Minister of State for Culture (I/C), Dr. Mahesh Sharma, today released 3 books ‘Jewellery’ by Dr. Gulab Kothari, ‘Ghats of Banaras’ by Dr. Sachidanand Joshi and ‘Untold Story of Broadcasting’ by Dr. Gautam Chatterjee at IGNCA, New Delhi.
Speaking on the occassion, he congratulated IGNCA for its efforts to take art and culture through the release of these books. In the book release Dr. Mahesh Sharma said “Jewellery making has been a traditional occupation with a finer classification of those who make it in Gold, Silver, Diamond, Pearl, Artificial etc. But in recent times it is also being studied as a specialized stream of knowledge. This is the most significant book for our upcoming generation.”
The Book titled “‘Untold Story of Broadcasting” written by Dr. Gautam Chatterjee is about behind-the-scenes developments during the quit India movement. It gives an authentic account of the secret broadcast which took place during the movement led by shri Ram Manohar Lohia. It has been published in collaboration with Publication Division, Government of India.
The Book “Ghats of Banaras” is derived out of the similar documentation conducted recently at Varanasi. These Ghats situated at the bank of river Ganga in a semi-circular shape (ardhachandrakar), give a spectacular view of the city.
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, has approved the release of pulses to States/UTs at discounted rate to be utilized for various Welfare Schemes from the stock of pulses procured under Price Support Schemes (PSS).
Impact:
The decision will enable the States/UTs to use pulses in various Welfare Schemes like PDS, Mid-Day Meal Scheme etc. besides making available the warehouses, which may be required in coming Kharif season for storage of commodities procured under Price Support Scheme.
Details:
Under this approved Scheme, the States/UT Governments are offered to lift 34.88 lakh MT of Tur, Chana, Masoor, Moong and Urad at discount of Rs.15 per Kg over the prevailing wholesale market price of the sourcing state on First come first serve basis. The State/UTs Governments utilize these pulses in their various Welfare Schemes/Programmes like Mid-Day Meal, Public Distribution System, Integrated Child Development Programmes (ICDP) etc. This will be one-time dispensation for a period of 12 months or complete disposal of 34.88 lakh MT of pulses stock whichever is earlier. Government will spend Rs. 5,237 crore for implementation of this Scheme.
Background:
Country has witnessed all time high production of pulses during the last 2 years. Government of India under Price Support Scheme has made record procurement of pulses during Kharif 2017 and Rabi 2018 marketing season. A record procurement of 45.43 lakh MT of pulses has been done under Price Support Scheme. In the coming Kharif season the production of pulses is expected to be good. This coupled with increase in Minimum Support Price will require additional procurement under Price Support Scheme.
Mother's International School, Delhi; Amity International School, Sector 6 Vasundhara, Ghaziabad; Kendriya Vidyalaya Sector 24 Noida; and DAV Public School Sector 14, Gurugram, on Tuesday became the first four schools to qualify for the Grand Finale of the 6th edition of CCCC Cryptic Crossword Contest.
The four NCR rounds of Delhi, Ghaziabad, Noida and Gurugram were held at KV No. 2, Delhi Cantt, as part of the launch of the national inter-school contest.
The contest was launched by Governor of Bihar Satyapal Malik.
MoS Power (Independent charge) Raj Kumar Singh was the chief guest on the occasion.
Vivek Kumar Singh, senior IAS officer and chief mentor of the contest; Santosh Mall, commissioner, Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan; and B K Singh, commissioner, Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti, were also present on the occasion.
The members of the winning school teams of Delhi, Ghaziabad, Noida and Gurugram were Harshul Sagar and Aarush Utkarsh; Mukul Jain and Joy Chopra; Aarush Sinha and Ratan Raj; and Aakriti Bansal and Nishtha Trehan, respectively.
As many as 90 teams participated in the four city rounds.
Addressing an impressive gathering of students, teachers and guests, the Governor said the everyday life is like solving a crossword puzzle. Citing chess, he said India has had a tradition of inventing mind games. He praised Extra-C and the chief mentor for initiating a unique format and providing a competitive platform for crosswords to school students.
The Power minister said those who have the ability to think succeed in life. You can train your minds and develop an ability to think critically by solving crosswords regularly, the minister told a predominantly young gathering.
The chief mentor traced the journey of the contest since 2013, when the inaugural edition was held. He said first the coming onboard of the CBSE and more recently of KVS, NVS and Doordarshan has immensely added to the popularity of the mind game in the vast hinterland.
There will be 37 more city rounds between the July-September period before the 41 winning teams from the 41 city rounds gather at the national capital towards the year-end for the Grand Finale to vie for the National Crossword Champion trophy, which was unveiled on the occasion of the launch.
