The Union Health Ministry held a virtual meeting today where Union Health Secretary, Secretary DPIIT Secretary Pharmaceuticalsand Secretary Textiles participated. State Health Secretaries and Industries Secretaries of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chandigarh, Chhattisgarh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu, Goa, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Jharkhand, Kerala, Ladakh, Lakshadweep, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, NCT of Delhi, Odisha, Punjab, Puducherry, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal.

The aim of the meeting was to ensure adequate Oxygen availability in all healthcare facilities in these States& unrestricted intra as well as inter State movement of oxygen.

It was noted that 11 tankers in the State of Assam supply Oxygen to most of the North-Eastern States. States were asked to assess the need and then to press more tankers into action, repurpose similar vehicles for carrying oxygen, take steps to reduce their turnaround time so that patients do not face any lack of oxygen.

The States were specifically advised to:-

1. Ensure facility wise/hospital wise oxygen inventory management and advance planning for timely replenishment so that there are no stockout.
2. Ensure that no restriction is imposed on the movement of Medical Oxygen between States/UTs.
3. Provision of “Green Corridor” for Liquid Medical Oxygen (LMO) Tankers within the cities.
4. Real Time monitoring of cryogenic tankers used to supply oxygen.

5. Repurposing of Argon and Nitrogen carrying tankers to increase number of oxygen carrier vehicles.
6. Hospitals and institutions have long term tender/ contract agreement for supply of Oxygen with oxygen manufacturers, which need to be honoured. Hence, States must not impose restrictions on free movement of Oxygen.
7. Ensure timely payment of the due bills to the manufacturers and supplier to maintain uninterrupted supply of oxygen.
8. Improve power supply infrastructure and ensure uninterrupted supply to Oxygen Manufacturing Units.
9. Improve hospital storage capacity and identify MSME units whose storage capacity can be used to store Oxygen.
10. Undertake Oxygen Consumption Audit, ensure only cases requiring medical oxygenation are administered with Oxygen and prevent leakages due to negligence of hospital staff
11. Ensure proper disinfection of Oxygen cylinders as per protocols while sending cylinders to fillers of Oxygen.
12. Effective coordination with steel plants for Oxygen procurement since steel plants provide approx. 550 MT/day oxygen in addition to oxygen manufacturers who provide 6400 MT/day.
13. Expedite process of grant of licenses to produce medical oxygen to those already producing industrial oxygen.

Cleaning and rejuvenation of rivers is a continuous process, and Central Government is supplementing the efforts of the State Governments and Union Territories in addressing the challenges of pollution abatement of rivers by providing financial and technical assistance through National River Conservation Plan (NRCP) for identified polluted river stretches. Under NRCP, various pollution abatement works relating to interception & diversion of raw sewage, construction of sewerage systems, setting up of sewage treatment plants, low cost sanitation, river front/bathing ghat development, public participation & awareness programme, etc are taken.

State/ Union Territory-wise details of sewage treatment plants sanctioned, constructed and  capacity created in million liters per day (MLD) since 2018 till date under NRCP are as under

Floods are natural calamity that India faces almost every year, in varying degrees of magnitude, leading to a loss of lives and property. The occurrence floods can be attributed to various factors, including wide variations in rainfall both in time and space with frequent departures from the normal pattern, inadequate carrying capacities of rivers, river bank erosion and silting of river beds, landslides, poor natural drainage in flood prone areas, snowmelt and glacial lake out-bursts.

National Water Mission (NWM) of Ministry of Jal Shakti has initiated “Catch the Rain” campaign in order to promote creation of Rain Water Harvesting Structures (RWHS) suitable to the climatic conditions and sub-soil strata to store rain water. Drives to make water harvesting pits, rooftop RWHS and check dams; removal of encroachments and de-silting of tanks to increase their storage capacity; removal of obstructions in the channels which bring water to them from the catchment areas; repairs to traditional water harvesting structures like step-wells and using defunct bore-wells and old wells to put the water back to aquifers etc, are some of the activities suggested to be taken up with peoples’ active participation under this campaign.

