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  • NIMS, first public sector hospital in country to get a state-of-the-art robotic surgery system

    Hyderabad: NIMS became the first public sector hospital in the country to implement a state-of-the-art robotic surgery system, which allows smaller incisions, leading to faster patient recovery and reduced hospital stays.

    Health Minister T Harish Rao on Monday stated this. The system was bought for Rs 35 crore. Rao said Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao generously allocated a grant of Rs 154 crore for the procurement of new medical equipment, further emphasising the importance of utilising funds from the Arogyasri healthcare programme.

    Rao said NIMS was now successfully competing with renowned corporate hospitals in terms of advanced healthcare facilities. Since the State formation, NIMS has undergone significant development, with bed capacity doubling to 1,800. Recently, the CM had laid the foundation for a future 4000-bed NIMS hospital. With the planned expansion, NIMS is poised to become the largest hospital in the country, providing healthcare services on an unprecedented scale. It has gained recognition as the preferred choice for top-ranking medical students across India, he added.

    NIMS boasts of several notable achievements in medical infrastructure, such as the largest dialysis centre in India, equipped with 150 dialysis machines valued at Rs 10 crore. It has also acquired high-end medical equipment including a DSA machine (worth Rs 13 crore0, an MRI machine (Rs 9 crore), a next-generation genome sequencing machi(Rs 7 crore), a neuro-navigation machine (Rs 6 crore), HDR brachytherapy equipment ( Rs 5 crore), anesthesia workstations ( Rs 5 crore), a mobile DSA machine ( Rs 5 crore), fracture fixation sets (Rs 4 crore), a pathology scanner (Rs 4 crore), an intraoperative microscope(Rs 3 crore), bronchoscopes ( Rs 3 crore) a 4D echo machine (Rs 2 crore), 3D EP equipment (Rs 2 crore), a CR system (Rs 2 crore), a Luminex machine (Rs 1 crore), and an intraoperative ultrasound machine( Rs 1 crore).

  • Also asked to restore the already dug roads in 15 days

    Also asked to restore the already dug roads in 15 days

    In view of the rainy season, District Collector Mr. Himanshu Gupta has issued orders to stop the work being done by LG & P Company for laying underground gas pipeline in Jodhpur city with immediate effect and not to do any excavation work till further orders. Along with this, it has also been said that restoration of the previously excavated roads should be done within 15 days and submit the report to the district administration.
    In the order issued by the District Collector, it has been said that the road is being excavated at various places by the company for laying underground gas pipeline, due to which there have been potholes at many places, as during the excavation due to the recent monsoon. Due to the accumulation of rain water in the pits and not bringing the roads back to normal, there is a possibility of loss of life.
    It has been said in the order that if there is an urgent need in any area, then the work should be completed only after taking permission from the district collector on case to case basis. In the event of work being done without the permission of the District Collector, action will be taken as per the provisions of the Indian Penal Code and Criminal Procedure Code (Criminal Procedure Code).
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  • Preparations for assembly elections 2023 started, cell in-charge should be proactive in discharging responsibilities – Purohit

    Preparations for assembly elections 2023 started, cell in-charge should be proactive in discharging responsibilities – Purohit

    A meeting was organized on Thursday under the chairmanship of District Election Officer and District Collector Arun Kumar Purohit in connection with the preparations for the upcoming Assembly General Elections 2023.
    On this occasion, District Election Officer Purohit said that election duty is the most important task among all the state responsibilities and even a small mistake is unforgivable in it. That’s why all the officers and personnel associated with the election need to work with utmost care, proactivity and alertness. Also, it is necessary to update and update them every time.
    District Election Officer Purohit reviewed the tasks assigned to all cell in-charges in detail and asked them to list their subordinate personnel and tasks and issue orders as per the requirement at the stipulated time. He said that the highest priority is given to the work of awareness and updation of the electoral list in the works before the election announcement, so these works should be done as per the instructions of the Election Commission of India. Similarly, tender and accounting work for election related material should also be completed before time. Similarly, the preparations for communication, data entry, personnel database, sweep, civil, control room, media, model code of conduct, tree news, etc. were also reviewed in detail.
    During this, Additional District Collector Surendra Singh Purohit, Additional Superintendent of Police Satendrapal Singh gave information related to their responsibilities in the said meeting. All the nodal officers and employees were present in the meeting.

