08-04-21 Daily-Himachal Pradesh-HPPSC Current Affairs

The Executive Council (EC) of Himachal Pradesh University (HPU) approved a budget of Rs 284 crore for 2021-22 with a deficit of Rs 30 crore.

The EC, which held its first regular meeting of 2021 under the chairmanship of Vice-Chancellor Sikander Kumar, also approved 26 posts of professor, associate professor and assistant professor.

It approved the fee structure of new courses, including BLib, MLib and MA in DEFENCE and strategic studies.

The EC gave its nod to split the University Institute of Information Technology (UIIT) into six departments for better functioning.

A proposal to create the departments of archaeology, Population studies, data science and and forensic science was also approved.

TheUnion cabinet approvedthere-promulgationofordinanceonair quality managementinNational Capital Region(NCR) and adjoining areas spread over four states Haryana,Punjab,RajasthanandUttar Pradesh with important changes that seek to assuage farm unions opposed to the new <a href="https://exam.pscnotes.com/Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture laws.

The re-promulgated legislation has been tweaked to take care of the concerns of farmers who had objected to its substantially high penalty provision for stubble burning in neighbouring states. The multi-member statutory commission will now also have representation from farmers, and construction sectors. Penalty provisions for erring industry or other sectors remain intact with jail term up to five years or with fine up to Rs 1 crore or with both for any non-compliance or contravention of any provision or rules and order or direction of the panel.

The commission had replaced The Supreme Court-backed <a href="https://exam.pscnotes.com/Environment-pollution”>ENVIRONMENT POLLUTION (Prevention and Control) Authority EPCA which had been taking care of the issues of Air Pollution in the NCR for last 22 years. The EPCA had successfully implemented certain measures such as relocation of polluting industries, switching over of public transport buses from diesel to CNG and restriction of entry of polluting trucks in the Capital.