NPS Koramangla, Bengaluru are the reigning champs.
CCCC Cryptic Crossword Contest is an inter-school, national-level crossword solving contest open to students of class IX-XII studying in schools affiliated to any of the recognised boards in the country.
"Our PM Mr Narendra Modi launched the Swatch Bharat Mission (SBM). To fuel this mission, today at Sunbreeze Apartment Sector 5, was carried forward by residents led by Nandita & Anubha in Partnership with Ghaziabad Nagar Nigam with strong support and able support from the Ghaziabad Mayor Asha Sharma, Municipal commissioner C P Singh.
The Green belt in front of Sunbreeze Apartment, Sector 5 was inaugrated by our Mayor Asha Sharma and CP Singh. It was led by Nandita, Arun Kumar, Anubha, Rakesh Singh, Pankaj Jaiswal, Kishor Roy, Alok along with all the residents of Sunbreeze, Eldeco, Devika and Express Apartments.
It was great occassion for all residents to have encouraging words from Mayor Asha Sharma and Municipal Commissioner CP Singh. They put across very encouraging words for all participating residents and also encouraged to scale such partnership of residents and Nagar Nigam to beautify our city. She also visited Sunbreeze Apartment and appreciated the work done on beautifying the place with scrapped items.
"We thank all officials for all the support and encouragement without which this would not have been possible, said the organisers."
International Day of Yoga -2018 organised and supported by NDMC, DDA, Bhramhakumaris and Khushigram in Delhi - NCR today. Many other premier organisations like Art of Living, Patanjali Yoga Samiti, Vivekananda Yogashram Hospital, Isha Foundation, Gayatri Parivar, MDNIY, CCRH, CCRAS also participated and supported in the celebrations today.
Prominent experts and senior officials were involved in the massive exercise at various places in Delhi -- Rajpath, Nehru Park, Lodi Garden, Talkatora Garden, Dwarka, Rohini, Yamuna Sports Complex and Lal Quila.
Events were also organised at various places at Ghaziabad also. Khushigram Group organised and supported events at various places at Indirapuram. The main event was held at Swarna Jayanti Park where some other Yoga institutions also participated.
Senior officials from the Ministry of AYUSH were involved in the massive exercise: Dr DC Katosh, Advisor and Dr A Raghu, Deputy Advisor, Ayurveda, Dr Anil Khurana, DDG, CCRH, Dr RK Manchanda, DG, CCRH, Dr RC Agarwal, DDG, DR Srikant, DDG, CCRAS, Mahavir Singh, Deputy Director, P&E, Dr Shashi Ranjan Kumar Vidhyarthi, Director. Surendra Sandhu, Dr Venkateshwara Rao, Dr Mohan Rao (R.O.) & Dr Vadiraj (R.O.) and Dr Rajiv Rastogi (A>D>) were from CCRYN.
TR Meena, HP Singh, Ashok Kumar and KK Tyagi led the efforts from NDMC, Manoj Kumar Sharma, Sunil Kumar and Laxmi Narayan from DDA, BK Sapna and BK Surresh Gupta from Bhrahmakumaris, Vishal Bhandari, Rajiv and Manoj from Art of Living, Pawan Kumar, Shyam Gupta and RS Malik, from Patanjali Yoga Samiti, Acharya Vikramaditya from Vivekanand Yogashram Hospital, Patparganj, Kanan from Isha Foundation and RN Singh from Gayatri Parivar.
Taiyab Aalam, Lalit Madaan, K Doren Singh, Dr Arpit Kumar Dubey, Assistant R.O., led the MDNIY teams.
At Indirapuram in Ghaziabad district, Khushigram team participated and led the events at Government School near Cloud 9 and near Kanawani village ground in Ahimsa Khand II and finally at the Swarna Jayanti Park. The event was guide by Yogacharya Abhay Kumar and Yogacharini Jyoti. Some of the active members were Rajnish Ranjan, Vinayak Ranjan, Seema Singh, Chandra Vikash, Mukesh Kumar, Simran and Ajit Kumar.
Being the youngest, Vinayak at 4 year 4 months was the star attraction and did all the Yoga steps at both places.
Khushigram Founder, Ajit Kumar was happy at the response. "We got good feedback from Swarna Jayanti Park, Indirapuram Ghaziabad and plan to facilitate Wellness Products and Services at Reasonable rates to all residents of Indirapuram, Vaishali, Vasundhara and Kaushambi including Natural/ Organic Nutrition. Partnerships will be finalized by July end. This is as per our last fortnight meet at Emerald Apartment, Ramprastha Greens in Vaishali hosted by Dr Archana of Sustainable Integrated Development and Green Zone in by 31 July 2020 with active collaboration and cooperation with the people, institutions and the government and create sustainable livelihoods in the rural areas with backward linkage and reduce congestion and migration also."
