MoS (DoNER) Dr Jitendra Singh inaugurates workshop-cum-exhibition on ‘Bamboo- A wonder grass’ in Jammu

The Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region, MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh said that the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir has huge Bamboo reserves that can boost its economy in future. He was inaugurating a workshop-cum-exhibition on “Bamboo-A wonder grass” at Convention Centre, Jammu today. The workshop-cum-exhibition is being jointly organised by the North Eastern Council (NEC), Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), Government of India and Government of Jammu and Kashmir through Cane and Bamboo Technology Centre (CBTC), Guwahati, Assam and Department of Social Forestry, Government of Jammu and Kashmir. Shri G.C. Murmu, Lt. Governor of Jammu and Kashmir and senior officers were also present on the occasion.

While inaugurating the workshop, Dr Jitendra Singh said that bamboo cultivation can revolutionise the industry in Jammu and Kashmir in a cost-effective manner and can open new gates for the young start-ups. While referring to a series of workshops and conferences being organised in J&K, the Minister said that this is the 4th conference within a short span of 3 months. He said that under the leadership of Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, it has been decided to institutionalize every outreach initiative for the welfare of the people of Jammu and Kashmir. Other ministries are also conducting programs with an aim to go deeper to the district level and then to the assembly segment level, he added. He further said that the UT Govt. is in the process of identifying 100 venues and will identify the programs to be held there in the first phase.

The Minister also emphasized on the fact that it is the time to apply the same amount of focus on Jammu and Kashmir as has been applied to North-East in recent years which has totally transformed the region into a heaven for start ups. There is an expectation that Jammu and Kashmir will too emerge as a great economic zone and successful practices of governance and development can be easily replicated in Jammu and Kashmir, he said.

Speaking on the sidelines of the exhibition, the Minister said that the development of UTs of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh is being given special focus after the abrogation of Article 370. Dr Singh also said that the dream of a 5 trillion economy can not be achieved unless we follow the global parameters. The new industrial policy is in the line so that we would have more investment here which will create more jobs for the youth of Jammu and Kashmir, he added.

Dr Jitendra Singh said that every important project related to Jammu and Kashmir that was stuck up is now being cleared. He spoke about the Bathinda gas pipeline project, Uj river water project, Shahpur Kandi Project, Pakaldul Project to Kiru Project. This will bring a new dawn into the UT of Jammu and Kashmir, he added.

During the workshop-cum-exhibition, Dr. Jitendra Singh also inaugurated Bamboo and Cane cluster stalls established by eight states of North Eastern Region and exhibition stalls. He also visited live stations established by various departments of the UT of Jammu and Kashmir.

Lt. Governor, UT of Jammu and Kashmir, Shri. G.C. Murmu emphasised on the fact that Bamboo being eco-friendly can help us saving the environment from pollution and can become a means of livelihood as well. The need of the hour is to find the economic use of it in Jammu and Kashmir as we have huge resources of Bamboo here, he added.

Addressing the workshop-cum-exhibition, Shri. K. Moses Chalai, Secretary, North Eastern Council, Govt. of India said that both North-East and Jammu and Kashmir have a great potential to grow together in Bamboo technology and this workshop is a good beginning to have a bamboo skill development in Jammu and Kashmir on the lines of North Eastern region.

Earlier in her welcome address, Ms Sarita Chauhan, Commissioner Secretary, Department of Forests, Environment and Ecology, Government of Jammu and Kashmir said that this workshop-cum-exhibition will boost the Jammu and Kashmir economy in future and this workshop will broaden the vision about it especially through the technical sessions. She also emphasised on the development of the skills of artisans of Jammu and Kashmir to hone their skills and potential.

During the conference, the artists from the North Eastern Region performed a Bamboo Orchestra and the troupe from the North Eastern Region also performed a Bamboo Dance.

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Maiden landing of DRDO-developed LCA Navy onboard INS Vikramaditya

After completing extensive trials on the Shore Based Test Facility (SBTF), Naval version of Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) did a successful arrested landing onboard INS Vikramaditya at 1002 hrs today. Commodore Jaideep Maolankar conducted the maiden landing. Captain Dahiya was the Landing Safety Officer (LSO) and Cdr Vivek Pandey Test Director on ship whereas Gr. Capt. Kabadwal and Cdr Ankur Jain were monitoring the aircraft through telemetry from SBTF. LCA Navy has been developed by Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).

Secretary, Department of Defence R&D & Chairman DRDO Dr G Satheesh Reddy has congratulated DRDO, Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA), Indian Navy, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and Directorate General of Aeronautical Quality Assurance (DGAQA) teams.

