30.06.22 Daily [Madhya Pradesh] MPPSC Current Affairs

The council of ministers approved a plot of 6.082 hectare at village Barkheda Bondar in Huzur tehsil,Bhopalfor the establishment of a campus of the National Forensic Science University, Gandhinagar.

A release explained that Evaporation of from the reservoir will be reduced by 60% to 70% due to the floating platform. This will result in an annual saving of about 32.4 million cubic meters of water. There will be no requirement for acquisition of land either for the project and power generation from the solar project will be 10% more.
Approval for Rs 434.21 crore was also given for the Chitakhudri Medium Irrigation Project of Jabalpur district with a capacity to irrigate 16,875 hectare. Government also approved Rs 4614.73 crore for construction of the Kundalia Multipurpose Major Irrigation Project in Rajgarh district with an irrigation capacity of 1,39,600 hectare.

approves $250 mn loan for road safety

The World Bank has approved a $250 million loan to support the Government of India’s road safety programme for seven States under which a single accident reporting number will be set up to better manage post-crash events.

The India State Support Program for Road Safety, financed by the World Bank, will be implemented in Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Odisha, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. The $250 million variable spread loan from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) has a maturity of 18 years including a grace period of 5.5 years.

The project will also establish a national harmonised crash Database system in order to analyse accidents and use that to construct better and safer roads.

It will also fund Network expansion of basic and advanced life support ambulances and training of first responder caregivers to road crash victims on the spot.

The project will also provide incentives to the States to leverage private funding through Public Private PARTNERSHIP (PPP) concessions and pilot initiatives.

According to a World Bank study, road crashes are estimated to cost the Indian economy between 5% to 7% of GDP a year. Official government data show that each year road accidents in India kill about 1,50,000 people and injure another 4,50,000. More than half of the victims are pedestrians, cyclists, or motorcyclists and almost 84% of all fatalities are among road users between the working ages of 18-60 years.

India successfully conducts VL-SRSAM missile test off the coast of Odisha