NATIONAL NEWS
1.World’s largest irrigation project completed on Godavari, CM inaugurated by three states:-
On the Godavari river, the world’s largest lift irrigation project has been completed. Chief Minister of three states inaugurated this project together on Friday afternoon. It has been named Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project. The Telangana government has built the world’s largest lift irrigation scheme on Godavari river. This project includes 22 pumps house. They plan to take three TMC water in one day. This project has two important steps. In the first phase, Mediguddha, Annaram, Sundilla Pump House have been partially prepared to lift the water. In the second stage is the world’s largest underground pump house, which has the capacity to pump two TMC water every day. The project was inaugurated today in presence of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana Governor Narsingh Guru, Chief Minister of Telangana K Chandrasekhar Rao, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy and Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis. Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, who arrived in the inaugural function, said that the Kaleshwaram lift irrigation project is a gift given to the people of Telangana by the people of Maharashtra. The Telangana government has completed its construction work in record time. This project is a big success for Telangana state.
The world’s largest irrigation project has been completed in just 24 months. Under this project, the water of Godavari river has already been transported to the Madiguda pumping house. On switching of the motors, the water can be again transported to the Godavari river, which, through the delivery seater (underground pipe), reaches the Annamar barrage located on the upper stream.According to MEIL, a major company involved in the project’s decision, “So far this huge lift project has not been created in the whole world. This is the world’s top and largest elevator project. To pump 3 TMC water every day in this project, 7152 MW will be required. In the first phase, 4992 MW of electricity is being used to pump 2 TMC water. All the work has been completed in terms of the basic needs of electricity. Civil works related to pumping houses were completed in record time. ”
These are the biggest irrigation projects
At present, America’s Colorado Lift Scheme, a plan made on the man-made river of Egypt, is considered to be the world’s largest irrigation scheme. The capacity of these plans is in HP and it took about three decades to complete. Since 2000, large-scale lift projects have started in Telugu states. Among them are Hondry-Neva, Devdula, Kalvakuthi, Nettampadhu, Pattitsema, Purushottamapuram etc. States like Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh have also started lift plans. So far, heavy machinery is used only for Kalavakurti Lift Scheme, but its maximum capacity is only up to 40 MW.
Many records made through Pump houses
A total of 43 machines have been installed for Mediguddha, Annaram and Sundilla Pump House, each having capacity of 40 MW. These three pump houses of the link-1 consume almost 1720 MW of power. There will be 7 units (machines) in the underground pump house in Package-8, out of which 5 machines are fully prepared to do 2 TMC water pumps per day. Each of these machines has a capacity of 139 MW. Such large pumping machines are nowhere in the world. This underground pump house consumes 973 MW of electricity.
This is its specialty
Explaining the important features of the pump house, Srinivas Reddy of MEIL said, “The specialty of this pump house is its two adjacent tunnels, which have been made by digging the ground with 10.5m diameter. Generally they are called left and right tunnels. Each of the lengths is 4133 meters. The lining of these two tunnels has also ended. In addition to this pump house, its Surge pool is also the largest in the world. This is the first time that such a construction has been done within the land. Think of the size of a pump house, its depth is 330 meters, width is 25 meters and height is 65 meters.
How do these projects work
The water that is to be pumped first comes to the Surge pool, in which there is a huge amount of water for pumping. Three Surge pools have been built to maintain such a large amount of water. With the construction of the main Surge pool with 200x20x67.8 meter dimensions and 60x20x69.5 meters, the work of a separate Surge pool has already been completed. The work of pumping station in the second phase of 189.5 meters under ground with 115x25x64.75 meters dimensions has also been completed. The transformer bay is constructed under the pump house, which is 330 meters below the ground surface. Installing a vertical pump at a distance of 138 meters below the ground is a major feature of this project. Each of the pump motor has a weight of 2376 MT, and it shows the size of each unit.