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Chief of the Air Staff Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria visits NCC Republic Day Camp

Chief of the Air Staff Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria visited the National Cadet Corps (NCC) Republic Day Camp 2020 at Delhi Cantt today. The Chief of Air Staff inspected the Guard of Honour presented by the NCC cadets from the Army, Navy and Air Force. This was followed by a Band Display by the cadets.

The Chief of the Air Staff also inspected the well laid out ‘Flag Area’, prepared by the cadets from all 17 NCC Directorates, depicting various social awareness themes. He was given a brief by the cadets on their respective models.

Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauriavisited the ‘Hall of Fame’, a proud possession of the NCC, with display of rich archival collection of alumni photographs, models, motivational and other visual delights of the three wings of the NCC.Later, the Chief of the Air Staff and other distinguished guests witnessed a cultural programme by the cadets.

In his address, Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria lauded the stellar role played by NCC in shaping the youth of the nation,enabling them to shoulder the responsibilities of building a strong India. He assured the NCC of the continued support of the Indian Air Force in conduct of its Air Wing activities.

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Prime Minister Dedicates Four Refurbished Heritage Buildings in Kolkata to the Nation

The Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi dedicated to the nation Four Refurbished Heritage Buildings in Kolkata today. These are Old Currency Building, the Belvedere House, the Metcalfe House and the Victoria Memorial Hall. The Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Culture and Tourism, Shri Prahlad Singh Patel and Governor of West Bengal Shri Jagdeep Dhankhar were also present on this occasion.

Photo Caption: The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi addressed at the dedication ceremony of the four refurbished Heritage Buildings to the nation, in Kolkata.

Speaking on the occasion, Prime Minister termed it as a special day, as it begins a nationwide campaign to preserve India’s art, culture and heritage, and to Reinvent, Rebrand, Renovate and Rehouse them. Shri Modi said that India always wanted to protect and modernize its cultural heritage and structures. It is with this spirit that the Union Government has taken up the endeavour to develop India as major centre of Heritage Tourism in the World. He mentioned that five 5 Iconic Museums in the country will be made in keeping with the International standards. This is being started from the Indian Museum in Kolkata, which is one of the oldest museums in the world, he added.

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Photo caption: The Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi unveiled the ‘Ardhnarishwar’ sculpture at Old Currency Building in Kolkata in the presence of the Union Minister of State (I/C) for Culture and Tourism, Shri Prahlad Singh Patel and Governor of West Bengal Shri Jagdeep Dhankhar.

Speaking on the occasion the Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Culture and Tourism, Shri Prahlad Singh Patel said that it is a great privilege that the Prime Minister is dedicating these historical and heritage buildings in Kolkata to the Nation. The minister lauded the dedicated efforts of the officials of the Culture Ministry which helped the refurbished structures to come into being within the stipulated period. The renovated four heritage buildings are now open for the public. Our museum and the objects placed in it are the heritage of all of us. We all need to take care of them together, he added. Shri Patel also praised the art-works curated Old Currency Building, named Ghare Baire, from where the Prime Minister dedicated three other iconic and historical buildings of Kolkata, namely, Belvedere House, Victoria Memorial Hall and Metcalfe House.

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Ordinance promulgated for amendment of MMDR Act and CMSP Act; paves way for growth in Coal and Mining sector

The ordinance for amendment in the MMDR Act 1957 and the CMSP Act 2015 has been promulgated. The Union Cabinet had earlier approved the amendments intending to open up new areas of growth in the coal & mining sector.

The amendments in the Acts would enable the following:

Enhancing the ease of doing business
Democratization of coal mining sector by opening it up to anyone willing to invest.
Offering of unexplored and partially explored coal blocks for mining through prospecting license-cum-mining Lease (PL- cum-ML).
Promoting Foreign Direct Investment in the coal mining sector by removing the restriction and eligibility criteria for participation.
Allowing of successful bidder/allottee to utilise mined coal in any of the plant of its subsidiary or holding company
Attracting large investment in coal mining sector as restrictions of end use has been dropped.

The details are as given below:

Amendments in respect of Ministry of Coal

Ascilite 2011 – what a buzz!

Hobart is the venue for this year\’s Ascilite conference and I love it – probably because it is so like Dunedin. It even has a hill with a pregnant woman shape just like at home, and the plants are very similar. The conference has had some really interesting topics. People really are doing some amazing innovations and research. I was particularly impressed with Gilly Salmon\’s keynote and the plenary sessions on the first day. It was hard to move from there as everything was so interesting. More about that later. Gilly told us about the Media Zoo, (she developed this while at the University of Leicester) to promote PD for learning design using a metaphor – different animals represent different types of professional development projects. She also invited people to contribute examples of good practice in onine facilitation for her new e-tivities book coming out soon.