  • Industrial Promotion Camp completed, 160 people took part Photo attached: 1 to 4

    Industrial Promotion Camp completed, 160 people took part Photo attached: 1 to 4

    A district level industrial promotion camp was organized by District Industry and Commerce Center, Dungarpur on Thursday at Sai Palace Hotel, Sagwara Road, Dungarpur.
    Hitesh Kumar Joshi, General Manager, District Industry and Commerce Center, Dungarpur said that information about departmental schemes was provided to the entrepreneurs, businessmen and youth in the said camp. In the camp, information was provided by Hitesh Kumar Joshi about Prime Minister’s Employment Generation Program, Chief Minister’s Small Enterprise Promotion Scheme, Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar Rajasthan Tribal Dalit Enterprise Promotion Scheme. District Leading Bank Manager J.P. Meena gave information about banking process along with other government schemes. District branch managers of various banks including RIICO, BSVS Director, Regional Rural Bank, Punjab National Bank, Union Bank of India, Bank of India, Bank of Baroda were also present in the camp. Deputy Director Mridha Ajmera, who came from Jaipur, also motivated her to take advantage of the departmental schemes. In the camp, along with trainees of Rajasthan Skill and Livelihood Development Corporation and Rural Self-Employment Training Institute, 160 aspirants interested for departmental loan schemes and district loans participated. Under Bhimrao Ambedkar Rajasthan Adivasi Dalit Udyam Protsahan Yojana, 10 applications were prepared on the spot and approval from banks was also issued.
    In this camp, the General Manager, District Industries Center administered an oath to all the visitors in the camp under the SVEEP program of the Election Department, informing them about the necessity of enrollment and voting in the voter list.

  • Modi’s nine years of visionary leadership changed the country: Prakash Javadekar

    Modi’s nine years of visionary leadership changed the country: Prakash Javadekar

    Hyderabad: Former Union minister Prakash Javadekar said here on Thursday that the nine years of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visionary leadership transformed the country in many ways and boosted its image and of people.

    Addressing party cadre and leaders, he said the nine years of Modi government could be reckoned with nine main characteristics since he assumed office. Politics of development, good governance, government that works 24/7 for 365 days bringing stability and enhanced the country’s stature, absence of dynastic politics, unshaken faith of people reposed in Modi’s leadership and his government, and not a single minister of Cabinet faced any allegation of corruption.

    Besides, a non-discriminatory policy towards people based on their religion, community and the like. Similarly, adopting a non-discriminatory policy towards any State with a focus on ‘SabkaSath, Sabka Vikas, SabkaViswas and, SabkaPrayas’ was the main ideology that drove the government in the last nine years, he added.

    That apart, there is no personal agenda or interest as the government stood for the idea of ‘Nation First’, Anthyodaya to uplift the poorest of the poor and delivery of developmental fruits to the last person through weeding out corruption through the Direct Benefit Transfer, JandDhan and UPI ecosystem have brought a sea change in the country and lives of the people.

    On the economic front, India has over taken from the UK, which ruled India for 200 years, emerging as the fifth largest economy from the tenth position in 2014. A recent report points out that the agenda of Modi to make the country a $ 5 trillion economy might be achieved sooner than the target set. While developed economies like China, the US, were showing trends of 3-4 per cent growth rates, and several other countries in Europe were even going into negative growth trends, the Indian economy is pegged as the fastest-growing in the world and a bright spot in the world economic landscape for prospective foreign direct investments.

    When the country develops, the poor and middle class will be economically empowered. It is with such a vision that the Centre has been working tirelessly to take the country forward. India’s inflation rate, including food, is far less than other countries;the inflation and covid containment management of India has been praised by many across the world, he added.

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    Not only FDIs are increasing and foreign currency reserves raising, but the manufacturing and agriculture and allied sectors are showing good growth. In several sectors India is leading; it is ‘New Bharat’ emerging. The road, rail, airports, ports and metro infrastructure creation and the faster pace of its implementation bring transformation. “Four banks in the US collapsed. On the other, the recapitalisation has made the Indian banking sector stronger; the economy is scaling new heights,” he said. “People want peace, progress and prosperity, and the nine years of Modi government have set such an agenda with a vision, which is showing results, he pointed out. The government in Telangana has not been able to deliver on its promises like double bedroom houses. Its improper implementation of the PM Health Insurance Scheme has been denying fruits of development to eligible beneficiaries, he said.

  • Tap Connection: East Godavari secured 21st position in the country

    Tap Connection: East Godavari secured 21st position in the country

    Rajamahendravaram(East Godavari district): District Collector Dr K Madhavi Latha said that the East Godavari district has completed 81 per cent of the targets and has secured 21st position in the country by sanctioning drinking water tap connections to every house. Similarly, the Swachh Villages Development Index has got a two-star rating in target achievement. She wants to make more progress to maintain the recognition that the district has got at the national level.

    Union Secretary of Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation (DDWS) in Ministry of Jal Shakti, Vini Mahajan held a video conference from Amaravati with the Collectors of various districts across the country.

    District Collector Madhavi Latha, Joint Collector N Tej Bharat, RWS SE D Balashankaram, Dwama PD GS Ram Gopal and Divisional Panchayat Officer J Satyanarayana attended the video conference.

