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Consumer sales swell as demand crowds unlocked markets
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Sales of these categories increased 30-40% from the same period of June, manufacturers and dealers said. These also expanded 10-20% despite a strong base last year, when pent-up demand after a long lockdown had driven up sales.
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Sales have been strong in large-ticket or discretionary products as well, from mobile phones and home appliances to cars.
From groceries to smartphones, refrigerators and cars, sales of essential goods and discretionary items in the first two weeks of July rose at the fastest pace in a year, as concerns over the pandemic eased and most states including several in the south unlocked their markets.
PCMC lags in hsg society waste mgmt
PCMC lags in hsg society waste mgmt
ByArchana DahiwalArchana Dahiwal / Updated: Jul 11, 2021, 06:00 IST
As per
solid waste management rules, it is mandatory for bulk wet waste generators like housing societies that produce more than 100 kg of wet garbage daily to process it in their premises. But the industrial town of Pimpri-Chinchwad seems to have failed to implement it.
Among 2,000 housing societies on its jurisdiction, only 128 societies have availed the facility. Comparatively, among 4,078 housing societies in
Pune, 2,843 housing societies have set up a bulk wet waste disposal facility inside their premises.
The Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016 (
Jun 9, 2021
The objective of the MoU is to integrate the existing Interactive Information Dissemination System (IIDS) platform of DIC with the proposed KisanSarathi program of ICAR and its implementation through ICAR network to reach a large number of farmers across the country.
ICAR and DIC have agreed to collaborate to develop and deploy ICT platforms to establish and operate a multi-media, multi-way advisory and communication system for supporting various agricultural activities at local level. To start with, the Interactive Information Dissemination System (IIDS) would be deployed at ICAR which is a push-and pull-based system wherein agriculture-related information can be pulled from the farmers using mobile phones. IIDS gives an option to farmers to receive individual needs-based information for only those services to which they have subscribed. The experts at the back end will have access to the farmers’ database while responding to their queries. In this manner, experts wo