Central Ground Water Board is implementing a nationwide programme of “National Aquifer Mapping and Management (NAQUIM)” for mapping of aquifers (Water bearing formations), their characterization and development of aquifer management plans to facilitate sustainable development of ground water resources. Aquifer maps and management plans have been shared with the respective State Government agencies. Public Interaction Programs are being organized at grass root level for disseminating the tenets of the Aquifer Management Plans for the benefit of the stakeholders.

To promote recharge of ground water, Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs has formulated guidelines for the States to adopt measures suitable to local conditions. Adequate focus has been given on requirement of rainwater harvesting and water conservation measures in Model Building Bye Laws (MBBL), 2016 and Urban and Regional Development Plan Formulation and Implementation (URDPFI) Guidelines, 2014.

The Ministry of Jal Shakti has not carried out any specific study to ascertain the extent of decline in water harvesting due to illegal encroachment of water bodies.

The Central Government has constituted Mahanadi Water Disputes Tribunal on 12.03.2018 under Section 4 of the Inter-State River Water Disputes Act, 1956 (as amended) for adjudication of water dispute regarding the inter-state river Mahanadi.

At present the dispute is under adjudication in the Tribunal under Section 5 (2) of Inter-State River Water Disputes Act, 1956 (as amended).

 As per Section 5(2) of Inter-State River Water Disputes Act, 1956 (as amended) “The Tribunal shall investigate the matters referred to it and forward to the Central Government a report setting out the facts as found by it and giving its decision on the matters referred to it within a period of three years (emphasis added).

Provided that if the decision cannot be given for unavoidable reason, within a period of three years, the Central Government may extend the period for a further period not exceeding two years”.

Thereafter, under Section 5(3) of the said Act, the Central Government/State Government(s) may again refer the matter to the Tribunal for further consideration, which may then give its further report within one year, with the option to extend for such further period as Central Government considers necessary.

 This information was given by the Minister of State for Jal Shakti & Social Justice and Empowerment, Shri Rattan Lal Kataria in a written reply in Rajya Sabha.

The Pradhan Mantri Jan VikasKaryakram(PMJVK) has been restructured in 2018 and is now being implemented in 1300 identified Minority Concentration Areas (MCAs), with an objective of developing socio-economic infrastructure and basic amenities in the said areas. For larger coverage of the scheme, the areas under PMJVK have been increased from 90 Districts originally to 308 Districts of the country, which include 870 Blocks, 321 Towns and 109 District Headquarters.

The expenditure under PMJVK in 2018-19 and 2019-20, has been Rs. 1156.07 crore and Rs.1698.29 crore respectively.

Project proposals under PMJVK are received from the States/UTs as per their felt need and infrastructure requirement of the identified MCA. In the period 2018-19 to 2019-20, the Ministry has sanctioned 85 Residential Schools, 6 JawaharNavodayaVidyalayas (JNVs), 454 School Buildings, 22 Degree Colleges, 209 Hostels, 4181 Additional Class Rooms, 329 Additional Classroom Blocks, 7854 Smart Classrooms, 32 Industrial Training Institutes, 7 Polytechnics, 324 Health Projects, 927 Anganwadi Centres, 22 Working Women Hostels, 136 Common Service Centres, 8 Hunar Hubs, 37 Market Sheds, 953 Sanitation Projects, 1027 Drinking Water Projects, 9 Sport facilities, 89 SadbhavMandaps, 11 Skill Development Centres etc.

This information was given by Shri Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, Minister of Minority Affairs, in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha today.

Scientists specialising in different aspects of the Himalayas discussed a range of areas like landslide disaster risk reduction, Himalayan seismicity, risk awareness, and mitigation, and journey of black carbon towards Himalayan cryosphere’ on the occasion of Himalaya Diwas. 

The discussions were part of an online celebration of ‘Himalaya Diwas’ by Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology (WIHG), an autonomous institute of the Department of Science & Technology, Government of India, last week.

Dr. Vikram Gupta, scientist, WIHG, spoke about some fundamental concepts of ‘Landslide Disaster Risk Reduction (L-DRR) Strategy and emphasised the importance of risk reduction caused by the landslide. He explained how risk reduction measures are a good investment and said that for risk management, it is always better to have a good understanding of landslide processes.

While delivering a lecture on ‘Himalayan Seismicity, Risk Awareness, and Mitigation’, Dr. Ajay Paul, a scientist from the institute, explained how the Himalayan region is prone to earthquake activity. He described how an earthquake could be hazardous to the various lifeline of the people and explained what one should do before an earthquake, during an earthquake, and after an earthquake, which can mitigate the hazardous impacts of an earthquake.

