Kenya from Bihar, Advocate Ilyas Fatima from London, Fashion Designer Nima Kumar from Bengaluru, Actress Rishika Singh Chandel from Mumbai, Folk Singer Hema Pandey were given Gargi Award.
• During the program, IPS Vikas Vaibhav honored all the women and presented their example in front of the common people in Bihar.
• The main attraction of the event was 'Anandi', a play based on the novel written by Bindu Jyoti Jha and directed by Hemant Jha, played by lead actress Mona Jha. Apart from this, stalls of Bihari food items and art-crafts were also set up by women with a view to promote entrepreneurship.
• Let's Inspire Bihar says that our aim is to uplift the women of the society by giving them a platform so that they can inspire by acting as a changemaker and realize their true potential.
• This honour was given for their remarkable contribution to the women doing better work in various fields including education, equality, entrepreneurship, social service, art culture, sports world, acting, literature, medicine.

President honored Gayatri Devi Yadav with Water Warrior Category

Why In News?

• On March 4, 2023, at held at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi the 'Swachh Sujal Shakti' Award Ceremony, President Draupadi Murmu honoured volunteer Gayatri Devi Yadav, who is playing the role of water woman in Rajasthan, with the water warrior category.

Key points

• Gayatri Devi has been honoured for her outstanding work done through rural women self-help groups to make farm ponds in Sambhar block area of Jaipur, Rajasthan.
• It is noteworthy that Gayatri Devi Yadav, along with The Gram Chetna Kendra Sanstha of Jaipur, has done excellent work for rainwater harvesting and conservation by forming 65 women self-help groups in about 68 villages of Sambhar block for the last several years and contributed significantly to making women water literate in rural areas.
• Bansi Lal Meena, member of Gram Chetna Kendra Sanstha, said that Gayatri Devi Yadav worked to help the people in spreading the schemes being run by the state government and the central government for rainwater harvesting and clean water management through women self-help groups.
• He trained the villagers to collect rainwater through farm ponds, especially in rural areas, to make it fit for drinking and farming and to do better water management.
• Gayatri Devi's important work of training rural women to get pure drinking water and other crops from the accumulated rainwater stopped the migration of families in rural areas and increased their income, giving rural women an opportunity to lead a respectable life.

Chief Minister Increased the Amount of Assistance for Marriage Conferences

Why In News?

On March 4, 2023, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has increased the grant amount to encourage mass marriage conferences to be held in the state.

Key points

• Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot said that under the mass marriage scheme, now 25 thousand rupees will be given per couple. In this, the newly married woman will get a grant of 21 thousand rupees and the institution will get a grant of 4 thousand rupees. This amount will be payable to marriage conferences held from April 1, 2023.
• It is known that at present this amount is being given 15 thousand and 3 thousand rupees respectively i.e., a total of 18 thousand rupees.
• Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has announced an increase in grants in the budget, taking important decisions towards promoting social activities like mass marriages, preventing malpractices like dowry system and reducing unnecessary expenditure 2023-24.
• A provision of Rs 10 crore has been made on behalf of the Chief Minister for the year 2023-24 as assistance. With this, a target has been set to provide mass marriage grant to about 4000 couples.
• He has agreed to give an additional assistance of Rs 10 lakh to the organizers for the participation of families of different communities, castes and religions in mass marriages. Realizing the spirit of 'unity in diversity', this amount will be given for organizing marriages of at least 25 couples. In this, there is a provision to aid of Rs 2 crore to about 20 institutions.

Three Women of Madhya Pradesh got Swachh Sujal Shakti Samman

Why In News?

• On March 4, 2023, Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi, at the 'Swachh Sujal Shakti' Award ceremony held at President Draupadi Murmu honoured two water warriors from Madhya Pradesh Anita Chaudhary and Ganga Rajput with the Swachh Sujal Shakti Samman-2023 for their outstanding contribution to water conservation. Apart from these, Union Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat honoured village sarpanch Neetu Parihar with Swachh Sujal Shakti Samman-2023 for exemplary performance in the field of cleanliness.

Key points

• Anita Chaudhary, a water vendor from Chhindwara district, was awarded in the operations and maintenance category of piped water supply in the Jal Jeevan Mission. Due to his efforts, the village of Garhmau of the district has been declared Har-Ghar-Jal Gram.
• Ganga Rajput, the water warrior of Chhatarpur district, has been awarded under the National Water Mission. With his untiring efforts, he made a special contribution in making the women of village Bhoyra aware and dispelling folk misconceptions and bringing alive the Chandel Pond.
• Sarpanch Neetu Parihar of Gwalior district was awarded under Swachh Bharat Mission-Gramin. He has made extraordinary contribution in making Gram Panchayat Pura Banwar ODF plus Adarsh Gram.
• A total of 18 awards were given in different categories in the program under Jal Jeevan Mission, National Water Mission and Swachh Bharat Mission-Gramin.

