Read more about Japan to start releasing contaminated Fukushima water into sea in 2 years on Business Standard. Japan s government decided Tuesday to start releasing massive amounts of treated radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean in two years
Adani Solar Energy Chitrakoot One (ASECOL), a subsidiary of Adani Green Energy, commissioned 50 MW solar power plant in Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh. The plant has a 25 Years Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with the Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation (UPPCL)
at Rs. 3.07/kwh.
This commissioning takes AGEL s total operational renewable capacity to 3,520 MW, a step closer to its vision of 25 GW capacity by 2025.
With the successful commissioning of this plant, AGEL has an operational solar generation capacity of over 3 GW.
AGEL has total renewable capacity of 15,240 MW including 11,720 MW that have been awarded and are at different stages of implementation. With this 50 MW, AGEL marks the beginning of this year s commissioning plan with full commitment from its team, amidst continuing challenges of the COVID19 outbreak.
Read more about Containment operations sub-optimal in Maharashtra districts: Central teams on Business Standard. The Central teams deputed to Maharashtra to coordinate the response to the coronavirus pandemic have observed that containment operations were sub-optimal in Satara, Sangli and Aurangabad districts
Central teams have reported non-adherence of COVID-19 appropriate behaviour in almost all of the 50 most-affected districts in Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh and Punjab, the Union health ministry said, advising the states to more strictly enforce norms to prevent spread of the coronavirus. On the basis of feedback from the teams, the ministry has written to the states highlighting the areas of concern, including sub-optimal containment operations and contact tracing, skewed testing and shortage of health workers. Authorities need to work in these areas, it said. Of the 50 districts most affected by COVID-19, 30 are in Maharashtra, 11 in Chhattisgarh and nine in Punjab, it said.
On the occasion of National Safe Motherhood Day on Sunday, experts said maternal health and family planning services should not be compromised and given due priority even in emergency situations like the COVID-19 pandemic. National Safe Motherhood Day is observed every year on April 11 on the birth anniversary of Kasturba Gandhi, wife of Mahatma Gandhi. The experts also called for strengthening the country s health system. We have witnessed a steep rise in maternal deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic. The nationwide lockdown disrupted maternal health services, which resulted in a decline in institutional deliveries as well as women s access to prenatal and antenatal services, said Poonam Muttreja, Executive Director of Population Foundation of India and a public health expert.