Maharashtradeputy chief ministerDevendra Fadnavis the Shinde-led government will provide 75,000 government jobs to youth in the state in the next one year.
The prime minister had asked various government departments and ministries in June to recruit 10 lakh people on a “mission mode” in the next year and a half.
Of the 75,000 jobs, 18,000 vacancies will be in the Police department and an advertisement for the same will be published in the next five to seven days.
As many as 500 youths from the district will be trained in severalhealthcare servicesto tackle the expected third wave of Covid.
There is shortage of skilled healthcare workers at various levels like operating medical devices, ambulances, Covid care centres, collecting and testing swab samples.
The youths will be trained in six courses which includes Home care support to monitor home isolated patients, basic care support for primary Health Services, advanced care support for advanced medical services, emergency care support for emergency medical services, medical equipment support to operate equipment in Covid hospitals and collecting swab samples and testing through RT-PCR.
TheMaharashtragovernment announced a “corona freevillage” contest with an aim to encourage steps to curb the spread ofCovid-19in rural areas of the state.
Chief ministerUddhav Thackerayrecently lauded efforts made by some villages to stem the spread of the viral infection and announced the “My Village Corona Free” initiative.
The “corona free village” contest is part of the initiative announced by the chief minister, stateRural DevelopmentMinisterHasan Mushrifsaid in a statement.
Prizeswill be given to three village panchayats doing good work in Covid-19 management in each revenue division.
The first prize will be of Rs 50 lakh, second of Rs 25 lakh and third of Rs 15 lakh, the minister said.
The state has selected Pune to pilot the Unique Land Parcel Identification Number (ULPIN) project for facilitating IT-based management of records.
Christened “Aadhaarfor land”, the 14-digit Unique Land Parcel Identification Number aims at identifying every surveyed parcel of land and also preventing any fraud related to land.
Union finance ministerNirmala Sitharaman, in herBudgetspeech, mentioned about ULPIN and encouraged all states to roll out the process. Pilots on the project have been carried out in select districts of 10 states, includingMaharashtra.The other states are Haryana, Bihar, Odisha, Jharkhand, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, , Goa, Madhya Pradesh andKarnataka.
For Pune district, all land parcels were marked and numbered according to their latitude and longitude coordinates. The unique number will have ownership details of a plot, besides its size and longitudinal and latitudinal details up to the taluka level and beyond.
The announced a toll-free helpline 181 for Women across the state. The helpline will be operational in two weeks. It will be available on all days of the week, 24 hours of the day.
This initiative is part of the Centres Mission Shakti. Women can dial the helpline to seek help on issues like dowry and child marriage and for information about programmes for women in the state.
The Maharashtra Legislative Council passed the “Maharashtra Public University Act, 2016 (Third Amendment) Bill” on 28 December.
Highlights:
The act is being opposed because it calls for LGBTQIA community members to be included on university boards.
A provision for a “Board of Equal Opportunity” is included in the amended act.
A board of equal opportunity shall be established in each university, according to the act. The board will be in charge of planning, monitoring, guiding, and coordinating a variety of development and welfare programs, regulations, policies.
It also is in charge of schemes aimed at ensuring the welfare, development, and social protection of students, non-TEACHING employees, and teachers from underrepresented groups, minorities, Women, and LGBTQIA people.
These rights will be extended to “persons with disabilities for the purpose of promoting and establishing values of , Equality, dignity, and social Justice.”
Cybercrimes in the city surged 112% in five years -from 1,361 cases in 2017 to 2,883 in 2021-according to a report released by non-profit Praja Foundation recently.
Cheating cases, whether through loan apps, matrimonial frauds or job scams, topped the list of cybercrimes last year with 1,154 FIRs being lodged. Online frauds involving debit/credit cards were next on the list-1,075 FIRs filed.
According to the data, detection rate of cybercrimes was low at 16% in 2021. Experts pointed out that the number of FIRs being registered were very less compared to actual complaints.
he state forest department has taken over additional 961 hectares ofmangrovesto be protected as reserved forest under Section 4 of the Indian Forest Act, 1927.
State Environment MinisterAaditya Thackerayhad tweeted that earlier 1,433 ha MANGROVES were declared as reserved forest under Section 20 of the Act. With this, the total mangrove area under protection in Ratnagiri is now more than 2,394 ha.
Cidco itself has said that it has over 1,000 hectares to be transferred, and a recent declaration by JNPT said it has more than 900 hectares, Kumar tweeted in respnose to Thackerays tweet. He pointed out that vast sea forests under Navi Mumbai SEZ are yet to be accounted for.
TheMaharashtragovernment has relaxed norms for third gender persons who are applying for a ration card and waived the requirement of submitting an identity proof and residence proof.
Under the new rules, the application of third gender people for ration cards will be considered if one of the following criteria are met: if they have their names registered in the state or city Aids control Society, if their names are on a voter ID card, even if it does not identify them as transgender persons. Their application will be considered if they are certified as transgender by the collector’s office, social welfare department or charity commissioner’s office. If they do not have these documents, they can also submit a self-declaration form identifying themselves as belonging to the third gender, the government resolution says.
The Health monitoring is limited to any child feeling uneasy in the school. In such a case, the help of local Asha workers will also be taken. The standard operating procedure (SOP) for the schools will be announced once the decision on the same is taken, the officer said.
In the case of starting the schools in the urban areas, the health authorities said the health staff of the primary health centres can be attached to some of the schools but not all.