MADHYA PRADESH

The year 2022 was a year full of remarkable achievements for Madhya Pradesh in terms of financial management, revenue collection, enhancing taxpayers facilities and return filing. Madhya Pradesh is included in the first 5 states of the country.

There was an increase of 19 percent in the of the state. The revenue received in the financial year 2021-22 was Rs 38 thousand 963 crore as compared to Rs 32 thousand 764 crore received in the financial year 2020-21. In the current financial year 2022-23, a revenue of Rs 28 thousand 582 crore has been generated till the month of November, which is 19 percent more than the revenue of Rs 24 thousand 100 crore received till the month of November in the last financial year 2021-22.

The year 2022 proved to be a year of facilities for taxpayers. The State Government provided ample facilities to the tax payers. Complex procedures were simplified for them. Deemed registration has been provided in one working day to the online applications received for registration under Madhya Pradesh Vat Act-2002. By doing away with the provision of submission of VAT audit report for taxpayers doing business of more than 10 crores worth of taxable goods, only the audit report to be submitted in the Income tax Act has been recognised. The provision of criminal prosecution procedure has been deleted.

In the Goods and Services Tax Act 2017, a standard procedure was issued for the convenience of departmental officers and businessmen in order to bring uniformity in the process of obtaining registration, to simplify the process and not to obtain unnecessary documents. Standard procedure has also been made for uniformity in the scrutiny process of the returns submitted by the dealers.

It is a matter of great pride for our Indore that “Daanpatra” of Indore has been awarded the Certificate of Commitment for Social Work by “World Book of Records” (Switzerland). The “Daanpatra” team was honored with this award by the National Secretary of “World Book of Records” Sanjay Panjwani ji, other members of “World Book of Records” were also present on the occasion.

Daanpatra” is an online free platform, with the help of which unused items like clothes, toys, books, shoes, utensils, electronic items, furniture and other items are collected and delivered to needy families by making them usable. This platform was started on March 10, 2018, due to which help has been provided to approximately 11 lakh needy families by doing service work and more than 1 lakh Indore residents have joined this platform, more than 7,000 volunteers have joined this platform. those who cooperate by giving their time, people from Indore as well as abroad are donating goods because of the transparency of the “Daanpatra”.

Through “Daanpatra” any person can donate goods sitting at Home on just a phone call or by making a request in the “Daanpatra” app .On receiving the request, the members of the “Daanpatra” team go home and collect the goods and then it is recycled and sent to the needy families. Along with this, his photo, video is uploaded by visiting the Social Media pages of “Daanpatra” so that whoever has donated the goods can see to which needy family his goods has reached.

Under the ongoing Mukhyamantri Jan Sewa Abhiyan(MJSA), the employees of the Barwani district are providing benefits of the government schemes even on top of the hills to those beneficiaries, who live in remote villages where the Internet is inaccessible.

Barwani has around 90 per cent tribal Population in rural areas. Around 50 per cent of villages have no internet access. In this situation, providing online-based Services to the beneficiaries in remote villages is a big challenge for the administration.

Ladhpura Khas is a village in Niwari District of Madhya Pradesh. It has been nominated by the Union Ministry of Tourism as the “Best Tourist Village” category of the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) Awards. Ladpura Khas village is located near tourist town Orchha.

Highlights:

The Rural Tourism Project has been commenced in villages throughout Madhya Pradesh, including in Ladpura Khas.

Objective: Giving shape to the idea of village tourism by adding new dimensions.

In the subsequent 5 years, a hundred villages will be developed from the point of view of rural tourism.

Among them, suitable sites will be selected and developed around tourist destinations, including Orchha, Khajuraho, Mandu, Pachmarhi, Tamia, Sanchi, Panna , Sanjay Dubri National Park, Bandhavgarh National Park, Pench and Kanha National Park.

Patel said that the central and state governments have provided these basic necessities while caring for roti (bread), kapda (cloth) and makan (house). He said that along with the food festival, it is also a festival of the villagers. Appreciating the government for providing free food grains to the poor, he said that it should be ensured that no eligible person is deprived of the benefit and the ineligible should not get the benefit.

The Governor said that it is his expectation that the should implement all the schemes with utmost seriousness, so that the appreciation of the Central Government should also be received. He said that so far he has visited many villages and he is satisfied that better work has been done in the schemes of Education, Health, EMPLOYMENT and poor welfare in Madhya Pradesh.

The surface below in the city oflakes, is drying. The dire warning is based on a decade-long monitoring which found depletion in water levels inBhopalby a high 66.7%. Indore and Jabalpur reported a more higher depletion rate inground waterlevels at 85% and 82.4%. The country’s Average for million plus cities is 40.2%, according toCentral Ground Water Board(CGWB).

Over 55 million cities were analysed. In Bhopal, the water levels in 15 wells were analysed from November 2012 to November 2022. As many as 10 of the wells reported a depletion in water levels. Eight of them were 0-2 m, one each was 2.-4 m and above 4 m. Four wells where the level rose were 0-2 m and one 2-4 m, according to the CGWB.

As many as 24 of the cities analysed showed a greater than 50% depletion in water levels. Around 20 locations were analysed in Indore in which an alarming 17 showed a decline. In Jabalpur too 14 of 17 analysed showed a decline. Only on location was analysed in Gwalior which did not show a decline.

CGWB monitors the ground water levels periodically in the cities on a regional scale through a Network of monitoring wells.

Agricultural credit institutions and in the State have always been ready to serve farmers. Consequently, the state got the highest position in the field of agricultural production.

There are more than four thousand five hundred primary agricultural credit cooperative institutions in the state.

They are mainly engaged in important tasks like short term agricultural loan distribution, supply of agricultural inputs, procurement of agricultural products and Public Distribution System.

Madhya Pradesh has made new achievements in the field of Women Empowerment through self-help groups and cooperatives. Lakhs of women from poor and deprived sections of rural areas are becoming self-dependent by organizing themselves in the form of self-help groups.

More than 5000 industries from acrossMadhya Pradeshhave registered and created vacancies for youths in the past over five days under the Mukhya Mantri Seekho Kamao scheme though technical glitches delayed registration for industries by two days from the scheduled June 7.

As on June 13, 5,551 industries have registered on the portal to provide on-job training to youths in more than 700 sectors. The ministry of Micro, Small and Medium enterprises (MSME) department has set a target to register close to 8,000 small and medium scale units of the state under the scheme.

The is eyeing to skill and train around 1 lakh youths of the state under the scheme and make them Industry ready.

In Indore, around 200-300 industries are registering on the portal designed by the state government.