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| Jan 01, 1970 | Daily Report |
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20831. Kerala Homemaker Grows 100s of Plants on Terrace, Earns Rs 30000 Per Month
- With plants ranging from Rs 30 to Rs 1,000 in her garden, Sumi receives the most orders for Episia, of which she has 80 varieties. Other than Episia, people order Begonia, Philodendron and Peperomia.
- “During the initial days of lockdown, I had no plans to start a new business selling ornamental plants. But as the shop where my husband worked was closed due to lockdown, the idea of selling plants online came to mind,” she says.
- Sumi has rare varieties of plants imported from Thailand, collected from her friends, that she grows in her terrace garden. It was from one of these ornamental plants, called the Episcia, that completely turned this homemaker’s life around.
20832. Starting his entrepreneurial journey with Rs 30k, this man built a food catering business with Rs 4.6 Cr turnover
- Manvir Singh Anand started Knight Gourmet in Delhi in 2016 as a food catering business. With clients like Delhi Capitals, Premier Badminton League, Microsoft, Facebook, and BMW, the business has diversified into an integrated event hospitality solutions provider.
- “Our business model, which started with catering, has evolved over time. Today, we are an integrated event hospitality solutions company. We manage end-to-end solutions for food courts at events, as well as hospitality requirements for VIP and player lounges and crew, police, and support staff,” Manvir says
- “I saw an opportunity to start a catering business that addressed these concerns and provided clients access to operational manuals, detailed workflows with day-wise menus, staff allocation, and better inventory control measures,” says entrepreneur
20833. Atmanirbhar Bharat: This woman entrepreneur’s company is offering RT-PCR testing for COVID-19 at an affordable cost of Rs 499
- Certified by ICMR and NABL, aviation company Spicejet’s subsidiary SpiceHealth recently launched affordable RT-PCR testing for COVID-19, priced at Rs 499.
- Avani Singh who holds a master’s degree in public policy from Stanford University was working remotely as a consultant at McKinsey when COVID-19 cases in India began to rise.
- “While accompanying my father to meetings, I met a number of government officials and it became abundantly clear that behind these rising cases, the jarring problem was the government's inability to test rampantly, says Avani, daughter of Ajay Singh, Chairman and Managing Director of Spicejet.
20834. Maharashtra Man Quits Steady Job To Farm Figs, Has Turnover of Rs 1.5 Crore/Year
- Certified In 2013, Samir Dombe decided to quit his corporate job and take up agriculture in his hometown. A native of Daund, which is located around 90 km from Pune, Maharashtra, he was working in an engineering solutions company and used to earn Rs 40,000 a month.
- However, after 1.5 years of work, he realised hectic travel and constant changes in work pressure were not worth the money. He then decided to cultivate figs, which is a tradition his family has been involved in for two generations now.
- Against family’s resistance, Samir Dombe from Daund quit his corporate job to grow figs and sell processed fruit to the supermarkets and metro cities.
20835. चमेली के पौधों से की 16.50 लाख की कमाई
- सरदार वल्लभ भाई पटेल कृषि एवं प्रौद्योगिकी विश्वविद्यालय में बुधवार को एक युवा किसान को पादप स्वच्छता प्रमाण पत्र देकर सम्मानित किया गया।
- किठौर निवासी असीम चौधरी नर्सरी का संचालन करते हैं। वह जैसमीन (चमेली), सजावटी व खुशबूदार पौधे कतर, दुबई, बहरीन आदि देशों को निर्यात करते हैं। असीम चौधरी ने अक्तूबर में रात की रानी, कारमोना, जैक मानसिया आदि पौधों का निर्यात विंग्स वर्ल्ड लैंडस्कैप प्राइवेट लिमिटेड किठौर के माध्यम से किया।
- प्रमाण पत्र बुधवार को किठौर निवासी असीम चौधरी को विश्वविद्यालय के कुलपति द्वारा निर्यात को प्रोत्साहन देने के लिए दिया गया। उन्होंने बताया कि वर्तमान में चमेली के पौधों का निर्यात कतर देश में किया गया। इससे उनको लगभग 16.50 लाख रुपये प्राप्त हुए हैं।.
20836. Assam CM invites Tata Group to invest in state, promises all necessary support
- Assam Chief Minister Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma has assured the Tata Group that it will provide all necessary support including certain policy changes, providing capital subsidy, etc., to make the state a preferred investment destination of the country.
- Dr. Sarma interacted with Tata Group Chairman Natarajan Chandrasekaran and other top office bearers of Tata Sons, Tata Consumers, TCS, Tata Technologies, Indian Hotel and Tata Motors at Bombay House.
- In the meeting, the chief minister urged the Tata Group to come forward for investment in Assam, especially in health, education, green & renewable energy, tourism & hospitality sector. Dr. Sarma assured that the state government will provide all necessary support including certain policy changes, providing capital subsidy, etc., to make the state a preferred investment destination of the country.
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20837. [Startup Bharat] Why these young entrepreneurs from Assam have tapped into waste plastic to manufacture eco-friendly bricks
- Brick kilns have for long been known for its extreme working environment. Although a vital part of any kind of construction, bricks and its manufacturing has been touted as one of the most dangerous with brick factory workers being susceptible to chemical, physical, biological, psychosocial, and ergonomic hazards
- The Indian brick kiln industry is the second largest brick producer in the world, next only to China, having more than 100,000 operating units and producing about 250 billion bricks annually, according to a report in The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI).
- The large presence of this brick industry, however, increases the concentration of suspended particulate matter, sulfur and nitrogen oxides in the environment which directly and indirectly affects the quality of human life. Beside being hazardous to people, the brick kiln emission has proven to be damaging to plant life as well.
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20838. Sheep rearing helping Kashmiri women become self-reliant
- The welfare schemes of the Jammu and Kashmir government are going a long way in making the youth of Kashmir, especially women, self-reliant.
- Take the example of Bandipora in North Kashmir. Here women have joined government-run departments voluntarily to avail benefits under various self-employment schemes, and today a large number of them are contributing to their household and becoming a source of inspiration for others.
- Sheep rearing is one such sector making a valuable contribution to the weaker sections of society in Bandipora. The production of wool, meat, skin, manure, etc. has allowed women to grab this opportunity with both hands.
20839. Transforming J&K Agriculture: Driving force of J&Ks economy
- Agriculture is a key and essential part of human civilization and forms the core societal development of any region. In Jammu and Kashmir economy is predominately agriculture dependent and nearly 70% of population is directly or indirectly engaged in agricultural and allied activities.
- The J&K government works on a vision on daily basis to look beyond subsistence agriculture by leveraging special agro-climatic conditions of the Union Territory for securing high returns to the farmers from transformed and modern sustainable and inclusive agriculture interventions.
- Also with the introduction of innovative and globally validated farm technologies, raising of the requisite state of the art infrastructure and creation of an enabling ecosystem, agriculture sector is being developed on modern lines across length and breadth of J&K.
20840. How Selling Chaat Helped Me Overcome My Depression During The Lockdown
- Sanjay Bhatia, a Delhi-resident, shares how he started Hygiene Chaat Corner after he lost his job during the COVID-19 induced lockdown.
- Armed with the encouragement from the women in his life, and a desire to start earning again, on 3 September 2020, Sanjay launched his own chaat stall for a rent of Rs 8,000 per month.
- “It took me close to Rs 30,000 to set it all up, which I did not have. I had to borrow it,” he says. At the stall, one can get dahi bhalla, bhalla papdi chaat, tawa bread, stuffed tikki for Rs 60 a plate and vegetarian burgers for Rs 40.