All that was discussed in the House through the day
Some 1,098 humans and 59,598 livestock have died and 0.34 million hectres (ha) of crops have been affected due to natural calamities in the country as of July 26, 2022, Nityanand Rai, Union minister of state for home affairs, told the Lok Sabha.
The Centre had released an amount of Rs 34,847 crore to the states and Union territories except West Bengal for the implementation of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme as of July 20, 2022.
Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti, minister of state in the Union Ministry of Rural Development, told this to the Lok Sabha.
A study conducted by the Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute on biology and stock assessment recorded 216 fish species during 2018 and 255 species during 2021 along the coasts of Andhra Pradesh, Parshottam Rupala, Union minister of fisheries, animal husbandry and dairying told the Lok Sabha.
The government proposes to bring 0.65 million ha of additional area under organic farming in India through dedicated schemes, Narendra Singh Tomar, Union minister of agriculture and farmers welfare told the Lok Sabha. Some 5.91 mha is already under organic farming currently, he added.
The Indian Council of Agricultural Research has so far released 1,956 high yielding stress-tolerant varieties / hybrids of field crops during the past eight years. Some 1,622 of these are climate resilient, Tomar told the Lok Sabha.
Mining is not hampering agriculture productivity in the Joda, Harichandanpur and Bansapal blocks of Keonjhar district, Odisha. No significant decrease in productivity of paddy in these blocks has been reported by the Government of Odisha, Tomar told the Lok Sabha.
Some 322.53 Billion Units (BUs) of electricity have been generated from various renewable energy sources in the country during 2021-22, Bhagwanth Khuba, Union minister of state of new and renewable energy and chemicals and fertilisers told the Rajya Sabha.
Eleven plants, with a total cumulative installed capacity of 139.14 megawatt of power generation from municipal solid waste have been set up in India as of June 30, 2022. These plants have the capacity of processing approximately 11,000 tonnes of such waste per day to generate electricity, Khuba told the Rajya Sabha.
Some 1.88 per cent net wastage of COVID-19 vaccines against the total vaccines used was reported from Andhra Pradesh from May 1, 2021 through July 21, 2022, Bharati Pravin Pawar, minister of state in The Union Ministry of Health And Family Welfare told the Rajya Sabha.
India has 607 patients with Lysosomal Storage Disorder according to data available with the National Registry for Rare and Other Inherited Disorders under the Indian Council of Medical Research.
Of these, 138 patients have been diagnosed with Gaucher’s disease. Gaucher’s disease is one of the common diseases among Lysosomal Storage Disorder patients, Bharati Pravin Pawar told the Rajya Sabha.
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