Ministry of Heavy Industries launches cleanliness drive within the Ministry and across its CPSEs under Special Campaign 2.0 for Disposal of Wastes and clearing Pending Matters

 Ministry of Heavy Industries

Ministry of Heavy Industries launches cleanliness drive within the Ministry and across its CPSEs under Special Campaign 2.0 for Disposal of Wastes and clearing Pending Matters

Posted On: 21 OCT 2022 8:49PM by PIB Delhi

In accordance with the Swachh Bharat vision of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, a Special Campaign for Disposal of Wastes and clearing Pending Matters is being organized in the Ministry of Heavy Industries from 2nd to 31st October, 2022. The main focus areas of the Campaign include effective disposal of public grievances, references from the Members of Parliament, Cleanliness drive, disposal of scrap, recording and weeding out of files.

The Preparatory Phase from 14th to 30th Sept., 2022 of the Campaign was utilized to prepare groundwork for the main campaign and to sensitize the officials, identify pendency; finalize the Campaign sites; identify scrap and redundant materials. It was decided to launch cleanliness drive within the Ministry as well as its CPSEs and autonomous bodies.

During the Implementation Phase from 2nd to 31st October, 2022, all out efforts are being made for making the campaign a great success through involvement of all the key personnel and close monitoring. Daily progress is being uploaded on the SCPDM portal hosted by Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances.

As a part of campaign, more than 4.6 lakh sq. feet of space has been freed for gainful utilization. The campaign is in full swing to exceed the targets set by the Ministry for the period.

 

Nationwide campaign for elimination of Single Use Plastic

 Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change

Nationwide campaign for elimination of Single Use Plastic

46 tonnes of Single Use Plastic seized

CPCB to intensify inspections for elimination of SUP

Posted On: 20 OCT 2022 5:56PM by PIB Delhi

The Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change (MoEF&CC) issued Notification on August 12, 2022 banning production, sale, stocking & distribution, import and usage of identified Single Use Plastic (SUP) items including cutlery items, thin packaging films, candy & ice-cream sticks w.e.f. July 01, 2022.

In order to ensure its implementation Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) had earlier issued comprehensive Directions to State Pollution Control Board (SPCBs), Pollution Control Committees (PCCs) and other stakeholders. Directions were issued to manufacturers to stop raw material supply to the SUP producers and E-commerce companies to stop sale & usage of SUP items on their platform. Several enabling measures such as training of MSMEs for switching over to alternatives to plastics have also been taken up by CPCB during this period. Digital interventions including development of SUP Compliance Monitoring Portal & SUP Public Grievance App were taken up to facilitate effective monitoring of activities related to enforcement of ban. CPCB along with SPCBs/PCCs also conducted inspections of major commercial establishments during July-August 2022. 

Further augmenting its efforts, CPCB started a special drive from October 17, 2022, and more than 50 teams have been deployed for conducting inspections for restricting usage of SUP items by the flower sellers, street vendors, sabzi mandis, fish market, whole sale markets, etc. State Urban Development Department officials participated during inspections. SPCBs/PCCs have also been asked to conduct similar drives.

A total of 20036 inspections including 6448 inspections by CPCB teams have been carried out during October 17-19, 2022. Over 4000 violations were observed and 2900 challans have been issued to the defaulters. Approximately 46 tonnes of SUP items have been seized and a fine of Rs. 41 lakhs imposed by the concerned Authorities. 

An attempt has been made to break the supply chain of SUP items in the market through backtracking. Retailers, wholesalers and factories engaged in manufacturing SUP items have been traced and huge cache of the banned items seized during the inspections. Checks are also being carried out at interstate borders to prevent interstate transportation of banned SUP items.

CPCB plans to further intensify the inspection in the coming days for elimination of SUP from all section of the economy.  

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HS/SSV

Partial Eclipse of the Sun on 25th October, 2022, Tuesday 3 Kartika, 1944 Saka Era

 Ministry of Earth Science

Partial Eclipse of the Sun on 25th October, 2022, Tuesday 3 Kartika, 1944 Saka Era

Eclipsed Sun should not be viewed with the Naked Eye, Even for a very short time

Posted On: 18 OCT 2022 4:38PM by PIB Delhi

A partial eclipse of the Sun will occur on October 25, 2022 (3 Kartika, 1944 Saka Era). In India the eclipse will begin before sunset in the afternoon and will be seen from most of the places. However, the same cannot be seen from Andaman & Nicobar Islands and some parts of north-east India (name of few of such places are Aizawl, Dibrugarh, Imphal, Itanagar, Kohima, Sibsagar, Silchar, Tamelong etc.).

