Committed to realise dreams of people; Appointments on 48K posts soon: Hemant Soren on Republic Day
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Dumka (PTI): Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren said on Sunday that he was committed to realising the dreams of people who "scripted history" by voting to power the alliance he leads for a second term.
Unfurling the Tricolour at Dumka Police Line on Republic Day, Soren said his government fulfilled its promise and 56 lakh women in the age group of 18-50 were receiving assistance of Rs 2,500 per month under 'Maiyan Samman Yojna' while the process is on for recruitment on 48,000 posts soon.
"To wage war against injustice and atrocities has been our tradition. History is witness to how even before 1857 tribals here fought for Independence. Their struggle is our source of inspiration," he said.
Soren said his government was working in a planned manner to ensure that the tribals oppressed for centuries get their dues and the state could move forward on the path of development.
"The process of recruitment in the state has been expedited...The list for appointments on 48,000 posts has been sent to Jharkhand Staff Selection Commission...Advertisements have been released for 46,000 posts while appointments have been done on 5,000 posts. The process for appointment on 28,000 posts is in the last leg," Soren said.
To aid youth to attain self-reliance, loans to the tune of Rs 438 crore have been distributed among 7,625 youth under 'Mukhyamantri Rojgar Srijan Yojna' in 2024-25 while about 5 lakh youth were imparted skill training under 'Mukhyamantri Sarathi Yojna', he said, adding that over 2 lakh trained youth have got job offers.
Besides to arrest migration, Rs 2,430 crore have been distributed among youth under MNREGA and 2.66 lakh 'Sakhi Mandal' (women self help groups) have been provided bank credit linkages, he said.
Soren added that under the Palash brand - an initiative to empower women, 47 marts have been opened to provide a platform to sell products made by women and it has earned them national recognition.
"To accelerate industrial development, Jharkhand has notified Jharkhand Industrial Park and Logistic Policy and is striving to become a 'land-linked state' from 'land-locked state'", Soren asserted while stating that it has also been decided to provide 40 per cent subsidy to MSME units in the state.
Apart from promoting Tasar cultivation of which Jharkhand is a leading producer, the Jharkhand government is making all efforts to promote education and is operating '80 CM Schools of Excellence' for providing education on par with private institutions to rural students, he said and claimed that 4,041 panchayat level schools will be developed as model schools in the state in the next three years.
Besides under 'Guruji Student Credit Card Scheme', Rs 40 crore educational loans have been provided to 650 students who were not able to pursue academics after 12th standard due to financial hurdles.
Soren also listed various educational schemes for students including the Marang Gomke Jaipal Singh Munda scholarship to provide assistance to students of SC/ST and backward communities to pursue their higher education dreams abroad.
For the benefit of farmers, the government waived Rs 403 crore agriculture loans of 1.82 lakh farmers under 'Jharkhand Krishi Rin Mafi Yojna', he said and added under Millet Mission, the government was providing Rs 3,000 per acre to farmers up to 5 acres of land for cultivation of such crops.
For health, under Mukhyamantri Abua Swasthya Yojna, Rs 15 lakh is being provided per family for treatment besides various other initiatives.
Soren said to augment infrastructure, 89 highways and 9 bridges completed at an expenditure of Rs 2,796 crore were inaugurated in the state in the ongoing fiscal while drinking water connectivity was ensured to 34.17 lakh of 62.55 lakh rural families.
He claimed that 41 lakh electric consumers in the state were getting 200 units of electricity free per month.
Also, he claimed that the forest cover in the state has increased to 34 per cent of the total geographic area and a number of initiatives are on to promote tourism including eco-tourism in the state.
He said his government was committed to fulfil the dream of a prosperous Jharkhand.
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Zelenskyy says Putin wants rest of Ukraine's Donetsk region as part of ceasefire
Brussels, Aug 12 (AP): Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Tuesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin wants Ukraine to withdraw from the remaining 30 per cent of the Donetsk region that Ukraine controls as part of a ceasefire deal.
Zelenskyy said Russia's position had been conveyed to him by US officials ahead of a summit Friday between Putin and US President Donald Trump in Alaska on the war in Ukraine.
Zelenskyy reiterated that Ukraine would not withdraw from territories it controls, saying that would be unconsitutional and would serve only as a springboard for a future Russian invasion.
It remained unclear whether Ukraine would take part in the Friday summit. European Union also has been sidelined from the meeting, and they appealed to Trump on Tuesday to protect their interests.