Two UK universities are in exploring space technology to uplift farmers’ livelihood in India with partners in India.
The main goals are to:
- Build consortium with industry, academia and government partners for possible use of cryogenics in cold supply chain
- Maximize value in agri-food supply chain to help farmers raise their income
Sheffield University Management School (SUMS) and Hull University Business School (HUBS), two leading management schools in the United Kingdom are exploring possibilities to use space technology such as cryogenics to build robust agri-food cold supply chain infrastructure in India.
As a part of their future research agenda, SUMS and HUBS in partnership with Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), STFC Food Network+ and the University of Sheffield Sustainable Food Futures (SheFF) of the United Kingdom will be organizing an international workshop in New Delhi, India from 17-19 June 2018.
Pawanex Kohli, Chief Executive and Advisor of India’s National Centre for Cold-chain Development will flag off the workshop titled “Sustainable Agri-Food Supply Chain in India”, whereas Professor Ramesh Chand from NITI Aayog will be presenting the closing remarks for the workshop.
Dr Sonal Choudhary of SUMS and Rakesh Nayak of HUBS are principal investigators and co-investigators of this research initiative, which aims to develop new technology using Cryogenics and find ways to optimise the cold supply chain in agri-food sector in India.
Dr Choudhary, who is an assistant professor at the University of Sheffield said, “this is a unique and innovative research initiative where we are bringing in multiple stakeholders and multidisciplinary research team comprising of leading industry players, farmers representatives, academicians and policy makers from India and the UK to identify and understand the challenges faced by the agri-food sector and formulate strategies to mitigate those challenges and maximize value for all the stakeholders.”
The workshop, which is funded by the STFC Food Network+ and SheFF, will be participated by representatives of Amazon India, The Linde Group, The Science and Technology Facilities Council of UK, Khushigram, Go4Fresh, Mother Dairy Fruits & Vegetables, EPMCR – an IIT Madras incubated company, Centre for Sustainable Agriculture, Optel Group, GeoTraceability, Jadavpur University, Schedulers Logistics, and Farmfresh-Handpicked (FFHP) Vegetables & Fruits and Khushigram (fast growing Farm to Fork and Integrated Sustainable Initiative).
The co-investigator and lecturer at University of Hull Rakesh Nayak said, “we are building a strong consortium of researchers from multidisciplinary background coming from cryogenics, engineering, management and social sciences to investigate value chain problems in the agri-food supply chain sector in India and build future agenda to derive solutions in terms of new technologies, policies, infrastructure, capacity building, up skilling to maximise value for all the stakeholders.”
Khushigram Founder & MD, Khushi Social & Green Networks Pvt Ltd Ajit Kumar added, “this is an excellent development and will hopefully boost the farm and food sector by strengthening the systems and increasing efficiency and decreasing losses. We are trying to work in Natural & Organic Farming, Ready to Eat and drink Healthy and Nutritious Food, snacks and beverages, Smart Food Lab, Packaging, Logistics and Vehicles, Supply Chain, Training, Marketing, Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Incubation and Technology. As our business if of Sustainable Development Goals and recreating and reviving happy villages, we are proud to contribute.”
The workshop will build a platform to review current practices at farm, distribution, logistics, warehouse and retail resulting in value loss. The perspectives of stakeholder will help in identifying the scale of problems and challenges associated with lack of cold infrastructure, policy implementation and supply chain design leading to food loss and wastage from farm to fork level. Whilst assessing the impact of emerging technologies such as Cryogenics, modified atmosphere packaging, IoT and Blockchain, it aims to explore possibilities how innovative collaborations and technological applications can be used improve the existing agri-food cold value chain.
The time and aim of this innovative workshop purely aligns with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision 2022 for doubling farmers’ income in India, and aims to uplift farmers livelihood by raising their income through value maximization – while stopping post harvest losses.
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09/08/18
Culture Minister Dr. Mahesh Sharma releases three books at IGNCA, New Delhi, today
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09/08/18
Cabinet approves release of pulses procured from farmers under Price Support Scheme to States with Central Subsidy of Rs. 15 per Kg for Welfare
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10/07/18
CCCC 2018 kicks off with four NCR rounds of Delhi, Ghaziabad, Noida and Gurugram, to be followed by 37 more rounds before the Grand Finale
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03/07/18
Green Belt inaugurated at Vaishali, Ghaziabad by the Mayor and Municipal Corporation Commissioner
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21/06/18
International Day of Yoga -2018 organised and supported by NDMC, DDA, Bhramhakumaris and Khushigram in Delhi - NCR
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16/06/18
UK universities to explore space technology and partnerships to uplift farmers’ livelihood in India
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