2.WHO Launched A New Tool To Handle AMR Named “AWaRe”:-
The World Health Organization (WHO) launched a global campaign named “AWaRe” urging governments to adopt a tool to reduce the spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), adverse events and costs.It is developed by the WHO Essential Medicines List. It is classified antibiotics into three groups – Access, Watch and Reserve. The AWaRe campaign – ‘AdoptAWaRe, Handle antibiotics with care’ The main aim to increase the proportion of global consumption of antibiotics in the Access group to at least 60% and to reduce the usage of the antibiotics from the Watch and Reserve groups.
3.Ayushman Bharat Scheme-Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana:-
To provide a cover of up to Rs 5 lakh per family per year for secondary and tertiary care hospitalization. The cover to over 10.74 crore vulnerable entitled families
CEO: Indu Bhushan
MoU Between The North Eastern Council (NEC) And The National Productivity Council (NPC)The North Eastern Council (NEC) and the National Productivity Council (NPC) have agreed on a tie-up venture in the area of capacity building and evaluation of projects.Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) is to train officials in the area of project implementation and management including third-party evaluation of projects, energy auditing, and digitization for smart governance .
4.PM Modi to attend 14th G20 Summit in Osaka on June 28 and 29:-
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attend the 14th G20 Summit in Osaka, Japan on 28th and 29th of this month.
Former Union Minister Suresh Prabhu will be India’s sherpa at the summit. Briefing media in New Delhi on Friday, Mr Prabhu said food security, energy security, financial stability, terrorism-related issues, Innovation in the digital economy and artificial intelligence will be discussed. The theme of the summit is “Human-centred future society”.More than 20 countries will be participating in the G20 Summit. Informal meeting of the BRICS leaders and bilateral meetings with other leaders would also take place on the sidelines of the summit.India has participated in all the G20 Summits held so far. It will host the G20 summit in 2022 for the first time.
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
5.First Bangladesh International Theatre Festival being held in Dhaka:-
The first international theatre festival of Bangladesh is being held at Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy in Dhaka. It was inaugurated by the Bangladesh State Minister for Cultural Affairs KM Khalid. The week-long festival will feature theatre and puppet shows by eight troupes from seven countries. Rabindranath Tagore’s dance-drama ‘Mayar Khela’ was performed as the inaugural presentation of the festival last evening.The festival is being organised at the initiative of the Culture Affairs Ministry of Bangladesh.
Theatre troupes from India, Bangladesh, Russia, China, France, Vietnam and Nepal are participating in the festival.
SPORTS NEWS
6.Former Liverpool and Chelsea striker Fernando Torres announces retirement:-
Former Liverpool and Chelsea striker Fernando Torres has announced his retirement from football.The 35-year-old Spaniard scored 81 goals across four seasons with Liverpool and won the Champions League, Europa League and FA Cup with Chelsea.A World Cup winner with Spain in 2010, Torres announced his retirement through social media. Liverpool and Chelsea both wished Torres well in retirement, tweeting video highlights of his goals for their respective causes.
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7.Pranati Nayak wins bronze at Asian Artistic Gymnastic Championship:- In Gymnastics, India’s Pranati Nayak today clinched a bronze medal in vault event at the Senior Asian Artistic Championships in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. The 23-year-old from West Bengal, who had qualified for vault finals with a sixth place, came up with a score of 13.384 to claim the bronze medal. She had scored 13.400 and 13.367 in the first and second vault.China’s Yu Linmin and Japan’s Ayaka Sakaguchi won the gold and silver medal at the event. |
8.Pankaj Advani clinches men’s Asian Snooker Championship:-
India’s ace cueist Pankaj Advani has clinched the 35th men’s Asian Snooker Championship in Doha to complete a career grand slam in cue sports.Advani defeated Thanawat Tirapongpaiboon 6-3 in the final on Friday to become the only one to win the Asian and World championships in all formats. He conquered the ACBS Asian Snooker events – 6-red (short format) and 15-red (long format) – along with the IBSF World Championships in both formats too.Having already accomplished it in Billiards, Pankaj had this elusive 15-red Asian Snooker title missing from his silverware collection.
Pankaj will now take part in IBSF World Cup next week in Doha.
