RAJASTHAN

Chief ministerAshok Gehlotwill launch the I-Start Virtual Incubation Programme on August 20 on the theme IT for https://exam.pscnotes.com/good-Governance“>Good Governance, an official statement said on Tuesday. On this occasion, funds will be distributed to 21 selected start-ups at different places in the state, it said.
According to the statement, a virtual event of the Rajasthan Innovation Vision (Rajiv-2021) programme will be organised on Friday, the birth anniversary of former prime ministerRajiv Gandhi.

During the programme,Sam Pitroda, the innovation adviser to former prime ministerManmohan Singh, will give a keynote address.

The introduced theRajasthan Minimum Guaranteed Income Bill2023 to provide entitlement-based social security to support the individuals or households of the state with an additional minimum guaranteedincomein the form of a guaranteed wage or social security pension.

By this law, the government has legalised 25 additional days, under NREGA in rural areas, and 125 days in urban areas. It has also given the support of legal framework to the various pensions and the Unemployment allowance given as part of the social security schemes.

According to the Act, the state government shall provide to eligible persons a minimum guaranteed income through Mahatma Gandhi Minimum Guaranteed Income Yojana( MGMGIY) by providing EMPLOYMENT in urban areas through the Indira Gandhi Urban Employment Guarantee Scheme and in rural areas through Chief Minister Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme or by providing pension to an eligible category of old age/specially abled/widow/single woman.

The Bill mentioned the state government shall designate a program officer, not below the rank of block development officer in rural areas and an executive officer of the local body in urban areas to implement the provisions for guaranteed employment. The objective is providing a package of essential Services.

In a first, all districts of Rajasthan, except two, featured among the top 100 districts in the country in terms of performance under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Grameen (PMAY-G), states data received from the rural development department. Also, six districts ofRajasthanfeatured among the top 10 districts, 14 among the top 25 and 22 districts among the top 50 in the country.

The beneficiaries who get selected under the scheme, priorities should be fixed by filtering the names. Moreover, this time a new initiative has been taken to connect every house under PMAY-G with nutri gardens and it will be converged with MGNREGA. Also, information related to benefits provided to PMAY beneficiaries under Ujjwala scheme and power connection will be marked on the portal.

Rajasthans exports surged 36% from around Rs 49,000 crore in 2020-21 to Rs 72,000 crore in 2021-22, but the states contribution to the countrys share improved negligibly from 2.28% to 2.29%. Its position in the pecking order among the states improved by two notches, from 13th to 11th.

While the data does not capture indirect exports like manufacturers from the state supplying to exporters based out of Delhi, Mumbai, Gujarat and other places, the feels that there is lot of room to improve the situation. Launching the drive Be Exporters and creating Rajasthan Exports Promotion Council (REPC) and identifying potential products are some of the initiatives undertaken in past 18 months.
Now, REPC has joined hands with the Federation of Rajasthan Trade and Industry (FORTI) to expand the export basket.FORTIis taking a business delegation of 150 entrepreneurs to Kenya that has huge export potential.

Mucormycosis (black fungus), which is primarily affecting people recovering fromCovid, has been declared anepidemicinRajasthan, officials said.

Mucormycosis has been notified as an epidemic and a notifiable disease in the state under the Rajasthan Epidemic Act 2020.

CM Ashok Gehlot has approved the proposal to reimburse fees for students up to Class 12. The government will spend Rs 46 crore on this approval under the Right to https://exam.pscnotes.com/Education“>Education Act.

Recently, different associations of the guardians across the state had held a protest against the government for delaying the implementation of this scheme. They apprehended that with the new academic session already started, the government may not implement the scheme this year.

The on Wednesday alleged that Goa and Karnataka governments have interrupted supply of 5,000 remdisivir vials that were to be supplied to Rajasthan.

With the demand and supply chain badly affected in the state, attendants of patients have been running from pillar to post for the injections, an antiviral drug useful in Covid treatment. Such is the shortage of the drug that patient parties are ready to pay any amount for the drug.

Rajasthan has an agreement with Cipla, Mylan and Cadila for remdesivir. The state places orders to the companies, but the state government alleged that they are not getting the full supply which they had demanded.

Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal, Minister of State for Culture and Parliamentary Affairs, launched the ‘Pramarsh 2022’ guidance workshop for college children within the Bikaner District region.

Highlights

One lakh students from over a thousand schools across the Bikaner district, mostly from rural areas, participated in this workshop.

The workshop was organized with the help of the Ministry of Labour & EMPLOYMENT‘s National Institute of Career Services (NICS) and Edumilestones, an academic start-up.

Rajasthan’s Directorate of Education also provided support to the present workshop.

The “Pramarsh 2022” workshop resulted from efforts made to bridge the -academic divide and educate students about the various Options available to them.

Ajmerdiscomhas posted a record profit of Rs 175.72 crore in 2020-21 fiscal. Eleven districts come under the jurisdiction of discom.

The annual general meeting has approved the annual accounts in which the profit is shown by Ajmer discom for the first time. He mentioned that the staff worked even on holidays which shows the better management to bring profit to the company.

The campaign againstelectricity theftlike Hallabol, was initiated, and over 1.12 lakh campuses in 11 districts were investigated. In this, complaints of power theft were found in 81,636 places and the discom imposed penalty of Rs 196.17 crore. Similarly, FIRs were registered against 10,985 cases. The aim was to stop leakage of power in the jurisdiction. The discom was having maximum loss from Nagaur, Jhunjhunu and Banswara district and therefore specific programmes started in these circles to stop leakage of power.