Inter-operable Criminal Justice System Implemented in Haryana

Why In News?

• March 5, 2023, The Haryana Police has successfully implemented the According to the information given by the Haryana Public Relations, Information and Language Department on of the Central Government, working towards ensuring modern policing much-awaited project Inter-Operable Criminal Justice System (ICJS).

Key points

• It is noteworthy that the ICJS project implemented by the Central Government has been implemented across the country through the Ministry of Home Affairs, on which the state police are working to ensure modern policing.
• Disclosing this here today, a state police spokesman said that the state police has succeeded in tracing 45 vehicles, finding 67 proclaimed offenders and bell jumpers and 02 most wanted criminals using the ICJS project. Apart from this, 4 FIRs have also been registered in the state on the said data.
• A police spokesman said that in the first phase of the ICJS project i.e., inter-operable criminal justice system, different IT systems have been implemented and organized. This system has also been enabled to search records.
• Apart from this, under Phase-2, this system 'one data, one entry 'has been prepared on the principle of, under which data is recorded only once in one column and then the same data is recorded in all other columns. For this, there is no need to re-enter the data in each column.
• State Crime Records Bureau Director O.P. Singh said that the ICJS system is being made available through a dedicated and secure cloud-based infrastructure with high-speed connectivity.
• The responsibility of implementation of the ICJS project in the state lies with the State Crime Records Bureau.
• Interoperable Criminal Justice System (ICJS) is a national platform for integration of core IT systems to be used by five pillars [Police (Crime and Criminal Tracking and Network System), e-Forensics for Forensic Labs, e-Courts for Courts, e-Prosecution for Public Prosecutors, e-Jail for Jails] is done to implement criminal justice in the country.
• Through this software, the state police have a complete record of criminals lodged in jails. By entering the name and other information of the criminal in the above software, if his status is in any other state, then only then it is updated. Based on the above information, the research officer can take further action. Many times, it has been seen that a criminal is wanted in many states and imprisoned in another state. In such a situation, the current location of the criminals can be found with the help of the data base available on this software.
• In addition, stolen vehicles can be detected through the software.
• by the National Crime Records Bureau under the Ministry of Home Affairs in New Delhi, a police spokesperson said/Inter-Operable Criminal Justice System (An annual conference on good practices in CCTNSICJS) was organised. In this conference, Haryana Police secured the first position in the country in the category of best implementation of ICJS project.
• It may be mentioned that the performance of about 117 FSLs and CFSLs in the country was evaluated on the parameters defined by NCRB, in which Haryana stood first as the best performer. Throughout the year, the state remained at the first place on more than 20 consecutive parameters on the Pragati dashboard.

35th Spring Festival begins in Panchkula

Why In News?

• On March 4, 2023, Haryana Chief Secretary Sanjeev Kaushal formally inaugurated the 35^th Spring Festival at Yavnika Town Park in Sector 5, Panchkula, The State.

Key points

• Chief Secretary Sanjeev Kaushal said that dry flower decoration along with different varieties of flowers is also the center of attraction in this spring festival. This time visitors will get to see floral jewellery, vegetable carving, laser show etc. Special puppet shows and magic shows have also been arranged for children.
• Ajit Balaji Joshi, Chief Administrator, Haryana Urban Development Authority, by HSVP 35th Spring Festival organized 1500 schools Panchkula, said that more than, institutions and organizations are participating in this time.
• It is noteworthy that the performance of about 117 FSLs and CFSLs in the country was evaluated on the parameters defined by NCRB, in which Haryana stood first as the best performer. Throughout the year, the state remained at the first position on more than 20 parameters on the progress dashboard.

Chief Minister inaugurated Gahoi Bhawan in Raipur

Why In News?

• On March 5, 2023, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel inaugurated the newly constructed building built by Shri Gahoi Vaishya Samaj of Raipur at Tatibandh near AIIMS in the state capital Raipur.

Key points

• On this occasion, Chief Minister Mr. Bhupesh Baghel said that this building has been constructed by Shri Ghai Vaishya Samaj to plan for the stay of patients and their families during the treatment of patients in AIIMS.
• He said that with the construction of the newly constructed building, people of other societies will also get its benefit. This building will be very useful for patients coming from Chhattisgarh and other states outside Chhattisgarh. Many times, the treatment must be stopped for a long time, in such a situation, through this building, the problem of stay of patients and their families will be solved and will provide them a lot of relief.
• The Chief Minister said that this work of the society is a high-quality human service. Any society which does not own land is being given land for giving a fixed amount for social work. Collector guidelines have also been reduced by 30 percent.