RAJASTHAN

A decade old drinking water project worth 1,427 crore, which was sanctioned for the Gudamalani assembly constituency in 2012-13 budget has now got a green signal. The project was sanctioned in the previous Gehlot governments regime

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The tender process for the project will be completed by December 2021, while the project will be completed by the end of December 2024. On completion of the project; almost all villages of the Gudamalani constituency will have a smooth supply of drinking water

Besides the drinking water project, the government has also sanctioned three grid sub stations (GSS) of 33 kv each for Gudamalani constituency.

The Education department has started a survey in nine districts ofRajasthanto identify the mother tongue for students between Class 1 and 5, said officials on Friday. The survey is being conducted in Jaipur, Pali and Sirohi districts as well as six other districts of theUdaipurdivision.

According to the guidelines of National Education Policy (NEP), the books will be written in students mother tongue and that will be the mode of education followed in classrooms.

For implementation of NEP in Rajasthan, a steering committee has already been formed and one meeting has been held and district monitoring committees have also been made and with meetings being conducted every three months under the chairpersonship of the district collector.

RajasthanExport Promotion Council (REPC) recently signed several MoUs with various chambers of commerce both in India and abroad to promote its international expo slated to be held from March 20-22.

REPC chairman Rajiv Arora said MoUs have been signed with National US India Chamber of Commerce, Ural Chamber of Commerce, Russia, and Global Business Federation Middle East, UAE to strengthen ties between India and the international markets. MoUs were also signed with Aaroh (Amazon Web Services) and FORTI. “

RajasthanChief Minister Ashok Gehlot presented theBudgetfor the year 2022-23, with the main focus on sectors likeHealth,Education, , social security and tourism.

Presenting the Budget in the Rajasthan Assembly, Gehlot during the almost three-hour-long speech announced the launch of the Indira Gandhi UrbanEMPLOYMENTGuarantee Scheme with an aim to provide 100 days of employment in urban areas.

The Indira Gandhi Urban Employment Guarantee Scheme is in the lines of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), for which a Rs 800 crore budget has been proposed.

Another major announcement in the budget is to implement the old pension scheme from next year for all employees appointed on or after January 1, 2004.

Gehlot also proposed to increase the health cover under the State Government‘s much ambitious Chiranjeevi Health Insurance Scheme from Rs 5 lakh to Rs 10 lakh per year per family. He also announced that IPD and OPD Services will be free-of-cost in state-run hospitals.

For electricity consumers, 50 units free electricity for those using 100 units, Rs 3/per unit grant for all domestic consumers up to 150 units and Rs 2/unit grant for consumers of 150 to 300 units and above as per the slab. The state government will spend Rs 4,500 crore.

It is my privilege that I am presenting the first separate Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture budget. It will set a new horizon in the agriculture sector in the state,” Gehlot said.

In the first agriculture budget, Gehlot announced an allocation of Rs 5,000 crore for CM Krishak Saathi Yojna, which was Rs 2,000 crore in the last Budget.

The Budget for the year 2022-23, proposed Rs 2,700 crore for the Rajasthan Irrigation“>Micro Irrigation Mission, under which 5 lakh farmers will be benefitted.

He also announced to make 125 days of employment in MGNREGA instead of 100 days. The state government will bear the expenditure of Rs 700 crore.

Gehlot also announced Rs 500 crore for SC-ST Development Fund and allocated Rs 100 crore for EWS families.

The Chief Minister also proposed to conduct the Rajasthan Eligibility Examination for Teachers (REET) exam in July, 2022. The state government had recently cancelled the examination due to controversies related to the paper leak case.

He said that an anti-cheating cell will be set up in the Special Operations Group (SOG) of Rajasthan Police.

He said that no application fee will be charged from the old candidates for this examination to be held afresh and all the facilities given to the candidates at the time of REET examination will also be made available again.

Along with this, the number of posts in the upcoming REET examination has been increased from 32,000 to 62,000 to give more employment opportunities to the youth.

During the present government’s tenure so far, more than 1 lakh youth have been appointed and recruitment is under process for about 1.25 lakh posts. Gehlot said that “in the five years of the previous government, about 2 lakh recruitments were done, whereas we have reached this number in just three years”.

To ensure the quality of education in the English medium, Gehlot announced the creation of a separate cadre of English medium teachers under all subjects. About 10,000 English medium teachers will be recruited in these schools in the first phase.

In view of the popularity of Mahatma Gandhi English Medium Schools and the demand of parents and students for admission in them, 1,000 more Mahatma Gandhi English Medium Schools will be started in urban and rural areas in the coming year.

Under the CM Digital Service Scheme announced by the chief minister, 1.33 crore Women will get Internet enabled smartphones for 3 years.