Zelenskyy said at a news briefing in Kyiv that Putin wants the remaining 9,000 square kilometres of Donetsk under Kyiv's control, where the war's toughest battles are grinding on, as part of a ceasefire plan. He said the Russian position was conveyed to him by US officials.
Doing so would hand Russia almost the entirety of the Donbas, a region comprising Ukraine's eastern industrial heartland that Putin has long coveted.
Zelenskyy was offering new details on the call he held with Trump and special envoy Steve Witkoff, after the latter's bilateral meeting with Putin. Witkoff told Zelenskyy that Russia was ready to end the war and that there should be territorial concessions from both sides. Some European partners were also part of the call.
“And that, probably, Putin wants us to leave Donbas. That is, it didn't sound like America wants us to leave,” he said, recounting the call. Further meetings at the level of National Security Advisors further clarified what Russia actually wanted, Zelenskyy said.
Meanwhile, Russian forces on the ground have been closing in on a key territorial grab around the city of Pokrovsk, potentially to use as leverage in any peace negotiations.
Seeking Trump's ear before the summit
Trump has said he wants to see whether Putin is serious about ending the war, now in its fourth year. The US president has disappointed allies in Europe by saying Ukraine will have to give up some Russian-held territory. He also said Russia must accept land swaps, although it was unclear what Putin might be expected to surrender.
The Europeans and Ukraine are wary that Putin, who has waged the biggest land war in Europe since 1945 and used Russia's energy might to try to intimidate the EU, might secure favourable concessions and set the outlines of a peace deal without them.
European countries' overarching fear is that Putin will set his sights on one of them next if he wins in Ukraine.
Their leaders said Tuesday they “welcome the efforts of President Trump towards ending Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine.” But, they underlined, “the path to peace in Ukraine cannot be decided without Ukraine” and “international borders must not be changed by force.”
The Europeans on Wednesday will make a fresh attempt to rally Trump to Ukraine's cause at virtual meetings convened by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz. Trump did not confirm whether he would take part but did say “I'm going to get everybody's ideas” before meeting with Putin.
Russia holds shaky control over four of the country's regions, two in the country's east and two in the south.
Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to the chief of Zelenskyy's office, said anything short of Russia's strategic defeat would mean that any ceasefire deal would be on Moscow's terms, erode international law and send a dangerous signal to the world.
'A profoundly alarming moment for Europe'
Trump's seemingly public rehabilitation of Putin — a pariah in most of Europe — has unnerved Ukraine's backers.
The summit in Alaska is a “profoundly alarming moment for Europe,” said Nigel Gould-Davies, senior fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London.
According to Gould-Davies, Putin might persuade Trump to try to end the war by “accepting Russian sovereignty” over parts of Ukraine, even beyond areas that it currently occupies. Trump also could ease or lift sanctions which are causing “chronic pain” to the Russian economy.
That would provoke a “really serious split in the transatlantic alliance," he said.
The war isn't about Russia's territorial expansion but about Putin's goal of subordinating Ukraine, which would create the opportunity to threaten other parts of Europe, Gould-Davies said.
It was unclear whether the Europeans also were unsettled by Trump mistakenly saying twice he would be traveling to Russia on Friday to meet Putin. The summit is taking place in the U.S. state of Alaska, which was colonized by Russia in the 18th century until Czar Alexander II sold it to the U.S. in 1867.
Tuesday's European joint statement was meant to be a demonstration of unity. But Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who is Putin's closest ally in Europe and has tried to block EU support for Ukraine, was the only one of the bloc's 27 leaders who refused to endorse it.
Russia closes in on Pokrovsk
Russia appeared close to taking an important city in the Donetsk region, Pokrovsk.
Military analysts using open-source information to monitor the battles said the next 24-48 hours could be critical. Losing Pokrovsk would hand Russia an important victory ahead of the summit. It also would complicate Ukrainian supply lines to the Donetsk region, where the Kremlin has focused the bulk of military efforts.
“A lot will depend on availability, quantity and quality of Ukrainian reserves,” Pasi Paroinen, an analyst with the Finland-based Black Bird Group, wrote on social media late Monday.
Ukraine's military said its forces are fending off Russian infantry units trying to infiltrate their defensive positions in the Donetsk region. The region's Ukrainian military command on social media Monday acknowledged that the situation remains “difficult, unpleasant and dynamic.”
Elsewhere in Ukraine, a Russian missile attack on a military training facility left one soldier dead and 11 others wounded, the Ukrainian Ground Forces posted on social media. Soldiers rushing to shelters were hit with cluster munitions, according to the Ukrainian Ground Forces.
