11-12-12-22 Daily-Punjab-PPSC Current Affairs

Punjabs about 90 per cent households are getting zero power bills which is expected to increase in January this year, said the state Power Minister Harbhajan Singh.

He said that the earlier governments used to betray people with fake promises to garner votes but the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) led Government has fulfilled the promise of zero electricity bill in the very first year of their tenure.

Free 600 units of electricity bimonthly or 300 units of electricity monthly has been granted for all domestic consumers, with annual subsidy benefit of Rs 5,629 crore along with continuation of subsidy of Rs three per unit up to seven KW for domestic consumers with annual benefit of Rs 1,278 crore, he said.

The Minister said that besides providing free power to all residential units, all pending bills up to December 31, 2021, were also waived off; and all such disconnected connections have been restored.

The completion of the project will bring great relief to lakhs of commuters as it will connect the busy Howrah and Sealdah RAILWAY stations as well as the north-south line of the Kolkata Metro at Esplanade. Another attraction for travellers will be the twin tunnels under the width of the river. Passengers will pass under the water for half a kilometre in less than a minute, giving them a one-of-a-kind experience.

In order to complement and supplement the efforts of the States and UTs, the Department of Animal Husbandry & Dairying, Government of India is implementing following animal husbandry and development schemes for strengthening Infrastructure across the country for enhancing milk production and procurement in the potential districts and States:

National Programme for Dairy Development (NPDD)

Dairy Processing and Infrastructure Development Fund (DIDF)

Supporting Dairy Cooperatives and Farmer Producer Organizations engaged in dairy activities (SDCFPO)

Rashtriya Gokul Mission (RGM)

National Livestock Mission (NLM)

Animal Husbandry Infrastructure Development Fund (AHIDF)

Pushpa Kamal Dahal has been elected as the Prime Minister of Nepal again on December 25,2022.

President Bidya Devi Bhandari named Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ of the CPN-Maoist Centre as Nepal’s next Prime Minister.

Prachanda has been chosen as Prime Minister of Nepal under Article 76 Clause 2 of the Constitution.