Uttar Pradesh

• 04 Jan 2024

Rahat Vani Center for Early Warning of Disaster

Why in News?

Recently, the state chief secretary Durga Shankar Mishra inaugurated ‘Rahat Vani Center’ (RVC), a disaster early warning center as a part of an effort to deal with multi-hazard scenarios in the state.

Key Points

• The RVC’s function would be to prepare and predict warnings, timely delivery of relief so that compensation to employees could be streamlined.
• The RVC will be Setup at Lalbagh area in Lucknow, with a team of six personnel.
• It will coordinate with India Meteorological Department (IMD), Lucknow; Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune; ISRO's National remote sensing applications; Indian Institute of Information Technology, Lucknow; National Disaster Management Authority and National Institute of Disaster Management to develop a unified disaster risk management stack and efficient technological environment.
• The idea behind RVC is to alert the general mass about possible natural disasters, within 30 minutes to one hour prior to its effect. The information will be disseminated at community level via SMS alert, mobile notification and other ways.
• Currently 68 Automatic Weather Stations (AWSs) and 132 Automatic Rain Gauge (ARG) stations of IMD provide weather related alerts in the state.
  • To further strengthen the early warning system, the state government and IMD, are installing five doppler radars (long-range weather forecasting and surveillance), 450 AWSs and 2000 (ARG) stations.

Tulsidas’s Birthplace

Why in News?

The Uttar Pradesh government has decided to develop Rajapur village of Chitrakoot district.

• It is the birthplace of saint and poet Goswami Tulsidas who authored Ramcharitmanas in the 16^th century.

Key Points

• Uttar Pradesh tourism and culture minister Jaiveer Singh emphasized the significance of Ramcharitmanas as well as its writer whose birthplace is visited by people in large numbers to pay their obeisance.
  • The Ramcharitramanas or Tulsi Ramayana is a retelling of the epic Ramayana, by Tulsidas in Awadhi language.
• Tourism facilities would be developed, including accommodation and various other provisions to enable digital availability of the Ramcharitmanas.
  • With an expenditure of ₹21 crore, about two-and-a-half acres area near Tulsi Memorial in Rajapur village will go through beautification.
• A park with medicinal plants, dormitory, digital library and interpretation center will be built as well.
• At present, Uttar Pradesh tops the country in terms of domestic tourism. Tourist facilities are being continuously developed in the state.