Elucidating the ‘Journey of Black Carbon towards Himalayan Cryosphere,’ Dr. Chhavi P. Pandey, from the institute, said that black carbon aerosol plays a unique and important role in the Himalayan environment. She explained how transportation of Black carbon and other pollutant takes place towards the Himalaya cryosphere.

Dr. Sameer Tiwari, also from the institute, highlighted the ‘Use of Geothermal Resources for heat utilization. He described that geothermal energy is relatively clean and renewable and hence becoming a preferred choice for an alternative energy resource for the future. He said that WIHG has been monitoring around 40 active geothermal springs from the Garhwal and Kumaun Himalayan regions of Uttarakhand. Dr. Rajesh Sharma, senior scientist at WIHG, coordinated this event.

Ministry of Minority Affairs implements various welfare schemes for the socio- economic and educational empowerment of six centrally notified minority communities namely Buddhists, Christians, Jains, Muslims, Parsis and Sikhs.

During the period from 2015-16 to 2019-20, total fund allocated for Ministry of Minority Affairs was Rs. 21160.84 crore and actual expenditure was Rs. 19,201.45 crore which is approx 90.75% of total fund allocated.

Since 2014-15 to till date, a total number of 4,00,06,080 scholarships have been distributed to the students belonging to economically weaker sections of minority communities, by incurring a total expenditure of Rs.11,690.81 crore. An amount of Rs.9223.68 crore has been spent for providing scholarships to 3,06,19,546 beneficiaries under various scholarship schemes of the Ministry during the period from 2015-16 to 2019-20, out of which about 54% scholarships have  been awarded to minority girlstudents.

This information was given by Shri Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, Minister of Minority Affairs, in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha today.

Self-improvement is the improvement of one’s knowledge, status, or character by one’s own efforts. It’s the quest to make ourselves better in any and every facet of life.September is National Self Improvement Month, a time to reflect upon your life, set new goals and take strides to make personal changes in order to achieve the life you truly wish. Observed every ninth month of the year, it gives us the chance to not only support and encourage your personal growth, but also illuminate the self-improvement movement. Today, we’re going to look at the immense business that serves the public’s thirst for self-help.We start growing in any skill by taking in new information, or reorganizing information we already know into a more useful form. 
There is no denying that self improvement has become big business, with tens of millions of people around the world look to make positive changes in their lives ever year with the help of self help products, materials, and services.Live training seminars that look to motivate, empower, and teach people to reach their potential are now a $500 million industry.

The self development industry loves to tell you that if you can keep telling yourself over and over again that you are a wonderful, worthwhile happy Human Being, that eventually you will believe it and thus it will come to fruition.Unfortunately, if at a very deep level you don’t believe what you are saying such affirmations are not only worthless, but can be counter productive.If you have low self esteem and take this approach and see no positive results, then guess what happens?Yep, you think even less of yourself for not even being able to do something so easy.

In fact, many self-help gurus and popular systems know this, and release a series of books, seminars or products that touch on all of these themes.
Increased focus and concentration

Greater empathy and understanding of others,Lowers stress levels,Increases our ability to deal with adversity ,Reduces blood pressure in those people who have higher than ideal levels,School attendance levels rise when meditation is introducedIt can lower levels of depressionIt makes people happier and more content.Improves overall health levels.

self-love is so fundamental that I can’t skip any self-improvement question without including it. The moment you start loving yourself, you automatically get into a state where you no longer get satisfied with mediocrity because you feel that you deserve nothing but the best. A person who doesn’t appreciate who he is more likely to engage into self-sabotaging, hating themselves and criticising his decisions. He’s busy focusing on the negative things about him than focusing on the opportunities lying ahead of him. Once you accept yourself you let go of the negative feelings of you not being enough, which is the first step towards self-improvement.

About 98% of the population cannot multi-task and trying to do so inhibits performance because every time you move from one thing to another your brain takes between 1 and 3 seconds to catch up and refocus.

What do you want to improve? Would you like to participate in a race which doesn’t have a finishing line? A vision for your future is the finish line which makes you take part in the race and keeps you motivated enough to continue till the end. Have a radical vision for your future and improve yourself in order to reach there.

