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GOBAR-Dhan: Scheme announced in budget a welcome step, but challenges ahead https://www.downtoearth.org.in/blog/energy/gobar-dhan-scheme-announced-in-budget-a-welcome-step-but-challenges-ahead-87558 Biogas can be purified and upgraded up to 98 per cent of purity to make it suitable to be used as a green fuel for transportation or filling of cylinders
By Siddharth Ghanshyam Singh, Kaifee Jawed 08 February 2023

500 new ‘waste to wealth’ plants for promoting a circular economy with a total investment of Rs 10,000 crore under the GOBAR-Dhan scheme in her budget speech in the Parliament on February 1, 2023.

Of the 500 new plants announced, 200 will be compressed biogas plants (CBG), including 75 in cities and the remaining 300 will be community or cluster-based plants.

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The National Bioenergy Programme specifically mentions (paragraph five) that waste-to-energy plants based on thermal technologies like incineration, pyrolysis, etc., are not supported under the programme.

The National Bioenergy Programme specifically mentions (paragraph five) that waste-to-energy plants based on thermal technologies like incineration, pyrolysis, etc., are not supported under the programme.

HOW ASSAM’S MISING COMMUNITY IS COPING WITH FLOODS THROUGH ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN
By Sanskrita BharadwajonFeb. 02, 2023 https://vikalpsangam.org/article/how-assams-mising-community-is-coping-with-floods-through-architectural-design/ the indigenous Mising community in Assam constructs and lives in traditional flood-resilient houses called chang ghors that are perched above the ground on bamboo stilts. Medhipamua in Dhemaji district is a typical Mising village that lies along the Brahmaputra river. “Our houses are built at an eight foot height while there are others in the interiors that are 12-13 feet high. We keep our bamboo poles stacked before the monsoons arrive,” Janmoni Doley, a resident of the village said. Many families, she said, still prefer moving a few kilometres away from their houses on country boats to a more secure raised platform like the village community space where the magnitude of the water is also usually less.

Pawan Khera’s ‘Gautamdas’ remark & anchors to PM’s rescue | TV Newsance 203 
At a press conference while demanding the JPC, #PawanKhera referred to PM Modi as ‘#Gautamdas’. This sparked a furore across mainstream TV news debates and anchors took it upon themselves to avenge the insult to PM Modi. Aman Chopra took recourse in ‘research’ or ‘brain mapping’ of the Congress, while the Times Now Navbharat anchor took to scribbling on his blackboard again. In all of this, the important and disturbing news of the twin murders of Nasir and Junaid took a backseat.

Bonus: Arnab tells you to pay to keep news free, but that’s a full subject for the next episode.