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Himachal to set up medicinal plant board centre

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Shimla, March 5 (IANS) The Himachal Pradesh government on Monday approved the setting up of a regional-cum-facilitation centre of the National Medicinal Plants Board of the Ministry of Ayush in the state at an outlay of Rs 748.30 lakh.

The centre will be set up in Jogindernagar town in Mandi district, a government spokesperson told IANS.

The central government would provide a grant of Rs 149.60 lakh, he said.

The aim of the centre is to provide inputs for conservation, cultivation, technology upgradation, sale of medicinal plants, training and research, and development of region-specific planting material.

The decision to commission the facilitation centre was taken at a Cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur here.

To enable the people to procure approvals of building plans speedily, the Cabinet decided to delegate powers of the Town and Country Planning Department Directors to the Executive Officers or Panchayat Secretaries in 20 Nagar panchayats.

The people in these urban local bodies will now get all the approvals and clearances through single window system and will not have to apply to Town and Country Planning Department.

The prominent urban local bodies are in Sunni, Kotkhai, Jubbal, Arki, Rajgarh, Naina Devi, Tahliwal, Kangra, Nagrota, Dehra, Jwalamukhi, Sarkaghat, Riwalsar, Karsog and Banjar.

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Covid toll in Karnataka is a worrying sign for state government

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Even though Karnataka recorded the lowest number of Covid deaths in April since the virus struck first in 2020, the state is recording a rise in the positivity rate (1.50 per cent). Five people died from the Covid infections in April as per the statistics released by the state health department. In March, the positivity rate stood around 0.53 per cent. In the first week of April it came down to 0.38 per cent, second week registered 0.56 per cent, third week it rose to 0.79 per cent and by end of April the Covid positivity rate touched 1.19 per cent.

on an average 500 persons used to succumb everyday in the peak of Covid infection, as per the data. Health experts said that the mutated Coronavirus is losing its fierce characteristics as vaccination, better treatment facilities and awareness among the people have contributed to the lesser number of Covid deaths.

During the 4th and 6th of April two deaths were reported in Bengaluru, one in Gadag district on April 8, two deaths were reported from Belagavi and Vijayapura on April 30. The first Covid case was reported in the state in March 2020 and three Covid deaths were recorded in the month. In the following month 21 people became victims to the deadly virus, and May 2020 recorded 22 deaths. The death toll recorded everyday after May crossed three digits. However, the third wave, which started in January 2

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