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Soren said, “The State A Question and Answer Government wants to move session was also organized dur- forward with the cooperation !! # $% ing the event, where prospective of the investors. We are trying investors put up their queries & to leverage the infinite & & '&( ! suggestions in front of the CM. "$ ) ! % * !$% + & '# ( ) # # % * resources, which nature has # # , ( # The Chief Minister, the Chief gifted to Jharkhand and walk % % Secretary & Secretary Industries the path of development.” - . /% answered the queries of investors “In this quest, we expect Renewable Energy, I would like work out some solutions. Our provide land to medical equip- healthy and very law-abiding. ( ) . %0 and invited everyone to come to your cooperation. The to inform you all that very soon internal resources came to the ment manufacturers also. We You will never have to face ** 1 - ( ) 2 Ranchi with their proposals. Government has stepped up we are coming up with a very big rescue, we utilised them to pro- are ready to promote educa- labour unrest in Jharkhand. We Rajmahal MP Shri Vijay and we will not stop here. From project. We are establishing vide benefits to our people. It tional and technical institutes.” have our very good law and change; this is a paradigm shift a state with a vast range of flora Hansda and Senior officials the very beginning, the State India’s largest floating solar is always talked about the During the event, Chief order situation. You will never from shooing to wooing. This and fauna. 30 per cent of our including Additional Chief Government has been deliber- plant. This will generate elec- reserves of mineral wealth that Secretary Sukhdev Singh quot- hear of any organised extortion has been possible because the land is covered with forest, with Secretary-Development ating upon how to generate tricity on a very large scale. We we have. But, we have immense ed a famous economist and gang. Even Naxalism has government knows that the such vast production of minor Commissioner Arun Kumar employment in Jharkhand. are working on paving the way potential in the field of tourism. said, “Some of the nations have shrunk to few remote pockets development of our State or forest produce that it is a par- Singh, Additional Chief Hitherto, our focus largely for industries to come and estab- Incentive provisions have been not been able to grow because of Jharkhand and it is like to be country is not possible without adise for anyone interested in Secretary L Khiyangte, revolved around industries lish their plants and generate included for the Tourism of inclement temperament and eliminated from the geography investment and innovation. the Agro-Food Processing Principal Secretary to the chief based on mines and minerals. employment in the state. Our industry under JIIPP 2021. We weather reduced output.” of Jharkhand in a couple of “We have come here to tell Industry,” said the CS. minister Rajeev Arun Ekka, They are undoubtedly immense- effort is to take Jharkhand have unlimited opportunities in He said, “The weather in months. Jharkhand invites you that Jharkhand is your best He expressed commitment Principal Secretary Energy ly valuable and will continue to upwards in the category of lead- the field of education. Netarhat Jharkhand is extremely pleas- you, invites you with open bait. Policies can come and go, of the Jharkhand Govt to imple- Avinash Kumar, Secretary to be the backbone but we are now ing states of India,” he added. School, about which you all ant. When you leave Delhi the arms,” he added. Governments come and go, ment the provisions of the pol- Chief Minister Vinay also working in the field of The CM further said, must have heard about, is a temperature will be 40 degrees, Indicating towards the CM, policies can be amended, poli- icy in the paper and on the Kumar Choubey, Resident Tourism, Education, Renewable “Many industries remained nursery for budding IAS & IPS whereas when you reach sitting on the dais he said, “The cies can be improved, policies ground level. Secretary Commissioner MR Meena, Energy, Food Processing, Auto closed due to the nationwide officers of the country. Ranchi it reads 28 degrees. Chief Minister of a State with can be scrapped but we want to Industries, Pooja Singhal , pre- Director Industry Jitendra Mobile, Pharma & Textile. A imposed lockdown to curb the Jharkhand is also doing well in Temperature and pleasant seven of his top bureaucrats tell you one thing about sented the details of the new pol- Kumar Singh, MD JHAR- major part of these industries spread of the pandemic. This the field of engineering and weather make human capital flies 1,000 Km from Ranchi to Jharkhand which can never icy as well as the landmark CRAFT, Divyanshu Jha were has been untouched in caused a problem in employ- medicine. We are establishing very productive.” Delhi to solicit and woo the change. It’s a beautiful state Adityapur Electronic also present during Jharkhand. Talking about ment generation. We had to Pharma parks where we will “Our human capital is very investors. This is a great with a beautiful landscape. It is Manufacturing Cluster, seek- the meeting. R ! " #$ % &! added. parties involved after due Quoting philosopher process has been followed. ' ( Hanna Arendt, Justice “State alone can’t be relied Chandrachud said that totali- on to determine truth. It can’t be ! ! $ tarian Governments are associ- said that State will not indulge 31 &3- ated with a “constant reliance on in falsehood for political reasons falsehoods in order to establish even in democracies. The role of otalitarian Governments dominance”. He highlighted the US in the Vietnam war did harkhand on Saturday vacci- Tare associated with a “con- that truth is integral to the func- not see daylight until the Jnated more than 75,000 res- stant reliance on falsehoods in tioning of a modern democra- Pentagon papers were pub- idents against Covid-19, while order to establish dominance”, cy. “Democracy and truth go lished. In the context of Covid, Covid recoveries outnumbered Supreme Court Justice DY hand in hand. Democracy we see that there is an increas- fresh cases of infection, causing Chandrachud said on Saturday needs truth to survive,” he said. ing trend of countries across the a drop in the active caseload, quoting philosopher Hanna Justice Chandrachud said world trying to manipulate data. figures shared by the health Arendt and asserting that intel- since democracies are spaces of Hence, one cannot only rely on department highlighted. lectuals have a duty to expose integral to the functioning of a The assumption is that truth reasons, truth is important, the State to determine the truth”, As per provisional data the lies of the State. modern democracy. will counter-act power and as...truth also create a shared Justice Chandrachud said. released by the National Health He was delivering a speech “Speaking truth to power” obviate a predisposition to public memory on which foun- According to LiveLaw, Mission (NHM), the state on on the topic “Speaking Truth to refers to an act by a speaker to tyranny, the Justice said. dations of a nation can be Justice Chandrachud called for Saturday administered the first Power: Citizens and the Law” use the truth to criticise some- “One can consider speak- established. In this regard, he more vigilance and participa- dose of vaccine to 55,319 resi- as part of the 6th MC Chagla one who is more powerful”, ing truth to power as a right of said that the courts can also tion by the citizens. Quoting dents, while the second jab was Memorial Online Lecture. Justice Chandrachud said. every citizen which they must play the role of recording pub- Noam Chomsky, he said that administered to at least 22,806 Live Law.in quoted Justice “This act aims to wield the have in a democracy but equal- lic truth with the ability to doc- public intellectuals have a duty beneficiaries. More than 55,000 Chandrachud as saying truth is power of truth against power. ly a duty of every citizen,” he ument information from all to expose the lies of the State. beneficiaries vaccinated on the day fell in the age bracket of 18 years to 44 years. The active caseload of "$ %&& Covid-19 dropped further 1 20 1 down to 142 in Jharkhand on Saturday as the state reported '"'"(%QR at least 18 Covid recoveries against 14 fresh cases of infec- % % ! tion, a separate bulletin from , - ". / 1'!4 province of Afghanistan,” Capt NHM stated. 0 ) % Bill Urban, spokesperson of US As per the NHM bulletin, 31 &3- concerns over the serious he US military has said that Central Command, said on Ranchi alone accounted for six department on Saturday Singhbhum and less than 2,000 crimes after the poll’s results Tit carried out a drone strike Friday.
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