The ending of the eclipse will not be visible from India as the same will be in progress after sunset.

The obscuration of the Sun by the Moon will be approximately between 40 and 50 percent at the time of maximum eclipse in north-western parts of the country. In other parts of the country, the percentage coverage will be less than the above values.

In Delhi and Mumbai, the percentage coverage of the Sun by the Moon at the time of greatest eclipse will be around 44 percent and 24 percent respectively. The duration of eclipse from the beginning up to sunset time will be 1 hr 13 min and 1 hr 19 min for both Delhi and Mumbai respectively. In Chennai and Kolkata, the duration of the eclipse from the beginning up to sunset time will be 31 min and 12 min respectively.

The eclipse is visible in the region covering Europe, the Middle East, north-eastern parts of Africa, western Asia, the North Atlantic Ocean and the North Indian Ocean.        

The next solar eclipse will be visible from India on August 2, 2027. It will be a total solar eclipse. From all parts of the country it will be seen as partial solar eclipse.

A solar eclipse occurs on a new moon day when the Moon comes in between the Earth and the Sun and when all the three objects are aligned. A partial solar eclipse will occur when the lunar disk covers the solar disk partially.

Eclipsed Sun should not be viewed with the naked eye, even for a very short time. It will cause permanent damage of the eyes leading to blindness even when the Moon covers most portion of the Sun. Safe technique to observe the solar eclipse is either by using proper filter like aluminized Mylar, black polymer, welding glass of shade number 14 or by making projection of Sun’s image on a white board by telescope.  

A table relating to local circumstances of some places in India is appended separately for ready reference.

 

PARTIAL SOLAR ECLIPSE, OCTOBER 25, 2022

 

LOCAL CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE PARTIAL PHASE RELATING TO CERTAIN PLACES IN INDIA

 

Places	Partial Eclipse Begins (IST)	Greatest Eclipse (IST)	Obscuration at the time of Greatest Eclipse	Partial Eclipse Ends (IST)	Sunset Time (IST)	Duration of the eclipse from the beginning and upto sunset time
	h        m	h         m			h     m	h     m
Agartala	16   50.5	*	--	*	16   51	0   00.5
Ahmedabad	16   38.5	17   37.1	33.6%	*	18   06	1   27.5
Ajmer	16   32.0	17   32.9	40.3%	*	17   55	1   23.0
Allahabad	16   40.6	*	--	*	17   27	0   46.4
Amritsar	16   20.1	17   24.8	50.9%	*	17   48	1   27.9
Bangalore	17   12.4	17   50.8	9.9%	*	17   56	0   43.6
Bhagalpur	16   44.7	*	--	*	17   07	0   22.3
Bhopal	16   42.4	17   38.2	32.1%	*	17   47	1   04.6
Bhubaneswar	16   56.7	*	--	*	17   16	0   19.3
Cannanore	17   14.4	17   51.7	8.7%	*	18   06	0   51.6
Chandigarh	16   23.5	17   26.5	49.1%	*	17   38	1   14.5
Chennai	17   14.5	*	--	*	17   45	0   30.5
Cochin	17   22.7	17   53.7	5.1%	*	18   04	0   41.3
Cooch Behar	16   43.6	*	--	*	16   56	0   12.4
Cuttack	16   56.2	*	--	*	17   16	0   19.8
Darjeeling	16   41.2	*	--	*	17   00	0   18.8
Dehradun	16   26.1	17   28.0	47.0%	*	17   37	1   10.9
Delhi	16   29.3	17   30.5	43.8%	*	17   42	1   12.7
Dwarka	16   36.5	17   36.6	33.1%	*	18   21	1   44.5
Gandhinagar	16   38.1	17   36.9	33.9%	*	18   06	1   27.9
Gangtok	16   40.7	*	--	*	16   58	0   17.3
Guwahati	16   45.2	*	--	*	16   47	0   01.8
Gaya	16   44.6	*	--	*	17   15	0   30.4
Haridwar	16   25.7	17   27.7	47.4%	*	17   36	1   10.3
Hazaribagh	16   46.8	*	--	*	17   14	0   27.2
Hubli	17   00.5	17   47.1	17.1%	*	18   02	1   01.5
Hyderabad	16   59.1	17   45.9	18.7%	*	17   48	0   48.9
Jaipur	16   32.2	17   32.7	40.6%	*	17   50	1   17.8
Jalandhar	16   20.3	17   24.6	51.3%	*	17   43	1   22.7
Jammu	16   17.7	17   23.1	52.9%	*	17   47	1   29.3
Kanyakumari	17   32.8	17   55.6	2.1%	*	18   00	0   27.2
Kavalur	17   14.0	*	--	*	17   49	0   35.0
Kavaratti	17   15.7	17   52.3	7.8%	*	18   16	1   00.3
Kolhapur	16   57.5	17   46.1	18.9%	*	18   06	1   08.5
Kolkata	16   52.3	*	--	*	17   04	0   11.7
Koraput	16   58.5	*	--	*	17   30	0   31.5
Kozikode	17   17.0	17   52.4	7.5%	*	18   05	0   48.0
Kurnool	17   03.6	17   47.8	15.4%	*	17   51	0   47.4
Lucknow	16   36.6	*	--	*	17   29	0   52.4
Madurai	17   24.6	17   53.9	4.4%	*	17   56	0   31.4
Mangalore	17   10.2	17   50.5	10.9%	*	18   07	0   56.8

