Assam will follow “Chaibagaan time”
The state of Assam decided to follow the ‘chaibagaan’ time instead of the Indian Standard Time (IST). The bagaan time will be helpful to save energy, reduce power consumption and increase productivity. IST is calculated on the basis of solar time in Allahabad in the northern-central state of Uttar Pradesh. States located to the west of this longitude have more daylight hours as compared to those in the east. Assam lies in the extreme east of the country and borders Bangladesh and Bhutan. This means that the sun sets as early as 16:31 (4:31 p.m.) IST in November and December.
Clocks in India are 5:30 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), making the country one of the few territories with a half-hour UTC offset. If the time zone change is implemented, Assam will be 6:30 hours ahead of UTC.
Note:The chaibagaan time or bagaan time – Introduced by British people over 150 years ago, was set one hour ahead of the Indian Standard Time (IST) for tea estates, collieries and oil industry of Assam. This Baggan time is more suitable for tea plantations.
CCEA clears the Central Sector Scheme, ILDP for 12th plan
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) approved the central sector scheme, Indian Leather Development Programme (ILDP) for overall development of the leather sector during the 12th Plan (2012-17).
Under this scheme, the six sub-schemes are also proposed with an outlay of Rs.990.36 crore.
These are – Integrated Development of Leather Sector (IDLS), Human Resource Development (HRD), Support to Artisan (STA), leather technology innovation and environmental issues, mega leather cluster and establishment of institutional institutes.
Implementation of the ILDP would provide trained manpower to the industry and assistance to overcome the constraints of infrastructure in the industry.
Moclic software – can predict weather
Researchers from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) designed the software Monitoring Climate Change (Moclic) by which anyone is able to determine their community, state or country’s weather activity for the days and months ahead.
Characteristics of Monitoring Climate Change (Moclic) software
It is possible to organize, store and operate geo-referenced data from climate elements.
Can calculate bio and agro-climatic indicators, such as humidity, aridity, rain erosion and rainfall concentration.
The new software feeds on data from weather stations of any state or country, with which what happens in a small ranch regarding temperature, can be known more accurately. Presently, the software we are using till date uses global information.
Allows an agronomist to obtain annual rainfall records and relate them to the crops production figures for explanation of a possible event.
The software is very simple and can be used by decision making characters, as governors, breeders, physicians, farmers, students or anyone whose repercussions could have economic politic or social effects.
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