Students who receive admissions in foreign universities under theMaharashtragovernment Scholarship will be able to get funding for their airfare as soon as they get the confirmation. The students can apply for funding through their college.
A government notification (GR) issued by the higher and technical Education department on Wednesday said that the students whose family income is less than six lakh per annum are going to be eligible for theRajharshree Shahuscholarship for foreign education.
The last week lifted the stay on land allotment decisions taken by theMaharashtra Industrial Development Corporation(MIDC) on June 1.
The stay was imposed on August 8 after the chief ministers office sought a review of all land allotment proposals by the previous Maha Vikas Aghadi government. The order affected as many as 191 proposals, covering 697 acres in Mumbai, Pune and Nagpur, which were expected to generate Rs12,000 crore in revenue.
TheMaharashtragovernment has decided to stop Home quarantining of Covid-19 patients in 18 districts where the positivity rate is high and all active patients in these areas would be admitted toCovid Care Centers, Health minister Rajesh Tope said.
Ordinarily, asymptomatic patients or those who have mild symptoms of coronavirus infection are advised home isolation.
The state has 3,27,000 active Covid-19 cases and the recovery rate has improved to 93 per cent. The case positivity rate — proportion of positive cases in tested samples — is around 12 per cent while the case fatality rate is 1.5 per cent, But the positivity rate in 18 districts is higher than the state Average.
The Maharashtra government has announced Rs 15,000 per hectare bonus for them, thus fulfilling their long pending demand.
With a view to achieve the target of $ 1 trillion economy of Maharashtra, Shinde declared constituting an economic advisory committee to be chaired by Tata Sons chairman N Chandrashekharan. Experts from diverse fields like , Education, Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture and others will be roped in too.
Shinde also announced that the government will come up with a new textile policy next year and it will continue till 2028. Our focus will be to implement modern technology in the textile sector, he said.
Mahindra group on Monday said it has signed of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with theMaharashtragovernment for setting up multiple vehicle-scrapping units in the state. MahindraMSTCRecycling Pvt Ltd, which operates recycling facilities under the Cero brand, already has a recycling facility at Pune and is looking to set up four additional facilities in Mumbai, Nagpur, Aurangabad and Nashik.
The scrappage centres will be equipped with recycling end-of-life 2/3-wheelers, passenger and commercial vehicles in accordance with all legal and environmental norms, with a planned capacity of 40,000 vehicles annually, the group said in a statement.
The Centre has approved a Rs 500 crore project to makeRanjangaonin Pune an electronics manufacturing cluster (EMC) in a move that is being seen as an apparent bid to make up forMaharashtralosing back-to-back big-ticket projects to Gujarat.
Announcing the project, junior electronics and IT ministerRajeev Chandrasekharon Monday said the cluster will attract major investments from manufacturers, generate thousands of jobs and put the state in the league of locations that have emerged as vibrant electronics production hubs in the country.
The EMC is targeted to attract an of over Rs 2,000-3,000crore, with the potential to create 5,000-6,000 jobs in the coming years. India is making an all-out effort to position itself as an electronics and tech manufacturing powerhouse and a global partner in supply chains.
The wants to redevelop the slums on Juhu airport. We want to propose to the union aviation minister that in return for giving us 50% of the airport land which is not required for aeronautical operations, we will give the Airports Authority of India (AAI) the other 50% of the land free of slums.
The proposal comes even as the state government in 2018 cancelled the reservation for an affordable housing scheme and restored the reservation for airport in the citys Development Plan 2034.
The government will also soon announce an amnesty scheme to restart 256 stalled schemes.
The state had an abysmally low conviction rate of 7.8% in the pandemic year of 2020, according to data released by National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). It appears that senior government officers are not interested in acting against their corrupt subordinates caught for graft: Only 11 accused were removed from service and eight got minor punishments from department heads in 2020.
The state recorded 664 Corruption cases last year, which was a 26% decline from 891 in 2019. Officers attribute this to government offices functioning partially during lockdown and fewer people stepping out of Home to approach them.
Bank of Maharashtra and the National Bank for Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture & Rural Development () has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)
Highlights:
The MoU is to boost ongoing developmental initiatives linked to priority sector lending in Maharashtra. It is on a collaborative approach to enhance rural prosperity through the convergence of institutional lending & ongoing development initiative. The MoU envisages joint initiatives for farmers, farmer producer organisations, joint liability groups, self-help groups, rural artisans, weavers, Agri-preneurs, Agri start-ups, Micro, Small and Medium enterprises in the State.
Akola-based Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth (PDKV) has identified 11 model villages in each of the 11 districts of Vidarbha where (IFS) as well as Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture and allied Services would be implemented to increase the farmers income.
As part of the plan, a village-level agricultural technology information centre was inaugurated by PDKV vice-chancellor Sharad Gadakh last week at Kidangipar underGondiaKrishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK). This is one of the first villages where the model plan will run.
As per the plan, collaboration of all departments will be achieved to increase farmer trainings, availing scheme, and setting up processing units. This is a three-year plan. Later, it will be taken up at taluka level and then block level. The project aims to curb farmer suicide due to crop failure. We are encouraging them to opt for diverse sources of income, he said.