He announced to give Industry status to tourism and hospitality, which were affected largely due to COVID-19 pandemic.

Even as the funds released by the Centre for the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DDU-GKY) increased to 97.14 crore in 2020-21 from 32.82 crore in 2018-19, the number of people trained and placed inRajasthanunder the scheme has dropped over the past three years.

From 10,217 trained and 3,380 placed in 2018-19, the figures dropped to 981 and 1,759 in 2020-21, stated a Lok Sabha reply. While 14,530 were trained in 2019-20, 4,692 were placed in the same year under the scheme, the reply stated.

Meanwhile, the number of beneficiaries under the National Social Assistance Programme in state up from 10.28 lakh in 2018-19 to 10.69 lakh in 2020-21. DDU-GKY is focused on rural youth between 15 and 35 years of age. As a part of the Skill India campaign, it plays an instrumental role in supporting the social and economic programs of the government like the , Digital India, Smart Cities, Start-Up India and Stand-Up India campaigns.

Rajasthan Exports Promotion Councilheld a meeting with officials of Dysmech Competency Services Pvt. Ltd (DCS) to explore setting up centre of excellence (CoE) in sectors like handicrafts, jewellery, textile and agri business.

REPC chairmanRajiv Arorasaid it is necessary to adopt global benchmarks in terms of quality, finish and design.

Arora suggested places like Jaipur, Jodhpur,Barmerand Bansur for these COEs. Arora, however, said he has asked the company to rework the cost structure of the centres and make another presentation.

As per preliminary estimates, the consultancy firm proposed Rs 150 crore per centre as it will have all the machinery which can also be used by the manufacturers. The company wanted participation from the .

Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot allotted portfolios, a day after expanding the council of ministers on Sunday when as many as 15 Congress MLAs took the oath of office. While 11 assumed the post of cabinet ministers, four were sworn in as ministers of state.

Cabinet minister with portfolios:

1) Ashok Gehlot – Finance, , Home and Justice, IT & Communication

2) Dr BD Kalla – Education, Arts, Literature, Culture & ASI

3) Shanti Dhariwal – Local self-development, Urban development and housing, legal consultancy office, parliamentary affairs

4) Parsadilal Meena- Medical and Health, medical health and Services (ESI), excise

5) Lal Chand Kataria – Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture, animal husbandry, Fisheries

6) Pramod Bhaya – Mines and petroleum, gaupalan

7) Uday Lal Anjana – Co-operative

8) Pratap Singh Khachariawas – Food and civil supplies, consumer affairs

9) Saleh Mohammad – Minority affairs, waqf

10) Hemaram Chaudhary – Forest, Environment and Climate-change”>Climate Change

11) Mahendrajeet Singh Malviya – Winter Resources, IGNP, water resource planning department

12) Mahesh Joshi – PHED, groundwater

13) Ramlal Jat – Revenue

14) Ramesh Meena – Panchayati Raj and rural development

15) Vidhvendra Singh – Tourism, civil aviation

16) Mamta Bhupesh Bairwa – Women and child welfare, child Empowerment, planning

17) Bhajan Lal Jatav – PWD

18) Tika Ram Jully – Social justice and empowerment and jail

19) Govind Ram Meghwal – Disaster Management and relief, statistics, policy planning

20) Shakuntala Rawat – Industry, state enterprises

Ministers of state with portfolios:

1) Arjun Singh Bamania – Tribal area development, groundwater

2) Ashok Chandna- Sports and youth affairs, policy planning

3) Bhanwar Singh Bhatti – Power (IC), Water Resources, IGNP

4) Rajendra Singh Yadav – Higher education, Planning (manpower), home and justice

5) Dr Subhash Garg – Technical education, Ayurveda and Indian medicines, minority affairs

6) Sukhram Bishnoi- Labour, revenue

7) Brijendra Ola – Transport and road safety

8) Muralilal Meena – Agriculture Marketing, tourism, civil aviation

9) Rajendra Singh Gudha – Home guard and civil DEFENCE

10) Zahinda Khan – Science and Technology, education

The ministry of social and Empowerment, government of India, has directed all the states and union territories, including Rajasthan, to ensure giving 4% reservation for persons with disabilities (PwDs) in Panchayati Raj and local body Elections.

Earlier, the State Government had allowed nominating PwDs to the Urban Local Bodies as members across the state. The state government had amended the Rajasthan Municipal Act in March this year to introduce this provision of nominating PwDs to the ULBs as members, making it the first in the country.

After amendments in the Rajasthan Municipal Act, now it has become mandatory to keep one post vacant for PwDs in an urban local body.