MADHYA PRADESH

In the dignified presence of President Droupadi Murmu, Madhya Pradesh witnessed a historic moment on November 15, 2022, when under the Leadership of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, the was implemented to give rights of water, forest and land to the tribal community in Madhya Pradesh. Madhya Pradesh is the pioneer in the country to implement the PESA Act.

The PESA Act has been implemented in 89 tribal-dominated development blocks of 20 districts of the state. The PESA Act is becoming a means of economic and social upliftment of the tribal brothers and sisters and making them empowered and powerful. This act is in the interest of all the citizens of the Society. It is not against any citizen of non-tribal community. The PESA Act will strengthen such tribal brothers and sisters who were left behind in the race for development.

According to the rules of the PESA Act, now the Patwari and the beat guard of the forest department will have to bring the map of village land, Khasra, B-1 copy to the village once in a year and show it to the Gram Sabha, so that no one is able to do any irregularity in the records of the land. If any discrepancy is found, the Gram Sabha will have the right to recommend correction of the record. The Patwari will also have to read out the details related to the land in the meeting of the Gram Sabha.

There is a provision in the PESA Act that the permission of the Gram Sabha will be necessary for the survey and land acquisition to be done in any project of the government’s plan. Now no one will be able to grab the land of any tribal citizen by deceit and force. If someone does so, the Gram Sabha will have the right to get it back. The PESA Act will eliminate the possibility of converting the religion by allurement and then grabbing the land of the tribal society. The Gram Sabha will decide whether or not to give the mineral quarry, which includes sand, ballast stone quarry, on contract or not. The society will have the first right on the mine, then the sister-daughter of the village and then the man.

The State Government has made ponds in every village. The complete management of these ponds will be done by the Gram Sabha. The Gram Sabha will decide whether to rear fish or cultivate water chestnuts in the pond. The income from the pond will be given to the Gram Sabha. The management of the pond which irrigates 100 acres of agricultural area will now be done by the Gram Sabha, not by the Irrigation Department.

Madhya Pradesh government issued notification to implement the Police Commissionerate system in Bhopal and Indore.

With the announcement made by Home Minister of MP, Narottam Mishra, both the cities will now get police commissioners of ADG rank.

Police commissioners in both the districts will be assisted by two IG rank officers and nine SP rank officers.

Under this system, a woman officer of SP rank will also be posted to deal with crime cases against Women and for womens security.

This system will be implemented after 11 years, since its first announcement.

However, state went ahead in compliance with the directive of Prime Ministers office.

Barely a few hundred metres from the sanctum sanctorum atKhajurahoin Chhatarpur district, the landscape has changed magically in a matter of 12 months. It wears a festive aura with captivating murals and intricate artefacts spread all around the vast expanse.

Madhya Pradeshs first tribal village at Khajuraho, which is now nearing completion and will be inaugurated by Prime MinisterNarendra Modiduring upcoming Pravasi Bhartiya Sammelan and Global Investors Summit being organised in MP in January 2023.

These huts are ready with all the requisite household articles used and decorated in authentic manner by the skilled artistes of these particular tribes.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to address the Tribal Pride Day Mahasammelan in Madhya Pradesh on November 15, 2021.

PM will address the Mahasammelan at Jamboori Maidan Bhopal.

Mahasammelan is being organised to commemorate the birth anniversary of Lord Birsa Munda.

On this occasion, several programmes will be organised in every tribal-dominated gram panchayat of the state.

Programmes will mark the presence of Tribal Women self-help groups of Madhya Pradesh, beneficiaries of schemes like Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana, Kisan Samman Yojana, and others.

On the occasion, PM will dedicate Indias first PPP-mode built Habibganj RAILWAY station to the Nation.

He will also launch Sickle Cell Eradication Mission and Ration Aapke Dwar Yojana in Madhya Pradesh while addressing from the Mahasammelan.

Birsa Munda was an Indian tribal freedom fighter, folk hero and a religious leader. He belonged to the Munda tribe. He led the tribal religious millenarian movement, arising from Bengal Presidency (now Jharkhand) during the British Raj, in the late 19th century. This movement made him a significant figure in the HISTORY of Indian independence movement. This revolt was mainly concentrated in the Munda belt of Khunti, Sarwada, Tamar and Bandgaon. His portrait has found place in Museum, making him the only tribal leader to get this much honour.

Birsa Munda was born on November 15, 1875, at Ulihatu village in Lohardaga district of Bengal Presidency. It is now in Khunti district of Jharkhand. He was born on a Thursday. Thus, he had been named after that day in accordance with Munda custom.