    On this occasion, Vini Mahajan said, “We are ready to allocate necessary funds for the development work being carried out by Swatch Bharat Mission under drinking water supply and sanitation in rural areas.”

    Speaking on the occasion, Collector Madhavi Latha said that out of 3.56 lakh households in East Godavari district, so far 2.89 lakh households have been given tap connections. She said that the construction of Jagananna colonies on a large scale in the district is being undertaken and new proposals will be sent accordingly. Wet and dry waste collection and solid and liquid waste management systems will be set up and developed as a source of income.

    She said that steps are being taken in that direction by adding creativity to innovative ideas with the participation of industries, voluntary organisations, and people. She said that door-to-door garbage collection is being done as part of maintaining cleanliness in the villages. She explained that soap pits, magic pits, and leach pits are being set up under liquid waste management.

  • India Should Be Among 1st Nations To Industrialise Without Carbonizing The World: Kant

    India Should Be Among 1st Nations To Industrialise Without Carbonizing The World: Kant

    India should be among 1st nations to industrialise without carbonizing the world: Kant

    New Delhi, May 17 (PTI) There is a need for climate finance and resources to flow into emerging countries and India should be among the first countries to industrialise without decarbonising the world, G20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant said on Wednesday.

    While delivering Bharti Lecture on India’s G20 Presidency around digital cooperation at IIT Delhi, Kant said that the world may survive in 2050 but human beings will go extinct if the world fails to meet the 1.5 degrees centigrade global warming target.

    He said that western powers polluted the world when they were industrialising and the emerging markets have contributed very little to this present climate crisis.

    Kant said that India has only contributed 1.5 per cent of the 2800 Gigaton of carbon space available, whereas logically on the basis of per capita income it should be entitled to 17.5 per cent..

    Irrespective of that, as we move forward, because we will become the third most polluting country in the world in due course. As we industrialize, India must become one of the first countries in the world to industrialize without carbonizing the world and therefore you need a decarbonisation strategy. You need long term financing to flow, Kant said.

    He said that India’s G20 Presidency has come in the midst of inflationary pressures across the world and other challenges that the world has been facing.

    The former Niti Aayog CEO said that while emerging markets are growing, the resources from emerging markets are flowing to the developed part of the world, whereas growth is all happening in the emerging markets or the world.Kant said that the Prime Minister has said that India will treat this G20 as an opportunity to make the G20 very action-oriented, make it decisive, inclusive and forward looking.

    We have looked at our priorities and our priorities which India has put forward are really how to accelerate the pace of inclusive, resilient and sustainable growth for the world for the global economy, Kant said.

    He said that the world, instead of progressing, has actually regressed and there is a need to look at ways to accelerate the pace of sustainable development goals.

    If you look at all these SDG (Sustainable Development Goals ) and climate action, you will realize that the emerging markets require long term financing for both climate action and for sustainable development goals. This would require us to have resources flowing from the developed world to emerging markets as was committed by the Developed world in 2009 at Copenhagen, Kant said.

    He said that the emerging markets have not contributed to the crisis of climate action but the western power when they were industrializing.

    The developed countries have not lived up to their commitment, but more important than that there is no shortage of resources. There are vast resources available with the private sector, institutional lenders, pension funds, etc.

  • India set to surpass China as world’s most populous nation this month: UN

    India set to surpass China as world’s most populous nation this month: UN

    UNITED NATIONS: India is projected to overtake China as the world’s most populous country by the end of this month when its population is expected to reach 1.425 billion, according to the United Nations.

    India’s population is projected to stabilise after the year 2064 and will be around 1.5 billion at the end of the century, a senior UN official said on Monday.

    “India is projected to overtake China as the world’s most populous country during the current month – April of 2023. Chinese population reached its peak size of 1.4 billion in 2022, and has begun to decline,” Director, Population Division, UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) John Wilmoth said at a news briefing here.

    Wilmoth said that projections indicate that the size of the Chinese population could drop below 1 billion before the end of the century.

    “In India, by contrast, the population is expected to continue growing for several decades,” he said.

    According to the forecast based on the latest United Nations estimates and projections of the global population released on Monday, India will dethrone China as the world’s most populous nation by end of this month when its population is expected to reach 1.425 billion.

    In response to a question by PTI, Senior Population Affairs Officer, Population Division, DESA Sarah Hertog said that the agency’s medium projection indicates that India’s population could stop growing around 2064 and stabilise thereafter.

    She, however, cautioned that there is some uncertainty around that projection.

    “We project that the population of India will be around 1.5 billion at the end of the century in the medium period,” Hertog said.

    Last week, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) said in its State of World Population report “8 Billion Lives, Infinite Possibilities: the case for rights and choices” that India will become the world’s most populous nation by mid-year 2023 when its population will be 1.428 billion, surpassing China’s 1.425 billion people.

