MADHYA PRADESH

Madhya Pradesh: Crisis management groups formed to fight corona at block and village level

With the Coronavirus pandemic spreading into villages, the state government has decided to form crisis management groups at block and village level. In the urban areas, these groups would be formed at the ward level.

An order issued by the state home department in this regard said that in line with the crisis management groups working at the district level, the state government has decided to have similar groups at the block and village level in the rural areas and ward level in the urban areas.
These groups at the block level would be headed by SDO (revenue) and SDO (police).

Chief executive officer (CEO) of Janpad Panchayat, chief municipal officer, block medical officer, project officer (women & child development department), representatives of local MP and MLA, peoples’ representative nominated by district collector, local persons of repute and representatives of NGOs will be members of crisis management groups at block level.

INTERNATIONAL

Google Cloud Joined with SpaceX For Providing Satellite Internet Service

Google Cloud and SpaceX signed an agreement to provide Internet services through Starlink satellites.

Google will provide Cloud infrastructure for this connection project, and Space X will install ground terminals in Google’s cloud data center to connect to Starlink satellites. This will help provide fast Internet services in rural areas. This service will be available to customers before the end of the year 2021.

The first Starlink terminal will be set up in a Google datacentre in Ohio, United States. Earlier, Microsoft has signed a comparable settlement with SpaceX to connect its Azure cloud to Starlink.

NATIONAL

SAMVEDNA Tele-Counselling to Children

SAMVEDNA is providing Tele Counselling to children affected by the Covid-19 Pandemic.

The SAMVEDNA remote counselling service aims to provide children with psychological support to solve their stress, anxiety, fear and other problems during the coronavirus pandemic.

The National Commission for the Protection of Children’s Rights provides this service (NCPCR).

Provide children with the following three types of consultations over the phone:

Persons in quarantine/isolation/covid care centres.

People whose parents or close relatives have tested positive for COVID.

Persons who have lost their parents due to COVID.

The service is available in a variety of regional languages and was introduced in September 2020.

The counsellors were taught by a renowned professor from the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and his NIMHANS team.

SAMVEDNA is the acronym for “Sensitive action on mental health vulnerability through emotional development and necessary acceptance.”

Ministry of Tribal Affairs and Microsoft Signed MoU

The memorandum of understanding was signed by the Ministry of Education and Microsoft to digitally transform tribal schools, especially Eklavya Model Residential School (EMRS) and Ashram School.

Microsoft will make AI curriculum accessible to tribal students in both English and Hindi at all EMRS schools under the Ministry as part of an affirmative action programme to train educators and students in next-generation technologies such as Artificial Intelligence.

The aim of the programme is to bridge the gap between tribal students and other students in this area.

Teachers in Indian states will receive phased training to use productivity technologies such as Office 365 and AI applications in their teaching, helping them to provide students with a deliver blended or remote learning experiences in a more personalized, efficient and safe manner.

Students will be mentored on projects involving AI for social benefit and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Article 311 of the Indian Constitution

Article 311 states that no government employee, whether from the central government or a state government, may be fired or suspended by a subordinate authority to the one who appointed him or her.

Section 2 of the article states