MADHYA PRADESH

Chouhan said that under the programme Jal Shakti Abhiyan: Catch the Rain, the rainwater harvesting campaign will be conducted in rural and urban areas across the country and its slogan will be collect rainwater wherever it falls, whenever it falls.

The Chief Minister said that encroachments on and around water structures should be removed and after that the work of repairing and renovating them should be undertaken. Small rivers and water sources should be revived with the participation of the community.

Chouhan said that an action plan for water conservation should be implemented on the basis of the nature of water sources and land available in the district. G.I.S. mapping of all water structures of the state should be done and their lists should be prepared district-wise.

Rise incyber-crime casesreported inBhopalcontinue unabated in the first two months of the year 2022. Sample this: In the past two months alone, more than 600 such cases have been reported to the cyber-crime branch of city Police and the number is going up with every passing day.

In 2021, a total of 3,600 cyber-crime complaints were received at the cyber-crime branch. Cyber-crimes against Women including sextortion, sharing morphed pictures on Social Media, vulgar comments and opening fake social media accounts increased by a whopping seven percent during the first two months this year alone.

In 2021, crime against women comprised 25% of the total cyber-crime complaints that police registered. The rise this year can be guaged from the fact that in the very first two months this year, the number has increased to 32%. Worse, 65% complaints are related to online financial fraud cases apart from three percent miscellaneous cases complaints .

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has included youth power in Saptarishi in the budget and described the Amritkal generation as an important role in the progress of the country, while Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has taken innovative initiatives for the development of youth by turning PMs vision into action. In the new scheme launched by Chouhan, where educated youth from across the state will be taught focus skills on the concept of finishing school, they will also be given an opportunity to understand the actual projects going on at the ground level.

They will also get a chance to learn with the main start-ups and get work experience with Howard, UNICEF, UNDP, ISB, American Indian Foundation.

Chief Minister Shri Chouhan has adopted the method of direct conversation with the youth while sidelining the traditional pattern of stage, speech, garlands and welcome during the programmes in which the youth are present. He is going to repeat this tradition again in the youth intern programme to be held in the capital Bhopal.

The Cabinet decided to implement the new National Mission scheme of the Government of India in the Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying in the state.

The objective of the scheme is mainly cattle breed development, EMPLOYMENT generation, increasing the productivity of animals, bringing research to the field level and Entrepreneurship development. Including the above activities in the National Livestock Mission, three sub-missions have been formed.

The first is the Sub-Mission on Breed Development of Livestock and Poultry, the second is the Chari-Chara (Fodder) Development Sub-Mission and the third is the Innovation and Extension Sub-Mission. With the implementation of National Livestock Mission, the breed of animals in the state will improve. The productivity of animals will increase. New technology will be developed and reach at the the grassroots level. This will increase the income of livestock farmers.

Public sector Bank of Baroda (BOB) has given loans worth Rs 850 crore to small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh and has set a target of Rs 2,000 crore for loans to this sector by the end of the current financial year.

Rs 850 crore given to MSMEs. Of the loans given, 47 per cent have been given to Madhya Pradesh and 53 per cent to Chhattisgarh.

Chhattisgarh has more big groups in many sectors like steel industries.

Bank of Baroda has launched 12 tailor-made products to meet the diverse requirements of its customers and our dedicated team is engaged in product development based on customer feedback. We have also prepared 4 products for the defense sector.

Chouhan was addressing the meeting of the Board of Directors of Narmada Basin Projects Company Limited. In the meeting, discussions were held regarding the projects, management and financial targets being run in the Narmada Basin Project.

Surya Shakti Abhiyan has been launched in Madhya Pradesh for supply of electricity from to make villages self-reliant. Madhya Pradesh is the first state to launch such a unique campaign in the country.

This is an important step towards fulfilling the dream of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to make the country self-reliant in the field of solar energy. Solar electricity will be used in village street lights, tap-water supply, offices and other works while promoting solar energy in village panchayats.

Under the Jal-Jeevan Mission, the target is to provide one crore household water connections in rural areas, which were only 15 lakh two years ago.

With this, the expenditure on electricity of village Panchayats, which was about 450 crores, is likely to increase to 2 thousand crores. With the help of solar energy, the expenditure of about Rs. 2000 crore on electricity bills in future in the village panchayats of the state can be reduced. This amount can be used for other development works of the village. Along with this, the benefit of Carbon Credit will also be available to the panchayats.

The effort was made by successful by Madhya Pradesh State Legal Services Authority and District Legal Services Authority in association with the Police Women‘s Crime Branch, Legal Volunteers and URJA Mahila Help Desk.

Initially, it was started in three districts of the state, Bhopal, Gwalior and Jabalpur as a pilot project for one month.

A detailed report of the action taken by the organization “SAMA” was presented during this period. According to which out of the complaints received to Urja Mahila Help Desk and Dial-100 in three districts of Gwalior, Bhopal and Jabalpur, a total of 4215 complaints were sent for counseling.

Out of which 37.04 percent cases were resolved on the basis of mutual understanding. In which 215 out of 1062 cases are in Bhopal, 217 out of 1258 cases in Gwalior and 478 cases out of 1895 in Jabalpur.

The cases coming for counseling in the institution are being heard quickly and their resolution is being done through virtual medium. The counseling being done by the Legal Volunteers through the organization “SAMA” has yielded very positive results.

Now a proposal is being prepared to implement this system in the entire state and is being sent to the for approval. After the approval of the government, online e-mediation platforms will be started in all the districts of the state.