    The policy brief released on Monday states that India’s population will overtake that of China this month.

    Responding to a question on the differing projections by two UN agencies on when India will surpass China as the world’s most populous nation, Wilmoth said it is “unfortunate” that the communication is not clear.

    “The main point is that it (India overtaking China in population) is happening during this year. There’s also a great deal of uncertainty around this estimate. The precise timing of when this crossover occurs is not known for sure and it will never be known,” he said.

    Wilmoth said that estimates of the timing of the crossover will probably be revised when the UN receives the next census from India in 2024.

    “We will certainly go back and redo all of these calculations and I’m sure the date is going to change. It will not be April 2023. That would be my prediction,” he said. India’s planned 2021 census was delayed due to challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic and is now scheduled for 2024.

    In China, the most recent census was done in November 2020.

    UN DESA noted that due to the uncertainty associated with estimating and projecting populations, the specific date on which India is expected to surpass China in population size is approximate and subject to revision.

    Wilmoth added that the main driver of the population trends in India and China is the fertility level in the two populations.

    “In 2022, China had one of the world’s lowest fertility rates, which was 1.2 births per woman on average over a lifetime. India’s current fertility rate, which is at 2.0 births per woman, is just below the replacement threshold of 2.1 which is the level required for population stabilisation in the long run in the absence of migration,” he said.

    On the economic and social implications of the population crossover between India and China, Wilmoth said: “While the crossover per se may have little importance on its own, what matters is the underlying trends that have produced the crossover.” He said between 2023 and 2050, the number of persons aged 65 or over is expected to nearly double in China and to increase by more than double in India.

    He said that these trends call attention to the challenges of providing social support and protection to growing numbers of older persons.

    The UN DESA policy brief adds that as a proportion of the total population, the growth of the older population in India will be much slower than in China.

    Wilmoth said the trends that underlie the population crossover are linked to the demographic dividend, which is a boost in economic growth driven by an increase in the size of the working-age population as a share of the total.

    “This benefit is time-bound, but its duration and intensity vary across countries depending in particular on the steepness of the fertility decline that they experience,” he said.

    In India, the number of adults of working age is projected to continue increasing both in number and as a proportion of the total population through mid-century, providing opportunities for faster economic growth over the next few decades.

    Meanwhile, in China, projections indicate that the percentage of the population at ages 25-64 will peak in the coming years, closing the window of opportunity created by the changing age distribution.

    The UN agency said the policies and programmes aimed at influencing fertility should ensure the basic human right of all individuals and couples to decide freely and responsibly on the number and the timing of their children and to have the information and means to do so.

    Employment and social policies need to make it both possible and desirable for women to have children while remaining in the labour market and continuing to develop their careers. Such policies can include the provision of subsidised childcare, maternal and paternal leave, and tax credits, among others.

    Wilmoth said the working-age population in India is expected to reach a peak at around 2045.

    India is in “its period of the so-called demographic dividend in the sense that it’s still experiencing an increase in the relative size of the working-age population. So this has a positive impact overall on economic growth per capita,” he said.

    But, he noted, that the size of the workforce is what really matters and not just the number of people of working age.

    “It’s not just the number of people in the working age range, but it’s also whether they’re engaged, and it’s also how well educated they are, therefore how productive they are in terms of contributing to the economy.

    “The demographic change is only one piece of it. I think sometimes there’s a lot made out of this demographic dividend, but it’s really only one piece of the puzzle in terms of what contributes to economic growth and what can help countries,” he said.

  • IPCC report a call to action for all, especially countries like India: Co-author

    IPCC report a call to action for all, especially countries like India: Co-author

    India should bolster its adaptation and mitigation efforts in line with the warnings issued in the latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), as the country is going to bear the devastating effects of global warming, say two prominent co-authors of the key United Nations document.

    Aditi Mukherjee and Dipak Dasgupta, the Indian co-authors of the report released on Monday, said rising sea levels are a matter of concern for the Indian subcontinent as it would affect the ecology and livelihood of millions of people living in coastal areas.

    “This report (Synthesis Report of the IPCC) is a call for action for all countries, especially countries like India, which are very vulnerable to climate change given their location in the tropics. The report provides a menu of climate actions, both mitigation and adaptation actions, which India can implement based on its national circumstances,” Mukherjee told PTI in an online interview.

    According to the report, which presents a sort of urgency in implementing policies that could bring down the emissions, the world is already only a few tenths of a degree away from the global target of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

    “Human activities, principally through emissions of greenhouse gases, have unequivocally caused global warming, with the global surface temperature reaching 1.1°C above 1850–1900 in 2011–2020. Global greenhouse gas emissions have continued to increase, with unequal historical and ongoing contributions arising from unsustainable energy use, land use and land-use change, lifestyles, and patterns of consumption and production across regions, between and within countries, and among individuals,” the report said.