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Fear over jobs as Korba switches to inexperienced power
India’s largest coal and power-producing district of Korba might turn out to be a vintage instance of the way we will be able to handle the demanding situations posed by means of the transition to renewable power. The newest findings by means of the World Discussion board for Surroundings, Sustainability & Era (iFOREST) counsel that financial restructuring and building intervention can be crucial for the district, which is very dependent at the coal business for jobs and enlargement. Korba will get started witnessing the transition as early as 2030, resources stated.  As coal stages out, what business may just are available coal areas like Korba for employment era is the large query.

Will borrow to verify welfare of farmers: Baghel
Leader Minister Bhupesh Baghel stated the state is not going to hesitate to take loans if wanted to give protection to the welfare of farmers and labourers. “If within the pursuits or welfare of farmers and labourers, taking of mortgage turns out crucial, we can now not hesitate to move for it,” the CM stated responding to former CM Raman Singh’s remark that the Congress govt has failed the state because it has larger the state’s debt burden via its borrowing within the ultimate 3 years. Singh stated the prevailing govt has borrowed at a miles sooner price than the former BJP govt. In his reaction at the source of revenue and expenditure of the monetary 12 months 2022-23 within the Meeting, the executive minister stated Chhattisgarh has taken lesser mortgage in comparison to BJP-ruled states like UP, Madhya Pradesh, Haryana and Karnataka. 

BJP did not anything to forestall Pandits’ exodus: CM 
Responding to the BJP’s calls for that the state govt waive tax at the movie The Kashmir Recordsdata, Leader Minister Bhupesh Baghel stated the Centre will have to make the film tax-free around the nation.  On being advised that the leisure tax is levied by means of the state govt, he stated the Centre will get a portion of the tax levied by means of the state. Previous, he had invited all state legislators, together with from the Opposition camp, to look at the movie with him. After observing it with the MLAs, the executive minister claimed that the then BJP-led govt did not anything to forestall the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from the Valley within the past due Nineteen Nineties.

Two youngsters’s houses for Covid orphans
The outbreak of the second one wave of Covid pandemic has now not generated axiety for adults, however has additionally affected youngsters, a lot of whom misplaced their oldsters to the illness. Tales of kids shedding their oldsters to Covid-19 can shake the minds of just about someone. To care for the youngsters orphaned because of the pandemic and different calamities, two youngsters’s houses constructed at Tamnar in Raigarh district had been inaugurated by means of CM Bhupesh Baghel. Conceptualised by means of Shalu Jindal, Chairperson JSPL Basis, the 2 ‘Jindal Youngsters Houses’, one for boys and one for women, every have 50 beds. The kids could have get admission to to all important amenities to assist them reach a brilliant long run

Ejaz Kaiser
Our correspondent in Chhattisgarh ejaz@newindianexpress.com