Avoid being dogmatic and insisting your memory remembers an event exactly as it was. If you’re in an argument where somebody insists otherwise, then they are as likely to be right as you are.
person who doesn’t value what he has today, will never value what he gains tomorrow. Be grateful for your current situation and don’t hesitate to thank people who are trying hard to make you feel content. A simple thank you can improve your relationship by ten folds.

you have to know what it is you want, and then pursue it relentlessly and intelligently. Setbacks and failures happen, so it’s important to forgive yourself, learn from them, and continue to improve in spite of them. Keeping that growth mentality front and center even in the face of adversity is key.

As we have heard many times that block chain technology will change the whole IoT industry but we do not know how it is going to happen. Today we are here to discuss the answer of three questions and how block chain is a platform for IoT solutions.

The questions are as follows:

1. What is a block chain?
2. Why we should use block chain in IoT?
3. How to use block chain with IoT?

What is a block chain?

A block chain is a distributed database that is accessible from anywhere and there is not a single issue of failure. Its cost is higher and availability of this system is lower. To know better we have to take a look on the characteristics of this technology.

A Public Ledger

It means that anyone can access and join this this. Any block chain that is not public thus is not a block chain

Immutable

This ledger records everything. There is a track of every evidence and it logs every action on the system. You can update a record by creating a new one with reference to the old record.

Distributed

Using block chain as database, the is ready before hand and is distributed already, so there is no chance of failure and it leads to 100% service availability with world- wide success.

Why should we use block chain in IoT?

There are some basic requirements for a usable block chain based platform. Let us read them.

1. Scalability: A successful IoT solution does a massive set of action and this put the platform in a real test. A block chain that does not have scale is not at all useful for IoT solution.
2. Worldwide access: The nature of IoT solution is to have a world wide access.
3. Low and non-volatile cost: Estimating the cost in any solution is a part of that process but first make sure that the solution you are using has a fair and affordable cost. Make sure that using this platform should not decrease the cost otherwise it will kill the project.
4. Stability: Stability is the most important thing that must be looked after. You have to install a device with stable and constant protocol otherwise it would be rather very painful it if gets changed every time.

How to use block chain with IoT?

A block chain is a single distributed database where the data entered cannot be altered or lost. The main query is how to update this database? How to do transaction on Bitcoin work?

Transactions are easiest way of informing the network that you want to update the database. This update can be done in form of requesting for actions or steps like moving coins and entering data.

Every and each transaction needs at least one input to get recognised as a sender until and unless it is a coin base transaction. It also needs an output to get noticed as recipient.

When you request for an update on the database, you need to provide the evidence for its request, that is the signature of Unspent Transaction Output. The person having access to those private keys can only provide those signatures. As long as the private keys are safe not compromised, no one can update the database on behalf of the sender.

But with the original version of Bitcoin , the transactions can also carry out the data. This data can be anything and with any instructions. Note that in Bitcoin you have 2^256 addresses and each address can represent a device without requiring a public IP.

Many of us know that block chain is a hype but trust us using this block chain technology actually improves security, availability and lowers the lower the cost of running projects.

The best choice of IoT solutions is the original version of Bitcoin as it has all the elements of an IoT solutions that would be requiring.

Hope you all enjoyed reading this article. Do not forget to stay connected with us more updates. Till then goodbye. Have a nice day.

We all get bored and surrounded by negative thoughts, when we perform the same types of work. There is no such excitement for doing the same work over and again. At that time , Do you know that our mind wants relaxation and wants to try something which you like?

Here are certain ways how you can find the power of your mind when you get surrounded with negative thoughts. Go ahead and read. Have a happy reading guys.

1. Your mind wants to you to find yourself : You all have heard a quote ‘I lost you but I found me, so I win’. This is exactly what your mind wants you to do when you are surrounded with all negativity and boredom when you do same monotonous jobs. You have sit alone and think what you exactly want to do. Your mind will provide you with the answer.
2. You have to take risk to find the power of mind: Yes, you have to take risk. If you are feeling monotonous regarding the same type of work, take a break and also a risk of finding a job that suits you the best. At this point of time, it is very essential to find your inner strength and skills and trust me, you will reach the peak of your success.
3. Seek opportunities: Give yourself a tension free relax and seek opportunities of different kinds of work that you want to try. This is the another thing that your mind wants you to do. Do not miss a single opportunity because opportunities always never come.
4. Varieties of jobs: Find various jobs that suits your personality the best. For this you have find your inner skills. You must do the job that do both satisfies you and makes your mind peaceful.
5. Find your capabilities not your disability: Finding your capabilities rather than seeing your disability, is the main way to find the power of your mind and willpower. You will get rid of negative thoughts and your mind will be filled with positive thoughts.