Following my presentation I got talking to Belinda Allen and Kathryn Coleman about ePortfolios and their ideas of creativity that they mentioned in their talk. Kathryn told me about the Assessment toolkit they had developed at the University of New South Wales. It looks good. I was fairly pleased with my presentation – Is reflective writing an enigma? (Also in the title – Can preparing evidence for an electronic portfolio develop skills for reflective practice?) As soon as I get home I will record some audio to accompany it – otherwise it doesn\’t mean much. I was asked lots of questions after the session and during fodder breaks. The Reflective Framework provoked lots of discussion which was excellent. I will post more later once I get to some decent broadband – balancing the laptop on my knee at my motel door to get connectivity means the post is going to be short.Check out the wonderful art created by Gilly\’s partner (I presume) who also does this kind of artwork for her presentations. He drew this as she talked about the different areas of scaffolding. Building the scaffold in action.

\’LIC Policy Loan\’ (225 Words)

In LIC, at present loans are granted on unencumbered policies up to 90 percent of the Surrender Value under policies which are in force for the full sum assured and up to 85 percent of the Surrender Value on policies which are paid- up for a reduced sum assured. The minimum amount for which a loan can now be granted under a policy is Rs. 1000/-. The rate of interest charged at present varies from 9 percent to 12 percent per annum payable half- yearly depending upon the type of plan. The terms and conditions printed on the policy bond reveal whether a particular policy is eligible for a loan.

Loans:

Loans are granted on policies to the extent of 90% of Surrender Value of the policies which are in force.
Loans are granted on policies to the extent of 85% of the Surrender Value in case of policies which are paid-up, inclusive of the cash value of bonus.
The rate of interest charged at present varies from 9 percent to 12 percent p.a. payable half-yearly.
Loans are not granted for a period shorter than six months.
The Conditions and Privileges printed on the back of the Policy Bond states whether a particular policy is with or without the loan facility.

\’LIC Policy Loan\’ (225 Words)

Loans are granted on policies to the extent of 90% of Surrender Value of the policies which are in force.
Loans are granted on policies to the extent of 85% of the Surrender Value in case of policies which are paid-up, inclusive of the cash value of bonus.
The rate of interest charged at present varies from 9 percent to 12 percent p.a. payable half-yearly.
Loans are not granted for a period shorter than six months.
The Conditions and Privileges printed on the back of the Policy Bond states whether a particular policy is with or without the loan facility.

\’LIC Policy Loan\’ (225 Words)

Loans are granted on policies to the extent of 90% of Surrender Value of the policies which are in force.
Loans are granted on policies to the extent of 85% of the Surrender Value in case of policies which are paid-up, inclusive of the cash value of bonus.
The rate of interest charged at present varies from 9 percent to 12 percent p.a. payable half-yearly.
Loans are not granted for a period shorter than six months.
The Conditions and Privileges printed on the back of the Policy Bond states whether a particular policy is with or without the loan facility.

Short Article on \’Global Warming\’ (180 Words)

\’Global warming\’ is the observed century-scale rise in the average temperature of Earth\’s climate system. Rising of temperature of the Earth\’s atmosphere causes Global Warming. Since, last century temperature is increasing by 0.75 degree centigrade causing greenhouse effect.

Human activities have resulted in the increase of global warming. Some of them are deforestation, pollution, consumption of fossil fuel, burning of plastic etc. Due to global warming, polar ice caps are melting and as a result sea level is rising. Islands would be submerged. Ozone layer is becoming thinner day by day resulting in entering of harmful ray in the atmosphere causing skin diseases and many other diseases. Climate is changing day by day. There is a change in rainfall pattern and global warming also affects the agriculture.

Therefore, it is necessary for us to take prevention steps. We should practice afforestation. Government must check our deforestation. Instead of fossil fuels, we should use clean fuels such as natural gas. We should stop the burning of plastics etc. Hence, necessary steps must be taken. Earth should remain beautiful forever.

Short Article on \’Global Warming\’ (180 Words)

The Power Of Student-Made Videos – Easy Apps For Projects & Primary Sources

Source: ASIDE 2016

The use of videos in learning is no longer exceptional. Whether via classroom viewing, flipped instruction, or self-directed YouTube searches, kids expect a multimedia accompaniment to their otherwise humdrum lectures and daily note-taking.

Having students create their own videos upgrades the internalization of ideas to a much more nuanced level. Inviting learners to produce their own content is the difference between input and output, content and skills, decoding and encoding, passivity and activity.

Luckily, an array of user-friendly (and largely free) websites and apps has made it easy to incorporate video projects into any humanities or scientific classroom. For example, we’ve written before about how much we like Adobe Voice and Renderforest in giving students agency over their own learning.

