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Farmers under KALIA scheme to get money by January 26
Beneficiaries who have enrolled under the Krushak Assistance for Livelihood and Income Augmentation (KALIA) scheme in the first phase will receive monetary assistance by January 26, Odisha’s Cooperation Minister S.N. Patro said on Saturday. Mr. Patro said that around 12.4 lakh small and marginal farmers will get ₹5,000 each for one crop as per the provisions of the scheme.
The scheme will provide financial, livelihood, cultivation support along with insurance support to small, marginal and the landless farmers
▪All small and marginal farmers along with landless agricultural households, vulnerable agricultural household, landless agricultural labourers and sharecroppers/actual cultivators are eligible under different components of KALIA.
▪Financial assistance of Rs 12500/ will be provided to each landless agricultural household for agricultural allied activities such as goat rearing, small layer poultry units, duckery units, fishery kits for fishermen, mushroom cultivation, beekeeping and so on
1) Life insurance cover of Rs 2 lakh at a very nominal premium of Rs330 will be provided to all savings bank account holder of age between 18-50 years. Government of Odisha will bear farmers’ share of annual premium of Rs.165.
2) Personal accident cover of Rs.2.00 lakh at a very nominal annual premium of Rs 12 for all savings bank account holder aged between 18-50 years. Out of Rs 12 towards premium, Rs 6 is the farmers’ share, which will be borne by the government of Odisha.
▪ In respect of the above beneficiary whose age is between 51-70 years, the entire amount of Rs 12 towards annual premium will be borne by the government
- Crop loan up to Rs 50,000 will be provided at 0% interest from the Kharif Season of the year 2019.
‘Monkey fever’ cases hit 62 in Shivamogga
Six persons have died since December
The outbreak of Kyasanur Forest Disease (KFD), also known as ‘monkey fever’ in Malnad region of the district, is showing no signs of abating as four cases have now been reported from Tirthahalli taluk.
With this, the total number of KFD cases in the district since December 2018 has reached 62.
The prevalence of KFD is high every year from November to April during which dry spell prevails.
While four KFD deaths and 48 cases were reported during this period in 2017-18, the toll and cases have already crossed this number this year. The Department of Health and Family Welfare has stepped up the vaccination drive to tackle the outbreak
▪ Kyasanur Forest disease (KFD) is a tick-borne viral hemorrhagic fever endemic to South Asia.
▪ The disease is caused by a virus belonging to the family Flaviviridae, which also includes yellow fever and dengue fever
Quota Bill gets President’s assent, becomes law
No need for ratification by States, says government
President Ram Nath Kovind on Saturday gave his assent to the Constitution amendment that provides 10% reservation to the economically backward section in the general category in government jobs and education. With the Ministry for Law and Justice issuing a notification about the Constitution (103 Amendment) Act, 2019 receiving the Presidential assent, reservation for the economically weaker among general category is now law. Special provision The Act amends Articles 15 and 16 of the Constitution — ensuring Fundamental Rights to a citizen — by adding a clause that allows the State to make “special provision for the advancement of any economically weaker sections of citizens”.
Study shows solar wind fills the night side of the Moon
A study using observations from Chandrayaan 1 mission has found how plasma particles from the solar wind make their way into the Moon’s night side, filling up the wake region, long thought to be devoid of plasma particles. This has significance in understanding bodies like the Moon which do not have global magnetic fields. Earlier, it was believed that this wake was devoid of any particles. But recent Moon missions such as Chandrayaan-1, Kaguya, Chang’e-1 and Artemis have found evidence of refilling of near lunar wake (heights of 100 km to 200 km above the lunar surface on the night side) with solar wind protons.
Northeast is home to six new lizards
One of the six ‘bent-toed’ geckos found in Guwahati While researchers found the Guwahati bent-toed gecko (Cyrtodactylus guwahatiensis, named after the city) near a small hillock in the urban sprawl of Guwahati city, the Kaziranga bent-toed gecko, the Jaintia bent-toed gecko and the Nagaland bent-toed gecko have been discovered from Assam’s Kaziranga National Park, the Jaintia hills of Meghalaya and Khonoma village in Nagaland, respectively. The Abhayapuri bent-toed gecko is currently found only in the vicinity of Abhayapuri town in Assam’s Bongaigaon district, and the Jampui bent-toed gecko, only in Tripura’s Jampui Hills. All the new lizards belong to the genus Cyrtodactylus and are called bent-toed or bow-fingered geckos, named after their bent toes.
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