Due to poor flowering in mango orchards, the mango-growers of the state have demanded government support to bail them out from the crisis. In a meeting of Mango Growers' Association of India (MGAI) on Tuesday, the members expressed apprehension the that the poor rate of fruit might lead to severe financial crisis.
LUCKNOW:When the entire world was switching off lights for an hour as part of a global campaign to save electricity on Saturday, 80-year-old Ram Avtar of Dawoodnagar village, 5 Kms from state capital, was searching for kerosene can to lit an earthen lamp. And, he was not the lone soul. Nearly 200 odd families in this village have been forced to do so, daily.
LUCKNOW: Several thick government files with yellowed pages are piled up high inside the tuberculosis cell of the state health department giving it the `normal'look of any government office. But the environment hasn't dampened the thinking process of the people working in this cell.
Patients of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and those with damaged lungs have good news. A new effective drug is in the offing for curing lungs damaged by pollution and smoking. Presently, the drug is under animal trial and soon the human trial phase will be undertaken.
LUCKNOW: The forests in the state will be managed through public-private-partnership (PPP) in a big way now. Though the PPP model in forest management was introduced about a decade back in the state, a big chunk of international funding that forest department has got of late will help. Government alone cannot conserve forests.
LUCKNOW: The scanning of water birds for possible strains of bird flu virus is going on at a fast pace. The blood samples from at least 175 birds have been collected so far. The effort began in January with an aim to trapping the winter birds.
The samples have been collected from both the resident and migratory birds.
Health officials are in a fix with the detection of two suspected polio cases at Barabanki within a span of a week. One of the cases has been confirmed as P-I strain of polio virus while the lab report of the other is still awaited. It has raised the tally of polio cases to 15 in 2009 with all of them being reported from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.
LUCKNOW: The Sanjay Gandhi Post-graduate Institute of Medical Sciences started a tuberculosis awareness drive on Tuesday, with a rath yatra of TB experts visiting various DOTS centres across the city.
The yatra was flagged off by institute director Dr A K Mahapatra from the general hospital of SGPGIMS. The yatra would culminate on World TB Day, on March 24.
LUCKNOW: A day after chief minister Mayawati asserted on higher allocation of power from the centre's discretionary quota, the UP Electricity
Regulatory Commission (UPERC) took the message to the forum of all India regulators on Monday, seeking necessary changes in Gadgil formula, according to which states are allocated power from the quota.