Source: Magisto

One of our favorite (and effortless) apps for creating videos is Magisto. Intended as an automatic editor, Magisto’s algorithm self-selects the best parts of your video clips and images, and it splices them together into a stunning finished product. Even using only still photos, the app does a magnificent job of melding photographs into a powerful short film. Yes, there are free and paid options, but the free version offers a nice buffet of styles and songs to allow for customization. In addition, setting up student accounts is a breeze, with no concerns for firewalls or emails.

In our history classroom, we’ve used Magisto to particularly worthwhile effect in studying primary sources. For example, in our investigation of assimilation and the Dawes Act in the American West, our eighth-graders examined the photographs of Edward S. Curtis in his documentation of Native Americans. Among historians, Curtis owns a difficult legacy. On one hand, he was the only Easterner who committed years of his life to record and preserve the vanishing tribes of the continent’s First Peoples. On the other hand, he posed his subjects in deliberately disingenuous headdresses, choreographed untimely rituals, and removed contemporary technologies from the photographs he thought should speak only to yesteryear.

“true” or not, Curtis’ choices invite valuable conversations about historiography and ethnography. In the end, all photographs involve making choices. They are, therefore, by nature artificial. Every kid who frames and retouches an Instagram snapshot knows this. All primary sources, in this mold, are less-than perfect, because they all emerge from the lens of their creator. But does that detract from their value as illuminating historical relics? Or put differently: the lesson here is for students of history to be rightfully skeptical, while still appreciating the value of evidence.

Using Magisto, our eighth-graders made videos with Curtis’ photos, using the following determinations:

Selection – which images would properly relate to their theme?
Sequence – what progression would make sense from start to finish?
Style – what editing suite would complement the intended mood?
Music – what instrumentation would add value to the theme?
Text – what title and summary would help teach others?
Tone – what overall feeling or motif would wed the images together

The father of data visualization, Edward Tufte, likes to say that 1 + 1 = 3. He refers primarily to white space and spatial adjacency. But another corollary suggests that when combined, two visual elements create a third sense of meaning simply because of their union. The marriage of two parts establishes a separate sensibility via their juxtaposition. Nowhere is this more true than in producing videos. The images, text, editing, soundtrack, transitions, and effects all fuse together to give birth to a wholly original animal that is more than the sum of its parts.

When kids design their own films, they become the educators of their peers. They must stitch together a narrative and storyboard each moment in a process that combines logical reasoning, cause-and-effect, and content mastery. They also must employ their graphicacy skills to fashion compelling and appealing visual displays. On a most basic level, students also genuinely like making movies. It’s a low-cost, high-reward project that gets them excited to dive into primary sources and eager to engage with the material.

Short Biography of ‘Alexander Graham Bell’ (120 Words)

The inventor of the telephone, ‘Alexander Graham Bell’, was born on 3rd March 1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland. His father was Professor Alexander Melville Bell and his mother was Eliza Grace. He later settled in the United States of America.

Alexander Graham Bell was an eminent scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator. Throughout his life, Bell had been interested in the education of deaf people, as both his mother and his wife were deaf. This interest led to invent the microphone and in 1876, his ‘Electrical Speech Machine’, which we now call a telephone.

What followed after that is history. Bell Telephone Company (later AT&T) was set up in 1877, which grew to be one of the largest telephone companies in the world.

Short Essay on ‘Alexander Graham Bell’ (120 Words)

\’Should students be allowed to carry Mobile Phones with them\’ (290 Words)

The students of this generation want every gadget in their hands. They want to have the latest technology with them, and the first are mobile phones.

Nowadays, these are the most popular things to have. Even students are not able to escape from it.

Earlier, it was used to make and receive calls and send and receive messages, but nowadays students don\’t buy mobile phones for these purposes. They buy them to listen songs, to watch movies and videos, to play games etc. which hampers their studies. They listen audio with earphones which can cause a great problem in their ears as well as in their brains.

Every mobile has internet facility nowadays. By spending only few bucks they are able to get a multimedia mobile phone with every feature as well as with touch screen. Internet of the mobiles can be used by the students to gather some information which can help them in their studies, but they use this feature of mobiles to see the web pages which they should not see. They bring mobile phones to schools which is not allowed.

By calling and sending messages and using internet they waste a lot of money and pay the bill by wrong methods or the burden of the bill lies upon the parents. Mobile phones can also cause great damage when used while driving. Sometimes, they misuse the calling feature of the mobiles by making fake calls, which creates a problem in the work of the other people. The students use mobile phones to cheat while exams.

So what to do now? The answer is to stop the students from buying the mobile phones or the parents must not provide it to them. The main motive we have to follow is to save the future of the students going on wrong path.

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