ANDHRA PRADESH
Andhra Pradesh to Formulate Oxygen Policy Soon, Says Mekapati Gautham Reddy
Industries minister Mekapati Gautham Reddy has said the government will shortly announce an oxygen policy to encourage manufacturing of oxygen concentrators in the state. He said the government will ready its own plants with a capacity of 300-400 metric tonnes (MT) over the next 45 days.
The minister pointed out that the new policy would help micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) rapidly launch production and supply operations. The government will grant incentives to manufacturers of oxygen concentrators, he said, adding that they would also grant additional subsidies to industries producing oxygen.
INTERNATIONAL
Russia to Launch its Own Space Station
The settlement between Roscosmos and its global companions is to run out in the 2024. Russia planned to pull out of the International Space Station (ISS) and launch its personal house station in 2025.
According to Russia, the structure of the International Space Station is ageing. With the station turning into older, it can lead to irreversible consequences.
The International Space Station was once launched by using the US house organizations and Russian Space corporations in 1998. The other countries that have been concerned in the launch of the International Space Station had been Canada, European Space Agency and Japan.
The ISS revolves around the earth in ninety-three minutes. It makes 15.5 orbits per day. It travels at an orbital velocity of 7.7 kilometres per second.
Russia announced that it has signed a settlement with China to set up a Lunar lookup station on the moon.
ADB Raises India GDP Forecast
The Asian Development Bank currently launched its Asian Development Outlook, 2021. According to the report, India is to develop by way of 11%. The Asian Development Bank released its annual outlook. The outlook says that ADB has provided economic aid of 1.5 billion USD to India to battle in opposition to COVID-19.
According to ADB, the South Asia is predicted to rebound at 9.5% in 2021. The South Asian vicinity had shriveled by 6% in 2020. The increase of the region will average to 6.6% in 2022.
The monetary boom of Asia is to rebound at 7.3% in 2021. The location faced a contraction of 0.2% in its increase in 2020. In 2022, its boom rate is to be 5.3%.
The nations such as China, Hong Kong, Singapore and Taipei are expected to meet an multiplied increase charge of 7.7% in 2021 and 5.6% in 2022. The record classifies these nations as newly industrialised countries.
The GDP of East Asia is predicted to grow at 7.4% in 2021 and at 5.1% in 2022.
NATIONAL
Large Area Certification Scheme Andaman and Nicobar
14,491 ha region of UT of A&N Islands has come to be the 1st large contiguous territory to be conferred with certification for organic beneath ‘Large Area Certification’ scheme.
Department of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare underneath its flagship scheme of Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojna (PKVY) has launched this special speedy certification programme to harness these manageable areas. Under LAC, each village in the vicinity is considered as one cluster/group.
All farmers with their farmland and farm animals want to adhere to the popular requirements and on being verified, get certified en-mass barring the want to go below conversion period.
Certification
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