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PM Narendra Modi visits Varanasi for inauguration of Rudraksh

Aayushi Singh — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 12:48:13 +0000

On Thursday around 11 a.m, Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited his Lok Sabha constituency Varanasi to inaugurate and lay the foundation stones of multiple development projects. The projects are worth Rs 1,500 crore.

PM Narendra Modi while addressing the Public in Varanasi said that Kashi had shown that it did not stop or get tired even during difficult times and even though the past few months were difficult for the entire mankind.

PM Modi added that Kashi was becoming the large medical hub of Puruvanchal, and the facilities were being made available in Kashi for the disease treatments for which the people had to go to Delhi and Mumbai before.

He added that the work of installation of over 700 CCTV cameras and LED screens and information wards on Ghats were under work, this would lead to a massive boost to the tourism sector in Varanasi.

PM Modi mentioned that the Ro-Ro facilities that began today would help in the tourism sector of Kashi and would help it thrive further, the boatmen were given better facilities as well, the diesel boats were being converted to CNG which would bring down the expenses and would be for the betterment of the environment as well as would attract the tourists.

PM also said that the center was taking up a major decision for the empowerment of agricultural infrastructure and the Rs 1 Lakh crore special fund set up for the modern agriculture infrastructure would also benefit the decision.

Around 1 p.m, Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived at the Banaras Hindu University grounds in Varanasi. Where PM Modi inaugurated the Maternal and Child Health Wing in BHU. He visited the 100 bed maternal and child health wing at Banaras Hindu University.

PM Modi mounded praises on the handling of the COVID-19 crisis by Uttar Pradesh and called it unparalleled.

This visit by PM Narendra Modi to his parliamentary constituency Varanasi was after a period of eight months and launched schemes worth Rs 1,583 crore in the city.

PM Modi inaugurated and laid the foundation stone of multiple development projects.

CM Yogi Adityanath felicitated PM Narendra Modi on the ground of Banaras Hindu University (BHU) in Varanasi.

The inauguration of the International Cooperation and Convention Centre, Rudraksh, by Prime Minister Narendra Modi was constructed with Japanese assistance. PM Modi inaugurated various development projects worth Rs 1500 crore in Varanasi. The key projects included a multi-level parking at Godaulia, Ro-Ro Vessels for tourism development, and a three-lane flyover bridge on the Varanasi-Ghazipur Highway.

The foundation stone of Rudraksh was laid in the year 2018, with the help of Japan. Kashi has the importance of spirituality, literature, music, etc. UP CM Yogi Adityanath said that the inauguration of the Rudraksh convention center was a joyous moment.

PM Modi said that he couldn’t forget to mention Shinzo Abe who was his friend from Japan and he discussed his plan of Rudraksh when Mr. Shinzo Abe visited Kashi, and Mr. Abe instantly instructed his officials to work over the project. PM Modi thanked Japan PM Yoshihide Suga and Ambassador Satoshi Suzuki and said that Kashi received such a gift due to the efforts of then Chief Cabinet Secretary and now PM of Japan, Yoshihide, and had been personally involved in the project ever since.

PM Modi said that the project portrayed India-Japan ties and scope for future opportunities.

Yoshihide Suga said that PM Narendra Modi himself named the center as Rudraksh with the hope to make it a symbol of wisdom and that Mr. Suga himself hoped for this to be used as a stage to present close Japan-India ties through such events.

Mr. Suga in the video message said that on behalf of the Govt and the people of Japan, he conveyed his heartfelt congratulations on the inauguration of the Varanasi Cooperation and Convention Center.

India records 2.95 lakh fresh COVID-19 cases, 2023 deaths in last 24 hours

Nitin Anand — Wed, 21 Apr 2021 05:58:14 +0000

On Tuesday, April 21, Union Health Ministry released the data of new COVID-19 cases in India, after that India saw another day with highest surge in cases.

Report released by the Union Health Ministry states that in the last 24 hours, India reported 2,95,041 new COVID-19 cases and 1,67,457 patients got discharge, while 2,023 people died of this deadly virus, and reached the milestone of highest single day deaths. Total active cases in India is now around 21.57 lakhs. The total death toll in India reached to 1,82,553.

India reports 2,95,041 new #COVID19 cases, 2,023 deaths and 1,67,457 discharges in the last 24 hours, as per Union Health Ministry

Total cases: 1,56,16,130
Total recoveries: 1,32,76,039
Death toll: 1,82,553
Active cases: 21,57,538

Total vaccination: 13,01,19,310 pic.twitter.com/YrLu5MVdbl

— ANI (@ANI) April 21, 2021

Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) also released a data that shows 27,10,53,392 samples were tested up to April 20, including 16,39,357 samples tested yesterday.

India has scaled another peak in its effort to contain the COVID-19 virus with the administration of more than 13 crore vaccines to its citizens. The cumulative number of COVID-19 vaccine doses administered in the country stands at 13,00,27,370 till 9 PM, as per the provisional report released today. More than 28.98 lakh vaccine doses administered till 9 pm today.

Total 71,051 COVID Vaccination Centres (CVCs) were operational, marking a rise of more than 26,051 operational Vaccination Centres (45,000 CVCs on an average are functional on any given day). Workplace vaccinations have also enabled such a high turnout of beneficiaries.

These include 92,01,040 Healthcare Workers (HCWs) who have taken the 1st dose and 58,16,538 HCWs who have taken the 2nd dose, 1,15,59,218 Frontline Workers (FLWs) (1^st dose), 58,52,669 FLWs (2^nd dose), 4,34,85,752 for over 45 years old to 60 years old (1^st Dose), 14,90,460 for over 45 years old to 60 years old (2^nd dose), 4,73,31,326 for above 60 years (1^st Dose) and 52,90,367 for above 60 years (2^nd Dose).

Centre has added 2105 more new beds in Central Government Hospitals in Delhi for COVID-19. 2105 beds (1875 oxygen beds and 230 ICU beds) in Central Govt. Hospitals including Safdarjung, RML, LHMC, AIIMS Delhi, AIIMS Jhajjhar, ESIC Okhla and Jhilmil, and All India institute of Ayurveda, Sarita Vihar are available now for care of COVID patients of Delhi. With this, the number of beds for COVID patients in Delhi has increased by more than 4 times, from the 510 beds available on March 1, 2021.

Is India’s Energy Initiative on Track?

Aditi Swarup — Sat, 08 Aug 2020 06:26:26 +0000

In 2018, the first Modi-BJP administration introduced the National Electricity Plan. According to this plan, the Center had set a clean energy target of 22 GW (gigawatts) for themselves, which had to be achieved by 2022.
A recent research analysis, ‘The Curious Case of India’s Discom,’ claims that only 44% of the said target has been achieved. ‘The Curious Case of India’s Discoms-How Renewable Energy could Reduce Their Financial Distress’ was written by Vibhuti Garg, Energy Economist and Kashish Shah, Research Analyst from IEEFA (Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis).
The study stated that the Central Government needs to put a policy framework in place and incentivise states to do away with old thermal plants without adding any additional financial burden on states.