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BUDGET 2025 AT A GLANCE||| SOME KEY PROVISIONS

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  BUDGET 2025 AT A GLANCE SOME KEY PROVISIONS SARASIJ MAJUMDER   1.       10,000 additional seats to be inculcated in Medical Institutes in one year; 75,000 additional   medical seats will be created in next 5 years. 2.       100 GW target for Nuclear Power Generation by 2047. 3.       40,000 new houses will be added under Swayam Housing scheme. 4.       50 New Tourists’ destination will be developed by next year . 5.       A Maritime Development Fund with a corpus of ₹ 25,000 crore to be set up, with up to 49 per cent contribution by the Government, and the balance from ports and private sector. 6.       Atal Tinkering Labs (ATL) : 50,000 such labs are to be set up in government schools in 5 years. This is a part of Atal Innovation Mission (AIM). Comment: In my opinion, t...

UNIQUE COUNTRY—TUVALU

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UNIQUE  COUNTRY—TUVALU SARASIJ MAJUMDER Unique Country in the World: Many countries in the world have their own unique identity. But the country we are going to tell you about today is very special. The total length of this country is only 12 km and the maximum  width is 2000 meters. It has only one airport, one hospital, and one police station. The name of this country is Tuvalu. The total population of this country is 12,373, as of  2022. This country is a Polynesian island country located in the Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and Australia. The capital of this country is Funafuti. Tuvaluan and the Australian dollar are used as currencies here. Its neighbouring countries are Kiribati and Fiji. This country is made up of nine small islands. On November 9 in the year 2021, the then Foreign Minister Simon Coffey gave a speech standing in knee-deep water. He also brought forward the pain of Tuvalu sinking into the sea. Tuvalu was discovered in 1568. After that, Brit...
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  KAVARATTI   ISLAND CAPITAL OF LAKSHADWEEP A Memoir—Summar1958 SARASIJ MAJUMDER   Well,   I was in Kavaratti Island (capital of Lakshadweep) for   Two TIMES, both in my childhood. With an area of 1050 acres it’s   heaven if you stay for 6 days and may be hell if you stay much longer. Just for the sake of comparison,   B.E. College (now IIEST) campus is 1,400 acres. My father was running a very small manufacturing unit, in Dum Dum, and was also auditor for a few Marwari organizations.   One of them was Mr. Paresh Khandelwal, having a small shop in Kavaratti island, capital of Lakshadweep. When I was in 4th standard, father has to go there for Audit. It was my summer holiday, and my mother decided that I should accompany my DAD.   That was first time I was going there. I got very excited, collected books on the island and read. It was end of April, 1958. We reached   Cochin (KOCHI) station   by Train, from Howrah, an...

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