 

“*” indicates phenomenon will not occur in that place.

 

PARTIAL SOLAR ECLIPSE, OCTOBER 25, 2022

 

LOCAL CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE PARTIAL PHASE RELATING TO CERTAIN PLACES IN INDIA

 

Places	Partial Eclipse Begins (IST)	Greatest Eclipse (IST)	Obscuration at the time of Greatest Eclipse	Partial Eclipse Ends (IST)	Sunset Time (IST)	Duration of the eclipse from the beginning and upto sunset time
	h        m	h       m			h     m	h     m
Midnapore	16   52.0	*	--	*	17   08	0   16.0
Mount Abu	16   34.7	17   34.9	36.9%	*	18   04	1   29.3
Mumbai	16   49.8	17   42.9	24.3%	*	18   09	1   19.2
Murshidabad	16   47.9	*	--	*	17   01	0   13.1
Muzaffarpur	16   41.6	*	--	*	17   12	0   30.4
Mysore	17   14.0	17   51.4	9.0%	*	18   00	0   46.0
Nagpur	16   49.4	17   41.4	26.5%	*	17   42	0   52.6
Nalgonda	17   01.0	*	--	*	17   46	0   45.0
Nasik	16   47.7	17   41.7	26.4%	*	18   05	1   17.3
Nellore	17   09.5	*	--	*	17   45	0   35.5
Nowgong	16   39.7	17   36.2	35.1%	*	17   37	0   57.3
Panaji	17   00.3	17   47.2	17.0%	*	18   06	1   05.7
Patna	16   42.7	*	--	*	17   14	0   31.3
Pondicherry	17   18.2	*	--	*	17   48	0   29.8
Pune	16   51.9	17   43.7	23.1%	*	18   06	1   14.1
Puri	16   57.9	*	--	*	17   17	0   19.1
Raipur	16   51.2	*	--	*	17   32	0   40.8
Rajamundry	17   03.4	*	--	*	17   33	0   29.6
Rajkot	16   38.5	17   37.5	32.5%	*	18   14	1   35.5
Ranchi	16   48.4	*	--	*	17   15	0   26.6
Sambalpur	16   52.2	*	--	*	17   22	0   29.8
Shillong	16   46.7	*	--	*	16   47	0   00.3
Shimla	16   23.5	17   26.5	49.0%	*	17   39	1   15.5
Siliguri	16   42.1	*	--	*	17   00	0   17.9
Silvassa	16   45.7	17   40.9	27.7%	*	18   07	1   21.3
Srinagar	16   14.5	17   20.7	55.6%	*	17   45	1   30.5
Sringeri	17   08.1	17   49.8	12.2%	*	18   03	0   54.9
Thanjavur	17   21.9	*	--	*	17   52	0   30.1
Thiruvanantapuram	17   30.1	17   55.2	2.7%	*	18   02	0   31.9
Trichur	17   19.2	17   52.9	6.5%	*	18   02	0   42.8
Udaipur	16   35.7	17   35.3	36.5%	*	18   00	1   24.3
Ujjain	16   41.2	17   38.0	32.6%	*	17   53	1   11.8
Vadodara	16   41.0	17   38.4	31.7%	*	18   04	1   23.0
Varanasi	16   41.9	*	--	*	17   22	0   40.1
Vijayawada	17   03.5	*	--	*	17   40	0   36.5

 

“*” indicates phenomenon will not occur in that place.