The minister for gas relief and rehabilitation,Vishvas Sarang, gave away symbolic cheques to widowed Women in the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster at a simple function to mark the resumption of monthly pension of Rs1,000 to 4,558 gas widows.
The pension has been resumed from April 2021, and an amount of Rs5,000 for the last five months was transferred into their accounts.
Minister Sarang assured that the pension scheme that was started in April 2011, which has been discontinued twice, will not be discontinued anymore.

The scheme was first discontinued in April 2016, as the argued that it was only for five years in which theCentrewas sharing 75% of the financial burden and the state 25%.

The scheme was, however, resumed in January 2018, for two more years but in December 2019, the scheme was again discontinued by the then Kamal Nath-ledCongressgovernment.
On the gas disaster anniversary last year, chief ministerShivraj Singh Chouhanhad announced that the scheme would be resumed again and in July, an allocation of Rs5.40 crore was made through a cabinet decision to provide Rs1,000 to 4,500 gas widows from April 2021.

The minister for gas relief and rehabilitation,Vishvas Sarang, gave away symbolic cheques to widowed Women in the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster at a simple function to mark the resumption of monthly pension of Rs1,000 to 4,558 gas widows.

The pension has been resumed from April 2021, and an amount of Rs5,000 for the last five months was transferred into their accounts.

Minister Sarang assured that the pension scheme that was started in April 2011, which has been discontinued twice, will not be discontinued anymore.

The scheme was first discontinued in April 2016, as the argued that it was only for five years in which theCentrewas sharing 75% of the financial burden and the state 25%.

The scheme was, however, resumed in January 2018, for two more years but in December 2019, the scheme was again discontinued by the then Kamal Nath-ledCongressgovernment.
On the gas disaster anniversary last year, chief ministerShivraj Singh Chouhanhad announced that the scheme would be resumed again and in July, an allocation of Rs5.40 crore was made through a cabinet decision to provide Rs1,000 to 4,500 gas widows from April 2021.

The is playing the role of guardian for the children of such affected families.

Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan launched Mukhyamantri Covid-19 Bal Seva Yojana on May 21, 2021 to help such children. So far, financial and Food Security has been provided to 1001 child beneficiaries under the scheme.

In 34 districts of the State, cent percent cases have been resolved. The State Government will also take up the responsibility of the Education of these child beneficiaries.

So far 1001 children have benefitted under the Mukhyamantri Covid-19 Bal Seva Yojana.

Under the Mukhyamantri Covid-19 Bal Seva Yojana, an assistance amount of Rs 5,000 per month is provided to each child beneficiary. If the age of the beneficiary is less than 18 years, then it will be deposited in the joint account of the identified guardian and the child and after attaining the age of 18 years, it will be deposited in the personal account of the beneficiary.

Apart from this, free monthly ration is provided to each child beneficiary and their guardian under the National Food Security Act. Under the education assistance, free education will be provided to the child beneficiaries in government schools, colleges, universities for school education, higher education, technical education, medical education and legal education.

Now continuous industrial development will go on here. Madhya Pradesh government is committed to provide EMPLOYMENT to the local people. He appealed to the public to cooperate with the industrialists to maintain a good industrial Environment.

Chouhan said that the textile unit which is being set up in Ujjain today with an of Rs 60 crore is coming from Tiruppur in Tamil Nadu, which is the hub of textiles. He had started this effort 4 years ago, when he went to Tiruppur, which has been successful today. This plant will start its work by 2022. Four thousand Women will get direct employment from industries coming to Ujjain.

Chouhan on Sunday performed bhumi pujan of the ultramodern textile unit to be set up by BEST Corporation of Tamil Nadu on the land of soybean plant in Ujjain.

Social organisations, administrative officers and public representatives are giving a new dimension to the scheme. Eligible sisters should get the maximum benefit of the scheme, so that the work of transfer of funds for the scheme is done without any hindrance from the scheduled date of June 10 and the sisters start receiving funds, for this many innovations were also done in the districts. In the review meeting held on Wednesday late night, the public representatives and collectors apprised about the innovations made for the implementation of the scheme.

The cost of takingnew electricity connection, electrification in colonies and shifting of connection among other Services are all set to go up by around 70 per cent following a proposal byMadhya Pradesh Electricity Regulatory Commission, upsettingindustriesurging to rollback the proposed hike.

The proposed hike in the middle of thepandemichas alarmed industries with many associations writing to the commission for withdrawing the proposed hike in service charges.

As per the proposal by the Madhya Pradesh Electricity Regulatory Commission, the cost of taking new electricity connection for HT consumers is hiked to Rs 1,260 per kilo volt ampere from earlier Rs 750 per kilo volt ampere.