So, these are the ways you can find the power of your mind when you think that you are surrounded with boredom, fraustation, negative thoughts. It will help your conscious mind to get activated and help you with all positive thoughts.

You know guys, I follow a simple trick to find the power of mind during boredom and that is listening to the heart and meditation. It’s just awesome. ‘People call me disable but I call myself differently abled, they see my disabilities but I see my capabilities.’ This is the chant that I follow to win over negative thoughts. You all also try, you will succeed guys.

Today till this much, hope this topic was interesting and was able to take your breathe. Follow the above ways, we assure you that you will definitely win over all boredom, negative thoughts, monotonous jobs.

For more exciting discussion, stay tuned with us. Till then goodbye, have a nice day ahead.

Greenhouse gas, any gas that has a radiation property from the face of Earth to absorb infrarot radiation, thereby leading to a greenhouse effect. Earth’s surface. The most powerful greenhouse gases are carbon dioxide , methane and water vapour. The energy balance of the earth system is greatly influenced by greenhouse gases, although it makes up just a fraction of all atmospheric gases. Greenhouse gas concentrations have changed dramatically over the history of the earth, causing tremendous climate change across a wide range of timescales.  In general, greenhouse gas concentrations during warm and cold cycles were especially high.

Many processes affect the production of greenhouse gases. Others work in millions of years, like tectonic movements while others work on hundreds to thousands of years, such as vegetations, rocks, wetlands and ocean sources and sinks. Human activities, particularly the combustion of fossil fuels, as Industrial Revolution has steadily increased atmospheric concentrated gases, including carbon dioxide , methane, ozone and chlorofluorocarbons.

The effects of a greenhouse gas on the atmosphere of the Earth depend on its chemical composition and relative atmospheric concentration. Some gases are able or present in large amounts to absorb infraround radiation, while others have slightly lower absorption ability or are formed in trace quantities only. Radiative forcing is a measure of the effect of a given greenhouse gas or other climatic factor in the amount of radiant energy affecting the earth surface, as specified by the Intergovernmental Committee on Climate Change.

Water vapour is the Earth’s most strong greenhouse gas, but the behaviour of it varies significantly from that of the other greenhouse gases. The primary function of water vapour is not as a direct radiative forcing force, but rather as an input from the environment that affects the continued activities of the system. This is due to the fact that the volume of water vapour in the atmosphere can not be changed by human behaviour in general, but is dictated by the air temperature. The colder the temperature, the more water from the atmosphere is evaporated. In the lower atmosphere, increased evaporation results in higher water vapour concentrations capable of absorbing infrarouge radiation and returning it to the soil.

The most powerful greenhouse gas is carbon dioxide. Natural ambient carbon dioxide sources include volcanic emissions, combustion and natural decay, and aerobic breathing. Via physical, chemical , or biological processes known as “sinks,” these sources are, on average, regulated and appear to eliminate the carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The terrestrial vegetation, which uses carbon dioxide in photosynthesis, contains essential natural sinks.

Several oceanic processes are also used as carbon sinks. One of these is the “solubility” pump, whereby water containing dissolved carbon dioxide falls down from its top. The biological pump requires the use of marine plants and plantoplankton that live in the upper ocean or by other aquatic organisms that use carbon dioxide to create calcium carbonate skeletons or other structure.

Humans’ behaviours, by comparison, mainly raise the atmospheric CO2 levels through carbon combustion and cement processing. Other anthropological sources include forest burning and land clearing. The global emissions of about 7 gigatons of carbon into the atmosphere are actually attributed to anthropogenic emissions. Anthropogenic emissions constitute roughly three per cent of the total natural source emissions of carbon dioxide and the increased human carbon burden much exceeds the natural sink’s offset capacity.