BBMP’s army of volunteers to lead covid battle
ByNaveen MenezesNaveen Menezes / Updated: May 10, 2021, 06:00 IST
The idea is to ensure the most critical patients get hospital beds
Nodal officers, who were appointed in each ward as a replacement of elected councillors, have been tasked with the responsibility of leading an army of
volunteers for driving decentralised covid management in the City. The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (
BBMP) expects at least 200 volunteers in each of the 198 wards.
The volunteers, who will be part of the Decentralised Triage and Emergency Response (DETER) team, will be given any of the following responsibilities: Promoting covid-appropriate behaviour, contact tracing and testing, supporting home isolation patients by either referring them to
Karnataka to focus on ‘one district, one product’ policy in State Budget
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2021-22 State Budget is expected to set aside more than 100 crore for it
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2021-22 State Budget is expected to set aside more than 100 crore for it
In the 2021-22 Karnataka Budget, the State government plans to give a big push to the “one district, one product” policy for exploiting the potential of unorganised micro-food processing by offering credit, avenues for the marketing of products, and technical know-how.
Under this scheme, the State has identified and approved 20 districts for horticultural products, six for agricultural products, two for marine products, one for poultry, and one for bakery products. The products in each district were chosen on the basis of their availability, status of current processing, and scope of marketing.
66 FPOs onboarded to Unified Market Platform
February 25, 2021
Around 66 Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs) supported by Karnataka government and Nabard were onboarded on the Unified Market Platform (UMP) of Rashtriya e-Market Services (ReMS).
Due to this, these FPOs will now be accessible by 44,000 traders registered across 162 markets and will facilitate the trading of more than 60 agricultural commodities enabling them to get better returns on their farm produce through transparent price discovery and realisation.
Manoj Rajan, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of ReMS, addressing the event Dr Rajan, speaking on the occasion said that ReMS strives to put into place transparent price discovery, assaying facilities, capacity building for stakeholders, etc. and also emphasises increased competition, better price realisation, simplification of market processes and making available real-time product information to market participants.