1 !"#$ %&'"!"#$ 234+42+5 0267 -32/% -%# /" ,,2 9, , 1 , 6 01 1 , 1/ ,2 02 78 2 1 21 / ,2 3 453 ( & & )* +) ( ,-' & $$ ! " # !$%$& $' R ! ""# $ tate Finance Minister SRameshwar Oraon present- ed the second Budget of Grand Alliance (Congress, JMM and RJD) Government in the State in the tune of 91,277 crore for Financial Year 2021-22, focusing primarily on educa- tion, rural development, agri- culture and allied sectors, health, welfare and social wel- fare, among others. The Budget makes provision of 75,755.01 crore for revenue expenditure and 15,521.99 crore for capital expenditure. For Financial Year 2021-22 37,943.34 crore have been allo- cated for establishment expen- diture, 37,008.09 crore for State schemes (including State’s part), 2,081.34 for Central Sector schemes and 12,244.23 crore for ! Centrally Sponsored Schemes (Centre’s part). ! " # $ # actions and it will also ensure Scheme, distribution of Dhoti, Sector wise the Budget # "# "#%& ' (! # whether the provisions of the Saree, Lungi among masses etc. allocates 26,734.05 crore for ) ! Budget are actually benefitting The Budget also talks about General Sector, 33,625.72 the masses. setting up community food crore for Social Sector and from non-tax revenue, in the growth rate. In compari- which will improve the credit The State Government also centres named after former 30,917.23 crore for Economic 17,891.48 crore from Central son to the decline in national rating of the State. In FY 2021- brought in several schemes and CM and JMM chief Shibu In the field of education sev- plans will be far reaching. “In sector. Education and Rural assistance, 22,050.10 crore as GDP to 7.5 per cent, Jharkhand 22 a provision of 472 crore has projects in the Budget, includ- Soren. The scheme, named eral model schools will be the last 20 years whatever poli- development sectors have got State’s share in Central taxes, has recorded a decline of 6.9 per been made for investment in ing Integrated Birsa Gram Vikas Guruji Kitchen Scheme, will opened in the State and the cies were made were for imme- the major share of the Budget about 14,500 crore from pub- cent in FY 2020-21. It is expect- the CSF. Yojna, cultivation of horticulture provide ready to eat food for Jharkhand Open University will diate benefits. Therefore, we with 14.52 and 14.16 per cent lic debt and 70 crore will be ed that the growth rate in the FY Also, for the first time an crops in urban areas, setting up the common man at the com- be established to benefit students have made a provision of the of the total expenditure allot- received from recovery of bor- 2021-22 will be 9.5 per cent on Outcome Budget on the basis of of Jharkhand State Horticulture munity food centres. The of far flung areas of Jharkhand. outcome Budget this time. We ted for the two major areas. rowings and advances. constant prices. 21 demands of 11 departments Promotion Society, establish- scheme will replace Dal Bhat After the Budget presenta- don’t just want to make a bud- In the fiscal year 2021-22, The growth rate of the State Notably, the Government, was put up in the State Budget. ment of Go Mukti Dham, sev- Kendras and several new such tion in the Assembly, Chief get, but want to see the outcome the State will get about was 6.7 per cent in the year 2019- for the first time, has invested The Outcome Budget is aimed eral new irrigation projects, centres will be opened for the Minister Hemant Soren said of the Budget. This Budget will 23,265.42 crore from its tax 20 and due to Covid-19 pan- 303.87 crore in the at ensuring transparency and providing loans to women benefit of the poor and the that the Government has a long prove to be a milestone in the revenue and 13,500 crore demic there is a marked decline Consolidated Sinking Fund, accountability in financial trans- SHGs, Birsa Harit Gram marginalised section of society. term plan and the results of the economy of the State,” he said. ! # $!%&'( %& '#"#() * " +,# ) * conducted in India, in part- milestone in vaccine discovery, Covid-19 vaccine Covishield, showed that severe, serious, nership with the Indian for science and our fight against manufactured by the Serum and medically attended adverse Council of Medical Research coronavirus. With today’s Institute, and indigenously events occurred at low levels ligible citizens can take yderabad-based Bharat (ICMR), the pharma firm said results from our Phase 3 clin- developed Covaxin of Bharat and were balanced between ECovid-19 vaccine round HBiotech on Wednesday adding that the phase 3 study ical trials, we have now report- Biotech for restricted emer- vaccine and placebo groups, the the clock as per their conve- said its Covid-19 vaccine enrolled participants