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The Hindu Upsc Ias Edition Hd 01~06~2024
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June 1, 2024
DELHI
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W roiling several
parts of the
country, at least 61 deaths
52.9 degrees Celsius in Del-
hi to a faulty instrument,
another station in Nagpur
from suspected heatstroke incorrectly reported a tem-
in various parts of the perature of 56 degrees on
country on Friday, with 23 Friday.
of the fatalities being poll The IMD said it was due
personnel involved in the to a “failure of electronic
final phase of the Lok Sab- sensors”. As in the case of
ha election that is set to Mungeshpur in Delhi, the
culminate on Saturday. erroneous temperature
Fourteen people, in- was recorded at an auto-
cluding 10 who were part matic weather station
of the election process, (AWS) in Nagpur,
have died due to heat- Maharashtra.
stroke in Bihar in the last Unlike manually operat-
24 hours, State officials ed weather stations where
said on Friday. personnel take periodic
In Uttar Pradesh’s Mir- An umbrella and towel are all that stand between this street vendor and Varanasi’s searing heat. As per measurements of the tem-
zapur district, 13 are sus- World Bank estimates, 75% of India’s workforce (38 crore people) depend on heat-exposed labour. AFP perature using thermome-
pected to have died from ters, AWS rely on sensors
heatstroke. All of them Mirzapur on Saturday. remain shut till June 8. tricts of the State due to that detect changes in tem-
were admitted to the Maa At least four deaths from Four persons died of heat-related issues. Out of perature. While considered
Vindhyavasini Autono- heat-related causes were sunstroke in Jharkhand on these, 63 are confirmed accurate, they are complex
mous State Medical College confirmed in Rajasthan. Friday, while 1,326 others cases of heatstroke so far,” instruments prone to er-
with symptoms of high fev- In Odisha, 26 deaths were hospitalised amid Dr. Alok Trivedi, Mission rors that are harder to de-
er and blood pressure. The have been reported sweltering heat in most Director, National Health tect and rectify.
deceased include seven through Friday, with five of parts of the eastern State, Mission ( Jharkhand), told “The report of 56 de-
home guard jawans, three them having been con- officials said. PTI. grees C on 30/05/2024 is
sanitation workers, one firmed from sunstroke and All district hospitals and Heatwave to severe not correct and not de-
clerk posted at the Chief the rest yet to be officially other medical facilities heatwave conditions pre- clared officially,” the IMD
Medical Officer’s office, declared so. Several of have been asked to set vailed over many parts of said in a statement on Fri-
one chakbandi adhikaari these were among truck aside air-conditioned Haryana, Chandigarh, Del- day. “The temperature sen-
(consolidation officer), and drivers. rooms and empty beds for hi, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, sor at Nagpur City AWS,
GDP growth surges one peon in the home
guard team, Dr. Raj Baha-
In Jharsuguda, where
daytime temperatures
heatstroke patients, they
said.
Madhya Pradesh, Rajas-
than, Vidarbha, Chhattis-
maintained by RMC Nag-
pur (Regional Meteorologi-
to 8.2% in FY24 dur Kamal, the head of the
hospital’s administration,
breached 47 degrees Celsi-
us on Thursday, people
“Four persons, three in
Palamu and one in Jam-
garh, Odisha, Himachal
Pradesh, Jharkhand, coas-
cal Centre) is currently
malfunctioning, and RMC
told PTI. have been asked not to shedpur, died of heat- tal Andhra Pradesh and Ya- Nagpur is working to fix it.
“Fourth quarter GVA growth is broadly in line The region has been wit- venture out from 10 a.m. to stroke in Jharkhand. These nam, the India Meteorolog- However, it is important to
with expectations,” Ms. Sinha added. “However, nessing unusually high 4 p.m. Due to heatwave deaths did not occur in ical Department said on note that electronic sen-
upward revisions in GVA of previous quarters temperatures for the past conditions, schools, coach- hospitals. As many as 1,326 Friday. sors can fail at extreme
have pushed up the overall growth for FY24,” Ms. several days. Polling is ing institutes and anganwa- people were admitted to (With inputs from weather conditions,” it
Sinha said. “Moreover, the divergence in GDP and scheduled to be held in di centres in the State will hospitals in different dis- State Bureaux, PTI) added.
GVA growth seen in Q3 has continued, with net The Hindu UPSC IAS Edition https://t.me/upscIASedition
taxes growing by 22% in Q4,” she added. “This has
propelled the GDP growth for Q4. The breakup of
GVA for Q4 is very much on expected lines with
muted agriculture growth amidst weather-related
disruptions. Manufacturing sector GVA has re-
corded healthy growth supported by lower input
cost, while robustness seen in the services sector
has continued,” she observed.
Growth rates in nominal GVA and nominal GDP
for Q4 of FY24 have been estimated at 8.0% and
9.9%, respectively, the NSO said.
Real GDP, or GDP at constant prices, is estimat-
ed to have attained a level of ₹173.82 lakh crore in
FY24, against the First Revised Estimates (FRE) of
GDP for FY23 of ₹160.71 lakh crore, it added. No-
minal GDP, or GDP at current prices, is estimated
at ₹295.36 lakh crore in FY24, against ₹269.50
lakh crore in FY23, up 9.6%
Real GDP in Q4 is estimated at ₹47.24 lakh
crore, against ₹43.84 lakh crore in Q4 of FY23, up
7.8%. Nominal GDP in Q4 is estimated at ₹78.28
lakh crore, against ₹71.23 lakh crore in Q4 of FY23,
showing a growth rate of 9.9%.
Real GVA in Q4 is estimated at ₹42.23 lakh
crore, against ₹39.74 lakh crore in the year-earlier
period, showing a growth rate of 6.3%. Nominal
GVA in Q4 is estimated at ₹70.97 lakh crore,
against ₹65.74 lakh crore in Q4 of FY23, up 8%.
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