between ed data on our Covid-19 vac- gency use in the country, company said. nience, the Union Health Covaxin has demonstrated an 18-98 years of age, including cine from Phase 1, 2, and 3 tri- paving the way for a massive The trial’s conduct and Ministry said on Tuesday. The interim vaccine efficacy of 81 2,433 over the age of 60 and als involving around 27,000 inoculation drive. monitoring are as per good Ministry also permitted all per cent in phase 3 clinical tri- 4,500 with comorbidities. participants,” Bharat Biotech Covishield had shown an clinical practice guidelines and private hospitals to give Covid als. “Analysis from the National The first interim analysis is Chairman and Managing efficacy rate of 70 per cent after have been outsourced to vaccine if they adhere to the Institute of Virology based on 43 cases, of which 36 Director Krishna Ella said. two full doses. IQVIA, it added. laid down norms. “The also indicates that vaccine- cases of Covid-19 were Covaxin demonstrates a However, one of the regi- The company expects to Government has ended the induced antibodies can neu- observed in the placebo group high clinical efficacy trend men with a half dose and a full share further details of the time constraint to increase the tralise the UK variant strains versus 7 cases observed in the against Covid-19 but also sig- dose showed 90 per cent effi- trial results as additional data speed of vaccination. Citizens and other heterologous strains,” Covaxin group, resulting in a nificant immunogenicity cacy against the virus. becomes available, it noted. of the country can now get vac- Bharat Biotech said in point estimate of vaccine effi- against the rapidly emerging Bharat Biotech said the Additional interim analysis cinated 24x7 at their conve- & ( + ,# a statement. cacy of 80.6 per cent, Bharat variants, he added. interim analysis of its vaccine is planned for 87 cases, and the nience,” Union Health Minister - '" # The trial process involved Biotech explained. In January, drug regulator included a preliminary review final analysis is planned for 130 Dr Harsh Vardhan said on ! 25,800 subjects, the largest ever “Today is an important DCGI had approved Oxford of the safety database, which cases, the company said. twitter. ./ # 0 P -#R + -## .$ ! /! Official sources attributed he Centre has sanctioned searches to the available infor- Traising of a dozen new bat- mation that the IT depart- talions (about 13,000 person- he Income Tax (IT) depart- ment had received that the nel) for the Sashastra Seema Bal Tment officials on movies made by the produc- (SSB) over the next four years. eeks ahead of Tamil Wednesday carried out search- tions were showing dispropor- The SSB guards the frontiers WNadu Assembly es at 30-odd properties and tionately low income, in spite along Nepal and Bhutan. Elections, VK Sasikala, expelled locations linked to Anurag of the fact that their films were The new battalions will AIADMK leader and close aide Kashyap and Taapsee Pannu in hits at the box-office. mostly be deployed to fortify of late Chief Minister J Mumbai and Pune for alleged The premises of Exceed the defences at the tri-junction Jayalalithaa, on Wednesday tax evasion, while the film- Entertainment, which is being area in Sikkim that adjoins announced “she will stay away maker and actress were ques- managed by actor Saif Ali Bhutan and Tibet and other from politics,” but would pray tioned by the IT officials in Khan, were searched, while such vulnerable posts along the for the “golden rule” of the late Pune. some executives of two open borders. party supremo. In a development that is Kwan Talent Management that The SSB with a present In an announcement that being seen an act of vendetta manages actor Deepika strength of about 90,000 per- came as a bolt out of the blue, against Khashyap and Taapsee Padukone and other actors sonnel is the lead intelligence she urged “true supporters of who have been vociferous crit- were questioned. agency along 1,751 km open Amma” to work like siblings ics of the Narendra Modi When asked about the IT border with Nepal and 699 km Nepal frontier out of which two frontier. the SSB in October, 2019 and and ensure Jayalalithaa’s “gold- Government, the IT officials raids conducted on premises boundary with Bhutan. are already operational at In 2017, the Armies of subsequent directions to the en rule continues.” simultaneously zeroed in on linked to Kashyap and Taapsee, The 12 new battalions will Jogbani and Raxaul (in Bihar). India and China had engaged paramilitary to conduct a “vul- “I will stay away from pol- After being released from several premises in Mumbai Information and Broadcasting be raised in phases.